Computer Space (1971)
Behold the alien-like Computer Space, the first commercially produced arcade game! 
Released in 1971, this machine paved the way for the gaming industry we know today. Its futuristic design still looks out of this world! 
Who’s ready for a space battle?
Weekly online games, plus sometimes seen in gaming dens and conventions.
How: Also uses the TeamSpeak 3 voice conference app, also free (not open source, but is available for $0.00 on Win/MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS https://www.teamspeak3.com/teamspeak-download.php ).
Tech support through https://discord.com/channels/206597597455056898/468327584116244481
Learn w/ training videos @ https://sites.google.com/view/starship-bridge-academy
Why: It's frelling fun!
bit.ly/free-spacewar #spacewar #opensource #pcgaming
FRIDAY FRYDAY SpaceWar FRIDAY! Price: $0.00 / € 0.00 / £ 0.00
Empty Epsilon, an utterly-free co-op online starship bridge simulator game
Who: Plays? Anyone!
What: EmptyEpsilon, a well-polished open source Win/Linux co-op starship bridge combat simulator.
https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
When: Friday 31Jan 1530 PT / 1830 ET / 2330 GMT per https://discord.com/channels/206597597455056898/468130064513368064 (Day & time vary weekly based on weekly participant poll)
Where: On your PC.
https://bit.ly/free-spacewar #spacewar #opensource #pcgaming
How: Also uses the TeamSpeak 3 voice conference app, also free (not open source, but is available for $0.00 on Win/MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS https://www.teamspeak3.com/teamspeak-download.php ).
Tech support through https://discord.com/.../20659759745505.../468327584116244481
Learn w/ training videos @ https://sites.google.com/view/starship-bridge-academy
Why: It's frelling fun! #coop #gaming #opensource #spacewar
Price: $0.00 / € 0.00 / £ 0.00
Who: Plays? Anyone!
What: EmptyEpsilon a well-polished open source Win/Linux co-op starship bridge combat simulator.
https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
When: Sunday 1130PT/1430ET/1930GMT
Where: On your Windows/Linux PC. Weekly online games, & sometimes seen in gaming dens & conventions.
How: Uses the TeamSpeak 3 voice conference app, also free on Win/MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS https://www.teamspeak3.com/teamspeak-download.php Tech support through https://discord.com/channels/206597597455056898/468327584116244481 #games #coop #spacewar #trek
Деннис Макалистэйр Ритчи. Между Unix и С
Создатель. Точнее всего описывает Денниса Ритчи именно это слово. Он не стал выдающимся учёным, породившим целые научные школы. Он не блистал на каждой обложке, и его имя не приходит на ум людям при словах «компьютер», «сайт». Однако, именно этот милый карапуз, детскую фотографию которого вы видите рядом с текстом, обессмертил себя, создав язык программирования С, вписав себя в систему UNIX и историю компьютерных систем, чем действительно изменил наше время. Из его рук вышла технология, которая используется уже многие десятки лет и не планирует терять своё место в истории. Товарищ Ритчи обладал ещё одной важной чертой, он умел находить хороших, верных друзей, с которыми шёл к вершине. Сегодня мы с вами поговорим не только о операционной системе, языке программирования и их совместном развитии, но и о двух друзьях, Деннисе Ритчи и Кене Томпсоне, которые на протяжении многих лет вместе создавали цифровое будущее. Денис Маккалистер Ритчи однажды был вынужден дать ответ, какое из своих творений он любит больше, С или UNIX. Мы решили тоже поставить вас в условия выбора и подготовили аудиоверсию статьи, вы можете сами выбрать, читать статью или слушать .
Historia informatyki przeplata się z historią gier wideo. Obie te branże nie dość, że mają ze sobą bardzo dużo wspólnego, to jeszcze wzajemnie się napędzały i nadal napędzają. Dzisiaj pierwszy odcinek dłuższego cyklu o tym drugim obszarze na kanale "Ciekawe historie". Nie ukrywamy - łezka w oku się zakręciła.
Almost finished the #PiDP8 kit today! Loads of soldering! Just one bad LED had to be fixed by replacing it. It works pretty well and it’s awesome! The #RaspberryPiZero2W does all the emulation. Can’t wait to write programs via the front switches – and play SpaceWar! later on. But before that I have to finish the casing! #ComputerHistory #electronics #decpdp #decpdp8 #pdp8 #SpaceWar 
http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/projects/spacewar/
Space ISAC: Cyber Warfare, Space Weather Keep Threat Levels High for Industry
Too many threats, zero days and vulnerabilities. 
#space #cyberspace #spacewar #cyberwarfare https://www.satellitetoday.com/cybersecurity/2024/06/07/space-isac-cyber-warfare-space-weather-keep-threat-levels-high-for-industry/
SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer, the PDP-10 from 1966 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/06/reinventing-the-pdp-10 #ComputingHistory #Computing #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #PDP #PDP10 #SpaceWar #Mainframe #MainframeComputer #60s #1960s #RetroGamng #ComputerGames #Games #VideoGames #RetroGames
WOW! 
Kind of got lost in this for a while, trying to figure it out. Now I want to build a real one.
The first video game, Spacewar!, on the DEC PDP-1 in your browser. This is a virtual DEC PDP-1 (emulated in HTML5/JavaScript) running the original code of “Spacewar!”.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139485/the-first-video-game-spacewar-on-the-dec-pdp-1-in-your-browser/
DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/index.html
#ycombinator #Spacewar #Spacewar_1962 #Play_original_Spacewar #classic_1960s_video_game #virtual_PDP_1 #PDP_1 #emulation #spacewar_online #spacewar_for_iPad
Is it time for a new Outer Space Treaty? Reports of Russian nuclear space weapon raise questions
https://www.space.com/new-outer-space-treaty-russia-nuclear-space-weapon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-RcQfPZ6SVo&si=p7B_wzo94L0LYvBT 
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American Reports say Russia in development of space-based nuclear weapons (DW - German News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Germany #Mastodon #NATO #SpaceWar #EU #UK #USA #Press #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #News #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious
It's 1982 and you're terrible at Arcade games... 
Never fear! Craig Kubey delivers the "Winner's Book of Video Games"
Asteroids. Missile Command. Defender. Pac-Man. and many, many more!
Check it out here:
https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-winners-book-of-video-games
#Arcade #Arcades #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Defender #Pong #SpaceWar #Combat #Galaga #Galaxian #Shmup #MissileCommand #Asteroids #SpaceInvaders #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Breakout #Berzerk #QIX #Eliminator #Gorf #Centipede #Tempest
What are your fave space war stories (books, TV, film) and why? Authors, what have you written?
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)
Had an IMLAC PDS-4 with a troublesome paper tape punch, and the take-up reel drive failed.
Needed to use that failed punch to load a font into a Mergenthaler Linotron phototypesetter.
(That project also involved writing a translation tool on the Imlac to get the data into the format (reverse TTL, IIRC) expected by the Linotron, but that’s another discussion. As is the spectacular Spacewar game on the IMLAC vector display.)
In the stupid-but-works category, chucking the paper tape punch take-up reel extracted from the punch into a variable-speed electric drill did work, and did get the font tape punched and over to the Linotron.
1970s- and 1980s-era IT hardware was easier to fix (where you could get or hack the parts), though that tech failed far more often than 2020s-era tech.
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