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On 27-Jul-14 09:24, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ref: http://icfpcontest.org/specification.html
>>
>> Anybody want to do this with me?
>
> What is it you are doing?
>
> We've missed the contest - it started two days ago.
>
>> ( Repo at https://github.com/OneWingedShark/Lamman.git )
>> I've got all of the 8-bit CPU done except the interrupts and its
>> "assembly loader" (of GHC-files) -- I'm particularly pleased at using
>> type-invariant to ensure correct instruction/parameter compliance.
>
> It sounds like you are reimplementing the game environment, possibly in
> Ada?
>
> Then you plan to run an Ada Lambda-Man contest?
>

No contest, just the fun of implementing it.
I've been looking around for an good set of documentation for a VM but 
all the interesting ones were nonexistant/"look at the source" and 
emulating a pair of CPUs seemed like a "halfway there" project.