maxshm · HackerTrans

3 years agodiscuss

What shocked me when I saw Elite for the first time, is the huge number of star systems with their own names, population size and descriptions. I knew there was no way such volume of data in the tiny executable file.

maxshm

3 years agodiscuss

Also got such email from FastSpring.

I dislike this $150 payment requirement from them!

maxshm

3 years agodiscuss

Thank you for mentioning Wasniak book! I really enjoyed iWas.

Another great book is “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer” (Second Edition) 2nd Edition by Paul Freiberger (Author), Michael Swaine (Author)

And I like as well a book from Merrill Chapman. “In search of stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters”.

maxshm

3 years agodiscuss

I like that the plugin creates my own dictionary. It was the way I learned many words.

maxshm

4 years agodiscuss

I remember Turbo Pascal 3.0, the one that generated COM files for MS-DOS (like EXE files, but about 2KB smaller).

I loved that Turbo.com and COM files 30 years ago!

later I started to use Turbo Pascal 5.5 with OO support and a good IDE.

maxshm

4 years agodiscuss

I have seen these pages few years ago. But I could not find source code for these examples

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