00:00:00 --- log: started retro/13.04.12 01:01:44 --- join: Mat2 (~claude@91-65-144-133-dynip.superkabel.de) joined #retro 01:01:50 good morning ! 01:52:35 --- quit: Mat2 (Quit: Verlassend) 02:44:24 --- quit: yiyus (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 02:59:53 --- join: yiyus (1242712427@je.je.je) joined #retro 05:20:25 --- join: Mat2 (82850872@gateway/web/freenode/ip.130.133.8.114) joined #retro 05:20:37 hello @ all 05:26:15 ping: anyone active ? 05:28:12 I'm just sitting here right with some students and have a talk about operating systems, cpu design and languages like forth. For reasons af interactivity it can be some students enter the chat for asking questions 05:30:12 (and I hope there find someone active to propagate retro a bit) 05:30:25 see you 05:30:50 --- quit: Mat2 (Quit: Page closed) 08:42:47 --- quit: yiyus (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) 08:47:07 --- join: yiyus (1242712427@je.je.je) joined #retro 08:53:51 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 11:22:04 --- join: kumool (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 11:24:28 --- quit: kumul (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 11:45:47 --- join: Mat2 (~claude@91-65-144-133-dynip.superkabel.de) joined #retro 11:45:49 hello 11:48:13 heya Mat2 :) 11:48:24 hi tangentstorm :) 11:48:35 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 11:50:26 I've reserve some time in my next talk for discussing retro, forth and stack processors in deep 11:51:08 --- quit: kumool (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 11:54:15 what_s new ? 11:55:36 i gave a talk last night too, over in #pascal 11:56:13 more of a ramble though :) 11:56:16 about retro, vm design or the Pascal language ? 11:56:28 about compiling pascal to retro 11:56:49 ah, interesting topic for the folk there I think 11:56:58 i wanted to talk through each part of pascal and explain it in terms of the VM 11:57:18 but wound up spending most of the time just introducing retro and ngaro 11:57:57 hmm, that's because most programmers do not know stack languages 11:58:14 it wasn't planned or organized at all... i just wanted to practice explaining it for the course 11:58:16 (or stack processors) 11:59:13 but some guys from #forth and #fpc showed up and i got a couple people to try both retro.c and retro.pas 11:59:32 nice :) 12:00:39 you must be doing a whole series? 12:00:45 b 12:00:59 haha 12:01:32 a whole what ? 12:01:33 I just realized why i keep typing b... i'm trying to switch buffers in emacs. :D 12:01:56 you're doing a series of lectures at the university? 12:02:15 yes, the last session is somewhere in August 12:02:34 oh so more like a whole course! 12:04:21 today we have compiled and patched CP/M 86 into an MS-DOS clone as exercise 12:05:13 sounds like fun :D 12:05:28 it was :) The next session is about processor design 12:07:56 and bare metal forth 12:08:41 do you ever use FPGAs? 12:09:41 no, but this will change next week as I get a board from Olimex 12:10:11 cool :D i have a papilio one but i have not used it yet 12:13:38 --- join: kumool (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 12:14:14 my plan is to write a Saiwa port for there maximite derivate (and then make use of the FPGA on board of the additional VGA shield I ordered) 12:15:25 :) 12:15:52 --- quit: kumul (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 12:16:39 the Papilio One looks interesting 12:18:02 yeah. one of these days i hope to have time to actually use it :) 12:19:24 I have searched for a cheap FPGA board before but found none open-sourced 12:19:35 it was a bit frustrating 12:20:35 --- quit: karswell` (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 12:22:15 --- quit: goingretro (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 12:23:28 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 12:26:08 --- quit: kumool (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 12:28:57 --- join: goingretro (~kbmaniac@host86-182-38-135.range86-182.btcentralplus.com) joined #retro 12:30:35 the VGA shield featuring a little FPGA and 32 mb ram for 40 €, I think that's fair 12:32:04 (and I can experiment with the Gameduino internal J1 core) 12:39:50 I had to explore how to change the build-in setup however 12:41:38 oh i didn't realize the vga shield had an fpga in it when you showed me. weird. and neat! 12:42:32 a FPGA an lot of ram :) 12:42:37 ^and 12:48:49 --- join: kumool (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 12:50:43 --- quit: kumul (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 13:48:17 ciao 13:48:21 --- quit: Mat2 (Quit: Verlassend) 14:25:11 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 14:27:23 --- quit: kumool (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 14:53:38 --- quit: kumul (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 14:57:07 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 15:55:18 --- quit: kumul (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 16:09:02 --- join: kumul (~mool@c-76-26-237-95.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #retro 22:40:58 --- quit: kumul (Quit: Leaving) 23:59:59 --- log: ended retro/13.04.12