Moonjs: Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

[Animats]

That's cute. Now someone needs to hook it up to Kerbal Space Program so you can fly with it.

[armistice]

KSP controls and UI are already a thousand times more powerful than this, though, so you'd have to disable all of those. The game would be unplayable without a ground station helping you out with the tracking, guiance and so on. Which, incidentally, is how this computer is designed to be used.

[TeMPOraL]

Maybe it's possible to interface it with Telemachus?

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24594-0-25-%2820...

[sehugg]

Orbiter already has a "Virtual AGC" mode that hooks into the emulator:

http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

[olla]

A lot of simulators and emulators in javascript emerging lately. Advances in javascript are making it more useful as a real programming language as it seems.

[rjaco31]

I would guess it's more advances in javascript engines' performances that in the language per se.

[rglover]

This is awesome!

I am decidedly not a math person, however, what would one need to know to interpret the different values being displayed? In other words, what would I need to know as an astronaut using this and how would that influence what I do in space vs. what happens on the ground at Houston?

[armistice]

All you need is to have is a manual for the codes. This thing is mainly a shorthand assembler computer connected to sensors outputting raw number data.

[pacomerh]

Cool simulator. I'm curious, I was under the impression that the JS after the name was meant for libraries or frameworks not just anything built with javascript, I guess I was wrong.

[martin1b]

Add some sound effects, including rocket sounds and shaking the screen during launch this would be incredible!!

Very nice!!