6 Bastard Children of the West: Establishing a Domestic Coding Culture

Imagine that you're sitting at a computer, have BASIC at your disposal and you desperately want to program anything that moves. … Of course, there were inspirations. Somebody brought in the German Chip magazine. We couldn't read German, but there was a photo of an office and a game on the computer screen. You looked at it and said, hey, that's it. And made a game based on that tiny photo. —Programmer Vít Libovický explains the sources of inspiration for his early programming efforts
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