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* Zongor's Universe Machine
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The universe machine is a Virtual Machine that is intended to create 3D
environments (Universes) for video games and/or generic 3d modeling jobs

It is inspired by [[https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html][uxn]],
[[https://web.archive.org/web/20210913164515/https://www.oocities.org/connorbd/varaq/index.html][var'aq]],
[[https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/][TIS-100]],
[[https://github.com/LMP88959/PL3D-KC][the kings crook engine by EMMIR]]
[[http://duskos.org/][Dusk os]],
[[https://www.inferno-os.org/][Inferno]], and
[[https://plan9.io/plan9/][Plan9]].

The universe machine works as a series of stack based virtual cpu's
(node) and ram as a simple hashmap (hram) that each have a single stack
which are able to communicate with each other using message passing.

The machine code of this node is a series of stack operations which act
on the individual node. each node has the ability to ask the kernel to
spawn an additional node or to spawn a child node off of itself which
sets up a couple of communication channels automatically.

The authors main implementation of ZUM in written in LUA/C and uses the
[[https://www.libsdl.org/][SDL2]] library to do drawing, sound, and
other things.