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I have a guess, but after reading that, I would very much appreciate knowing what the game was?



More fun if you find out for yourself but I'll give you a hint: BBC Micro.


Elite?


I will neither confirm nor deny that :)


The Sinclair Spectrum port of Elite did something like this in the tape loader where, while loading off an audio cassette, it would load a new tape loader code and jump into that, and the load a bit more of the game, before grabbing yet another loader, and so on; it was a pretty effective way of stopping people getting to the game code without extra hardware.




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