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At the time, I owned and ran a video game store, and Super Mario 64 was a real watershed moment. Seeing Mario's face deform in real time made a lot of jaws drop.
Re:Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:14PM (#50058545)
When a recompilation of Windows free from all the Microsoft slop?
I've never forgotten BASIC, mainly because you never forget your first love. In fact, inside my SIMPL project (a Cambridge pseudocode interpreter, plus other features) I created SIMPLR, a BASIC interpreter along the lines of the ones found on 8-bit home computers.

If you're curious about it, you can download it for free here: https://simpl-pseudocode.itch.io/simpl

I tried to create a comprehensive environment to meet the needs of students and beginners who want to get into programming. Version 1.0 was released just a week ago, and I'm currently finalizing version 1.1, which should go live very soon.

You can download it for free here: https://simpl-pseudocode.itch.io/simpl