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The AI built his retro computer dev setup: editor plugin in, tape file out

Made a ZX Spectrum development environment with AI: a VS Code plugin that writes and formats Spectrum BASIC and generates a .tap file runnable in the Fuse emulator.

How it works

  1. He makes a retro development environment with AI
  2. An editor plugin that writes and formats the old BASIC dialect
  3. Generates a tape file runnable in the emulator

Why it’s worth knowing

The 8-bit machine finally got the tooling it deserved in 1982.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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