In the past, if you wanted to prove the viability of a platform for arbitrary programming, you got Doom (or maybe Zork ) to run on it. This week, at least, it seems the officially inaccessible Flappy Bird is the programming proof-of-concept of the moment, with a new version of the game popping up for the 3DS though a downloadable programming app. The unexpected port comes to Nintendo's handheld via Petit Computer , a programming tool that has been available to 3DS and Nintendo DSi owners as an $8 download since the summer of 2012. The DSiWare utility uses a touchscreen interface to let users program games and apps in a modified version of BASIC, complete with simple drawing and animation tools. Creations can be shared locally via Wi-Fi or passed along via a series of data-encoded QR codes read by the portable’s rear camera. A coder going by the handle Bluerobin2 posted QR codes for a BASIC version of the game over at the Petit Computer Wiki . Ars Technica confirmed that the game is indeed playable after a few minutes spent scanning in codes, though the bird in our version ended up an odd shade of blue for… Read full this story
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