Questions tagged [tis-100]

Assembly language for the fictitious TIS-100 architecture.

TIS-100 is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Zachtronics Industries.

The game has the player develop mock assembly language code to perform certain tasks on a virtualized massively-parallel computer from the 1980's that has been corrupted. The player is aided by a fourteen-page fictional PDF scan of the reference manual for the machine.

The game was released for Microsoft Windows on the Steam's Early access program on June 1, 2015, and OS X and Linux versions followed a few days later. A final release followed on July 20, 2015 on both Steam and Good old Games (GoG).

The game and its puzzles are discussed on the game's official subreddit.

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Real-world analog to TIS-100

The recent game TIS-100 is centered around a rather interesting machine architecture, where the CPU consists of "nodes" which can communicate to their adjacent neighbours. I unfortunately cannot find an official link to the reference manual for…