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compressedgas on May 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making a falling sand simulator

That isn't a virus. It is a terminate and stay resident (TSR) DOS program. What you wrote was basically a screen saver.

ivan_gammel on May 9, 2022 [–]

well, as kids we certainly called it "virus", but you are of course right :)

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