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First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC
The GPI writes with a story about Scott's Space Wars, a piece of gaming history:
"This game was written by the famous game author Scott Adams, who founded Adventure International, the first multimillion dollar PC game company. It was founded over 30 years ago and developed for early 8-bit home PCs, i.e. TRS-80, Apple II, Atari. Scott's Space Wars is the first graphics game that was ever written at home, for a 16-bit home computer. The original source code is available as photos of the original 1975 hand-written manuscript. The last purchaser of the manuscript paid $197,500 in 2005. A brief video shows how the game was played."
wow, that was a really informative video.
Psych.
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This got modded up?
seriously?
You're going to ignore 30 years of game development in favor of a snarky comment? I mean, there's contrarian thinking and then there's...
this.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
You have to be a programmer, an artist, something of a musician
Or have a few friends.
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An entire "technology first" thread without a single snarky post from some American-hating European claiming that some obscure European with no real proof actually was the REAL first inventor? That's got to be a first itself!
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