Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer ( 100r.co ) 172 points by bpierre 8 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 30 comments ddingus 4 hours ago [–] This whole thing feels like the INFOCOM way of doing things. Everyone probably knows, but INFOCOM did the Zork type text adventure games. They chose to author to a virtual machine, which could be ported to many machines once, making all their games playable across a ton of machines. Today, their software is very accessible. Porting a Z machine is not a super heavy lift. Once done, the library of interactive fiction games is available. This machine might make a great target for micro controllers and or other smaller scale systems. Could be fun, and a source of smaller scale software for people to explore, build on. Damn cool! First I've...