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Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb
25•laurentlb•5d ago

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nsxwolf•1h ago
What's that overall filter that covers the view? Is it supposed to look like a late 80s passive matrix color LCD screen?

Edit: Thanks for the downvote, guess I shouldn't have paid any attention to this post at all?

PaulHoule•1h ago
Such a beautiful technique for shoehorning straight out of the 1970s! See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

It seems so un-FORTRAN that DEC had a FORTRAN compiler for the PDP-11. that was based on a stack machine and then later built an FP accelerator specialized to accelerate the stack machine. It was a straggler but I'm still trying to track down a circa 1992 article from Dr. Dobb's Journal where someone used virtual machine techniques to unbreak the broken i860 and make a good FORTRAN compiler.

jstrieb•12m ago
The rest of the games submitted to this very interesting, somewhat niche game jam (including my own entry) are here:

https://itch.io/jam/langjamgamejam/entries

There were some really impressive submissions in spite of the short time frame!

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