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"EH500+"

Posted: 04 December, 2025

Way back in the mists of 2022 I had a little side project called the EH500, a proto-fantasy console that I was idly noodling with. I posted about it and my adventures with Wren, and then promptly forgot to talk about it again.

Well, I "finished" it a good long time ago, but I never used it in anger because, it turned out, I couldn't get on with the lack of a proper debugger once I was in Wren land. Which, er, sorta defeated the point of the entire thing... No disparagement to Wren, it's a lovely thing, but I live in a debugger. More than I (apparently) realised when I started the project. Despite the scripting side being bog simple, it was sand in my pants. A good learning experience, though. And fun, so no harm done.

It's been sat in my archive ever since, like most of my side projects (unless I use them as a mini-game in a Lumo) and then SDL3 came out. Which got me chin-stroking... I know SDL2 very well at this point, having used it in one form or another since the Pygame days. So I figured, what the hell, lets have a noodle. I can dump Wren, build the EH500 as a library and bang against it in C, migrate everything over to SDL3, and while I'm in there, why not give Emscripten a go as well?

So yeah. That's a thing.

Now, what the hell am I going to do with it? :D