Aeons ago, well, in the mid 90s, I programmed the then latest version of a swearing accessory for the Atari ST(E)/TT/Falcon called “The Automated Final Grandson of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged”.
Wowbagger: A fictitious character from Douglas Adams’ “Life, the Universe and Everything” who, after an incident with a liquid lunch and a piece of elastic band became immortal. Having quickly discovered immortality also has its downside, he decided to insult every being in the universe, in alphabetical order. Accessory: A program on an Atari computer, that loads upon booting and then remains in memory. In the case of my particular accessory, it remains invisible until a use-configurable number of minutes h
In the throes of nostalgia, I fired up an Atari ST emulator, configured it, and decided to upgrade that swearing accessory with the current building blocks used on wowbagger.com . It was practice I needed for when I’d get around to doing the 42nd Anniversary Edition of ST NEWS ,
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wowbagger.comThe Third Reincarnation of the Final Grandson of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
The Third Reincarnation of the Final Grandson of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged