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Show HN: Planedrift – Play Infocom games in the browser

https://planedrift.app/

Hey HN, recently I wrote an open-source Z-machine (https://github.com/techbelly/elm-zmachine) to support a course I'm teaching about interpreters and functional programming. Once I'd done that, I just had to make my own client.Partly, I wanted to enjoy playing the games I played when I was a kid. Partly, I just wanted to give my Z-machine a real test and see what kind of things I could build...

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Re:Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:46AM (#31677648)
Nicely done. This is a fun idea that comes up time and again.

I think I might have made one of the first implementations way back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/sem...

And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here: http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/

Re:HTML hexadecimal colors that are also English words on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @07:24PM (#2971961)
Done better here: http://lexadecimal.com/