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A Programmer Lost A Game He Made As A Kid, Until Someone Streamed It On Twitch

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 30 2019, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-touch-it-you-own-it-forever dept.
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A Programmer Lost A Game He Made As A Kid, Until Someone Streamed It On Twitch:

Rick Brewster is a programmer and the author of Paint.NET, a free replacement for Microsoft Paint that’s expanded to have features similar to image creation programs like Photoshop and GIMP. In 1994, at the age of 12, Brewster made The Golden Flute IV: The Flute of Immortality, a DOS-based roleplaying game inspired by a text adventure from a 1984 instructional book on how to write adventure games. He wrote The Golden Flute IV on a Tandy 1000 TL/2, an IBM clone computer.

[...]“I made ONE installable copy onto 3.5" 720K disks that I packaged up and mailed to my cousin on the east coast, and that’s it,” Brewster explained in a Twitter thread. That copy was seemingly lost, with no playable copy surviving.

[...] Somehow, a version of that game found its way into the hands of a streamer name Macaw, who specializes in old and obscure games. [...] He played The Golden Flute IV on December 23rd, exploring it for a short time before moving on to other games.

[...]Brewster speculated on Twitter that his cousin possibly uploaded the game to a BBS, because it somehow ended up in the “Frostbyte” archive, a collection of old games that was uploaded to the Internet Archive. If you’re curious how it plays, you can check it out using this in-browser DOSbox emulator.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 30 2019, @12:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 30 2019, @12:41AM (#937320)

    The NSA keeps a copy for you.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Snotnose on Monday December 30 2019, @12:47AM (2 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 30 2019, @12:47AM (#937323)

    Said something like "real hackers let everyone else mirror their code". Guy was a peanuts character, Linus or something, my memory fails me.

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 30 2019, @02:06AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 30 2019, @02:06AM (#937339)

      Pigpen... the one who invented systemd?

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by Snotnose on Monday December 30 2019, @03:08AM

        by Snotnose (1623) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 30 2019, @03:08AM (#937351)

        More like Lucy, kept promising the football but always taking it away....

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday December 30 2019, @04:01AM

    by edIII (791) on Monday December 30 2019, @04:01AM (#937365)

    For a project from a 12 year old, this is pretty good. He utterly sucked at graphic skills though :) I would've guessed 5 year old with finger paints, which sadly, puts him well ahead of myself...

    Game mechanics were solid though, and seemed borrowed from the Final Fantasies.

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