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Apollo 11 Source Code on GoogleCode
By Martin English | July 22, 2009
The Google Code guys have been busy getting some of the source code for the Apollo 11 spacecraft online.
On this day 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. This was quite an achievement for mankind and a key milestone in world history.
To commemorate this event the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099) have been transcribed from scanned images to run on yaAGC (an open source AGC emulator) by the Virtual AGC and AGS project.
For more information on this project, I recommend looking at the website and the open source project.
While the ultimate destination of this program was possibly a bit more important than anything I wrote, this takes me back to my IBM Assembler days, when hardware resources were minuscule, and lots had to be done with a little. I even recognise the comment style.
VRTSTART TS WCHVERT
# Page 801
CAF TWO # WCHPHASE = 2 —> VERTICAL: P65,P66,P67
TS WCHPHOLD
TS WCHPHASE
TC BANKCALL # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
CADR STOPRATE # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
TC DOWNFLAG # PERMIT X-AXIS OVERRIDE
ADRES XOVINFLG
TC DOWNFLAG
ADRES REDFLAG
TCF VERTGUID
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