[HN Gopher] Ruby on the Apple II (2019) [video]
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       Ruby on the Apple II (2019) [video]
        
       Author : nf3
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2024-02-10 11:02 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | glimshe wrote:
       | Pointless, time waste, unnecessary.
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       | I _love_ it!
        
         | karmakaze wrote:
         | Me too, all the while knowing that Retro Computing may give TFW
         | "Your friend goes steampunk"--carrying a thing too far.
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         | I can't seem to find an NRuby repo. I suppose the 256 object
         | limit was too impractical, even given the impractical premise.
         | There is one for the presenter app[0] in 6502 assembly.
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         | [0] https://github.com/justcolin/fruity_asm_presenter
        
       | backspace_ wrote:
       | Pretty cool.
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       | Can the Apple II run rust?
        
         | ksherlock wrote:
         | rust the compiler, hell no.
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         | But there is an llvm-mos project to generate 6502 code and that
         | can be used to cross compile rust code.
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         | https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome
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         | https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Rust
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         | https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos
        
         | phplovesong wrote:
         | Rust? Can it run crysis?
        
       | LeonardoTolstoy wrote:
       | I suppose coincidentally I just got my old IIc from my dad.
       | Pretty fun. Just kind of working out how best to backup the disks
       | I got, so the journey is just beginning.
       | 
       | Maybe eventually I'll get around to making a game or doing
       | something weird like this. Great talk.
        
       | DonHopkins wrote:
       | Design a byte code like Sweet 16 or UCSD Pascal, and compile Ruby
       | to that.
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       | It would certainly be more space/time efficient than Manx Aztec
       | C, which was terrible.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C
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       | Hilarious discussion on the talk page -- I used Aztec C but I
       | have not vanished yet:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aztec_C#WHO_vanished%3F
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       | I had a Legend Industries 128KDE memory expansion card on my
       | Apple ][+ -- that would help!
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       | Washington Apple PI, January 1982, p. 12, "I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW
       | MUCH MEMORY I HAVE" by David Morganstein:
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       | https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/washingtonapplepijourna...
        
         | colanderman wrote:
         | .NET/MSIL is actually somewhat reasonable. I'm working on a
         | loader+interpreter for the //e right now.
        
       | ufmace wrote:
       | This is very cool. I wonder how much of Ruby was actually
       | implemented. Obviously a few things work, but I'm pretty sure
       | you'd never get regex and hashtables and all the other piles of
       | complex stuff in the standard lib working under those
       | constraints.
        
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