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The original space combat game written to run as a Java applet.
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Spacewar!  Spacewar! Readme...
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/

Peter Hirschberg and Josh Cogliati's C++ based version of game. Includes features, download of source, requirements, and screen shots.
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Space Wars Home Page  Wars is a two player implementation of the original arcade game Space Wars. In it two players battle it out around the sun. Primary programming by Peter Hirschberg (webpage at http www.advancedaerials.com/plastic/index.htm) Current programmer is...
http://www.digisys.net/users/cogs/spacewar.htm

Contains history, articles covering early development, Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics, code, influences, and game controllers, and Macintosh version of game.
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SpaceWar  War may be the most important computer game ever. The first version was developed for the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960. The game has been under essentially constant development since. The first CRT display was...
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/

Contains Java based version of game, with instructions.
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Space War!  The ships use this energy as their power supply, and for this reason are forced to fly perilously close to the planet at all times, constantly struggling with the planet's gravity for control. Actually colliding...
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~anicolao/sw/Spacewar/spacewar.html