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Will I still be able to play Candy Crush after the apocalypse?

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23 October 2019

Rebooting civilisation

Between escalating geopolitical tensions and the spectre of climate catastrophe, the world often feels like it is going to hell in a handbasket. Good news for those selling handbaskets, less so for the rest of us trying to block it all out with a round of Candy Crush.

But how to keep your streaks going after the fall of civilisation? That is where Collapse OS comes in: an operating system created specifically for use in a post-apocalyptic world. Software engineer Virgil Dupras has designed the system to run on Z80 8-bit microprocessors, which can be easily scavenged…

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