Real TIS-100

The TIS-100 from the game TIS-100 sounds like a cool computer. I'm going to make one in various ways.

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The TIS-100 is an "interesting" multi-CPU computer used in the game TIS-100. There are computing nodes and stack nodes. Computing nodes have on directly addressable register, one backup register, a zero register, four ports to surrounding nodes, and can only perform additions, subtractions, jumps (conditional and not), and moves. All interactions with the four ports are blocking until a response from an adjacent node occurs. The stack node just acts as a stack serving read and write requests as they come. I plan on working on this project from many different directions; using ATtinys for each node and serial data transfer, using FPGAs using serial and/or parallel data transfer, etc. The only main goal is to recreate the function of the TIS-100 and try to keep the cost for each node as low.

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Only a Glimmer in an Eye
Gabriel Smith • 08/11/2015 at 18:42 • 0 comments

Currently I am exploring basing each node around a ATtiny85 as it has just enough I/O pins to create a serial communication to each of the 4 ports separately. Each port can be turned off and on separately simply using transistors.
On another branch of thought I am looking at producing each node on a FPGA, maybe utilizing the DIPSY FPGA project here on Hackaday.io.