Retro Programming

One of the best ways to get to know someone is to look at their bookshelf. -- Kathy Sierra Here's a quick look at the programming sectio...

Here are a couple of pictures of my latest toy, the Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller. It's equipped with 16K flash memory, 1K SRAM an...

For the past couple of days I've been playing on the BF Joust Hill . BF (or Brainf***) is a simple programming language with 8 instructi...

The RSSB virtual computer has a single instruction, reverse subtract and skip if borrow. Each instruction has one operand, a pointer into m...

A One Instruction Set Computer is a virtual computer designed to use only one instruction. There are two common methods to implement a OISC ...

In contrast to the ever increasing memory available, a number of programmers are choosing to demonstrate their coding prowess by squeezing a...

Core War is a game from the 80's, played between computer programs written in Redcode, a language similar to assembly.  The programmers ...