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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 f2e26c1852 Stop a pending reset outliving the reset it belonged to
Reset out of picture.bin and CosmOS booted and then halted at once, having been told there
was nobody at the keyboard.

The button set two things: the machine's reset request, and a flag of the window's own that
said "end the next console read, so a machine blocked on a key can get to the point where it
notices". The second was only cleared when the console actually asked - and picture.bin never
asks. It draws and halts. So the flag survived the restart and answered the NEXT machine's
first read with the end of input, which for CosmOS means stop.

There is one fact and it now lives in one place. The window asks whether a reset is still
waiting rather than remembering that it asked for one, so the read ends only while a restart
is genuinely on its way and goes back to normal the moment it has happened. The local flag is
gone.

Two pieces of state meaning one thing, one of them cleared on a path the other did not need -
which is the same shape as the console's line editing flag surviving a second run, a fortnight
ago. Worth noticing twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-08-29 14:59:15 -04:00

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// voyager.c
// The Segan Voyager
// A SplitBit with a screen and a speaker attached
// Written by Anachronaut
//
// ---- What this is ----
//
// The same machine SplitBit runs, presented through a window instead of a terminal. Every
// instruction, every device and every cycle is in machine.c and shared; this file opens a
// window, gives the machine a slice of time per frame, and shows what came out.
//
// THAT ORDER MATTERS AND IS THE WHOLE DESIGN. The devices belong to the machine and advance
// on emulated cycles, so the same program produces the same frames and the same samples
// whether or not anybody is looking. Raylib presents; it does not decide. Which is what
// lets a test suite with no display hold this binary to the same behaviour as the other
// one.
//
// The window shows what the video device produced and decides nothing about it. Render is a
// pure function of video memory, so the same program draws the same picture whether or not
// anybody is watching - which is what lets a suite with no display check a screen.
#include "machine.h"
#include "video.h"
#include "io.h"
#include "utility.h"
#include "raylib.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <getopt.h>
// The window opens at the largest screen the device can produce, doubled, because a 640 by
// 400 window is small on a modern display and a 320 by 200 one is a postage stamp.
#define SCREEN_SCALE 2
// ---- Running without a window ----
//
// Taken out of the arguments here rather than in the shared parser, because it is a fact
// about this front end and the shared parser should not learn about a window that only one
// binary has. Everything else on the command line means exactly what it means to SplitBit.
//
// It exists so the suite can run this binary at all: a test machine has no display, and a
// front end that could only be exercised by a person looking at it would be a front end
// nothing checks. Headless, Voyager must print byte for byte what SplitBit prints, and
// Tests/voyager.sh holds it to that.
static int takeHeadless(int *argc, char *argv[]) {
int headless = 0;
int out = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < *argc; i++) {
if (strcmp(argv[i], "--headless") == 0) {
headless = 1;
continue;
}
argv[out++] = argv[i];
}
argv[out] = NULL;
*argc = out;
return headless;
}
// ---- The window, kept in one place ----
//
// Both the frame loop and the input hook have to be able to present, because a machine
// waiting for a key is still a machine somebody is looking at. A window that froze while a
// program asked a question would look broken every time it asked one.
static Texture2D screenTexture;
static int windowOpen = 0;
// ---- Keys are kept until they are asked for ----
//
// RAYLIB CLEARS ITS CHARACTER QUEUE ON EVERY POLL, and a poll happens inside EndDrawing, so
// a key survives exactly one frame unless something takes it. That is fine for a game that
// reads input every frame and wrong for everything else: Snake looks about ten times a
// second, so five keys in six were being thrown away by the next present before it ever
// glanced at them. The shell worked the whole time, because a blocking read presents and
// then looks immediately.
//
// So the window keeps its own queue, drained from Raylib at every present and emptied only
// when the console actually takes a byte. That is what the machine already promises - Snake's
// own comment says "the console keeps the next key until it is asked for" - and it makes the
// console's timing nobody else's business.
#define KEY_QUEUE 64
static unsigned char keyQueue[KEY_QUEUE];
static int keyHead = 0;
static int keyTail = 0;
static void keyPush(unsigned char byte) {
const int next = (keyTail + 1) % KEY_QUEUE;
if (next == keyHead) {
// Full, so the oldest goes. Somebody leaning on the keyboard while a program ignores
// it should not be able to push out what they typed most recently.
keyHead = (keyHead + 1) % KEY_QUEUE;
}
keyQueue[keyTail] = byte;
keyTail = next;
}
static int keyTake(void) {
if (keyHead == keyTail) {
return CONSOLE_NOTHING_YET;
}
const int byte = keyQueue[keyHead];
keyHead = (keyHead + 1) % KEY_QUEUE;
return byte;
}
// Everything Raylib has, taken before it can throw any of it away.
static void drainKeyboard(void) {
int character;
while ((character = GetCharPressed()) > 0) {
if (character < 128) {
keyPush((unsigned char)character);
}
}
int key;
while ((key = GetKeyPressed()) > 0) {
// Only the keys a character queue does not carry, because they are not characters.
