https://github.com/PDP-10/Spacewar

Spacewar for PDP-6 and PDP-10
https://github.com/PDP-10/Spacewar

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Spacewar for PDP-6 and PDP-10

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/PDP-10/Spacewar
• Owner: PDP-10
• Created: 2019-04-19T05:39:06.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-03T09:34:37.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-18T22:21:00.392Z (4 months ago)
• Size: 181 KB
• Stars: 27
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Spacewar!

### WAR 44

PDP-6 version from Peter Samsons's DECtape labelled "PSamsonIV".

Another file on the same tape claims it's from 1968.  Draws on a Type

340 display.

![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/775050/56470329-32d74300-6445-11e9-862c-a43edfc6a5be.png)

### AR69 SPCWAR

ITS archive file with several versions of SPCWAR.  They run standalone

on a PDP-6 with a Type 340 display, or on the ITS operating system.

```

340DEF 4          521  1976-11-13 00:32:03

ACSDEF 1          184  1976-11-19 09:06:17

ARITH  1          429  1976-11-19 09:19:48

FRGMTS 10         439  1976-11-13 00:48:33

NEWWAR 164      21985  1976-11-13 01:21:44

SETMAC 12         616  1976-11-13 23:23:59

SPCLRC 163        163  1976-11-05 23:08:07

SPCWAR 163      21765  1976-11-05 23:03:17

SPCWAR PEOPLE      58  1977-07-10 18:27:27

TVWAR  20        3528  1977-04-04 00:09:42

```

![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/775050/56470332-37036080-6445-11e9-915b-519d581e1397.jpeg)

### TVWAR 20

From the previous archive file.  Runs on ITS and draws on a Knight TV

raster display.  The file containing bitmap graphics for the ships is

missing.

### SW.MAC

Stanford AI Lab, 1972 and 1978 versions.  For the WAITS operating

system; uses both PDP-6 and KA10 processors in parallel.  Draws on a

III vector display.

![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/775050/83620670-eccc3880-a58d-11ea-9911-0938941fdb6f.png)

### Information the LDS-1 version

> LDS-1 Spacewar was amazing to watch, though it looked like it took quite a lot of practice to play.  There was a box with a row of toggle switches (maybe 16 or 18 of them?) and you used them to control the ships.  The ships could move around freely on the screen, iirc there was a star (sun) in the middle of the screen whose gravitational force was a game parameter, and other cool things like that.  I don't know of any modern video game anything like it.

> 

> The one I saw was at Princeton.  Case Western Reserve may have also had one.