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Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

48 pointsby nicolorentoday at 9:56 AM19 commentsview on HN

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janandonlytoday at 11:13 AM

I was a bit confused until I realized that https://miniscript.org/ isn't the same programming language as https://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/.

alex_xtoday at 10:29 AM

I wonder why all these easy-to-learn languages use indentation to denote scope, not something like curly braces. Isn't it actually harder to explain?

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pietjetoday at 11:10 AM

I wonder how hard it would be translate this to Dutch. I would like my kids to start experimenting but that’s a bit impractical if they need to learn English first..

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p2detartoday at 11:03 AM

Looks cool. I most enjoyed the zombies game someone uploaded on itch.io. One thing to note is that game speeds feel very fast to me. I barely did anything in the asteroids game and the others also seem to run quite fast. It could be just me.

__natty__today at 10:52 AM

Why not for 3 eur buy some basic arduino or other tiny hardware to tinker with and for another few eur, tiny i2c/oled display, wires and set of basic switches? You start programming with option to expand to the larger project in the future. You have constraints of real device, community is much larger and there are more learning resources.

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fivetomidnighttoday at 10:49 AM

Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

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boundless88today at 11:07 AM

I think that's really cool. I wonder when this started development?

eliotthbyrnestoday at 11:11 AM

Ah the nostalgia

qseratoday at 10:36 AM

Only virtual? That is sad!