Wow thanks for all the technical info on how you got it working, I went on a search after seeing this and there isn't a lot of easy info to find. I did check out the instruction list and it seems simple* enough to understand and get started.
One of the things I really struggle with though is going from assembly code to something that will run in an emulator. Would you be prepared to do a tutorial / release the resources you created to go from macro assembler to emulator? Would be great if this system is opened up to more people to develop for.
Searching YouTube looks like one guy actually made pong that the guys with the working PDP-1 in a museum did actually run a few years ago... So clearly it is possible!
If you're on Windows everything needed should be in the Github repo. I've added some comments to the make.bat file which explains everything that's going on, and also the macro.c file so it can be compiled for mac/linux if required.
The instruction set is pretty good, all the usual stuff is there - if you can do F8 this is no problem!
Go for it and thanks for the response, I might take a look and see if I can compile something later today, fancy a change from the F8 so why not go further back!
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Wow thanks for all the technical info on how you got it working, I went on a search after seeing this and there isn't a lot of easy info to find. I did check out the instruction list and it seems simple* enough to understand and get started.
One of the things I really struggle with though is going from assembly code to something that will run in an emulator. Would you be prepared to do a tutorial / release the resources you created to go from macro assembler to emulator? Would be great if this system is opened up to more people to develop for.
Searching YouTube looks like one guy actually made pong that the guys with the working PDP-1 in a museum did actually run a few years ago... So clearly it is possible!
*ahahahahha
If you're on Windows everything needed should be in the Github repo. I've added some comments to the make.bat file which explains everything that's going on, and also the macro.c file so it can be compiled for mac/linux if required.
The instruction set is pretty good, all the usual stuff is there - if you can do F8 this is no problem!
Just played your snake game btw, really cool - might have to port that to something obscure if that's ok ;)
Go for it and thanks for the response, I might take a look and see if I can compile something later today, fancy a change from the F8 so why not go further back!
Neat that you made a PDP-1 game. :)