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Re:Entertain users with your progress bar by Harkins on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @10:27PM (#255009)
One reason no ones does this is that a game company (3D0?) got a patent in the last 90s on playing a game (I know their game was PSX) while waiting through a loading screen. It was broadly-written enough that they forced a Linux distro (Red Hat?) to remove a game (tetris?) that you could play while waiting on your initial system install. Sorry I can't recall proper particulars or dig up links, anybody remember more precisely?
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Re:Entertain users with your progress bar by lupin_sansei on Thursday July 24, 2008 @03:10AM (#255157)
I remember some Commodore 64 games that let you play Space Invaders while the game was loading off tape: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151312&cid=126...
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Re:Entertain users with your progress bar by stcredzero on Thursday July 24, 2008 @11:46AM (#255427)
When I was a kid, I saw a disk copy program on Apple II's at camp that let you play pong while copying disks. (So the counselors wouldn't know you were pirating games.)
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