Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cool tidbit! He should port the game to the iPad and sell it as an app. I don't play games, but I would buy that one ;-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On May 26, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > This is a shot of Steve in a lecture/demonstration of a PDP1 computer that > volunteers at the Computer History Museum restored to working order. This > was a three-year effort, taking place many years ago. This demonstration > takes place twice a month, includes audience members getting to play Space > War, which Steve wrote in the early 1960s. About the same period, another > museum volunteer, Peter Sampson, wrote a program that enables the computer > to play four-part music, sounding much like a pipe organ. > > Space War has two competing rocket ships, in the gravitational field of > the sun, shooting torpedoes at each other. Because the computer did not > have enough power to deal with the effect of gravity on the torpedoes, > Steve decided to invent "photon torpedoes" unaffected by gravity. He also > invented hyperspace, an emergency escape hatch, but claims that the > hyperspace generator is defective and that no ship ever survived more than > seven trips through hyperspace. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010233.jpg.html > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >