There are several emulators out there, both hardware and software emulators.
I have several software emulators, specificially the one written by Stu Grossman and Ken Harrenstien. These are not in the public domain. The operating systems can be downloaded at the PDP 10 software archive site: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/
Two people are currently working on emulators that I know of: Daniel Seagraves (at www.lunar-tokyo.net) and Timothy Stark. Timothy is nearly done, and actually running Tops 10 (albeit with errors).
To see a emulator in action, try telneting to:
bi5.bootstrap.org
To see a hardware emulator, try telneting to:
xkleten.paulallen.com
Actually, DECWAR was my first multiplayer game on a computer. It was very user friendly, and very additictive. I guess thats why Kesmai modified the University of Texas's licensed source code and used it specifically for profit. See a clip from the license in the source code:
This agreement grants a royalty free, nontransferable, and
nonexclusive right to use the following software:
DECWAR.FOR FORTRAN source
WARMAC.MAC MACRO source
DECWAR.RNH help file source
1. All publications, reports, developments, etc. relative
to this material should acknowledge the authors and The
University of Texas at Austin.
2. Neither this software, adaptations thereof, nor services
resulting from it's use should be sold, leased, or
distributed to any individual or organization without
prior written consent of the authors.
3. Any modifications to or adaptations of this software
should be made available on request, and without charge,
to the authors or The University of Texas Computation
Center.
Jee, I guess Kesmai (now Gamestorm @ http://www.gamestorm.com/company/) forgot to read that license when they bought the source for a measly $50 and modified it to be Megawars on Compuserve. Megawars ran on Compuserve for over 10 years!
The game I am developing is simular to Decwars, in the commands, but will support up to 1024 users. It runs on Freebsd, and instead of using the Tops-10 command line entry, it uses Tops-20 style parsing. See CCMD at Columbia University for that.
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There are several emulators out there, both hardware and software emulators.
I have several software emulators, specificially the one written by Stu Grossman and Ken Harrenstien. These are not in the public domain. The operating systems can be downloaded at the PDP 10 software archive site: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/
Two people are currently working on emulators that I know of: Daniel Seagraves (at www.lunar-tokyo.net) and Timothy Stark. Timothy is nearly done, and actually running Tops 10 (albeit with errors).
To see a emulator in action, try telneting to:
bi5.bootstrap.org
To see a hardware emulator, try telneting to:
xkleten.paulallen.com
Actually, DECWAR was my first multiplayer game on a computer. It was very user friendly, and very additictive. I guess thats why Kesmai modified the University of Texas's licensed source code and used it specifically for profit. See a clip from the license in the source code: This agreement grants a royalty free, nontransferable, and nonexclusive right to use the following software: DECWAR.FOR FORTRAN source WARMAC.MAC MACRO source DECWAR.RNH help file source 1. All publications, reports, developments, etc. relative to this material should acknowledge the authors and The University of Texas at Austin. 2. Neither this software, adaptations thereof, nor services resulting from it's use should be sold, leased, or distributed to any individual or organization without prior written consent of the authors. 3. Any modifications to or adaptations of this software should be made available on request, and without charge, to the authors or The University of Texas Computation Center. Jee, I guess Kesmai (now Gamestorm @ http://www.gamestorm.com/company/) forgot to read that license when they bought the source for a measly $50 and modified it to be Megawars on Compuserve. Megawars ran on Compuserve for over 10 years! The game I am developing is simular to Decwars, in the commands, but will support up to 1024 users. It runs on Freebsd, and instead of using the Tops-10 command line entry, it uses Tops-20 style parsing. See CCMD at Columbia University for that.