On 21 June 2015 at 18:21, Tapley, Mark <mtap...@swri.edu> wrote: > It’s actually full V10 Mathematica, which was the thing that pushed me into > getting it. It does depend on the web-link for lots of the help features, but > I think is otherwise complete. It is also SLOW compared to most Mathematica > platforms. I didn’t find out about the availability of the obsolete Minecraft > version until later; my son spent some time with it but didn’t get hooked > into other Pi features (and now owns his own x86 laptop). > The RPi comes with a free full version of Mathematica? That intrigues me; I've never used it before but I hear it's similar to MAPLE? (Then again in terms of CAS's I'm quite happy with the one on my TI-89 Titanium.)
> Many thanks to all for the Minecraft mod suggestions; I’ll pass those on to > Will the 14-year-old and see whether he feels like downloading some to make > his redstone creations more programmable; like Toby I’m not a huge MineCrack > fan but Will is spending time on it anyway; if he learns FORTH or 6502 > assembly as a side-effect of fooling around in MineCraft, that seems like a > step forward. > The mod that does FORTH on a 6502 is a bit dead. Right now the "best" you can get is Lua. Yo uneed an obsolte version of MineCraft to use old RedPower 2 (which has the 6502 and FORTH interpreter). I think V1.4.6? > He did help me write some code on the CARDIAC simulator (which rocks) but may > have run out of interest in that, but at least he has this much intro to > machine language. > > https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardiac.html > https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardsim.html > Have you tried setting him at a PDP-8 or PDP-11 simulator yet? Much more productive than Minecraft, and if you can find a simulator that also simulates a front panel... Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
