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		DonHopkins on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) "Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling" is one of my favorite books of all time! It shows lots of peculiarly indented Forth code. https://donhopkins.com/home/cam-book.pdf CAM6 Simulator Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLMHxRNuck Forth source code for CAM-6 hardware: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-cam-forth-scr.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-users-forth-scr.txt

abecedarius on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

Thanks for hosting those.

This isn't a CAM simulator, but I once wrote a little hack of a CA playground inspired by it. Table-driven in a similar way, user-scriptable with JS, includes neighborhoods like the Margolus neighborhood. https://github.com/darius/js-playground/blob/master/ca.js and the associated ca.html.

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