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I started setting up Oraklu with Ckejken and although using WordPress for this is not what I actually want to do it helped getting everything up and running. I must say that switching mindsets and thinking about reducing WordPress’ functionality rather than increasing it was interesting and I might look into it further.

After taking part in Genuary 2023 I started thinking how on how to compile the various tools/functions used and compile them in one library and Pyrite was born.

While setting it up, I have been thinking about what it could become and the following projects came out of it:

• A drawing app
• A game engine
• A fungeoid esolang specifically design for artistic expression
• A fantasy console or even better a virtual computer

The ‘virtual computer’ is especially interesting as although being the more complex all others projects could be easily built specifically for this computer.

This has lead me down to a rabbit hole exploring the ZX Spectrum, the Zilog Z80 and it’s instructions, emulating CPUs and building your own.

A few very helpful YouTube channels I found have been:

• Ben Eater‘s Build a 65c02-based computer from scratch and Building an 8-bit breadboard computer! playlists
• Gary Explains‘s How does a CPU work playlist
• iNimbleSloth‘s ZX81 playlist

Somehow unexpectedly archive.org has a lot of old books on the above subjects too.