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An implementation of Space War!, one of the first digital computer games, created in 1961 on the PDP-1 computer, as recreated using the <canvas> HTML5 element and Ajax. It uses the Frozen Toolkit (http://frozentoolkit.frozen-o.com/) for the client-server communication and currently renders all images and animation using canvas and JavaScript objects.

I had always intended to release this as an open source project, but then realized that I didn't really have the full time to dedicate to it. It also currently exists more as sample code and an interactive demo than anything else, and I figured I should just post it for all to see and hopefully for some to contribute. I initially posted the introduction to it on my blog at http://www.frozen-o.com/blog/2007/05/intro-to-chapter-10-game-development.html.... read more