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Article #621216Re: Starshot Game in BYTE Magazine
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:38
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:38
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<timcaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 3:15:09 AM UTC-4, barr...@yahoo.com wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 11:34:58 AM UTC-7, Charles Richmond wrote: >>> >>> ... you do *not* absolutely require a computer to play, but >>> play with the computer is much less work and much more fun! >>> >>> >> >> Do you have a working 8008 system on which to execute it? >> >> Mike B. > > While the 8080 used different encoding for the ops, most 8008 > instructions have a 1:1 mapping on the 8080 (and therefore, Z-80). > Writing a translator for the binary should be doable (I won't say > trivial, since self-modifying code is probably involved). > If you have assembler source, just assemble it with an 8080 assembler. > (still need to fix any self-modifying parts :) > Unfortunaely there's probably no separation of code from data, else your emulator could trap any attempts to modify code and enable you to fix them. I would think that trying to analyze all possible paths of execution to identify code modifications would be a daunting task. > It can't be that big, the 8008 could only address 16K of memory.... > > - Tim > -- Pete
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