Tremendous stuff, although that landing was a terrible effort. This is the first video game I ever played, and I actually landed it a few times. Remarkable that our NASA boys managed it first time, with untested technology, when one thinks about it!
It'd be very difficult. I have it on a cassette tape somewhere, but even with that, it would be difficult to reproduce. It's in PET-BASIC, and designed to work on an old Pet-2001 (built back in about 1979), running a 6502 8-bit processor.
By the look of the green screen, this was the full-size keyboard version, but still running an 'old-ROM' OS. Probably 16K internal memory. The originals were 8K or (more rarely) 4K.
i remember commodore pets were the first computers i ever used. we had a computer class in fifth grade, this woulda been 78, 79, thereabouts, i think? i was afraid if i hit the wrong key the computer would explode.
Originally, Lunar Lander was a completely text-based game. Never played it, but would be curious to see what it looked like.
smith092 5 months ago in playlist Games
I enjoyed playing this game so much...
jorjun 2 years ago
Tremendous stuff, although that landing was a terrible effort. This is the first video game I ever played, and I actually landed it a few times. Remarkable that our NASA boys managed it first time, with untested technology, when one thinks about it!
imatthews37 2 years ago
You just made another crater on the moon LOL
11010neo01011 2 years ago
where can i get source code for this game?
TESLAKOKOT 2 years ago
@TESLAKOKOT
It'd be very difficult. I have it on a cassette tape somewhere, but even with that, it would be difficult to reproduce. It's in PET-BASIC, and designed to work on an old Pet-2001 (built back in about 1979), running a 6502 8-bit processor.
By the look of the green screen, this was the full-size keyboard version, but still running an 'old-ROM' OS. Probably 16K internal memory. The originals were 8K or (more rarely) 4K.
imatthews37 2 years ago
Joo gots to shed your velocities d00d!
bertfw 2 years ago
not exactly big blue, is it?
i remember commodore pets were the first computers i ever used. we had a computer class in fifth grade, this woulda been 78, 79, thereabouts, i think? i was afraid if i hit the wrong key the computer would explode.
highway234 4 years ago 3