Edits to README.
Chris Pressey
7 years ago
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| 3 | 3 | *Version 0.5. Work-in-progress. Subject to change in backwards-incompatible ways.* |
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| 5 | **Funicular** is a system that semi-automates the creation of development | |
| 5 | **Funicular** is a system that semi-automates the creation of computing | |
| 6 | 6 | environments on eclectic architectures. |
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| 8 | 8 | "Semi-automate" means it automates what it can, and provides repeatable |
| 9 | 9 | instructions for you to follow for what it can't. |
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| 11 | "Development environment" means an environment in which you can build | |
| 12 | (and perhaps even write) software. Thus it is typically populated with | |
| 13 | programming language interpreters and compilers, debuggers, text editors, | |
| 14 | and the like. | |
| 11 | "Computing environment" could mean a "development environment", i.e. | |
| 12 | a system in which you can build (and perhaps even write) software, | |
| 13 | populated with interpreters and compilers, debuggers, text editors, | |
| 14 | and the like. Or it could mean any other environment that could be | |
| 15 | set up on a computer system. | |
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| 16 | 17 | "Eclectic architectures" is not terribly-well defined, but it includes |
| 17 | 18 | retrocomputing and esoteric architectures. Basically, if you've got an |
| 18 | 19 | emulator for it, and installation images for it, you might be able to |
| 19 | 20 | install and outfit and run a system for it, using Funicular. |
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| 21 | It's kind of like a Vagrant for the lunatic fringe, eh? | |
| 22 | TL;DR it's kind of like a Vagrant, but instead of provisioning VMs, it | |
| 23 | provisions emulators. | |
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| 23 | 25 | It currently supports: |
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| 25 | 27 | * i386 running NetBSD under QEMU |
| 26 | 28 | * i386 running FreeDOS under QEMU |
| 27 | * Amiga 500 (etc) running AmigaDOS under E-UAE (* Under Development *) | |
| 29 | * Amiga 500 (etc) running AmigaDOS under E-UAE | |
| 28 | 30 | * Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive under VICE |
| 29 | 31 | * VIC-20 with a 1541 floppy drive under VICE |
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| 31 | And partially supports: | |
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| 33 | 32 | * Apple //e running AppleDOS under Linapple |
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| 35 | 34 | Funicular unifies and replaces the older, discrete, ad-hoc projects |