Re: Simulating Lua states in Lua with only 250 lines of code

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:40 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <OT>
> 
> 2015-06-24 3:31 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
> 
>> Getting flashbacks to running Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple ][
>>        emulator under an Amiga emulator under Windows under Wine
> 
> The original Castle Wolfenstein recognizably produced
> the sounds of boots on gravel and German words spoken
> in the faux accent of an actor in a one-star war movie, using
> only an instruction that sends a one-bit signal (square pulse,
> aka click) to the computer's speaker.
> 
> Those guys were Real Programmers.
> 
> </OT>
> 

Been there, done that. It’s not quite as hard as it seems, and in fact anyone who has listened to a DSD encoded audio track has heard the modern descendent of a stream of bit pulses.

—Tim