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Doom on a Smartwatch (As a Display)

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5 points·by axarydax·6 yıl önce·0 comments

Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter

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39 points·by axarydax·6 yıl önce·4 comments

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axarydax
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Back in 2006 I had a side job as an IT journalist. I wanted to draft my articles while away from the computer on the Pocket PC, as laptops were really out of my reach, and back in the day the localized input methods (touchscreen keyboards) were paid and expensive apps.

I ended up with a text editor supporting various formats and inpit languages, implemented in quite dreadful verbose C#, as I didn’t know any better.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppc-edit/
axarydax
·5 yıl önce·discuss
It's because then the other fields, such as the source and destination registers can stay in the same place across various opcodes. In the rare cases there's an immediate field, such as the jump offset, it uses what would otherwise be a register or an operand.

Disassembling RISC-V is then quite straightforward because of this feature.
axarydax
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Do you remember which book that was? Sounds interesting.
axarydax
·6 yıl önce·discuss
Could be doable by throwing in a larger LCD panel. I think that a more sane platform to implementing a portable LCD typewriter would be either an Arduino with an SD card instead of going all of the way with an FPGA.
axarydax
·6 yıl önce·discuss
That's a cool idea - I'll look if I can get a word processor for cheap... and turn it into a PS2 keyboard