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I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood. All I had was a thick book in a language I di
by citbl 1y ago
I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood.
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
- 1313ed01 1y agoSome commercial MS-DOS games were written in GW-BASIC. Infuriatingly it was not possible to list the code for those. I could not figure it out at the time. Almost 40 years later, in 2025, I learned about the "protected" save format in GW-BASIC, and that there are tools to open those files and allow you to list the code. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-were-microsoft-gw-basic-protected-files-encoded https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-...