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Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites

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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
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Subject: bug#61243: closed (Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:12:02 +0000

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 18:31:33 -0500

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Hello all,

This set of 4 patches adds WASM-4 (https://wasm4.org/), a fantasy
console that runs game "cartridges" compiled to WebAssembly.  It's a
fun way to learn about WebAssembly using a relatively simple system.
I've seen a WASM-4 game that was assembled using Racket, which I
thought was pretty neat.  It would be even cooler if someone did
something like that with Guile!

Packaging this thing was not exactly straightforward due to dependency
bundling via git submodules, but I was able to unbundle everything.

- Dave

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Cc: 61243-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Ryan Prior via Guix-patches <guix-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#61243] Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:11:27 -0500

Hi Christine,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 7:53 AM Christine Lemmer-Webber
<cwebber <at> dustycloud.org> wrote:
>
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This set of 4 patches adds WASM-4 (https://wasm4.org/), a fantasy
> > console that runs game "cartridges" compiled to WebAssembly.  It's a
> > fun way to learn about WebAssembly using a relatively simple system.
> > I've seen a WASM-4 game that was assembled using Racket, which I
> > thought was pretty neat.  It would be even cooler if someone did
> > something like that with Guile!
>
> Wouldn't it be cool indeed?  I wonder if we can see progress on this in
> Guile-land?  Maybe someone should take up the torch for the Guile and
> WASM story.

That sure would be cool!

Small correction: The thing I saw that used Racket to create
WebAssembly output doesn't actually run on WASM-4, it just kinda
looked like it did. Oops!  It's still very cool!
https://github.com/euhmeuh/wasm-adventure

> > Packaging this thing was not exactly straightforward due to dependency
> > bundling via git submodules, but I was able to unbundle everything.
>
> Impressive!  This doesn't look like it was easy to figure out.
>
> I reviewed all four patches.  Despite some custom stuff on most of
> these, they all look well commented and sensible.  I say push it!

Thanks for the review!  I found a typo in the description field of
cubeb that I've fixed, and I added some additional comments explaining
the minifb build customizations.  I pushed the patches with those
changes!

- Dave

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