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Veteran PC Game 'Sopwith' Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Longtime Slashdot reader sfraggle writes: Biplane shoot-'em up, Sopwith, is celebrating 40 years today since its first release back in 1984. The game is one of the oldest PC games still in active development today, originating as an MS-DOS game for the original IBM PC. The 40th anniversary site has...

Longtime Slashdot reader sfraggle writes: Biplane shoot-'em up, Sopwith, is celebrating 40 years today since its first release back in 1984. The 40th anniversary site has a detailed history of how the game was written as a tech demo for the now-defunct Imaginet networking system. "Sopwith uses four-color CGA graphics and music and sound effects use the PC speaker.

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