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I remember when I saw MARS.EXE for the first time on my 386. That was something absolutely unimaginable for real-time graphics. Pure magic!

It's fascinating to see that 30 years later someone is still working around its source code.



I remember when the demo came out (I didn't even know it was called a "demo" at the time). We gathered around it running on one of the lab PCs. It was quite unbelievable that something like it could be done in such a tiny executable.


Yeah, I had exact the same fellings.


Have you also tried to reach the end?


Of course, that was the first intention, to get to the end.

I remember as a child, I had spent a lot of time on this, but perhaps the direction was wrong. (-:


It's endless right?


Sure, it was endless.

Here is "making of" from author.

https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=4662


same feeling




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