Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

Thomas Niccum

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Jun 17, 2024, 1:56:24 PMJun 17

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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/

Anyone have the Focal version running?

I have the basic version on my Pidp-11 and other old machines... Not sure if I ever fired it up on the Pidp-8

Mike Katz

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Jun 17, 2024, 2:56:33 PMJun 17

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I have this running on both my PDP-8/E and also my PiDP-8/I.

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Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

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Jun 17, 2024, 6:07:31 PMJun 17

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There is "Rocket.bas" on the PiDP-8i standard OS/8 image!

Here is a transcript of a landing attempt .

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