Thread: Car Wars Arenas
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Old 02-02-2018, 06:48 AM   #21
Suncrush
 
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Default Re: Car Wars Arenas

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Originally Posted by Parody View Post
It isn't that we didn't have printers (dot matrix printers were available enough) but that the creation, distribution, and printing mechanisms didn't exist yet. Those early maps were (more than likely) drawn on paper, not on a computer.
Ok, if you had a computer at home, you more than likely had a printer. But, home computers were not by any means the norm when Car Wars released.

The maps were almost certainly drawn on computer. They have obvious fill textures, and all the hallmarks of ca. 1980 vector illustration.
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