pas2go vs reconstruction-of-zzt

pas2go

Pascal to Go converter (converts a subset of Turbo Pascal 5.5) (by benhoyt)

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The Reconstruction of ZZT (by asiekierka)

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pas2go		reconstruction-of-zzt
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2	Mentions	2
41	Stars	345
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Pascal	Language	Pascal
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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pas2go

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Turbo Pascal Turns 40
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023

One of my favourite computer games was written in Turbo Pascal: ZZT by Epic Megagames. It was a quircky text-mode game with puzzles, shooting, and a built-in game editor that came even with the free shareware version (it even had a little programming language called ZZT-OOP).
ZZT's original source code was lost. Years later, Adrian Siekierka painstakingly reverse-engineered the original Turbo Pascal code till -- when compiled with the original compiler -- produced a byte-for-byte identical executable. Amazing! Read more:
- https://blog.asie.pl/2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609474
- https://benhoyt.com/writings/zzt-in-go/
pas2go is a converter (or "transpiler") that tries to convert Pascal source code to Go. It only works on the subset of Turbo Pascal 5.5 used in Adrian Siekierka’s reconstruction of ZZT
1 project | /r/delphi | 23 Feb 2021

reconstruction-of-zzt

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Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2021

Yes, I dug in a bit further and found where it was checked in the editor. (at least in the reconstruction!)
https://github.com/asiekierka/reconstruction-of-zzt/blob/mas...
It looks like the SECRET flag was intended to prevent editing of both save files and built-in worlds.
2021 ZZT game trailer, made on the 30th anniversary of ZZT's release:
1 project | /r/zzt | 16 Jan 2021

As I understand it, it's a customized version of the Reconstruction of ZZT. So it's not ZZT from a purist point of view, but it's a game engine based on ZZT.