PDP8 and Z-machine engine

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Sat Sep 2 09:06:11 CDT 2006


woodelf wrote:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> On 9/1/06, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> And
>>>    http://www.selectric.org/tubeclock/
> 
>> That is essentially what I had in mind.  Thanks for the pointer.
> With the comment about the south pole, on the heating budget for
> the clock, I found out for some reasion  penguincentral.com
> is down. I was looking for SBC-1620 software and was hopeing to find
> more about the adventure port. Could a older Z-machine engine be ported
> to the loveable 8?

Interesting.  Looking (very quickly) at the Z-machine spec, it seems 
fairly simple.  This gives me a good excuse to start on my PDP-8 
emulator again - at least that way if I need more core, I just need to 
change a #define instead of starting a big long thread about 
semiconductor memory ;-)

Gordon.



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