Comment by moron4hire

Back in 2014, I stumbled on the original source code for the first version of Oregon Trail, which was written in a suspect of BASIC for a timeshare system used by the public schools in Minnesota (probably not the version you're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_g...).

I was really into VR at the time and had been working on live-programmable VR environments, primarily through a text editor component that could render to a 3D object texture. As a demo of the component, I wrote a good-enough BASIC interpreter to ruin the Oregon Trail code.

Writing the interpreter was actually a lot of fun and not that hard, considering I already had a lot of code for processing code syntax for the syntax highlighting feature of the code editor.

Sadly, Web standards have changed a bit too much, I couldn't get traction on my project after Mozilla's AFrame released, so now it's some broken code sitting in a GitHub repo somewhere.