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@ -8,29 +8,31 @@ we also jump right in into our first simple programs to demonstrate fundamental
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or first of all... what is uxn?
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> The Uxn ecosystem is a personal computing playground, created to host small tools and games, programmable in its own unique assembly language.
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> The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack based on a small virtual machine that lies at the heart of our software, and that allows us to run the same application on a variety of systems.
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=> https://100r.co/site/uxn.html 100R - uxn
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=> https://100r.co/site/uxn.html 100R — uxn
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i invite you to read "why create a smol virtual computer" from that 100R site, as well.
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for further context, i invite you to read or watch "weathering software winter" from the 100R site, as well.
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=> https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html 100R — Weathering Software Winter
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uxn is the core of the varvara virtual computer. it is simple enough to be emulated by many old and new computing platforms, and to be followed by hand.
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personally, i see in it the following features:
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* built at a human-scale
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* built for audiovisual interactive applications
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* simple architecture and instruction set (only 32 instructions!)
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* offline-first: it works locally and you only need a couple of documentation files to get going
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* practice and experimentation ground for computing within limits
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* ported already to several years old and modern computing platforms
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* built at a human-scale.
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* built for audiovisual interactive applications.
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* simple architecture and instruction set (only 36 instructions!)
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* offline-first: it works locally and you only need a couple of documentation files to get going.
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* practice and experimentation ground for computing within limits.
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* ported already to several years old and modern computing platforms.
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all these concepts sound great to me, and hopefully to you too!
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however, i see in it a couple of aspects that may make it seem not too very approachable:
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however, i see in it some aspects that may make it seem not too very approachable:
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* it is programmed in an assembly language, uxntal
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* it uses the {postfix} notation (aka reverse polish notation) and it is inspired by forth machines
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* it is programmed in an assembly language, uxntal.
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* it uses the {postfix} notation (aka reverse polish notation) and it is inspired by forth machines.
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the idea of this tutorial is to explore these two aspects and reveal how they play along to give uxn its power with relatively little complexity.
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