** How to have something cool to show off in time for Strange Loop (09/23/2012, 4 months)
- The idea: Emulation as a Service (Old CPUs first, whole consoles later?)
- The implementation:
-- Common Lisp lib per CPU on the backend (cl-6502, cl-Z80, initially) (future: cl-m68k, mips, pdp, etc)
-- Common Lisp lib to expose them via Hunchentoot + ST-JSON (called qeng-ho)
-- Clojure frontend/webservice probably built with Ring+Noir+etc (called pham-nuwen).
---- Host it at deepclouds.net.
- The method:
-- Backends first, then qeng-ho+pham-nuwen concurrently.
-- Work in 2 week sprints with defined goals.
---- i.e. 2 weeks for emulation, 2 weeks for assemblers. Test+refactor as needed.
-- Hard deadlines: 6502 wrapped up by 07/01. Z80 wrapped up by 08/01.
-- Something runnable on deepclouds.net by 09/01. POLISH POLISH POLISH!
-- Probably want an example program to run. Hello world/Factorial, etc.
-- Want to provide assembly and disassembly as a service in the future. What about DOS/garbage data attacks?

What's underneath deepclouds?
Linode running Debian Wheezy (Squeeze in a pinch)
Daemons:
-- Lighttpd (generic), Postgres (generic)
-- Pham Nuwen (clojure >= 1.4, leiningen >= 2.0)
-- Qeng Ho (sbcl >= 1.0.56, quicklisp)
Current linode is running busted archlinux. Move to Debian in August if Wheezy is ready.
-- Upgrade to a 768 or 1024 instance? Or 2 512 instances? (lean towards 768 instance ATM)
-- Jekyll||Wordpress (blog) / redlinernotes.com domain-based routing