The Video Game Library 📚 · @thevglibrary
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neutronwrangler · @neutronwrangler
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@HoffmanLabs

At Decca Navigator we had a high speed paper tape reader, it was impossible to spool the output in real (reel?) time so we had to catch it in dustbins and spool it by hand later (1979)

#mergenthaler #imlac #linotron #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #pds4 #spacewar

Last updated 1 year ago

strike again with

One of the first video games in history, it dates back to 1962.

It's a space-themed two-player shooter that implies star gravity as the main mechanic.
Minimalist and challenging, it got us hooked even today.

An (almost) original version is available here:
spacewar.oversigma.com (with the code available in the readme)

#retrogames #spacewar #retro #shmups #videogames #softwarehistory #digitalhistory

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Daniel AJ Sokolov · @newstik
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"The way we’ve been doing space operations since the dawn of the space age, we’ve been doing it wrong", says the second highest officer of the US Space Command. He argues for a fundamental shift in . I've summed it up for @heiseonline in German:

heise.de/news/US-Space-Command

#us #military #space #doctrin #satellites #rockets #cyberwar #spacewar #intelligence #reconnaissance #surveillance

Last updated 1 year ago

Sandy Johnson · @SandyJohnson
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Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/I running Space War by David Gesswein at VCF East XVII

#computer #dec #digitalequipmentcorporation #pdp8 #vintage #spacewar

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jujube · @jujube
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Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/I running Space War by David Gesswein at VCF East XVII

#spacewar #vintage #pdp8 #digitalequipmentcorporation #dec #Computer

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
721 followers · 2635 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

“In January the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, warned that China might start claiming lunar territory “under the guise of scientific research”.”
archive.ph/GG7MR

Via “China is unusually secretive about its space programme” 18 May 2023

#theeconomist #SpaceEd #china #spacewar #nasa #moon

Last updated 1 year ago

Paul :python: :django: :linux: · @pbx
380 followers · 1650 posts · Server fosstodon.org

history: "Russell began providing various excuses as to why he could not [write the game]. One of these was the lack of a trigonometric function routine needed to calculate the trajectories of the spacecraft. This prompted Alan Kotok of the TMRC to call DEC, who informed him that they had such a routine already written. Kotok drove to DEC to pick up a tape containing the code, slammed it down in front of Russell, and asked what other excuses he had."

wikiwand.com/en/Spacewar_(vide

#spacewar

Last updated 1 year ago

Kchunda · @Kchunda
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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 · @nyrath
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OTHER | SPACE WARFARE | KESSLER SYNDROME
THE WALL OF A TRILLION STONES

hard-sci-fi.blogspot.com/2022/

#kesslersyndrome #spacewar

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
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(4/4) Christian communities in both my Friday morning men’s group at Trinity Presbyterian and in our church and “ACE” Sunday school class at Caldwell Presbyterian here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
caldwellpresby.org

#CommPrep #SpaceEd #stem #dw4jc #CaldwellPres #space #history #spacehistory #poverty #homeless #homelessness #clt #CLTvoices #spacewar

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Dave Fischer · @davefischer
177 followers · 380 posts · Server hachyderm.io

on a . Sort of a casual shot in preparation for getting a really good shot sometime soon.

#spacewar #pdp12 #retrocomputing #rcsri

Last updated 1 year ago

· @NaturalNews
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jbz · @jbzfn
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📍 SpaceWar!
— computerhistory.org

youtu.be/_L1HeZ2kPck

#spacewar #pdp1 #gaminghistory

Last updated 2 years ago

RockTheVoice · @RockTheVoice
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🇲🇳🚀 Pennacchio di gas di scarico osservato a Ordos, in Mongolia.
Si ritiene che si tratti di un'attività di lancio non-civile.
Non è stato ancora fatto alcun annuncio ufficiale sull'evento.

➡️ Unisciti a @PlanetNews
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#ukraine #UkraineWar #ukraina #RussiaUkraineConflict #russia #russianarmy #army #weapon #weapons #mongolia #space #spacewar

Last updated 2 years ago

We'll be recording episode 262, 60 years after it was 1962, here, about 4.5 hours from when this was typed. youtube.com/watch?v=0FwYRhGaD6

#podcast #retrocompute #spacewar

Last updated 2 years ago

Play History · @PlayHistory
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What sci-fi elements birthed Spacewar!, one of the most influential games of all time?

This short runs through the conceptual origins of the PDP-1 game to see how - pre Star Trek (or Wars) - the very idea of space shooters was brought to video games.

youtube.com/shorts/Hnxqg5QFIV0

#videogamehistory #spacewar

Last updated 2 years ago

· @NaturalNews
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· @NaturalNews
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