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Wow! I look forward to playing Microsoft Flight Simulator inside the Emulator inside the Microsoft Flight Simulator on the 80th year anniversary.
I came here to say the same thing, but I'm gonna be an optimist and say that we'll get it by the 50th anniversary, not the 80th. We'll have MSFS in a form of VR that is not ergonomically awkward so that this is all possible.
I thought Easter eggs had been deprecated years ago; non-functional code, increased bloat, increased attack surface. To link in a complete game emulation as an EE seems - stupid. It's apparently not the OP's fault; he just wrote it, he didn't link it into the product.
I'm fine with being downvoted; I don't post for popularity. But I appreciate it if there's some comment about what I said wrong; like, perhaps my opinion was mistaken, or used inappropriate language, or was off-topic.
Also, I'm new here: how do you downvote a comment?
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I was a Junior in college! Programming in PL/1
I was 6 years old, 7 or 8 years away from acquiring a Commodore 64 and typing out my first code in BASIC from the back pages of a Compute! magazine... I'm an old man.
Googling Flight Simulator: > First release: Microsoft Flight Simulator; November 1982; 40 years ago That's wild. I can't believe it's that old.
Followed swiftly by I can't believe I'm that old.
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
Disclaimer: I was born during the peak year of 8-track sales.
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More likely this kind of “typed”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing Where “typed” here likely implies “strongly typed”.
Exactly, I mean more "strongly typed". The opposite is JavaScript, which is weakly typed. When speed matters and every bit is important, it is a bad idea to write an emulator in a weakly typed language. I have corrected the text.
congrats on getting the Easter egg!
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I'm fine with being downvoted; I don't post for popularity. But I appreciate it if there's some comment about what I said wrong; like, perhaps my opinion was mistaken, or used inappropriate language, or was off-topic.
If I had to guess, it's probably because most people love a cute easter-egg and this story was someone excited to have had their project noticed and implemented by Microsoft, off whom it was based; and your comment on the matter is that easter-eggs are stupid and outdated. Also, I'm new here: how do you downvote a comment?
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I'm fine with being downvoted; I don't post for popularity. But I appreciate it if there's some comment about what I said wrong; like, perhaps my opinion was mistaken, or used inappropriate language, or was off-topic.
If I had to guess, it's probably because most people love a cute easter-egg and this story was someone excited to have had their project noticed and implemented by Microsoft, off whom it was based; and your comment on the matter is that easter-eggs are stupid and outdated. Also, I'm new here: how do you downvote a comment?
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The adventure game "Day of the Tentacle" had the previous version of "Maniac Mansion" included. According to Wikipedia [1] it was the first time you could play the predecessor game in a newer version. The whole original Maniac Mansion game can be played on a computer resembling a Commodore 64 inside the Day of the Tentacle game; this practice has since been repeated by other game developers, but at the time of Day of…
You can play Wolfenstein 3D in one of the recent Wolfenstein games. IIRC it's presented as an arcade machine, but it seemed like the whole game was there (I played quite a bit of it, but didn't finish before bailing back out to the "real" game). Tried to find a TVTropes for this kind of thing, but couldn't. Surprised, seems like there'd be one.
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You can play Wolfenstein 3D in one of the recent Wolfenstein games. IIRC it's presented as an arcade machine, but it seemed like the whole game was there (I played quite a bit of it, but didn't finish before bailing back out to the "real" game). Tried to find a TVTropes for this kind of thing, but couldn't. Surprised, seems like there'd be one.
it predates TVTropes (Shakespeare did it), and it's called "a play-within-a-play" https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow
The purest form of this specific thing is more like having an entire episode of MASH play on a TV in the background during an episode of Trapper, MD.