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Wow, what a great look into internet history. Do you still have the original forum post? I wonder who the original author was.

glaberficken 8y ago
Maybe this is the original author? World of Sand by DOFI (2005) http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html can anyone find an earlier falling sand type game? edit: Found this after some googling: http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/03/05/falling-sand-game-from-the-80s/ http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/03/05/falling-sand-game-fr... very interesting! (includes assembly source code)
- tom_ 8y ago
  There was a similar Archimedes program printed in Acorn user in the March 1992 issue. Atari ST game, in the same genre, from the Jan 1993 issue of ST Format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZB9nIzZ64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZB9nIzZ64
  - glaberficken 8y ago
    Fantastic! For those wondering how such a program was printed (and then had to be typed by hand from the magazine), here's a scan cap of the page in question https://imgur.com/a/Mng21o3 https://imgur.com/a/Mng21o3 And here you can find the full issue: http://8bs.com/aumags.htm http://8bs.com/aumags.htm
klohto 8y ago
http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html
chime 8y ago
Just found these: [1] Original Fark thread: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-flow-of-various-substances-Surprisingly-addictive?cpp=1 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-fl... [2] My attempt to show others how to run this offline: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666 [3] My comment about the rehosted/recompiled 960x640 version: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943 [4] I'm smiling at Finger51's comment: Works great in FF1.5! [5] My original blog entry a few days later: http://chir.ag/200512302250 http://chir.ag/200512302250 [6] It's a bit sad that all the links to Digg, Reddit, and MSNBC are broken now. And I totally forgot about the traffic behemoth that delicious was! Here's a fixed version of the Reddit link, at least the page is up, even if the URL changed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/

glaberficken 8y ago

Maybe this is the original author? World of Sand by DOFI (2005) http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html can anyone find an earlier falling sand type game? edit: Found this after some googling: http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/03/05/falling-sand-game-from-the-80s/ http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/03/05/falling-sand-game-fr... very interesting! (includes assembly source code)

tom_ 8y ago
There was a similar Archimedes program printed in Acorn user in the March 1992 issue. Atari ST game, in the same genre, from the Jan 1993 issue of ST Format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZB9nIzZ64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZB9nIzZ64
- glaberficken 8y ago
  Fantastic! For those wondering how such a program was printed (and then had to be typed by hand from the magazine), here's a scan cap of the page in question https://imgur.com/a/Mng21o3 https://imgur.com/a/Mng21o3 And here you can find the full issue: http://8bs.com/aumags.htm http://8bs.com/aumags.htm

klohto 8y ago

http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

chime 8y ago

Just found these: [1] Original Fark thread: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-flow-of-various-substances-Surprisingly-addictive?cpp=1 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-fl... [2] My attempt to show others how to run this offline: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666 [3] My comment about the rehosted/recompiled 960x640 version: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943 https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943 [4] I'm smiling at Finger51's comment: Works great in FF1.5! [5] My original blog entry a few days later: http://chir.ag/200512302250 http://chir.ag/200512302250 [6] It's a bit sad that all the links to Digg, Reddit, and MSNBC are broken now. And I totally forgot about the traffic behemoth that delicious was! Here's a fixed version of the Reddit link, at least the page is up, even if the URL changed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/