[NTLK] Simulating the Newton

[Matthias Melcher]

Hi Folks,

in the last days since publishing "newtc", the Newton Script loader-compiler-debugger Swiss Army Knife, I was able to add some functionality. Ah well, Claude and I did. 

So I added some graphics calls and some GUI elements. The result is a subset of all the widgets and functionality that NewtonOS has, but in native modern C++ code running at full speed on modern desktop machines.

I more or less randomly chose one package I had laying around and linked it to "newtc". This is not about the game itself (I do like it though), it's just a tech demo.

Here is the result. Please do not distribute.

https://github.com/MatthiasWM/VSNewt/releases/download/v0.2.0/nBattleship-1.4-macOS.zip
https://github.com/MatthiasWM/VSNewt/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Runs on Intel and Apple Silicon macOS 13 Ventura and newer.


 - Matthias


PS: for best results, make the Apple Casual font available on you machine. Future version will have built-in fonts. If anyone has good looking license free vector fonts that we could use, please let me know.

PPS: no mobile devices version yet, no sound, and many other features missing

PPPS: will it run other packages? It might, but it is currently very limited.