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- Subject: Re: Simulating Lua states in Lua with only 250 lines of code
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:18:21 -0700
> 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