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Thank you for posting! It's unbelievable how someone sometimes just drops something that fits right into what you're doing. However bizarre it seems.
I developed a browser-based CP/M emulator & IDE: https://lockboot.github.io/desktop/
I was going to post that instead, but wanted a 'cool demo' instead, and fell down the rabbit hole.
I wrote a console-based emulator, and a simple CP/M text-adventure game somewhat recently
https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/
At some point I should rework my examples/samples to become a decent test-suite for CP/M emulators. There are so many subtle differences out there.
It seems I could even upload a zipfile of my game, but the escape-codes for clearing the screen don't work, sadly:
Although from what I remember from the TV show, most of what he investigates/talks about is indeed path dependence in one way or another, although not everything was like that.
imgur was created as a sort of protest against how terrible most image hosting platforms were back then, went down the drain several years later, and it's now just like they were.