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I remember playing around with that lander demo! These machines had BASIC in ROM, and you could write WIMP programs with it. Lots of fun.
by btbuilder 14y ago
I remember playing around with that lander demo!
These machines had BASIC in ROM, and you could write WIMP programs with it. Lots of fun.
- aerique 14y agoThe lander demo is also know as the game Zarch (or Virus for other computers). David Braben (of the Elite[1] fame) wrote that in three months[2] for the release of the Archimedes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
- tomstuart 14y agoZarch, now available for your web browser: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4052784 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4052784