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qingcharles 669 days ago | parent | on: 1995 Programming on the Sega Saturn
lol the only feature of C++ used by a lot of game devs in the 90s - // comments :p
qingcharles 675 days ago | parent | on: The blog of Tim Paterson (86-DOS author)
Hopefully this is in archive.org as Google are about to shutter Blogspot.
qingcharles 675 days ago | parent | on: The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128
Amazing. I love articles like this. The Spectrum 128 was where I really cut my teeth as a kid (and burned the side of my hand so many times on the toast rack). The proper text editor was my first IDE. I wouldn't be where I am now without the author of that article. He's a hero to me.
qingcharles 693 days ago | parent | on: The Jupiter Ace Archive site
I bought one of these from a charity shop when I was about 10 in about 1987 :) It's long gone now :(
qingcharles 695 days ago | parent | on: The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Fou...
No explanation of how it was found anywhere though :(
qingcharles 695 days ago | parent | on: Monty Mole trilogy for the Nintendo Switch
It's crazy, but amazing, that this exists.
qingcharles 695 days ago | parent | on: The best type-in I ever typed in: Crossroads, for ...
Oh, I know :( :(
10 pages of hex... execute it... instant reboot lol
qingcharles 703 days ago | parent | on: Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years
I found the hardware here:
https://www.satiator.net/
qingcharles 723 days ago | parent | on: Burning CDs with Corel
I think it was Corel I was using in 1995 to burn CDs. It would take 2 hours to burn a single disc (maybe I set it slow to avoid errors, or maybe I had it running a verify? in those days a single nudge during writing would ruin the discs and they were upwards of $20 a disc!).
I used it to burn off all the pirate warez that I had on my FTP topsite. I had all the major pirate groups like Razor 1911 using my FTP to store their stuff, and then I would take it and burn it on CDs and sell them at the local university for about $80 a piece. I called them "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL WAREZ!"
I had to set my alarm to wake me up every 2 hours to switch discs :(
qingcharles 735 days ago | parent | on: All that Infocom interpreter code
That's great to get the whole story. I was following his post like a week ago where MS had reached out to him, then the source suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Amazing.
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