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In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Liam Proven Silver badge

Just FWIW, the link in the sentence that says the programmers originally planned to have 2⁴⁸ planets (until Acornsoft vetoed it) is to that very chapter from _the Backroom Boys_. :-)

I think it's in my TBR pile somewhere, but said pile in itself constitutes a small library. You know how _tsundoku_ is…

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