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Today I discovered an absolute gem from the past.
If you were around in 1984 you might have been super awesome and played core wars.
Core Wars is a programming game in which two or more programs run in a simulated computer with the goal of terminating every other program and surviving as long as possible. Known as Warriors, these programs are are written in an assembly language called Redcode.
Basically it's Counter-Strike/COD for programmers where you can fight in a team team, as a free-for-all, or one-vs-one.
What other cool things from the past might us youngun programmers have missed or not have an appreciation of?
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(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Friday October 24 2014, @09:09PM
I found it :) omg, I was writing in pascal at that time, 1999. Perhaps I should be able to run it in dosbox.
PS: backups FTW :)
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 25 2014, @09:36AM
Sure. Now if only I could read those old floppy disks containing those backups …
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