Apollo On Board Computer Emulator 166
frankk74 writes "For those of you interested in Historical Computing and the Apollo manned spaceflights Ron Burkey has created a open source emulation of the Apollo Guidance Computer called vAGC. I use it as my desktop clock of choice. Note it only keeps mission time so after 24 hours you have reset the time :-). P.S. Another cool Apollo toy free and payware can be found here."
Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh, it's the Missing Piece! (Score:4, Funny)
Like Deng Xiao Ping's 50-year plan towards (real) World Domination by using the capitalists' greed against their own long-term interests, this space-conquering plan began over 50 years ago when the "People's Liberation" Army invaded their peaceful neighbour Tibet, to be used as a back-up landing area. Well, Tibet can also be looted for their natural resources (oil, gas, uranium) and subjugation the hapless Tibetan people has been used as a great propaganda victory for Party jingoism, but clearly one of the main reasons to invade was to use the Tibetan territory as a back-up landing site.
Apollo On Board Emulator, running on Red Flag Linux and locally-built Dragon CPU... even Evil Invading Dictatorships can be pretty geeky when it suits their World Domination Plans... ;-)
Re:12-bit Instruction set (Score:5, Funny)
Think of three fat guys trying to move one of those things in a Mini Cooper.
KFG
How do they get to the moon... (Score:5, Funny)
Slingshot (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder...... (Score:2, Funny)
Game anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, even my Texas Instruments card-programmable calculator played that game!
Re:How do they get to the moon... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Warning (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I wonder...... (Score:2, Funny)
Bah. Apollo computers only has a numneric display. The hottest pr0n that it can display is number "69" in all fields.
Linux (Score:2, Funny)
But seriously: would it, theoretically (!), be possible to write a x86 emulator on something like that?
Re:Duh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Next step: hardware (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sure somebody out there with more time than I have is working on it ... :)
Re:12-bit Instruction set (Score:5, Funny)
Car-PC (Score:2, Funny)
~Lake
Re:Next step: hardware (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Car-PC (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone get a good look at the code yet? (Score:5, Funny)
P63SPOT3 CA BIT6 # IS THE LR ANTENNA IN POSITION 1 YET
EXTEND
RAND CHAN33
EXTEND
BZF P63SPOT4 # BRANCH IF ANTENNA ALREADY IN POSITION 1
CAF CODE500 # ASTRONAUT: PLEASE CRANK THE
TC BANKCALL # SILLY THING AROUND
CADR GOPERF1
TCF GOTOP00H # TERMINATE
TCF P63SPOT3 # PROCEED SEE IF HE'S LYING
P63SPOT4 TC BANKCALL # ENTER INITIALIZE LANDING RADAR
CADR SETPOS1
TC POSTJUMP # OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
CADR BURNBABY
Re:very simple processor (Score:5, Funny)
That's because when the LM was being designed some engineer decided "640 Bytes should be enough for anyone."
Interesting time limit (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah. 24 hours ought to be enough for everybody.
Beowulf comment ... (Score:5, Funny)
If so: who is invading who ?
Re:very simple processor (Score:3, Funny)
Intuitive (Score:3, Funny)
Setting the time:
Press Verb 2 5 Noun 3 6 Entr. Then enter a + to indicate you're entering the time in decimal, not octal. Be sure to enter all 5 digits of the hour. Then press Entr, and enter minutes, and then repeat for seconds. And make sure you remember that the seconds are in 100ths.
V25N36E+00012E+00002E+04400E
Totally intuitive.
Re:Slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)
Not the least of which is that he's dead [imdb.com].
Re:nope Re:Disaster waiting to happen (Score:3, Funny)
Experiment? More like "let's see how fast we can light a barbecue grill [llnl.gov]!"
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Re:very simple processor (Score:1, Funny)