The Story of Mel users.cs.utah.edu ↗
A classic piece of hacker folklore about a legendary machine-code programmer.
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A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)blog.moertel.com ·
Posted as the obligatory companion story about exploiting intimate knowledge of a machine.
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