Show HN: Cave Adventure 1976 PICO-8 port(lexaloffle.com)
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Show HN: Cave Adventure 1976 PICO-8 port
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=50561
Made this during COVID. I was into PICO-8 at the time and saw someone ported DOOM to it. I'm more of a text adventure guy, so I decided to port ADVENT. Basically I wrote a FORTRAN-to-Lua transpiler. The hardest part was figuring out what version of FORTRAN the source code was written in, finding a manual, cramming it into the limited cartridge space, but most of all, wrapping my mind around the data file format. Always admired Will Crowther for making this. Very fun project. I recorded myself during the whole process but I never posted a video. Future work maybe.
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