Awesome to see this emulated! Has anyone sent Bill Pitts a note? I'm sure he'd get a kick out of seeing it again. Plus, when he sent me the source code, he said I was free to do whatever I wanted with it. So I imagine he'd be fine with adding it to the free ROMs on mamedev.org.
> > Is this that non cpu game? I guess there is a first for everything... > > It is the first coin operated video game. No it has a CPU and in fact it a computer > not just a CPU. It is a 16 bit computer called a PDP-11 which ran the program, in > 1971 the PDP-11 cost about $20000 US dollars. The CPU that MAME is using currently is > T11 CPU which was the first single-chip microprocessor developed by DEC and > compatible with the PDP-11. Unlike most if not all the other files that MAME uses > this one is a text listing instead of instead of a binary file. If/when someone ports > the PDP-11 from MESS over to MAME, the game will most like run on the PDP-11. > > If you look at the code, don't forget all the numbers in column 16 though 36 are in > Octal and not Hex and the numbers with a '.' after them are Decimal and not Octal > like the rest of the numbers. I am not sure which source code file that MAME is > converting the Octal to a machine usable code.
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