But soon , magazines were printing long lists of checksummed hexadecimal digits with machine code games or tools .
The software distributed in this way was in general simpler and slower than its assembly language counterparts , and lacked graphics .
Soon , magazines were printing long lists of checksummed hexadecimal digits with machine code games or tools .
The software distributed in this way was in general simpler and slower than its assembly language counterparts , and lacked graphics .