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Programmers then and now (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape

Holy hell, that is OLD old. We're talking about the beginnings of digital time here. Had the first web constellations formed yet? How fast did you crank your CPU?

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

You couldn't crank your CPU in the olden days, it'd make games run in fast forward.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, I played it a lot, and a similar one called aviator which was a kinda flight sim. There wasn't really much of an internet back then but stuff was easy to copy on tapes.