While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it into DRAL"
(may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard saying where it can be
found. -Bob”. There was another paper label that had fallen off. What I think
is the label in question was later found in the bottom of the box, a strip of
masking tape saying “SPACEWAR FOR VAX (Unix?)”. The contents are a 136KB tar
archive containing source to a program called “orbit”, all files are dated
August 22nd, 1983.
The README file follows:
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To install orbit:
1. Do a 'make all'.
2. Make sure the directories on the path /usr/games/lib/orbit/*
all exist and are writable by you (except /usr, of course).
3. Do a 'make install'.
This should work with no changes on Berkeley 4.2, unless the
structure for the console keyboard buffer has been changed.
The crock that reads the up-down codes here should be changed
to use the real ROM-table hooks, anyway. Unfortunately, all
that nice stuff is in protected memory.
Enjoy!
- Bob Bane (bane.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay)
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Does anyone know what this is? The (gzipped) tar file is at
https://www.bogodyne.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/orbit.tar.gz
<https://www.bogodyne.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/orbit.tar.gz>
