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Compile like it's 1992

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Re: Compile like it's 1992

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Aug 11, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #36

zura wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, I still think that 12MB for a system like Borland C is overkill.

Then use Turbo Pascal, fits on a floppy.

I remember using it on an Apple II (with a Microsoft Softcard and CP/M 2.2). It was running off a 140K floppy disk.

Re: Compile like it's 1992

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Post by superfunc » Mon, Aug 11, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #2

Its nice that they made it public domain. There are 1000 more games from that era whose code will simply dissapear despite being simply bits and bytes that may be perfectly preserved for ever.

It would be neat if someone took the effort to curate all of these old projects in some way.

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