PDP8 - Presentation #3

[tnmoc]

It's a correct game, in that it doesn't ever make illegal moves. I suspect it isn't a very good game, although it can beat me. Just to confirm this is running in 4k x 12 bit words - no use of extra memory, overlays, tapes or anything.

[TheQuindecillion]

Awesome. But who wrote the chess program? and with such puny memory, could it really play even a half-decent game of chess?

[adrianjcc]

this is probably the reason to why early computer chess players had a real chess board as a visual representation :) cool to see the computer thinking!

[gomemdesoto]

"Would you like to play a game?

Let's play Global Thermo-Nuclear War.

[laurdy]

@gomemdesoto number of players: zero

[K7AGE]

Love it, noise and blinking lights. Good work.

[bitrex]

I love how every register lamp illuminates as it goes through the move decision tree.

[Desmaad]

Ah teletext! My dad tells me every now and then that while he was learning to program, he could tell who was playing Star Trek by whether or not they had paper pouring out of their terminals.

[jtel]

Ah this video brought a smile to my face.

[iraeus]

Hey hey, nice!

Would be keen to get my hands on *that* ASR! Would trade it for an "unmodified" (with only the DEC mod) variant.... :)