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by musicale 1635 days ago
It would be nice to do a few things with these classic and influential games (isn't the original BASIC version of The Oregon Trail in there?):

- Update them with the minimal changes required to run on a modern-ish Microsoft(style) BASIC.

- Rewrite them in a modern beginner-friendly(ish) language like Python. (This seems to be what the author wants to do.)

- Create (hopefully) easy-to-understand JavaScript versions that can be run in a web browser.

- Create an compatible BASIC interpreter that can run them as-is in a web browser.

- Create modern-ish versions of the games with pixel graphics where appropriate.

- Create some new, simple but interesting and fun, modern-style games in a modern language/environment, to serve a similar purpose for current generations of computing enthusiasts and people who haven't discovered the fun of simple programming.

1 comments

1. Port them all to Unreal Engine 5 [0]

2. Something something Hacker News

3. Profit?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