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  2. List of commercial video games with available source code

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    Was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 and was included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system for the original IBM PC. Similar early BASIC games which were distributed as source code are GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS. Doom Classic: 2009 First-person shooter: GPLv2+ Proprietary: id Software

  3. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to the IBM PC, Apple maintained a more closed system on the Macintosh, creating a system based around a graphical user interface (GUI)-driven operating system. As a result, it did not have the same market share as the IBM PC compatible, but still had a respectable software library including video games, typically ports from other ...

  4. System resource - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a system resource, or simply resource, is any physical or virtual component of limited availability that is accessible to a computer. All connected devices and internal system components are resources. Virtual system resources include files (concretely file handles), network connections (concretely network sockets), and memory areas.

  5. Fortnite Battle Royale - Wikipedia

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    Fortnite Battle Royale is a 2017 battle royale video game produced by Epic Games.It was originally developed as a companion game part of the early access version of Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative survival game, before separating from it and then dropping the early access label on June 29, 2020.

  6. Portal (video game) - Wikipedia

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    It didn't make any sense except from a resource-restricted point of view." [34] Valve hired Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek to write Portal. Wolpaw felt that the constraints improved the game. [35] The concept of a computer AI guiding the player through experimental facilities to test the portal gun was arrived at early in the writing process. [15]

  7. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    1. Central processing unit; the part of the computer or video game which executes the games' program. 2. A personal computer. 3. A non-player character controlled by the game software using artificial intelligence, usually serving as an opponent to the player or players. CPU versus CPU See zero-player game. cracked 1.

  8. Data pack - Wikipedia

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    A data pack (or fact pack) is a pre-made database that can be fed to a software, such as software agents, game, Internet bots or chatterbots, to teach information and facts, which it can later look up. [1] In other words, a data pack can be used to feed minor updates into a system. [2]

  9. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Wikipedia

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    In the year 2146, eight years before Jake Sully arrives on Pandora (as seen in the Avatar film), the RDA sets up The Ambassador Program (TAP) led by Dr. Alma Cortez and RDA Director John Mercer, with the goal of training five young Na'vi children: the player (referred as "the Sarentu"), Ri'nela, Aha'ri, Teylan, and Nor, to be Na'vi-human ambassadors.