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Re:Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms by ggambetta on Sunday July 07, 2019 @12:57PM (#20376100)
Nice! Some time ago I worked on a ZX BASIC interpreter in Javascript, so it could run on browsers. My idea was that kids these days™ don't have an environment as easily available and immediately gratifying as we did back then, so I wanted to make one!

Have you considered doing something similar with yours?

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Re:Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms by stevekemp on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:27AM (#20380628)
I did embed it in a web-server, so that the user can enter BASIC into a <textarea> and have the output rendered by their browser as an image. I called it "visual basic" ;)

https://github.com/skx/gobasic/#80-print-visual-basic

Just a small example really of embedding, I suspect to make it really useful for new-programmers it'd need a lot of overhaul.

When my child gets old enough I'll probably just give them a BBC-emulator, or similar to get started with.

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