Plotty Bird: Making Modern Games on Retro Pen Plotters!
summary
Builds playable Flappy Bird on a pen plotter and a mouse-driven maze by driving a mid-80s HP plotter with HPGL, mouse input, and a trick that reads the plotter’s position responses to avoid the tiny 60‑byte buffer. Shows the game drawing randomized pipe levels, on‑paper explosions and a victory bird, and hits the 8.5×11 travel limit. Desolders the ROM, dumps 8051 assembly and posts it on GitHub but stops short of a full firmware patch—demo available after the session. HPGL buffer workaround 8051 ROM dump
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