Space Travel: The Kerbal Space Program Of 1969

[@gamermcdudarino3183]

Absolutely fascinating. Really been getting a kick out of these obscure history videos you've been pumping out-a great wealth of information for someone (like me...) who has only lived in years that start with 2!

[@TimberwolfK]

Thank you! This one was quite fun to research as there's a decent amount of information about Space Travel - usually the things on my list are more, "here's a piece of 1980s PC shareware. All information about it is lost to history. Good luck!"

[@PygmeakaFrosty]

This is of genuine historical importance to video games. Great work in making the video.

[@zetaconvex1987]

So there we have it. Unix, arguably the most-deployed Operating System, was the result of one man's desire to port a space game.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I can't believe the guys who code operating systems are nerds.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

UNIQUE CONTENT! I had Space Shuttle Simulator for the ZX Spectrum by Firebird or Silverbird or Telecomsoft or someone. That was pretty good! But this is lovely! Well done, sir!

[@davidhatch7169]

Hey there! Thank you for this video I’m very interested in playing space travel as well! Would you be able to explain to me at all how you got it running kind of a step by step to it? Thank you I really appreciate this !

[@davidhatch7169]

Or is there anyone I can contact that would be able to walk me though it?

[@TimberwolfK]

I should put together a blog post on how to make it work, might be a week or two but hopefully I'll get something up. There's an old mainframe simulator project with a custom patch for the correct vector display, then the PDP-7 UNIX project have all the source code for Space Travel etc.

[@davidhatch7169]

@@TimberwolfK that sounds good I really appreciate that! Just let me know when put that blog post up and I’ll check it out !

[@davidhatch7169]

@@TimberwolfK Hey did you ever get around to making that blog post on how to install this ? just wondering

[@TimberwolfK]

I haven't had chance yet, it's on my list to do at some point but lots of other video stuff and editing to do. The basic gist of it is you need the PDP-7 UNIX project (github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix ) and then a version of simh with support for the vector version of the GRAPHICS-2 display device - I used Lars Brinkhoff's version (github.com/larsbrinkhoff/simh/tree/lars/graphics2 ) For me, I could only get them compiling and running under a Linux system, both Mac and Windows had problems either getting the necessary libraries or would crash on trying to open graphics output.

[@MauryMarkowitz]

Timber, earlier in the video you briefly show an image from ST that I think you got from the Wikipedia. It shows a sort of figure-8 shape with what might be rings. Do you have any idea what that image is showing? Have you managed to discover that object while flying?

[@TimberwolfK]

I genuinely have no idea what that image represents. I have a feeling it may even be multiple frames from the game superimposed into one image.

[@eprohoda]

HHow’s everything going?!Like it!awesome ! catch you later,📽