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where'd you get this preview one from OP? linked somewhere?
I love the pin level emulation model of this. The self contained modular behaviour of components has real flexibility. For a long time I have wondered if extremely thin but explicitly defined interfaces are an under-explored domain for interoperability. Beyond simple chip emulation, any set of values that are sampled on each side of the interface at defined times, and a small set of signals to provided temporal acces…
(did not release the pin-level code yet, wait a week)
I'm still fascinated by the idea of a setting with virtual mini computers, I've designed a couple as thought exercises based on it/space travel as well as cyberpunk mixing in a little Zach like flavour for some of the chip design, even figured out a fantasy variant
Not sure why, but I've not been able to convince myself that it's anything other than ultra niche, so if you're interested in this and want to talk about it, chime in here or drop me an email (in profile)
The proper and uptodate URL is:
https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/
Apart from the 'pin-emulation' the other interesting feature is that the CPUs are 'cycle stepped', e.g. the CPU no longer has a special 'controller role' in the system but is just 'ticked along' with all the other chips. This blog post describes how that works for the Z80 emulation (the instruction decoder is still a big switch-case, but with one case-prong per instruction cycle instead one prong per whole instruction: https://floooh.github.io/2021/12/17/cycle-stepped-z80.html)
I didn't really get around to work on the project since 2023 though (and before that I worked on it mainly as a 'vacation project' over the Christmas breaks), I mostly just updated the sokol and Dear ImGui dependencies since then, and sometimes added new scene demos appearing on https://www.pouet.net/ and https://csdb.dk/.
I love the pin level emulation model of this. The self contained modular behaviour of components has real flexibility. For a long time I have wondered if extremely thin but explicitly defined interfaces are an under-explored domain for interoperability. Beyond simple chip emulation, any set of values that are sampled on each side of the interface at defined times, and a small set of signals to provided temporal acces…
That's the whole idea of software libraries, no AI needed for that ;)
It just takes some disciplines and not listening to the DRY crowd too much to create actually self-contained libraries.
I don't know about anyone else, but this really reminds me of 0x10c [0] I'm still fascinated by the idea of a setting with virtual mini computers, I've designed a couple as thought exercises based on it/space travel as well as cyberpunk mixing in a little Zach like flavour for some of the chip design, even figured out a fantasy variant Not sure why, but I've not been able to convince myself that it's anything other t…
I feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place with that game. Do people really want to build their whole own OS just to interact with the hardware of their spaceship? Should it be a game where you have an ingame software market, for people to buy/sell software to use in your spaceship controls? Is a player REALLY going to build windows 3.1 for the DCPU for free?
I'd love to make it work, there was an open source game that was going for a while, but it went all the way down to the BIOS level which is just.. way too technical for most people. Who wants to get involved with an API/ABI for just making their spaceship move?
I don't know about anyone else, but this really reminds me of 0x10c [0] I'm still fascinated by the idea of a setting with virtual mini computers, I've designed a couple as thought exercises based on it/space travel as well as cyberpunk mixing in a little Zach like flavour for some of the chip design, even figured out a fantasy variant Not sure why, but I've not been able to convince myself that it's anything other t…
I wrote a basic zachtronics style puzzler based around 0x10c, its one of my favourite concepts that's always stuck with me. I also strongly feel like it'd have a player base (at least initially, while everyone's coding) of maybe a few hundred people worldwide, which makes it a terrible decision financially I feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place with that game. Do people really want to build their wh…
I've been looking at a new fun thing to focus on for a bit and this could be a great contender
No worries if you don't feel like it, this is still a positive indicator :)