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Title: Retired from marble competitions?
Post by: nikoniko on June 25, 2007, 12:31 PM

Here's what you could do with some of those leftover marbles:

Build a binary marble adder. (http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html)

Title: Retired from marble competitions?
Post by: Stephane Richard on June 25, 2007, 11:06 PM

lol Pretty ingenious, it seems to do it reliably too. lol. But doesn't this belong in the hardware section? LOL hehe

Title: Retired from marble competitions?
Post by: nikoniko on June 25, 2007, 11:54 PM

Quote from: mystikshadowsBut doesn't this belong in the hardware section? LOL hehe

Maybe... if someone wants to interface it with their 128!

Extending it to support 8-bit, one could perhaps use it not as an adder but as an input alternative to the keyboard. Do your typing bit by bit, byte by byte. All the people who have broken F3 keys could just drop in a few marbles whenever they need that key. :D

Title: Retired from marble competitions?
Post by: Stephane Richard on June 26, 2007, 02:06 AM

lol I can imagine yes. At least it would sure give all these marble players out there a whole new different reason to play marble GOOD! lol

Commodore 128 Alive!

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