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                     JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 7TH JULY, 2016
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SUBJECT: Some things are just surprising
   DATE: Thu  7 Jul 21:36:59 BST 2016

At last, a little time to write another journal entry...

My last entry surprised me by generating quite a bit of email. It seems that
there are weird people, just like me, who have thought of putting a MUD or
text based adventure game onto a microcontroller.

My simple setup would be to have a microcontroller with a UART for serial I/O
or serial over USB. You could then talk to it using a PC/Tablet or Smartphone
using a simple terminal program. A more elaborate, handheld version could be
made by adding a small screen and a phone like keypad for multi-tap input.
You could even add an SDCard for swappable games :)

If you search on Amazon (UK) you can get a £3.50 kit with:


  1x ATMEGA328 with bootloader, 32k flash & 2k RAM
  1x 28 pin DIL socket
  2x 22pf capacitors
  1x 16MHz Crystal


This gives you a really bare, essentials only setup that would work. Although
I would add a 10kΩ resistor between the reset pin and +5v to avoid random and
accidental resets :)

This is yet another distraction from WolfMUD and must be put aside for now :|

I have been working on WolfMUD. Recently most of the time has gone into
chasing down a pesky nil pointer bug which has now been squashed. I have also
been working on a new implementation for handling the input prompt which is
nearly done. I hope to have an updated frontend driver out soon as well.

I've also updated to the latest Go1.7 beta 2 release with no issues. I think
Go1.7 RC1 was planned for last week but I haven't seen anything yet.

--
Diddymus


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