From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8702 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, March 22 2022 Volume 14 : Number 8702 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Sleeping in THIS position linked to Alzheimerâs ["Your Side" Subject: Sleeping in THIS position linked to Alzheimerâs Sleeping in THIS position linked to Alzheimerbs http://drivelite.buzz/TGCUDrO_zOqd8Wv8jXyWqCvjFvAOqn9QXI-c8m5nKBgMpOOlTg http://drivelite.buzz/fli8iE34hKnUctxn08BR63xPi4uh7NSlt7Cdi_CWwLbfjKECoA s a multiplayer-only game because the computer had no resources left over to handle controlling the other ship. Similarly, other proposed additions to the game such as a more refined explosion display upon the destruction of a spaceship and having the torpedoes also be affected by gravity had to be abandoned as there were not enough computer resources to handle them while smoothly running the game. With the added features and changes in place, Russell and the other programmers shifted focus from developing the game to preparing to show it off to others such as at the MIT Science Open House at the end of April 1962. The group added a time limit, the hyperspace function, and a larger, second screen for viewers at the demonstration, and in May Graetz presented a paper about the game, "SPACEWAR! Real-Time Capability of the PDP-1", at the first meeting of the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society. The demonstration wasitors such as Frederik Pohl enjoyed playing the "lovely game"; the editor of Galaxy Science Fiction wrote that MIT was "borrowing from the science-fiction magazines", with players able to pretend to be Skylark characters. Beginning in mid-1962 and continuing over the next few years, members of the PDP-1 programming community at MIT, including Russell and the other Hingham Institute members, began to spread ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8702 **********************************************