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by criddell 20 days ago
It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go.

https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...

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At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.
This was my reaction!

OCR? oh my sweet summer child, you cannot know the days we spent typing in raw code from a magazine, and the joy when it finally ran.