Color Spacewar

[larsbrinkhoff]

BMT;CSPACE 14
BMT;CSPACE BIN

Spacewar that displays on the color scope. TITLE WAR 44, so probably a modification of the earlier PDP-6 and Type 340 version.

The source code does not assemble with the latest MIDAS. MIDAS 77 does quite ok, but there are some ILA errors. (What is that?) The binary runs fine out of timesharing, and looks much like the original "WAR".

I only see green things, so I'm not sure this is a good version.

[foxkit]

I was fascinated by the color display. I heard about but can't imagine the difficulty in keeping it aligned. I think it was a point display, not a vector or raster. Space war was cool. And I really liked wireforks, a simulated fireworks display. What most twisted my young mind was a program that flashed color names on the screen in matching or mismatching colors. You were scored on correctly selecting the Matched or Unmatched buttons. Being a slow, vector display, it couldn't plot many points.

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