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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comparison between graphics modes in Space Quest III⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, scummvm has come a long way since I used it to play Sam and max on my GP32X