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Originally posted by some_idiot
Railz man, space invaders in a 80x86 bootstrap...
I also HO, 8 tracks , 2 controllers ... all hand wired, no
yuppie purchased shit. I do believe that the football pranks were first. It would take some really free beer to get me say other wise.
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Have you even *looked* at those 4k demos? I swear some of them are simply incredible feats of optimized code. Since home computers have been around, there have been people who have pushed the machines further than their makers thought possible.
Ever have a Commie 64? Remember Commodore saying it was physically impossible to put a sprite in the border of the screen?
Took some kid in New Hampshire (if I remember correctly) about a week to prove them wrong.
As for the origins - try reading "Hackers" by Steven Levy. Good reading.