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Re:Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest coming to iPad by HTML... by zsouthboy on Friday October 15, 2010 @05:20PM (#1796348)
More interestingly, he(Martin Kool) wrote an interpreter for the old Sierra adventure games engines. Notably the engines use GOTO statements which javascript doesn't have an analog of, so they compile the entire thing into a giant switch-case statement. Nifty!

This is much more impressive than it looks, I feel. Saving/loading games by using a browser bookmark? Multiplayer?

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