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The 1414° Code Forge 🌍

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One of the first video games in history, it dates back to 1962.

It's a space-themed two-player shooter that implies star gravity as the main mechanic.
Minimalist and challenging, it got us hooked even today.

An (almost) original version is available here:
spacewar.oversigma.com (with the code available in the readme)

Spacewar! running on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1, the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series, first produced in 1959)
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Jul 12, 2023, 05:23 PM·Public
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The 1414° Code Forge 🌍

Speaking PDP-1 (the computer in the picture), Computer museum has a small cute video of one of its creators, amazing Gordon Bell, sharing his memories on the process and showing the major parts of (which is way bigger big then the tiny screen in the picture)


computerhistory.org/pdp-1/1856

www.computerhistory.orgGordon Bell and the PDP-1 | PDP-1 Restoration Project | Computer History Museum
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