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Browser Emulation of 1975 Computer Runs First 16-Bit Home Game
An anonymous reader writes "Following up on the 2009 story about the first graphics game written for a 16-Bit Home PC, I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in seeing the game in question running in their browsers. The original hardware has been emulated and loaded with the original machine code transcribed from PDF scans. Some brief background here."
Okay, now I just need someone to be my "player 2"... :)
Fortunately 1975 home computers were invulnerable to inadvertent DDOS attacks so there's no chance this site will be slashd.... oh never mind.
My WSAD skills are rearing up to harm me in this game.
W - Up
S - Right
A - Left
Z - Down
I can't imagine trying to play Player 1 and Player 2 at the same time.
Sorry, I just can't seem to give a shit enough to be outraged by a java based emulator running in a web browser. It must be nice to have a life where that is the biggest outrage you face today.
If you read the article, you will find that Adam's brother built a custom 16-bit PC.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
One that the author of the game, Richard Adams, built himself. There's a link to some background, including pictures, in the first link in TFS, but since this is Slashdot and people don't like to RTFS, here the link.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Can using a charset really be counted as "graphics" ?
It was a custom-built computer by the author's brother using an IMP16 chip.
Games sure sucked back then, didn't they? ;)
(I can't wait to see someone write that in a forum 30 years from now, when they look back at todays games)
The display is made up of PNG images. For "emulated hardware", that's a bit disappointing.
I was hoping for something a little more like this.
No game can be complete without DLC, multiple levels of hardware-enforced DRM, anti-trading policies, forced to be on the Internet every second of play, and random bans of networked IDs just to show that the game company means business, and that the debugger installed with VS *might* be considered a hacking tool.
Meh... unless it is on a locked down console, it isn't worth playing.
I think that would look really sweet.
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I still have to get around to asking Scott Adams where the friggin' lamp was in "Voodoo Castle". My VIC-20 died before I could find the thing.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
My favorite part of that page was this statement.
This page contains links to relevant pages at wikipedia and other external sources. These are identified by the text that is colored and underlined. Click on them to open new windows or tabs.
Purely Awesome.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
this reminds me of notch's new game 0x10c
16 bits is $2.00, was really expensive for a computer in the 70s!
As someone who maintains about 70 PCs and Macs, I love the idea. Then I would only have to maintain the server and not worry about desktops - which account for 95% of problems. If a dumb terminal has a problem, replace the hardware - problem solved. Having to maintain individual operating systems and installed application bases sucks. The web is only horrible as an applications interface if horrible programmers write the applications.
"But this one goes to 11!"
... that I played on a teletype terminal connected to a mainframe that resided in the Lawrence Hall of Science (associated with UCB).
Now get off my lawn.
Check your premises.
The "outrage" was expressed in:
Why don't we just buy locked-down graphical terminals with no local storage and hurry up on our way to giving all our data up to "the cloud".
And which said outrage is being posted to a website using a web browser that is stored on a server not local to you...
The irony, it drips with it!
It was a one off homebrew. Back then you could get a hell of a lot of chips straight from the manufacturers and guys would often cook up these 'one offs" mixing and matching all kinds of parts and then stuff them into Altair style cases. I don't think there was a COTS 16 bit PC until the mid 80s though.
man kids today don't know how easy they have it, why even the COTS computers of the day basically just gave you a cursor prompt and you were on your own, if you wanted it to actually do anything you had to write it yourself. I don't know how many hours I wasted on that trash 80 and VIC cooking up cool weird little programs ans saving them to datasettes.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Of course, we TRS-80 Color Computer enthusiasts would try to claim that somehow we were the first 16-bit home computer owners, but anyway.
Kriston
java != javascript
when will people ever learn
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