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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Are you saying we could have hooked a keyboard and TV to a tamagachi, and used it as a text editor?

I'm not sure why I'd want to do that.......but now I want to do that.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

That kinda sounds like animal abuse.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

Not literally a tamagachi, but if you want to go down the super niche rabbit hole that'll include interfacing a TV and keyboard to a 6502 processor, there's a guy named Ben Eater who does a great job covering that stuff. eater.net or search his name on YouTube.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. The 6502 itself is probably the simplest CPU to be used at scale in home computers: it has only 3 registers, a handful of instructions (you don’t even get multiplication) and is made of around 3,500 transistors (less than half the number in the Z80). All the things that gave the C64, Apple II, BBC Micro, NES and such their recognisable qualities were provided by support chips used alongside the 6502.

6502s were used in a lot of simple electronics after general-purpose computing moved on. They used them in battery-powered pocket chess computers in the late 80s, for example, and I wouldn’t be surprised if cycle computers or microwave ovens contained them as well.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying it can't play doom?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Well there was a game on the C64 called Quake Minus One...

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like is it capable of that sure, could you actually do that with a modern tamagotchi, probably not.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I mean you could technically do it with any microprocessor if you've got enough time and patience, though in a lot of cases you'd need to essentially build a whole computer around it.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

you'd have to graft on a lot of IO that doesn't exist but probably. good project to show off on hackaday.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is some Matrix s..t right there

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

When I saw this reply, I thought you were talking about my post morphing into Macho Man Randy Savage as a dragon, just to stop a usa public shooting by throwing the shooter into the sun, and engulphing the entire universe in flames.........thus killing all of existance.