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#retro-gaming
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TX_301697· Engineering
Zig powers a Game Boy Advance game
Developer jonot released a fully functional Game Boy Advance title built with Zig 0.12.0, demonstrating the language’s low-level capabilities on legacy hardware [Lobsters].
TX_358494· Engineering
Silpheed's 1985 pseudo-3D engine
Silpheed's 1985 debut on the NEC PC-8801 pioneered sprite-scaling techniques using hardware scrolling and fixed-point math, inspiring low-level graphics pipelines [Lobsters]. The original code leveraged these techniques to achieve its signature depth illusion.