Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted June 14 Diamond Member Share Posted June 14 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. (credit: This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ) [/url] On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin C. Martin This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that he recently discovered a bug in the original Lunar Lander computer game's physics code while tinkering with the software. Created by a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in 1969, this primordial game rendered the action only as text status updates on a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , but it set the stage for future versions to come. The legendary game—which Storer developed on a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up minicomputer in a programming language called This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up just months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic moonwalks—allows players to control a lunar module's descent onto the Moon's surface. Players must carefully manage their fuel usage to achieve a gentle landing, making critical decisions every ten seconds to ***** the right amount of fuel. In 2009, just short of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, I set out to find the author of the original Lunar Lander game, which was then primarily known as a graphical game, thanks to the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up from 1974 and a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . When I discovered that Storer created the oldest known version as a teletype game, I interviewed him and wrote up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Storer later This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to the original game, written in FOCAL, on his website. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/46785-steam-retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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