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PC-9801, PC-8801, X68000, MSX — 80s-90s retro personal computers. N88-BASIC, vintage game preservation, hobby code archives. Off-topic from the parenting focus — engineer nostalgia projects.

2026-05-17
Bēmaga, 30 years later — porting a 100-line BASIC game to iPhone
There was an 80s Japanese hobby-programming magazine called Microcomputer BASIC Magazine (everyone called it Bēmaga). I took a tennis game printed in it, originally for PC-9801 in N88-BASIC, and ported the whole 100 lines to iPhone — same physics, same trig table, plus a Genetic Algorithm CPU opponent.