About this project
This is a Critical Code Studies reading of Spacewar!, the space-combat game written for the DEC PDP-1 at MIT in 1961–62, read as a cultural text: at once literature, mechanism, spatial form, and a record of the social world that produced it.
David M. Berry
Mark C. Marino
Anthony Hay
Sarah Ciston
Art Schwarz
The source and emulator preserved in this project descend from the canonical PDP-1 emulator by Barry Silverman, Brian Silverman and Vadim Gerasimov. The reading draws throughout on the reconstructions and software-archaeological work of Norbert Landsteiner. Source and issues: github.com/spacewar1962.