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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by csl on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:06PM (#12333145)
Also, the original Lucasfilm Commodore 64 games, such as Maniac Mansion, were cross-compiled on UNIX workstations, transferred over the network and uploaded to running C64s — way back in 1987! (Source: The Thimbleweed Park podcasts [0], which I highly recommend.)

[0]: https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by acqq on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:18PM (#12333192)
Three years earlier, the development for the 1984 game "Match Point" for ZX Spectrum (the graphics in the video is original, the sound is fake by the youtube video producer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRO_nY-d94w&t=22s

was done by then-just-software company named Psion on their VAX computer:

https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-user-magazine-036/Sincla...

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