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#1 BSA Starfire OFFLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 6:40 AM

Thought you folks might like to see this:

 

http://www.filfre.net/page/4/

 

We sent the Russian [read: Soviet] embassy (in Washington, D.C.) several copies of Summer Games for the Commodore 64. An enclosed letter stated since they would not be competing in the regular Olympics, at least they could participate in our version of the Games. This package was eventually returned to us with a thank-you note, because they only had access to Atari home computers. Our marketing people quickly replaced the Commodore software with Atari material and sent it back. I always wondered if they enjoyed the game, because we never heard from them again.

 

 

Interesting read, some other great stuff on this blog too.

 

Best,

Chris



#2 José Pereira OFFLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 6:49 AM

Wow and was Snowden older and maybe he started is career as a cracker of Atari 8-bit games ;) !...
:)

#3 phaxda OFFLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 9:14 AM

This  blog is great!

 

To read all the way through, here is the first post: 

http://www.filfre.ne...ing-a-new-blog/



#4 Tempest ONLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 9:24 AM

This  blog is great!

I just discovered this site a few days ago and am slowly working my way through all the posts.  It really is a great blog.



#5 Gregory DG OFFLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 9:25 AM

They are probably still using those Atari Systems. :D



#6 Magic Knight OFFLINE  

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Posted Thu Nov 7, 2013 1:55 PM

The software was bugged everyway by the CIA!




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