If one wanted to distribute C64 games to people who aren’t necessarily into C64 hardware or emulation, what would be the best way of doing so? Are there tools for either wrapping such a game in a preconfigured emulator or else recompiling the 6502 code into a native app for existing game platforms?
According to this article, John Major came so close to giving the UK a world-class railway system. A bit more deregulation and some light-handed tweaking of incentive structures would have done it.
The security is dubious, and Durov is not exactly an exile: he travels to Russia regularly, and Telegram have had (and might still have) development offices there, suggesting some kind of accommodation with the authorities there.
And now Ovidiu is a very common name in Romania
There was also a dialect of German spoken in Texas by the descendants of German immigrants. It had some divergences from anything spoken in Europe. It’s probably extinct by now, as the speakers largely switched to English around the time the US entered WW2. A decade or two ago, a university in Germany sent some linguists to interview the remaining speakers, the youngest of whom were in their 60s.
There are recompilation tools in some form; there’s a version of the C64 speech synthesiser SAM somewhere on Github that has been translated into very unreadable C code with global variables for the 6502 registers and 64K of RAM and C code that does the equivalent of 6502 instructions (I think the ST* instructions that touch the SID have been replaced with audio-writing code). For games, presumably you’d want this sort of thing with some libraries that do VIC-II graphics, SID audio, simulate hardware interrupts and such.