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Apr 2020
1h 17m

30: The Neighborhood Software Pirate

Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
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Special guest time! Digital Eclipse's Mike Mika joins us to talk about the early days of programming video games, how not to get murdered by your arcade machine, reverse engineering classic games without source code, the coming CRT apocalypse, and what the new console hardware means for old games. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get ... Show More
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