// Everything else has already arrived above, and taking it again would double it.
switch (key) {
case KEY_ENTER: case KEY_KP_ENTER: keyPush('\n'); break;
case KEY_BACKSPACE: keyPush(0x08); break;
case KEY_TAB: keyPush('\t'); break;
case KEY_ESCAPE: keyPush(0x1B); break;
default: break;
}
}
}
// ---- The reset button ----
//
// EMULATOR MAGIC, AND KNOWN TO BE. There is no reset line on this machine yet and no keyboard
// controller to assert one: the window reaches in and pokes the same flag a program pokes
// through the machine port. When those are designed, a keyboard controller will have to see
// this gesture and pull reset REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE CPU IS DOING - which is the property
// that matters and the one a port write cannot have, since a port write needs a program
// willing and able to make it.
//
// The shape of that is already visible here. A reset is normally noticed between
// instructions, and a halted machine runs none - so the window asks every frame rather than
// leaving it to the machine to notice, which is what real hardware would do with a line.
//
// ON REAL HARDWARE THIS IS NOT A KEY AT ALL. A Voyager has a button on the case, and what a
// window has instead of a case is a gesture. So the gesture wants two properties a single
// key does not have.
//
// It must not be a key SOFTWARE MIGHT WANT. A machine with a keyboard has function keys on
// it, and something will eventually have a use for F12 - which is where this was, and which
// would have meant taking it away again later.
//
// And it must not be reachable BY ACCIDENT. Restarting the machine throws away everything in
// memory, and a single key that does that sits one mistake away from losing work. Three keys
// together are not pressed by mistake.
//
// Control, Shift and R. It was Control, Alt and Delete, which has meant this since 1981 and
// is the one gesture nobody has to be told the meaning of - AND WHICH CANNOT BE USED.
//
// It is a secure attention key. Every serious operating system reserves it so that it always
// reaches the system and never an application, precisely so that a program cannot imitate a
// login screen; on Windows an application cannot see it at all without a kernel driver, and
// on Linux the desktop takes it. That is not an oversight to work around - it is the same
// guarantee a reset button wants, being enforced one layer further down, and there is no
// call this program can make that would win the argument.
//
// So the gesture has to be one the host has no opinion about. Control and Shift with a
// letter is about as free as a combination gets: it is not window management, not a virtual
// terminal switch, and not a shortcut any desktop claims by default.
//
// If a platform does send a character for it, nothing comes of that either - whatever
// arrives is in memory that is about to be thrown away.
//
// What it does is what writing MACHINE_RESET does: the machine starts the way it started, so
// the boot chain runs again and finds whatever the disk now says to run. Which is what makes
// a bare metal program escapable - Once puts a demo in front of the next start and deletes
// the request before jumping, so a demo that has taken the whole machine is one gesture from
// the system coming back, rather than closing the window and opening it again.
static void checkResetButton(void) {
const int control = IsKeyDown(KEY_LEFT_CONTROL) || IsKeyDown(KEY_RIGHT_CONTROL);
const int shift = IsKeyDown(KEY_LEFT_SHIFT) || IsKeyDown(KEY_RIGHT_SHIFT);
if (control && shift && IsKeyPressed(KEY_R)) {
requestReset();
}
}
static void presentFrame(void) {
// The device turns video memory into pixels; this puts them on the glass. Everything
// that decides what the screen looks like is in the machine, where the suite can
// reach it.
videoRender();
int width, height;
const uint8_t *frame = videoPixels(&width, &height);
if (width > 0 && height > 0) {
UpdateTextureRec(screenTexture, (Rectangle){ 0, 0, (float)width, (float)height },
frame);
}
BeginDrawing();
// Clearly not the screen. What is left over when the window's shape does not match the
// picture's is a bezel, and it should look like one rather than like more screen.
ClearBackground((Color){ 40, 40, 40, 255 });
if (width > 0 && height > 0) {
// ---- Filling the window, in whole pixels ----
//
// The largest whole-number scale that still fits. Whole numbers because a 320 by 200
// picture stretched by 2.7 is a picture with some rows twice as tall as their
// neighbours, which on eight pixel glyphs is the difference between text and mush.
