Computer Space is a space combat arcade video game released in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it...
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Whitespace character (redirect from White space (computer science))
white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. For example, a space character (U+0020 SPACE, ASCII 32) represents blank space such as...
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In computer science, a state space is a discrete space representing the set of all possible configurations of a "system". It is a useful abstraction for...
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Video game (redirect from Computer games)
coin-operated arcade cabinet using a less expensive computer. This was released as Computer Space, the first arcade video game, in 1971. Bushnell and...
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A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital electronic...
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Early history of video games (redirect from First computer game)
arcade game Galaxy Game and the release of the first arcade video game Computer Space, and then in 1972 with the release of the immensely successful arcade...
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Azerbaijan Space (video game), a computer role-playing game series from Edu-Ware, Space I, Space II Space or square, a location in a board game Space (Michener...
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Spacewar! (redirect from Space Wars PDP1)
games, such as the first commercial arcade video games, Galaxy Game and Computer Space (both from 1971), and later games such as Asteroids (1979). In 2007...
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Computer Space forum is a yearly computer art festival, organized by the Student Computer Art Society (SCAS) in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's one of the oldest...
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1971 in video games (section Computer)
of Computer Space by Nutting Associates and Galaxy Game by Mini-Computer Applications. The majority of digital games remained on mainframe computers and...
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Video game genre (redirect from Computer game genre)
of fixed shooter and multidirectional shooter. Within the personal computer space, two publications established a small number of categories based on...
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game consoles and personal computers. Notable games released in the 1970s included Computer Space, The Oregon Trail, Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaxian...
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History of video games (redirect from Timeline of computer and video games)
console was the Magnavox Odyssey, and the first arcade video games were Computer Space and Pong. After its home console conversions, numerous companies sprang...
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Ted Dabney (section Career in the computer industry)
developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games. Dabney...
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In computer science, binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for space partitioning which recursively subdivides a Euclidean space into two convex...
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the original concept when he developed the first arcade video game, Computer Space (1971). Technical limitations made it difficult to adapt the early mainframe...
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wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications or computer networking. "Free space" means air, outer space, vacuum, or something similar. This contrasts with...
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Cyberspace (redirect from Cyber space)
try to implement computers, they had no interest in the virtual space as such: To us, "cyberspace" was simply about managing spaces. There was nothing...
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1970 in video games (section Computer)
in development, the game which would become Computer Space began development in this period. In computer games, BASIC games written by high school and...
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first commercial video game, Computer Space. The first North American Computer Chess Championship is held. 1971 – Computer Space and Galaxy Game are released...
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extensive use of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer. A demonstration of the "computer space jazz" soundtrack was one of the festival displays at the 1982 US Festival...
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modern computer operating system usually uses virtual memory to provide separate address spaces, or separate regions of a single address space, called...
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HAL 9000 (redirect from Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer 9000)
Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) is a sentient...
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Fragmentation (computing) (redirect from Slack space)
In computer storage, fragmentation is a phenomenon in which storage space, main storage or secondary storage, such as computer memory or a hard drive...
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Computational complexity (section Space)
constant amount of time on a given computer and change only by a constant factor when run on a different computer. Space complexity is generally expressed...
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Minicomputer (redirect from Mini-computer)
smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct...
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Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.: 3 ...
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A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Computers use common communication protocols over...
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the first arcade video games; the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space, was released in November 1971 by Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and...
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In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename. Just as words can be...
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