Controlling the ship in spcwar on the PDP-10

SpaceWar is actually my primary interest in the ITS on the PDP-10. I talk more about it here. I don’t have much interest in doing actual work on this obscure OS.

I asked the PiDP-10 google group, if anyone knew how to play spacwar running in ITS. And Lars Brinkhoff replied “To play Spacewar, you need to plug in USB game controllers. The now-regular PlayStation type.”

So I dug out my old Logitech WingMan Precision Gamepad, and it seems to work fine!

Directional pad:
Left - Left
Right - Right
Top - thrust
Bottom -?

Buttons
A - Fire
B - Hyperspace
X - Start
Y - ?