[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Devin Monnens]

Yeah, I applied for the list but haven't heard back from them yet.  
Haven't heard from the Computer History Museum either but the  
Smithsonian doesn't have one. I think maybe now I know why no one knew  
about this game :)

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On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:


> Devin, just asked over on the vintage computing list.  Most of the

> people involved with the computing museums are on it.

>

> Marty

>

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>  

> 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> 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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