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1 .SH 100r.co
2 Uxn portable assembly language
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4 .PP
5 The web is well-known for its drift toward \fIplatform effect\fR:
6 reproducing the features of the underlying operating system from
7 one of its applications, in this case, the web browser.
8 This is largely made possible through javascript, and the advent
9 of WebAssembly can only contribute more to this.
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11 .PP
12 But making an assembly language a standard for shipping graphical
13 applications needs not to rhime with excess and abuse of a platform.
14 A more conventional approach would be standardising high-level API
15 and protocols, for which low-level drivers would be written. Instead,
16 Uxn standardises as low as the assembly language itself.
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18 .PP
19 Yet, Uxn has nothing in common with Java:
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21 .QP
22 Features were weighted against the relative difficulty they would
23 add for programmers implementing their own emulators.
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25 .PP
26 Say welcome to this rabbit hole, inviting you with a fresh take on
27 making computers work for end-users.
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29 .PP
30 Impressive acheivements were reached, such as portability of this
31 platform on things as small as a 32bit microcontroller:
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33 .QP
34 Currently, there are ports (not all are complete) for GBA, Nintendo
35 DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32,
36 iOS, STM32, STM32, IBM PC, and many more.
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38 .DS
39 https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
40 .DE