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July 2007 Archives
Vacation: Backwards Compatibility Story
Posted by edburns on July 25, 2007 at 03:40 PM | Permalink
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Back in college I spent many hours
of my copious Freshman year free time playing LHX on Will Day's PC. At the
time, all I had was an Apple //c, which was already behind the times by
then. As you can read in the Wikipedia entry, this was a flight
simulation game. The thing I remember most was the "missle-cam" view,
where you could fire a TOW missle and then switch to the missle's eye
view, where you controlled the missle until it hit the target. Well,
during my recent vacation, I decided to see if I could find a way to
play it on a current computer. Sure enough, the thing still runs
unmodified. No emulator or anything.
As we're starting up JSF 2.0 I'll keep this
runtime backwards compatibility firmly in mind as I corral debate and
discussion on new features.
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