The DEC Opcodes app just got a nice update. Learn how to write low-level code on mini and mainframe computers; now with PDP-1 and PDP-8 programming tutorials. Especially useful if you have a PiDP-1 or PiDP-8!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dec-opcodes/id6760246055

@GrantMeStrength is there a web version or other version that can be used outside the Apple ecosystem?
@GrantMeStrength Hmm, not sure if there's enough storage on my device to download the VAX opcodes.πŸ˜€
@GrantMeStrength I’m sorry to have to ask, but is that genAI art?
@europlus @GrantMeStrength
If you're talking about the PDP-1 photo, that's a real photo taken at the Computer History Museum.
@brouhaha @GrantMeStrength thank you! I hate the uncanny valley these days
@europlus most of the pictures I took myself at various museums. Others are under Creative Commons from Wikipedia. No AI images.
@GrantMeStrength Is that a circular screen on what I assume must have been a text-based interface? How would that have worked?
@me it was not a text-based interface :) well there was a character generator but seems most often used for graphics. It had 1024 by 1024 points. Remember it was really an oscilloscope CRT, hence round. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1
PDP-1 - Wikipedia

@GrantMeStrength Polar coordinates, I presume?
@me funnily enough no - Cartesian. lac xcoord / load X into AC
lio ycoord / load Y into IO
dpy / 720007, plot the point