Hipreme Engine is fully ported to PS Vita

[Hipreme]

After doing the WebAssembly port, I thought: This D Runtime must 
be very flexible, so, I thought to myself that maybe this could 
be a time to try again a very old hobby I had: Doing homebrew 
games for PS Vita.


So, hands to work, I started dealing with PS Vita again, but now, 
instead of using LWDR, I used the custom runtime I helped on in 
Adam's repository. After bunch of testing D features inside this 
platform, (many memory related bugs specially as how in that 
platform it works a little different), I kept trying to make it 
work and thankfully to a plenty of helpful people from PS Vita 
homebrew (including a forum user's colleague), I was able to 
bring my game engine to breath into PS Vita:

Currently, using OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenAL for its front features 
and on its backs, Gamut, Arsd:ttf and Audioformats. Incredible D 
libraries. This game engine is being made with almost 100% D code 
and I wish to keep doing like that, it is a lot easier to 
maintain.

Special acknowledgements to Guillaume which was really helpful 
into helping me avoid some of my problems into his libraries 
(specifically try/catch).


After the PS Vita port, I can say again: The D runtime is not 
hard to port, it is an exhaustive process and currently, I'm 
pretty sure I must be version locked (which I'm going to look 
that after finishing the next incoming port). The D runtime could 
get hooks for memory allocation, a version of `throw` which 
actually only causes `assert(false)` (which is what I'm using 
right now). Even better, Adam wrote a great post about the main 
problem we find when needing to get a custom runtime: Sometimes 
partial support is all we need to get things done: 
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_02_20.html

So, here's a pic of my game running on PS Vita and promise some 
day I'll work into doing a video instead (I need to make it a 
little more polished over all the platforms I support)


![Hipreme Engine test game running on PS 
Vita](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10136262/222873718-3a09a51e-4dec-4e0e-a538-870d9ceb0232.jpg)


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