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- This article is about the PDP-1 game. To read about the arcade game, see Space Wars. To read about the Atari 2600 game, see Space War. To read about war in space, see interstellar war.
Spacewar is one of the earliest video games for a digital computer. Steve "Slug" Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen of the ficticious "Higham Institute" conceived of the game in 1961, with the intent of implementing it on a DEC PDP-1 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After Alan Kotok obtained some sine and cosine routines from DEC, Russell began coding, and by February 1962 had produced his first version. It took approximately 200 hours of work to create the initial version. Additional features were developed by Dan Edwards, Peter Samson, and Graetz.
Gameplay
The basic gameplay of Spacewar involves two armed spaceships attempting to shoot one another while maneuvering in the gravity well of a star. The ships fired missiles which were unaffected by gravity (due to a lack of processing time). Each ship had a limited number of missiles and a limited supply of fuel. Each player controls a ship, and must attempt to simultaneously shoot at the other ship and avoid colliding with the star. Player controls included clockwise and counterclockwise rotation, thrust, fire, and hyperspace; using either the front-panel test switches with four switches for each player or optional control boxes. More on [ Spacewar ]
Space War 2000 :: Space Combat
Spacewar, by SuperJail co-creator Christy Karacas http://bit.ly/5TRwXH
jloor (Jorge Loor Ocampo) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:06:09 -0000
Spacewar, by SuperJail co-creator Christy Karacas http://bit.ly/5TRwXH
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Israels_new_UAV_can_reach_Iran_999.html
LJF2345 (LJF2345) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:59:51 -0000
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Israels_new_UAV_can_reach_Iran_999.html
Israel's new UAV distances past Iran w/payload-pointless defense; http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Israels_new_UAV_can_reach_Iran_999.html
the_sealab_2021 (cedar) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:51:14 -0000
Israel's new UAV distances past Iran w/payload-pointless defense; http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Israels_new_UAV_can_reach_Iran_999.html
START Talks Planned to Friday, Diplomat Says http://ow.ly/MxBu #Spacewar #START #US #Russia #Nuclear
aderitus (Adérito Vicente) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:42:22 -0000
START Talks Planned to Friday, Diplomat Says http://ow.ly/MxBu #Spacewar #START #US #Russia #Nuclear
Alex Nicolaou's Space War - Contains Java based version of game, with instructions.
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Spacewar - The original space combat game written to run as a Java applet.
Spacewar - Contains history, articles covering early development, Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics, code, influences, and game controllers, and Macintosh version of game.
SpaceWars - Peter Hirschberg and Josh Cogliati's C++ based version of game. Includes features, download of source, requirements, and screen shots.
Meta Description: [ Space Wars is a implementation of the original Space War's game. ]
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