Re: Small(est?) Hexdump/reconstruction DOS programs

On 31.07.2024 21:56, Phil Carmody wrote:

Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> writes:

30 years ago a tiny program called mars.exe was posted in
usenet which I found so fascinating that I disassembled it,
added some colors and did some optimization.

 
Who didn't!? Those were the fun days.
Does anyone know who wrote it - and does he know that we're still
talking about him and his demo?

 
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2kvceb%24rjr%40tukki.cc.jyu.fi&output=gplain
 
https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=4662
 
https://archive.kontek.net/republic.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/teaminfo2.shtml
 
| He wrote the famous Mars Demo in 1993. As a result was headhunted
| by NASA, and spent a summer working in Washington D.C. on the real
| time rendering of planet terrain Single-handedly wrote a successful
| 3D spaceship shoot-em-up game for Apogee Software, Texas, in under
| a year, inspiring Apogee to release the game Terminal Velocity. At
| Elixir since the beginning.
 
 
https://archive.kontek.net/republic.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/elixir.shtml