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hthh | 10 years ago

I too wrote a TIS-100 simulator in C ( https://github.com/hthh/tis100sim ) - it's interesting to compare styles.

(I get a bunch of errors on OS X unless I change "CC=gcc" to "CC=clang", btw)

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david-given|10 years ago

Well, I wrote one in Haskell, so there!

(Currently trapped in legal hell. I work for one of those annoying companies that claims ownership of everything I do, even in my personal time, so I have to get it cleared before I can push it to github...)

I added some extensions to allow one node to program another; the PROGRAM <dir> opcode resets the node in that direction, and it can then be fed a series of numbers which form the program. Once complete it starts executing.

With this, it ought to be possible to program an arbitrary network with programs from a boot ROM attached to a single node at the corner. It would have to propagate the distribution program through the network, which would then in turn propagate the program to the right place and reprogram each node in turn. Because a programmed node wouldn't contain the distribution program any more we'd have to start at the outer edge and work inwards.

I do wonder whether it would be possible to get real work done with this. I bet a node could be implemented in a tiny handful of FPGA gates.

JoeAltmaier|10 years ago

There's a reason to move to Silicon Valley - its illegal in CA for a company to claim work you do on your own time.

jeffreyrogers|10 years ago

That gcc error is strange, since I think in the recent versions of OS X gcc is just an aliases for clang.

Here's my output of `gcc --version` on OS X 10.10:

    Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
    Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
    Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
    Thread model: posix
edit: also, should've said that's really cool and thanks for posting your source code.

hthh|10 years ago

My GCC seems to be GCC (don't remember why - I guess I installed it for something). I can also make it build using "--std=c99" (but that makes the undefined behavior mentioned in issue #2 show up, which is why I went with clang).

  gcc: warning: couldn't understand kern.osversion '14.3.0
  gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
  Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

EvilTrout|10 years ago

I just learned about your project today and it's fantastic! We must think alike.