In the early days of home computers, software was small enough to be distributed in the backs of computer magazines. Bamboo gives a quick rundown of his experiences with this method of software distribution.

Thanks to Tyrel (@tyrelsouza), Jim K. (@ijimkoz), J3!

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References

• Type-in Program article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program)
• Checksum article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum)
• Compute!'s Gazette Issue 36 (https://archive.org/details/1986-06-computegazette/mode/2up) The issue I showed off in the video.
• Public Domain Commodore example programs (https://rittwage.com/c64pp/?pg=pd) bagel.c3 is on games_i.zip
• hello.dasm on 8 Bit Workshop (https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.9.0/?file=hello.dasm&platform=c64) Remove the scanline code and you can get this down to 37 bytes compiled.
• hello.c (https://gist.github.com/johnbintz/dfa1724f6e5ca2f59633b608934644cc) The file I used to make the MS-DOS and Linux binaries
• Bruce's C Compiler (https://linux.die.net/man/1/bcc) Used to build MS-DOS COM file for file size

Credits

• Cipher by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html CC-BY 4.0 You have to search for this one, I couldn't find a direct link.