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[CM] 40 years since Elite game was released (22 kB)

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From the «still pure awesomeness» department:
Feed: The Register
Title: 40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
Author: Iain Thomson
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:30:06 -0500
Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the
cobra's hood

Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British
national news. The purported reason? The news editor apparently walked in after
lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…

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See also: .kkrieger implements a first-person shooter with 3D graphics
in 96kB of binary code.
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