gonna finally get my writing off substack
going back to hand written HTML probably, static site generators are cute but i'm a weird edge case where SSGs end up being more work than hand written HTML
i am on the look out for listings of interesting BASIC games. no listing is too long or short; but those that come in at around 1 or 2 printed pages are best.
i want to make a small series of zines containing BASIC listings, and then peddle them to popularise my arcane philosophy of computer minimalism.
Noticing that you can hear the guitars wailing from my headphones but not adjusting the volume because the good folks at the library are entitled to their daily Funkadelic just like everyone else ๐๐ผ
always wondered how the uxn screen device worked, and after reading this i am feeling a lot more confident
i don't know why i originally dismissed writing a virtual machine in place of my usual sensibility of constructing a solution out of physical hardware--it may have had a little to do with jealousy, i was at first very startled by how clearly uxn communicates its ideas.
my thoughts right now are very jumbled, but i can imagine creating my own virtual computer as involving:
- instead of a screen device, have a nice bank of VRAM which is accessed via DMA--this i borrow from the hardware CHIP-8 machines. varvara is very nice in that it can draw 4 colours. right now i think i will merely focus on monochrome pixels.
- more system RAM than 64K, i will have to do some explorations on this
- a different instruction set architecture, i have some manuals on the xerox alto, stack machine ISAs, those of the lisp machines. i am quite besotted with BASIC right now, however, which has not much in common with the former. i wonder what a nice ISA could be...
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Re-reading https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html to affirm my intentions with VM/OS.
I know that VM/OS is many times more complicated than UXN. But, it is my hope that the complication can be kept minimal enough that useful and portable software can be written for it.
Plus, I'm still trying to figure out what "implementation first" means, precisely. Maybe I'm reading too far into it.
@gnemmi
I think that sharing our completely-real-computer-programs-and-writing by creating them as tangible, shareable objects in a sort of medley of "roleplay" laboratories and places gives us opportunities for real collaboration that are a bit harder if I just say, well, you could download my git and familiarize yourself with the code... So, thank-you for helping get us started!
@vidak
Bling: Rich text console printing for Clojure, ClojureScript, and Babashka.
https://github.com/paintparty/bling
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/paintparty/bling
@vidak
Yeah the DSL would work great for that (maybe not the whole common lisp image thing..).
I've been shy about taking a run at implementing @dump - which I will do in a way that can be loaded into either of lispmoo2 or lambdamoo (but I will need to lay some groundwork inside lambdamoo for this to work without hitch, and the consuming-of-common-lisp will be verboten for those purposes, like your 8 bit port idea)
@dig @gnemmi
@screwtape @dig @gnemmi just at work rn, i have been following along! very impressive work!!
i have been thinking of adapting this to 8 bit commodore LOGO