Before the 1980s coding was inaccessible and difficult. Along came affordable home computing and things got a little bit easier. But the simplistic capabilities of the hardware made the coding more challenging as bedroom coders pushed the chips to their limits. I talk to Damian Scattergood of scattergood.io about programming the early years of the home computer era and how pioneers (Damian included) created the early games industry.
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