I heard someone in a YouTube video describe simh as a simulator. And it made me curious. So I tried to dig in a bit.It could change in the future but as of this date… Wikipedia describes simh as an emulator. Trailing-edge calls it a simulator. Open Simh calls themselve a simulator. But they also …
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100% accuracy
Open Arena. A game I sometimes play to kill time… and enemies 🙂
Running low on root disk space
Deleted some old kernel modules, from “/usr/lib/modules”
PDP-1 spacewar
I got it to work on the PDP-10. But this is the one I really wanted to see. The original 1962 video game on the PDP-1 at MIT. The PDP-10 version is cool but not the original, with “the needle” and “the wedge”. It certainly was one of the first video games. It was out …
I made a couple videos concerning ITS
Right now they’re just for me although they could be used to create an ITS howto. The first one is startup, login, create directory, create file in that directory and shutdown. The second video was to show the playing of spcwar (Space War). But I also added some basic programming info. I do think I’ll …
The Soul Of A New Machine
I guess I need to post this because I keep losing it. It was a great book the best I remember. It was about the Data General Eclipse MV/8000 computer, Data General built. It won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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 …
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Running spcwar on ITS
My computer started beeping
I actually fell asleep at the keyboard, and was awakened by beeping. Went to all my virtual desktops and didn’t see anything running. I closed my browser because I wondered if it might be coming from one of the tabs. That didn’t help. I almost re-booted. Decided to look at running processes and saw gnome-clocks. …