Viewing profile — benbridle

Oh cool, that'd be great! I'm wanting to write a disassembler in the future as part of a dedicated debugger for Bedrock programs. If you end up writing down any plans I'd love to t…

There are free demos available on the store page for Windows, Linux, and Nintendo DS, so Cobalt can still be used by people who can't afford $5. Charging a higher price would make …

Thank you!

The second revision of the Bedrock specification changed very little of consequence, but I should probably add a change note to the spec. The structure of the document was reworked…

It's such a good platform for running programs on. It's small, has plenty of grunt, and the dual screens are great for multi-window work.

Thank you! The customizable tools give a surprising amount of power to the user for a relatively small amount of work (just a couple of basic editing screens). The most interesting…

The sketch layer is accessed with the 'eye' button in the bottom-right corner of the canvas screen. Clicking that button toggles visibility of the sketch layer and reveals three mo…

Thank you! I'm really passionate about exploring this direction of computing, digging around in a bargain bin of discarded futures to find ideas worth pursuing.

Hey everyone, Cobalt is a program for painting textural and expressive pixel-art on Windows, Linux, Nintendo DS, and in-browser. The same 46KB core executable runs on all platforms…

By data path, I mean the width of the values that are read from the stacks, program memory, and device bus. Pairs of 8-bit values can be treated as 16-bit values in order to perfor…

This would be fascinating to see, I have no idea how you'd even start. There was a video I saw a couple of years back that was showcasing a cellular programming model, where each c…

I had a hard time figuring out whether Bedrock counted as an 8-bit or 16-bit computer, because it doesn't line up so cleanly with the usual criteria as does a physical CPU. I decid…

Thank you! It's early days yet, we'll see how well it holds up in a few decades.

Thank you! That sounds fascinating, I'd love to hear how you get on with it if you do.

I'm currently selling a pixel-art drawing program called Cobalt, which is built on Bedrock (you can see a demo of it running at the bottom of the project page). It was initially on…

Thank you, that means a lot! I've got plans for tooling in the future that will make Bedrock more accessible to people who are learning to program, like a high-level language that …

The undefined behaviour is limited to only a couple of very edge-case situations that would cause issues for the program anyway, like overflowing the stacks. My thoughts were that …

There's PICO-8 in this category if you haven't already heard of it, it uses Lua as the language for writing programs. It was another huge inspiration of mine while working on Bedro…

The source code for the microwave clock program is available on the 'Example: Microwave clock' subpage [0]. I hadn't put up code for any of the other programs yet, just because the…

Each screen pixel has two colours because there are two screen layers, a foreground layer and a background layer. Anything you draw to the foreground layer will be draw over anythi…

You've got it, yeah. It makes writing programs across different systems so much nicer, because you can just write your programs against a single tidy 'bedrock' abstraction of the f…

You're right, it's technically true of any program, but it wouldn't necessarily be practical. Implementing CPython on a Gameboy Advance, for example, would be tedious and likely no…

> Locked and changed? That could do with some better wording. Normally the user can freely drag-resize the window, but after the program sets the width or height then the user will…

Amazing work, I love it

Hey everyone, this is my latest project. Bedrock is a lightweight program runtime: programs assemble down to a few kilobytes of bytecode that can run on any computer, console, or h…