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Really neat project! The tools are released under CC-0 on Github. The HN thread [1] on Part 1 went into discussion about how platform differences and the prosp
by niftich 10y ago
Really neat project! The tools are released under CC-0 on Github.
The HN thread [1] on Part 1 went into discussion about how platform differences and the prospect of more rapid iteration meant that several early games were written with VMs. It's amusing that when we resurrect these games today, we are often running a VM that emulates an old architecture that then runs the original game's VM in turn.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694524
- 0x0 10y agoBut it also means that sometimes someone reimplements the actual VM! :) https://www.scummvm.org/ https://www.scummvm.org/