Talk:Space Travel (video game)

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I wrote to Ken Thompson asking if Space Travel was ever ported to a modern environment or if there were images of it available anywhere. His response was "sorry, it is completely lost."

I recognize that Wikipedia doesn't allow emails to be a reference for statements in an article so I'm including this information here for history's sake.DasKreestof (talk) 14:54, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

What is that an image of?
Can someone explain what the gameplay image represents? According to the body text, the ship remains at the center and the solar system rotates around it.

Well I don't see a ship... possibly this is represented by the screen-spanning crosshairs? If so, that needs to be mentioned.

And what exactly is that figure-8 object just above center? Is that supposed to be a planet or moon? Again, I can't square that image with anything in the description.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:13, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Source Code Recovered
Source code for the PDP-7 Unix version of Space Travel has recently been recovered, along with a good amount of other code of other PDP-7 Unix applications. There's a project on GitHub that has managed to get PDP-7 Unix up and running under the SimH emulator, and the source for Space Travel is now in the source tree. GitHub project

Unfortunately it also requires someone to also write an emulator for the custom GRAPHICS-2 terminal that this specific PDP-7 used. Work on that is progressing too, but at the current moment in time the code hasn't yet been committed to the SimH Github Project. SimH GitHub project Paul The Wazzock (talk) 15:21, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Very cool! Hopefully once that gets finished, we can get a screenshot that's actually understandable. If there's a good link target once it's working, that can be added as an external link as well. -- Pres N  19:20, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There's a video of a guy who got Space Travel running on an experimental branch of that PDP-7 Unix. Might be a good source for a better screenshot of the game. JKeck (talk) 20:49, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 13 July 2020

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The result of the move request was: no consensus  Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 15:15, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Space Travel (video game) → Space Travel – Per WP:DIFFCAPS, "Space travel" the concept is not capitalized, this is clearly the title of a work. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 09:16, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose per similar examples Talk:Red_Meat_(comic_strip) etc. WP:DIFFCAPS has been regularly overturned and needs updating In ictu oculi (talk) 10:10, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose, differentiating by caps will be confusing particularly since actual space travel is the real primary topic here.--Bob not snob (talk) 07:56, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


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