abandonware

Producer / Game Designer - Marvel Heroes, Lord of the Rings, MTG Arena (Former EA, Zynga, WoTC)

Indeed, it was a period in which nothing was taken for granted, and there was much yet to be invented.

The loading times were then so long that some tapes included a music track on one of the two audio channels. I remember often hearing the first twenty minutes of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons during the loading of, I think, SpeedCalc.

Storage medium used with an Atari 800XL a little over 40 years ago.

P.S. From the rewrites of the names and read locations, you can guess how laborious it was to manage file saving.

Generative artist since the 1980s, working with more or less living bits and misleading perceptions: https://antoniobelluscio.net

Antonio Belluscio

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