A couple of years ago, Tom Duff approached me with the notion that he was going to write a simulator for the ancient PDP-1 so that he could run SpaceWar!, widely regarded as the first real video game. We both wrote simulators for the PDP-1, and enjoyed playing around with such a bizarre machine.

Lately I’ve decided to resurrect this code and make a nice version using the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. Toward that end, I dug up
some of the old links documenting the PDP-1, but ran accross
Dan
Smith’s PDP-1 Music page. He has links to ten different mp3 files which were made from original tapes he made at the time.

I liked them enough that I made them accessible here:

• As Time Goes By…
• Assorted Christmas Carols
• Downtown
• Goldfinger
• Bach’s Little Fugue
• Chopin’s Minute Waltz
• Bach’s Passacaglia and Fuge
• Shiela, by Tommy Roe
• We Shall Overcome
• The Winston Cigarette Jingle