original implementations

[dribnet]

Enjoyed this recreation. From the write up it wasn't clear if you had looked at the previous development history as a reference in your work. Note that the full version development history for the version written and maintained by @benfry is available here on github which covers all development from 1999-2001 (versions 1.1 to 3.01). I wrote the previous alpha version of dbn 1.0.1 in 1998 which can be found here and runs from here in a java applet; this DBN 1.0.1 was the first runnable version and that repository includes some sample programs and the initial lexer file.

[LingDong-]

Thanks!!

I haven't looked at the original source codes, I sort of did a "clean room" implementation by playing around with the compiled java applet and see what happens when I write this or that. I tried to consider every case and replicate everything but likely missed a few (like the 101x101 problem you pointed out in the other issue : )

Thanks for the links; it is very interesting to see and compare how it was originally implemented. Perhaps I'll be able to find and fix more discrepancies!

[jacoblister]

Hi @LingDong- appologies for the cross posting, but just saw you active here and I was keen to get in touch :)

I've picked up on another one of your projects https://github.com/LingDong-/wax - and have done quite a bit around that over the last couple of years - It inspired me to have a go at writing a compiler, and I've written

• an alternative self hosted compiler in the wax language spec
• backends for javascript/C/C++/Python
• a minimal TypeScript front end parser for it

...and more recently a Nintento Gameboy emulator! (the compiler I've written can parse it from TypeScript source code and generate it back as JS/C++ etc) https://github.com/jacoblister/emuboy

Also, there are also a couple of old merge requests in your original Wax reposity for example programs.

Would you be able to have a look? It would be awesome to colaborate on some of this

Cheers

Jacob