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Hi all, I have removed the referenced video solely to log in one last time to point you to my new home at Mastodon. @a2_4am" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@a2_4am This Twitter account will no longer be monitored.

SuperPrint v1.2 (cracked by Passport) archive.org/details/SuperP… Thanks to @antoine_vignau for the disk!

Story Tree boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

Story Tree v1.3 (cracked by Passport, thanks @a2_qkumba) archive.org/details/StoryT… Thanks to @antoine_vignau for the disk!

PFS File boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

PFS File v10-SEP-85 (cracked by Passport) archive.org/details/PFSFil… Thanks to @danc256 for the disk!

Computer Bismarck boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

Computer Bismarck v1.1 (cracked by Passport, thanks @a2_qkumba) archive.org/details/Comput…

Battle of Antietam boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

Battle of Antietam v1.3 (cracked by Passport, thanks @a2_qkumba) archive.org/details/Battle… Thanks to @yesterbits for the disk!

@deater78 Well sure, I mean I've lost count of the number of times I've had to calculate iterative square roots for money.

@a2_4am "programming contest" sounded cool, like a demoparty, or maybe make a game on the fly, or perf/size-optimize turned out to be mostly job-interview style questions and the other schools (whose team wasn't self-taught spur-of-moment attendees) had spent months practicing them

an ancient picture of me near an old PC just appeared This was UofMD high school programming contest. My compatriots there could only program in C, but this was long ago so contest was in Pascal, so I had to translate their entries for them before submitting

@deater78 👀

we did poorly for various reasons. One was we were juniors and didn't have calculus. One problem was iterative square root via Newton's method. We faked it by printing random vals and then the correct result using logarithm. That passed the automated test but disqualified later

Honestly, this is the nicest copy protection failure I've ever seen

The only side effect is the counter at $A5BE, but the exit routine at $A600 clobbers the entire page, so there's no way that the caller could tell if I just... didn't call this.

Oh, is that what we're gonna do today? We're gonna fight?

@xotmatrix It was!

@a2_4am Ooo, fun!

@_plinth_ No, it's self-modifying

@a2_4am Is it me or does this look like it wants to start at $A502?