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I'm really impressed that they have the energy / motivation / time to write a virtual machine after dealing with all these "real world" issues ! Also impressed

by chubot 3y ago

I'm really impressed that they have the energy / motivation / time to write a virtual machine after dealing with all these "real world" issues ! Also impressed that it runs on a lot of real hardware apparently. I have seen many VM projects but they seem kind of isolated within other computers. The extreme constraints definitely push the design in a different direction

anthk 3y ago
Yeah, the same witht the Z-machine for text adventures (and terminal games like tetris, trek or rogue for the Z-machine) . Once you compile the game with Inform6 (an easier OOP lang than Python, rooms and objects are described almost as if they were a config file), the game runs from DOS/Amiga/Atari machines to Win/Lin/Mac/Android/iOS and even Haiku.