Got to show something new at VCF Midwest on August 29-30, so here is the PiDP-8 running spacewar, the world's first ever video game.

See halfway on my page here for spacewar history. Note the homebrew controllers - clunky looks intended (see the originals here). The poor photography not intentional though. It's just very late at night... preparation for a VCF always happens at ungodly hours.

The screen is a $20 HMDI TFT put in a matching case. Makes for a rack-mounted look. I still want to add some instrument features (A/D, D/A converters etc) so it becomes a proper lab peripheral, just like DEC offered back in the day.

Intellectual credits go to Kyle Owen, who ported spacewar to SimH and also made a nice X/Y (oscilloscope) display emulator using Processing. The phosphorous effect deserves a video, really! I ported it to C on the Pi, as Processing has 'issues' with the little machine.

Hope to see you at VCF Midwest next week! Once again, my suitcase will need space on the way back home from VCF MW. So if you're there and want to adopt one of the demo machines, please let me know :)