Lunar Lander for the PDP-1

Image of a Type 30 Display taken at the Computer History Museum (CHM).

Lunar Lander

(Running on a PDP-1 Emulator)

**CONTROL KEYS**
Action	Keys
Rotate ↻	A, J, ←
Rotate ↺	D, L, →
Thrust	S, K, ↓

General Game Flow

Boot up the game.
From the Attract Mode NEW GAME screen press one of the control keys. Gameplay starts.
Attempt to make as many Good Landings (H<50,V<100) as fuel allows to increase your score. (Note: there is a 1000 point bonus for landing on all 6 sites.)
When you run out of fuel the game is over.
From the GAME OVER screen observe your score then press a control key to go back to 2.

Overview

I wrote this homage to Lunar Lander shortly after I received my PiDP-1 from Obsolescence Guaranteed. I wrote the PDP-1 assembler code using the Mousepad editor on the Raspberry Pi running the emulator and assembled the code using macro1_1, a command line version of the original PDP-1 assembler. After a career of using high power IDEs I thought I would find the process frustrating. Quite the contrary, I found the experience to be relaxing, almost ZEN like.

If you are interested in more details of my PDP-1 journey, check out my Hackaday project blog.

Based on a Javascript PDP-1 emulator by Barry Silverman, Brian Silverman, and Vadim Gerasimov