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