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Finally A Playable Game

A project log for Lunar Lander for the PDP-1

My PDP-1 Replica (PiDP-1) from Obsolescence Guaranteed has arrived and I want to do something cool with it.

michael-gardiMichael Gardi 16 hours ago0 Comments

I integrated the NEW GAME attract screen, the GAME OVER screen, and Good Landing animation with the gameplay stuff and with all of this is place you can now play Lunar Lander. The flow:

  1. Boot up the game.
  2. From the Attract Mode NEW GAME screen press a button on the game controller. Gameplay starts.
  3. Attempt to make as many Good Landings on high value target sites as fuel allows to increase your score.
  4. When you run out of fuel you will probably crash one last time (for 5 points ;-) unless you were lucky to be very close to a soft landing.
  5. From the GAME OVER screen observe your score then press a button to go back to 2.

Of course you will need a PDP-1 to play this version of Lunar Lander. Before I received my physical Console PiDP-1, I was able to test early versions of the game using the Obsolescence Guaranteed virtual PDP-1 console by toggling the virtual Test Word switches with mouse clicks.  In all honesty this was pretty frustrating and unsatisfying, but for testing purposes it was great.

You can find this latest playable version in the Files section of this project.

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