[TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code

Arthur Krewat krewat at kilonet.net
Sun Oct 20 06:24:52 AEST 2019


On 10/19/2019 3:50 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
> The idea is to squeeze as much apparent visual performance out of a 
> system as possible, so an example might be scrolling characters across 
> the screen while a wireframe cube rotates in the background, all on a 
> Commodore VIC-20 with 4K of RAM.
You ain't lived until you try to take Impossible Mission from the 
Commodore 64, and convert it to an Atari 7800 using that Maria 
steaming-pile-of-doodoo. Talk about optimizing ;)

art k.



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