Recommend me a spacewars clone...

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Er, Spacewars (computer game) basically just pits 2 starfight against each other. You control the angle of rotation of the ship and the speed/velocity. There’s even a niffy feature where you can hyperjump - your ship breaks into tiny pieces and reassemble at another location.

That all said, anyone has any ideas where I could find modern clones of this games? It doesn’t need to be explictly a “spacewars clone” as long as the game somehow resemblances it.

Thanks in advance!

[John_T.Conklin]

*Originally posted by LostCause *
**That all said, anyone has any ideas where I could find modern clones of this games? It doesn’t need to be explictly a “spacewars clone” as long as the game somehow resemblances it.

Thanks in advance! **

Try this. From the README link on that page:

Spacewar! was conceived in 1961 by Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen. It was first realized on the PDP-1 in 1962 by Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards, and Martin Graetz, together with Alan Kotok, Steve Piner, and Robert A Saunders. Spacewar! is in the public domain, but this credit paragraph must accompany all distributed versions of the program.

This is the original version! Martin Graetz provided us with a printed version of the source. We typed in in again - it was about 40 pages long - and re-assembled it with a PDP-1 assembler written in PERL. The resulting binary runs on a PDP-1 emulator written as a Java applet. The code is extremely faithful to the original. There are only two changes. 1)The spaceships have been made bigger and 2) The overall timing has been special cased to deal with varying machine speeds.