[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Haha, that's right, forgot that part. Sorry if I play it before you 
somehow, although I don't know what PDP systems are functional at the 
NMOC, they were mainly repairing them :)

I am sure the American places have more of the PDP machines however, 
larger amount were used in America.

Andrew

On 08/04/2010 19:16, Devin Monnens wrote:

> Yeah, I can upload it...there's just understandably something cool 

> about being the first person in 35 years to play this ;-) I can upload 

> it in the next day or two.

>

> Sent from my iPhone

>

> On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org 

> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>> I could ask at the National Museum of Computing in the UK, am going 

>> there again (and restarting my volunteering I hope) this weekend. I 

>> am sure they have some PDP machines, not sure which ones but I am 

>> sure I can take along the specs and see, not sure about the scope 

>> though. If no one knows in person I'll ask on their mailing list, 

>> there's a few people who might have the know-how or possibly have 

>> emulator information.

>>

>> Do you think you'd be able to put the text format online for use, I 

>> mean, since you can't exactly get to the UK if I did happen to find 

>> the museum has a working model that would (potentially) run it?

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>> On 08/04/2010 03:56, Devin Monnens wrote:

>>> I have transcribed ICBM into text format. There were a few areas of 

>>> the printout that were a little too blurried for me to make them out 

>>> with 100% accuracy, but I have a 95% confidence that the code is 

>>> accurate. This is a graphical game that ran on the PDP-5. I don't 

>>> think it will run on a PDP-8, as the catalog number is 5-277, which 

>>> suggests to me it uses just the PDP-5. In any event, here are the 

>>> hardware requirements:

>>>

>>> 4K PDP-5, ASR33, Type 34 Scope Display

>>> Source Language: PAL III [assembly]

>>>

>>> Trouble is, there aren't any PDP-5 emulators out there, and I can't 

>>> find any PDP-8 emulators that supports a scope. Hadn't considered 

>>> that part... Does anyone here know anything about PDP-5/8 emulation? 

>>> I would like to try and get this thing running...

>>>

>>> -- 

>>> Devin Monnens

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