Raspberry Pi Fallout Terminal PC -- Episode 373

Ok, I'll admit, I got really carried away with the software. I've designed a hypothetical processor for the RobCo RX-9000 terminal at the instruction level, and written an emulator for it using SDL and some other bits and pieces. There's an assembler, as well, but no compiler. I really don't want to write a compiler, so I'm opening up the github repo so if anyone's interested in working on that you'll have access to the emulator, etc. If you're interested in working on it, I have documentation as google docs that I can pass along. I haven't implemented everything I've documented because I was hoping to get a toolchain together to more easily develop for it. So far the assembler is pretty rudimentary, there's no linker, everything has to start from a single file with includes.

Right now it uses cmake to build, and there's support for macOS with makefiles, and MSVC for Windows. Since I use cross-platform technologies it should be easily portable to linux as well, but other than the pi I don't really have a linux dev environment, and the pi is a bit slow for compiling and such.

If anyone knows of a place where it'd be good to post this to get wider exposure, please let me know. If you'd like to take a look it's at:

https://github.com/skwirl42/robco-processor/

On a hardware note, I don't have the design skills to make the new faceplate to replace the 3D-printed one. I have some rough drawings in google docs, but I don't know how to translate that into something usable to cut accurately into metal or acrylic or whatever. If anyone's interested I've got my rough sketches in https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1qXP3hbj4QRZNAJLzQZtH0kLJBn-T8wZeEcBwxhXdALA/. Like I said, I don't have the design skills or manufacturing know-how to get this made. If there's anyone will to make some sort of CAD design usable for laser cutters or whatever, that fits the original BOM (other than the keyboard section) I'd be really appreciative. I know of a couple of places here where I could get it manufactured. The keyboard layout was mainly concerned with getting keys in for the hacking game, but since they'll be driven by an existing USB keyboard controller they should be easily changed.

On an unrelated note, our game got pretty good reception. It's the first PGA-licensed golf game in a few years, and it's a lot more accessible than our older games based on the same core, The Golf Club. It used to be more strictly simulation, but the team put a lot of effort into making it playable for people new to computer golf.

Ok, I'll admit, I got really carried away with the software. I've designed a hypothetical processor for the RobCo RX-9000 terminal at the instruction level, and written an emulator for it using SDL and some other bits and pieces. There's an assembler, as well, but no compiler. I really don't want to write a compiler, so I'm opening up the github repo so if anyone's interested in working on that you'll have access to the emulator, etc. If you're interested in working on it, I have documentation as google docs that I can pass along. I haven't implemented everything I've documented because I was hoping to get a toolchain together to more easily develop for it. So far the assembler is pretty rudimentary, there's no linker, everything has to start from a single file with includes.

Right now it uses cmake to build, and there's support for macOS with makefiles, and MSVC for Windows. Since I use cross-platform technologies it should be easily portable to linux as well, but other than the pi I don't really have a linux dev environment, and the pi is a bit slow for compiling and such.

If anyone knows of a place where it'd be good to post this to get wider exposure, please let me know. If you'd like to take a look it's at:

https://github.com/skwirl42/robco-processor/

On a hardware note, I don't have the design skills to make the new faceplate to replace the 3D-printed one. I have some rough drawings in google docs, but I don't know how to translate that into something usable to cut accurately into metal or acrylic or whatever. If anyone's interested I've got my rough sketches in https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1qXP3hbj4QRZNAJLzQZtH0kLJBn-T8wZeEcBwxhXdALA/. Like I said, I don't have the design skills or manufacturing know-how to get this made. If there's anyone will to make some sort of CAD design usable for laser cutters or whatever, that fits the original BOM (other than the keyboard section) I'd be really appreciative. I know of a couple of places here where I could get it manufactured. The keyboard layout was mainly concerned with getting keys in for the hacking game, but since they'll be driven by an existing USB keyboard controller they should be easily changed.

On an unrelated note, our game got pretty good reception. It's the first PGA-licensed golf game in a few years, and it's a lot more accessible than our older games based on the same core, The Golf Club. It used to be more strictly simulation, but the team put a lot of effort into making it playable for people new to computer golf.