Top 3 zzt Open-Source Projects

reconstruction-of-zzt

2 345 1.8 Pascal

The Reconstruction of ZZT
pas2go

2 41 0.0 Pascal

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

Project mention: Turbo Pascal Turns 40 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-30

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/

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tinyzoo-gb

1 6 3.2 C

GB/GBC port of the ZZT engine.

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