Pascal turbo-pascal Projects
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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/
Pascal turbo-pascal related posts
- 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
- Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic’s First Game
- 2021 ZZT game trailer, made on the 30th anniversary of ZZT's release:
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1 | reconstruction-of-zzt | 345 |
2 | pas2go | 41 |
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