Savetz Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Here are 9 Commodore 64 programs that have been trapped in an obscure bar code format since 1983, now published for the first time. https://archive.org/details/C64DatabarOSCARSoftware They were released in the only issue ever published of Databar-The Monthly Bar Code Software Magazine. Users were expected to scan in the programs using a handheld reader. We previously saved the programs from the Atari and TI 99/4A versions of the magazine. My interview with the founders of company will be published soon at ANTIC — The Atari 8-Bit Podcast. -Kevin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Did they use the tagline "security by obscurity"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brain Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Wow, I hope folks didn't spend too much time on this. I have the OSCAR reader here and the magazine and could have run the program to read them. Never thought about it, actually. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 The podcast episode all about Databar OSCAR is published today. This episode contains three interviews and took more than a year to put together, including a small team of people to recover the magazine software for three computing platforms. http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-321-databar-oscar -Kevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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