Posted by robost86 on 10:45:00 01-28-2002
I and wossname have been working on a little experimental project called PICC (PIC Cluster). It's an emulator that simulates a number of PICs (small processors, used in small electronic devices). It should simply offer an environment to practice simple multiprocessor programming. An early version is avaiable (together with a manual, and some NASM hacks to offer a quick-and-dirty assembler for the PICs) for download here.
It should be able to compiler (or at least easily be ported) to DOS/Windows (and other platforms), since it's ANSI C.
A more complete version will be uploaded soon, and I'll post a note here about it.
You could code your own devices (and make the emulator able to use graphics, keyboard etc.) Otherwise it's not really funny
Posted by KaGez on 14:01:00 01-28-2002
I still don't really get what it is for... sorry for being stupid... but it sounds interesting indeed... emulators are cool =D
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Posted by robost86 on 10:07:00 01-29-2002
It's there for playing
I wanted to test how it's like to program a system with more than one CPU. That's simply the reason I wrote it. Maybe I'll sometime try to code a system for it (even though coding it isn't the easiest you can think of).
Posted by KaGez on 11:05:00 01-29-2002
maybe you can tell us some places where it'll come to action or how it could be used etc.
that would simplify things a bit I think
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Posted by robost86 on 11:18:00 02-01-2002
KaGez, this is not the kind of program you really 'use' for anything else than learning multiprocessor programming. It's like you making a fractal with OpenGL it has no 'use' either.
Posted by KaGez on 13:22:00 02-01-2002
oh, just thought that it can be "used" ... the description above sounded somewhat "useful"
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Posted by robost86 on 23:13:00 02-01-2002
Useful or not, I posted it. Rate fair, if I see the word "useless" in your rating...
Posted by KaGez on 02:33:00 02-02-2002
bah, useless program!
I bet moondude is gonna rate it as "useless"
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Posted by Peter on 23:22:00 02-02-2002
this prog seems very interesting.. I'll rate it.
Posted by KaGez on 00:44:00 02-03-2002
I'll also take a look at it on maybe wednesday.... just dun have the time atm, but I'll look at it
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Posted by robost86 on 09:38:00 02-05-2002
KaGez: Don't give moondude any bad ideas!
Posted by Peter on 14:54:00 02-05-2002
you can check my rating already .. it's a cool idea... I wish I'd understand enough to play with it.
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Posted by robost86 on 15:47:00 02-06-2002
No, you don't.
Coding for PICC is like chewing on your own brain - it does bad things to your mind. Just kidding, but seriously, it's not really any point in coding for PICC since there are no input or output devices. However - feel free to add such devices
Posted by eosp on 12:37:00 09-23-2003
robost86, I could use some help re: osdev. I have a forum set up in the projects section.
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Posted by ItinitI on 12:46:00 09-23-2003
Im not like on yur case or anything, so _please_ dunt take this the wrong way...but you do realize it was over a year ago when Robust last posted in this thread??
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