[HN Gopher] Viboritas: Reverse engineering of my 1990 game (I wa...
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       Viboritas: Reverse engineering of my 1990 game (I was 11 years old)
        
       Author : nanochess
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2024-02-07 05:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tasty_freeze wrote:
       | That is damn impressive for an 11 year old, especially one coding
       | without an assembler.
        
         | saagarjha wrote:
         | Children tend to have the tenacity to put up with non-optimal
         | coding environments :)
        
           | moritonal wrote:
           | Having been once been a said kid who entered coding through
           | vast abuse of PowerPoint hyperlinks, yes, this.
        
             | deaddodo wrote:
             | It's stories like these that make me glad to have grown up
             | in a time of easily accessible pirated copies of Turbo
             | Pascal and VB Classic.
        
               | kevindamm wrote:
               | a BASIC rom built into an Atari 800XL was my gateway
               | environment,..
               | 
               | and I think not having a way to store the programs I
               | wrote is why I don't develop any unhealthy attachments to
               | the software I write as an adult
        
       | TheCoreh wrote:
       | When I saw the name "Toledo" I sorta knew I was in for a treat.
       | 
       | Familia Toledo is somewhat legendary, they are a
       | multigenerational family of coders from Mexico who did an
       | operating system and a browser in the 90s.
        
         | pmontra wrote:
         | This should be their web site
         | http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html
        
         | actionfromafar wrote:
         | I almost can't comprehend it. It's like the MIT lab doing the
         | ITS operating system or something, but in an alternative fork
         | of reality.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | _Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337064 - Aug 2021 (69
         | comments)
         | 
         |  _Ask HN: What was the family that made their own computers all
         | by themselves?_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070858
         | - March 2023 (3 comments)
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20570154 (July 2019)
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133433 (Aug 2014)
        
       | moralestapia wrote:
       | @nanochess this is pretty cool and it was a pleasant surprise to
       | find out you're a Toledo. If I ever drop by CDMX I'd love if we
       | could go grab some coffee together.
       | 
       | For those unaware, the Toledo family is somewhat famous in Mexico
       | for assembling their own PCs along with the programs that run on
       | them, OS and all that, all home brewed. A bit reminiscent of
       | Terry Davis and TempleOS, but I say this with respect as I don't
       | think the Toledos are deranged people, lol.
        
         | lainga wrote:
         | In addition - the OP in question is a 5-time IOCCC winner,
         | including for the eponymous nanochess!
         | 
         | https://github.com/bormand/nanochess
        
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