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I recently realized that I have been wasting my time on a dumb effort for the last 35 years. It all started back in 1983. My game for the Atari, Eastern Front (1941), had been a big hit, and Dale Yocum of the Atari Program Exchange suggested that I release the source code for it. This was an exciting idea, as nobody had ever release source code for a commercial game before then, and I readily agreed. However, I insisted that the source code be thoroughly explained, so I spent some months writing up a long explanation of all the algorithms used in the game. The entire package came to some 150 ...

Michael Crider is a veteran technology journalist with a decade of experience. He started writing on the web by covering TV shows, and in a roundabout way arrived back at televisions (among other things) on How-To Geek. Michael is a life-long nerd and writer who's written for websites like Digital Trends, Android Police, Lifehacker, and Screen Rant. He’s written enough tech news and guides to fill a Bible (really, he did the math!), hundreds of device reviews, literally thousands of Android app listings, and covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. In a former life, he was...