On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > 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. >
I unpacked it. The beginning of orbit.man says: -------------------- .SH NAME orbit \- Spacewar on the Sun .SH SYNOPSIS .B orbit <players> .PP .B orbit <ship1name> ... [-O <optionfile>] .SH DESCRIPTION The classic game of interplanetary death and destruction. Mostly written in C; an assembler package does fast single-precision floating-point for orbital calculations and collision detection. .PP Most of the game's basic parameters are changeable; parameter sets can be saved and reloaded from option files. If the file .orbitrc exists in your -------------------- and the fp.s file looks to me like a Motorola assembler, but I may be wrong. In main.c there are references to something like graphics routines making use of framebuffer. The structure of filesystem mentioned in Makefile hints towards Unix-like system. I would say, after very quick looking, it is rather for SunOS, not for anything DEC-made. I wonder if others may come to different conclusions? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
