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by masswerk·12y ago·view on hn ↗
I finally managed to identify Martin Graetz's original hyperspace routine, featuring the "hyperspace Minskytron signature" (as described and depicted in "Origin of Spacewar"). This was actually a patch (hyperspace85.bin) to "Spacewar! 2B".

This was actually the first hyperspace in history (in the very first digital video game) – and what a nice one!

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The Origin of Spacewar, by J. M. Graetz:

http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/creative/SpacewarOrigin.html

See also http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html (corrected and annotated version, including additional interviews and images).

Some of my own analysis: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/