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Wim Rijnders wrote:
[...]

> We may not be too dissimilar, although thankfully I don't have that nasty
> twitch of yours *ack*. I've written a Wumpus version
> (http://home.wanadoo.nl/wimrijnders/befunge/wumpus.bf) in Befunge

> (http://www.catseye.mb.ca/esoteric/befunge/index.html),

Which Wumpus implementation, I feel compelled to mention, I happened to have
been playing, just as I received this posting!  Talk about coincidence...


> which also happens
> to run interpreted on the Z-machine (http://www.flourish.org/zbefunge.html).
> *argh*
>
> I just had a nasty thought. I could write a befunge interpreter in your
> Basic dialect, which could them run on a ....
>
> Oh no no. Nonononono. *urgh*

Yeah.  You don't want to do that.  You want to run Wumpus, in Befunge, in BaZic,
on the Z-Machine, in ZPlet, on the JVM, on the C64, emulated under Windows NT,
with a HAL targetting the Alpha, being emulated on an Intel chip, being emulated
by Bochs, running on WinUAE, running on a vMac, running on BeOS.

The only parts that need to be written are the Befunge in BaZic and, I believe,
the JVM on the C64...everything else would be "off the shelf."  Although bonus
points for looping BeOS back up to Bochs would be nice...


> Wim.

