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The Uxn Ecosystem

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Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by kouteiheika »

tonyg wrote: post #2

This is a fascinating and elegant little virtual machine design that I think many here would find interesting.

For a more mainstream take on the concept it's also worth to check out RISC-V. Implementing a baseline RISC-V interpreter VM without any extensions is a ~day of work (I've done it; it's a little more complex than their ISA, but not by much), and it can essentially run any piece of software you can throw at it as real compilers can target it. (You still need to supply the rest of the VM though to get I/O and such.)

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by genpfault »

kouteiheika wrote: post #21
tonyg wrote: post #2

This is a fascinating and elegant little virtual machine design that I think many here would find interesting.

For a more mainstream take on the concept it's also worth to check out RISC-V. Implementing a baseline RISC-V interpreter VM without any extensions is a ~day of work (I've done it; it's a little more complex than their ISA, but not by much), and it can essentially run any piece of software you can throw at it as real compilers can target it. (You still need to supply the rest of the VM though to get I/O and such.)

https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by anthk »

Retro style gaming based in Forth, low specs, virtual machine ported to nearly everywhere. Kinda like the Z-Machine, but for pixels.

Good for GB style games without battling the Z80-like instructions and without worring if you would burn the physical LCD on a weird cycle timing bug on displaying sprites.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by anthk »

enricozb wrote: post #4

Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site. In another life maybe. [0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html

Also, they are active 9front users because they got fed up on dependencies (on any OS) and bloat. 9front it's very small and everything it's statically compiled while having a very small API. Crosscompiling it's a breeze and it automatically makes you competent on CS on reading then Plan9 Intro book from Ballesteros.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by anthk »

rollcat wrote: post #12
tonyg wrote: post #2

This is a fascinating and elegant little virtual machine design that I think many here would find interesting.

What blows me away is how practical it is. They've ported it to every piece of junk they had laying around, and wrote tons of software. It's not just a design on someone's web page, they're making tools, games, art.

For gaming it's good, but sadly for software it lacks Unicode support. I wouldn't mind basic support with GNU unifont in further revisions.

Altough the complexity would skyrocket.

Then, if I wanted to write an adventure in Spanish I would omit the tildes, starting question/interrogation symbols and I would map ñ to ny.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by ttepasse »

enricozb wrote: post #4

Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site. In another life maybe. [0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html

There is a huge subculture of sailors on Youtube, which is part of my escapism entertainment.

Of course Youtube’s algorithm being Youtube’s algorithm and capitalism being capitalism a large part of those sailing videos is bikini content. But at the same time a large part of the sailing existence is repairing, renovating and upgrading their small yachts, from fiberglassing to solar to watermaking. As you say, a peek into a fascinating existence.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by burglins »

uxn is one of those things I know of and read about for quite a long time, but never end up trying myself. Those "limited on purpose" community-supported systems are a really cool concept.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by sausagefeet »

ttepasse wrote: post #26
enricozb wrote: post #4

Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site. In another life maybe. [0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html

There is a huge subculture of sailors on Youtube, which is part of my escapism entertainment. Of course Youtube’s algorithm being Youtube’s algorithm and capitalism being capitalism a large part of those sailing videos is bikini content. But at the same time a large part of the sailing existence is repairing, renovating and upgrading their small yachts, from fiberglassing to solar to watermaking. As you say, a peek i…

As someone who recently moved onto a boat after discovering all those YouTube channels, I agree! I've found the less produced channels to be the most exciting.

Re: The Uxn Ecosystem

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Post by ttepasse »

sausagefeet wrote: post #29
ttepasse wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a huge subculture of sailors on Youtube, which is part of my escapism entertainment. Of course Youtube’s algorithm being Youtube’s algorithm and capitalism being capitalism a large part of those sailing videos is bikini content. But at the same time a large part of the sailing existence is repairing, renovating and upgrading their small yachts, from fiberglassing to solar to watermaking. As you say, a peek i…

As someone who recently moved onto a boat after discovering all those YouTube channels, I agree! I've found the less produced channels to be the most exciting.

Yes. The trick is to find these channels early and then bear to unfollow them when they get to streamlined.
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