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A comment on TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System. Parent comment

Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by esoteric_wombat on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:55PM (#12667608)
What I should have said is that Zachtronics has the market cornered on programming puzzle games for programmers. I could suggest Human Resource Machine to someone who has never programmed before, but I would never do that with TIS-100.

Making a TIS emulator in Elixir sounds like a fun and useless project.

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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:17PM (#12669178)
Somebody's already done one in C: https://eviltrout.com/2015/06/29/an-emulator-for-tis-100.htm...

And according to Zach, the intended market wasn't just programmers (which is why he explicitly killed bit manipulation, and the largest number a TIS-100 register can hold isn't a power of two), and I've heard tales of non-programmers enjoying it.

Then again, if you like Zachtronics games, especially TIS-100, then have I got a hobby for you...

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