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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.476s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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ralphc ◴[25 Aug 24 04:06 UTC] No.41344292[source]▶
I'm one of the people working on Prodigy Reloaded (https://prodigyreloaded.com), recreating the Prodigy server to work with the client software in DOS and Mac. The new server software is written in Elixir.

My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps using current news and weather information. The most interesting part for me has been deciphering the 1980's era graphics format, NAPLPS, which Prodigy uses and making a library to write files in the format. I treat the file format as a data transformation, taking the NAPLPS file generated so far and appending more commands to the end of it. The commands naturally pipe into each other in an idiomatic way in Elixir.

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1. chrisstanchak ◴[25 Aug 24 04:08 UTC] No.41344304[source]▶
Web interface as well? Prodigy was great.
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2. ralphc ◴[25 Aug 24 17:46 UTC] No.41349431[source]▶
The Prodigy PC client runs in Dosbox, it's how we do most of our testing. If we, or someone, can get dosbox working in a browser then it's possible. But when it's displayed at vintage computer festivals period-appropriate hardware is used.