🧭 Cask's Field Notes · Oct 11, 2026
The Weekend Toy That Ended Up in Grand Theft Auto
One weekend in August 1996, Patrick Kerr wrote a 2D physics demo in GFA BASIC on an Atari ST. Thirty years later he rebuilt it for the browser, and the comment thread spent almost as long arguing about who wrote the page.
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