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Yars' Revenge on the Atari 2600 used the game code as random input to generate the graphics for the 'safe zone'

Interesting, I wasn't aware of the #line directive, thanks! Yes, you would need to keep track of the source locations for each node in the AST. There is a nice example in the LLVM …

Will be interesting to see how compiling to C affects debugging in the real world. LLVM is nice as a target, since it allows you to map generated IR blocks to source locations. Of …

I haven't done any performance comparisons yet, unfortunately. I'm still working on improving the codebase to make it more Swifty. The backing fields are a leftover from the origin…

I'm actually unsure how it works when making a derivative work like this, because the license has the following statement: "Redistributions of source code must retain the above cop…

Yes they do, collecting them enables you to turn into Super Sonic (in Sonic 2+)

It's probably because those apps haven't implemented state restoration properly. Basically, the OS reserves the right to terminate your app at any point when it is in the backgroun…

I have also tried to teach people how to code, though mostly in the context of them needing to do it in order to complete a specific project. I've found that unless they are motiva…

I remember trying to research things on the web before the days of Google and Wikipedia- it was much easier to go to the library back then, in my experience. The ways that these to…

That must have been frustrating to say the least. I have many memories of transporting essays to school on a floppy, only to have it be corrupted by the time I got there.

I wonder if a more efficient microcode could be written for the Alto to optimise just for rendering Mandelbrot sets