Spacewar! - Revision history

Jnc: /* External links */ +Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

2025-10-16T14:25:53Z

‎External links: +Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums

2025-07-16T11:18:31Z

‎External links: +sources at Bitsavers

2025-06-27T22:28:50Z

New category

2025-06-11T06:02:13Z

I'm sure there are plenty more.

2025-06-10T18:11:32Z

‎See also: +Space Travel

2025-06-10T18:00:03Z

Expand a small amount; link to numerous online resources

2025-06-10T15:38:38Z

Jnc moved page Spacewar to Spacewar!: Original name seems to have included the '!'

2018-12-22T14:12:05Z

add qualifier

2018-12-19T15:45:08Z

Add an actual stub... :-)

2018-12-19T13:41:10Z

Stub.

New page

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 *** [https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-minskytron-hyperspace.html Intermission: Digging up the Minskytron Hyperspace]
 * [https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/index.html Spacewar]
 * [http://www.ubanproductions.com/ImlacDocs/minispacewardoc.pdf Mini Space War 1.0 C3] - the IMLAC version
 ** [http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac_sw.html Imlac Software Library]
 [[Category: Video Games]]

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 ==External links==
 * [https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/spacewar/ Spacewar!] - PDP-1/Spacewar! project at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
 ** [https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-1/DEC.pdp_1.102664173.pdf spacewar 4.4] - source
 ** [https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/_media/pdf/DEC.pdp_1.102664469.pdf PDP-1 Computer and Space War] - brochure showing Spacewar! being used by DEC for marketing the PDP-1
-* [https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/ Spacewar!] - a wealth of material
+* [https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/ Spacewar!] - a wealth of material about the recovery
 ** [https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/ Inside Spacewar!] - "A Software Archeological Approach to the First Video Game"
 *** [https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-minskytron-hyperspace.html Intermission: Digging up the Minskytron Hyperspace]
 * [https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/index.html Spacewar]
-* [http://www.ubanproductions.com/ImlacDocs/minispacewardoc.pdf Mini Space War 1.0 C3]
+* [http://www.ubanproductions.com/ImlacDocs/minispacewardoc.pdf Mini Space War 1.0 C3] - the IMLAC version
 ** [http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac_sw.html Imlac Software Library]
 [[Category: Video Games]]

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	** [http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac_sw.html Imlac Software Library]		** [http://www.ubanproductions.com/imlac_sw.html Imlac Software Library]

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 It initially conceived by Stephen R. (Slug) Russell, J. Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen, and written by a varying combination, over time, of Graetz and Russell along with Dan Edwards, Alan Kotok, Robert A. Saunders, Peter Samson and Steven Piner.
 A version was later made available for the [[IMLAC PDS-1]]; [[object code]] for several revisions of the IMLAC version seems to exist.
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-'''Spacewar!''' is perhaps the earliest widespread [[video game]]. It was written at MIT for their then-new [[PDP-1]], using the [[vector graphics]] [[display]] on the machine.
+'''Spacewar!''' is perhaps the earliest widespread [[video game]]. It was written at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] for their then-new [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-1]] at [[Research Laboratory of Electronics|RLE]], using the [[Type 30 Visual CRT Display]] [[vector graphics]] [[display]] on the machine.
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+It initially conceived by Stephen R. (Slug) Russell, J. Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen, and written by a varying combination, over time, of Graetz and Russell along with Dan Edwards, Alan Kotok, Robert A. Saunders, Peter Samson and Steven Piner.
 [[Category: Games]]

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