thousands of calculations per second!

[solarbird]

There should be an Omeganaut round for some uber-old-school gaming, like this. How many computer games do you know ran on Univac hardware, or on Multics? Or if not that - if it's not visual enough - they should at least have a round of this, and on the original hardware. "Okay, these debug-console bit toggles are for player one, and these are for player two." Awesome.

Or, fine, here're versions of the first one for modern hardware. Be that way. But Multics is now open-source, so if you're insane, you can try to port it to hardware that actually exists, and then run the original source! Or work on the Multics hardware emulator, boot the OS, and then run the game. Whatever, you know, seems good.

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[janne.livejournal.com]

Mmm, nostalgia -- during my bout of mad cleaning a month or two ago one of the things I found was a printout of a session with a star trek game (quite possibly on a multi- or uni- something) from ca. 1980, back when I was with a group of kids that got to use Alcoas computers after hours. Those were the days :)

[solarbird]

<hypergeek>The old-school Trek icon should not have the NextGen insignia!!1!</hypergeek>

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ack! Didn't even notice! I shall have to hunt the web for a more appropriate icon, now. Ah, it's a hard life...

[janne.livejournal.com]

There, nuked the ungeekly one. This looks better.

[wrog]

yeah, we had a terminal to an HP2000 at our high school (this would have been 1978-79), played what I'm now guessing was the Mayfield STARTREK, tried to write my own version of it but ran out of space, but did at least get as far as being able to shoot photon torpedos at starbases and having it come back with

*** CONGRATULATIONS!  YOU JUST DESTROYED A FEDERATION STARBASE.
*** YOU SUCK, KIRK!

and then got in trouble for using "suck"

[solarbird]

Well, that's what you get for playing it on the teletype. NEVER LEAVE A PAPER TRAIL