Launching Spacewar (PDP-1) Fullscreen or Maximized

[Syrinx]

Hi all,

I've been really enjoying getting my games library put together, and I am finally getting around to actually utilizing JoyToKey for the games that don't support controllers. This has meant my friends and I have finally been putting in a bunch of time playing the original video game, Spacewar! for the PDP-1. Isn't it weird how we didn't play it much when we had to share a keyboard?

However, the simulator/emulator I have launches in a very small window. I have tried running the spacewar.exe program with various command line parameters:

-f

-fullscreen

-max

-maximized

-w=1080

Unfortunately. nothing I seem to try actually launches the game at a reasonable size, and I always have to grab my mouse and navigate to the maximize icon. I'm not sure if there's some command I should try instead, if there's some sort of batch file I can create to launch it at a desired size, or if there's something else I can try, but I figured I'd post this and see if anyone had any thoughts. I know that links are discouraged, so to provide some more context, the simulator I use was produced by Eric Waller. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to take any input provided.

Hope everyone's had a good first month to the year.

[spycat]

I'm not familiar with the emulator you're using, so I don't know just how small your very small window actually is.

The game is available as part of the pdp1_ptp software list which can be set up and emulated with MAME in LaunchBox.

[Syrinx]

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I'm not sure why I didn't think to check to see if the PDP-1 was emulated through MAME; it honestly seems like an obvious thing to check before posting. Got to say, I like the grainier more authentic look to the actual game rather than the simulation which does a great job but looks a little too clean for 60s hardware. Thanks again.