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    Episode 160 - What can Lunar Lander tell us about FOCAL?

    Advent of Computing · Jun 29, 2025 · 56 min
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    Lunar Lander is one of the best loves video games of all time. The game was created in 1969 as an homage to the recent Apollo 11. From there it would only spread. Just about anything that can print text has it's own version of Lunar Lander. The early history of this game is mixed up with something weird: two nearly identical programming languages. Today we will be using the history of Lunar…

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