A creator demonstrates porting the 1989 SimCity C codebase to TypeScript to run in a browser.
Created by Christopher Ehrlich (@ccccjjjjeeee)
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It actually worked!
For the past couple of days I’ve been throwing 5.3-codex at the C codebase for SimCity (1989) to port it to TypeScript.
Not reading any code, very little steering.
Today I have SimCity running in the browser.
I can’t believe this new world we live in. https://t.co/Pna2ilIjdh
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