Comment by citbl
4 months ago
I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood.
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
Some commercial MS-DOS games were written in GW-BASIC. Infuriatingly it was not possible to list the code for those. I could not figure it out at the time.
Almost 40 years later, in 2025, I learned about the "protected" save format in GW-BASIC, and that there are tools to open those files and allow you to list the code.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-...