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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Commercial Tetris
Message-ID: <2517@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 89 16:53:51 GMT
References: <21229@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <2025@pur-phy>
Reply-To: jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw)
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In article <2025@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
> To go back to the stone age of computing, Moonlander was written by
> Dave Ahl while at DEC for some DEC thingy or another, but I'm sure
> that if you go back that far, there are a couple more examples.  And
> it wasn't commercial.

SpaceWar, a two-player vid with LOADS of options (gravity well, black
holes, reverse-grav, etc.) and the vector-display technology which the
old atari put to good use (LunarLander, Asteroids, etc.), was running
on an oscilloscope at MIT in the mid-60's.  One of the early micro-era
magazines (Creative Computing?) ran a historical article on it in 1980 or
81, I believe.

-Nick.


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