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[brainwagon]

What do you all think?

I'm actually going to take my first real Atari 2600 program, burn some roms, put it in a cartridge, use this as a label, and then wonder why everyone arounds me wonders if I've gone off the deep end. :-)

I haven't had this much fun programming in a while.

[A.J. Franzman]

brainwagon, on Wed Oct 5, 2005 3:00 PM, said:

I'm actually going to take my first real Atari 2600 program, burn some roms, put it in a cartridge, use this as a label, and then wonder why everyone arounds me wonders if I've gone off the deep end. :-)

I haven't had this much fun programming in a while.

Is this an emulator of one (or more) of the Enigma cipher machines of WWII infamy?

[brainwagon]

It is indeed. I wrote a simulator in C back when I read Simon Singh's The Code Book and was working on breaking his 10 challenge ciphers for a $10,000 prize (I got seven). Stage 8 required a working Enigma emulator, so I rewrote the C code in 6502 and then worked on the interface (which still requires a bit more work, but all the bits are there). It emulates the three rotor machine, including the Stecker plugboards.

Should be fun when it is all done.

Someday I suppose I'll have to write a real game. :-)