The author produce a playable PDF, a file that can be read both as a PDF document and executed as a Windows program: https://github.com/mwenge/iatheory/releases/tag/0.1

This is polyglot program

Iridis Alpha is a classic of the 8-bit home computer era. An innovative, side-scrolling shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 published by Llamasoft in 1985 that was notable then and now for its technical accomplishment.

IRIDIS ALPHA THEORY unpacks the assembly code of the game and pores over it in minute detail. There are also lots of pretty pictures.

Discovered in Paged Out! issue #5

"Qu’est-ce qu’un beau code ?" Voilà une question qui obsède un rien Xavier de La Porte. Mais peut-être a-t-il trouvé la réponse dans une thèse sur l’esthétique du code rédigé par un étudiant nommé Pierre Depaz. Vous le saurez à la fin de ce podcast.