"Kill The Bit" as network game with lab8/e and pdp8/m

[gnupublic]

A funny projekt. Just one cross cable between two M8655 interfaces. One in a lab8/e, the other in a pdp8/m. I was happy that the code run nearly spot on, just one bug to find.
This is what happens: video

the code is here. (Please scroll down a bit.)


Have fun,
Volker

 

[TJ_Mossman]

Eheh, very nice!
Maybe if we hook up a modem or Telnet gateway to our serial ports, we could play 'online'? :D

 

[gnupublic]

Good idea. Could be also a true pdp8 remote terminal.....
How to set this up? With socat or ser2net?

 

[tingo]

Nice! I like it when people invent things like this.

 

[Roland Huisman]

Fun! There several two player games for OS/8 as well...
So if anyone has a bit time for modifying code...

In that time it was a luxery when attaching more terminals
to use one computer. But now it is more fun to run two computers
to play just one game :D

 

[tradde]

It was fun to play multi-player Trek on the pdp-10 at Penn State. Never tried Operator Wars.

 

[gnupublic]

I managed to connect the serial cards to a raspberrypi to /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB2. Then I startet socat:

socat -d -d -d /dev/ttyUSB0,raw,echo=0 /dev/ttyUSB2,raw,echo=0

This couples the serial devices like the crosscable before. KillTheBit was running.

Next step was to use two rasperrypis. I connectd a terminal to one at /dev/tty/USB0 and the lab8/e to the other respberry at /dev/ttyUSB0.

Then at terminal host: socat -d -d -d /dev/ttyUSB0,echo=0,raw tcp4-listen:4711
and at lab/8 host: socat -d -d -d /dev/ttyUSB0,raw,echo=0 tcp4-connect:192.168.0.100:4711
And it was possible to run OS/8 in this terminal.

So if someone wants to connect to my lab/8 over the internet, well, why not? We could play KillThe Bit over the net! We have to exchange the IP's and drill a whole into the firewall roter, but then...
Who wants?