//
// The two modes are exactly a factor of two apart and the window opens at twice the
// larger, so both fill it exactly: 320 by 200 at four, and 640 by 400 at two.
// Changing mode therefore changes how sharp the screen is and not how big it is.
const int windowWidth = GetScreenWidth();
const int windowHeight = GetScreenHeight();
int scale = windowWidth / width;
const int fits = windowHeight / height;
if (fits < scale) scale = fits;
if (scale < 1) scale = 1;
const int drawnWidth = width * scale;
const int drawnHeight = height * scale;
Rectangle from = { 0, 0, (float)width, (float)height };
Rectangle to = {
(float)((windowWidth - drawnWidth) / 2),
(float)((windowHeight - drawnHeight) / 2),
(float)drawnWidth, (float)drawnHeight
};
DrawTexturePro(screenTexture, from, to, (Vector2){ 0, 0 }, 0.0f, WHITE);
}
EndDrawing();
// EndDrawing has just polled, which is the one moment Raylib's queues hold anything.
drainKeyboard();
checkResetButton();
}
// What the console asks while it is waiting. Presenting from in here is what keeps the
// window answering, and EndDrawing paces it, so waiting for a key costs a frame rather
// than a spin.
static int voyagerKey(int mayWait) {
if (!windowOpen) {
return CONSOLE_GONE;
}
// ---- The button has to reach a machine that is waiting ----
//
// A reset is acted on between instructions, and a machine blocked on a key is part way
// through one - so pressing the button while a program sits waiting would set the flag
// and nothing would ever come along to notice it. Which is precisely the moment a reset
// button earns its keep: a program that is stuck is the one you want to get out of.
//
// So the wait ends. The console treats that as the end of input, which it is for the
// machine that is about to stop existing, and the reset puts the console's input back.
//
// ASKED OF THE REQUEST ITSELF rather than remembered here. A flag of its own outlived
// the reset it belonged to: a program that never read the console - picture.bin, say,
// which draws and halts - left it set, and the NEXT machine's first read came back as
// the end of input. CosmOS booted and stopped immediately, having been told there was
// nobody there. There is one fact and it lives in one place.
if (resetIsPending()) {
return CONSOLE_GONE;
}
// Whatever is already waiting, however long ago it was typed. This is the answer to
// both questions, and asking it first is what makes a program that polls rarely see
// every key rather than one in six.
const int waiting = keyTake();
if (waiting != CONSOLE_NOTHING_YET) {
return waiting;
}
if (!mayWait) {
// A poll is a poll. Presenting here would charge a frame for every glance, and a
// program that looks in a loop would run at the frame rate.
return CONSOLE_NOTHING_YET;
}
if (WindowShouldClose()) {
windowOpen = 0;
return CONSOLE_GONE;
}
// Presenting is what keeps the window answering while the machine waits, and EndDrawing
// paces it, so waiting for a key costs a frame rather than a spin. It drains the
// keyboard on the way out, so anything just typed is here now.
presentFrame();
return keyTake();
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int headless = takeHeadless(&argc, argv);
EmulatorOptions options;
uint8_t result = parseOptions(argc, argv, &options);
if (result == OPTIONS_HELP) {
printf(" --headless Run with no window, which is how the tests run it.\n");
return 0;
} else if (result == OPTIONS_ERROR) {
return 1;
}
char *programFile = NULL;
if (optind < argc) {
programFile = argv[optind];
optind++;
}
if (optind < argc) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: Unexpected argument: %s\n", argv[optind]);
return 1;
}
Machine machine;
uint8_t started = machineStart(&machine, &options, programFile);
if (started == MACHINE_NOTHING_TO_RUN) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: No boot image and no disk, so there is nothing to run.\n");
printHelp(argv[0]);
return 1;
} else if (started != MACHINE_OK) {
return 1;
}
if (headless) {
// The same three lines SplitBit runs, and deliberately so: a headless Voyager is
// not a reduced machine, it is the machine with nobody watching.
while (machineRunning(&machine)) {
machineRunSlice(&machine);
}
} else {
// Resizable, because how big somebody wants a screen is not the machine's business.
// The picture is rescaled to whatever the window becomes, in whole pixels.
//
// And presented in step with the display. Without the hint the frame limiter sleeps
// towards sixty a second on its own clock, which beats against a screen refreshing on
// its own - some frames shown twice, some skipped, and the machine handed an uneven
// number of cycles each time because it takes them from the wall clock. The target
// stays as well, for a driver that ignores the hint.
SetConfigFlags(FLAG_WINDOW_RESIZABLE | FLAG_VSYNC_HINT);
InitWindow(VIDEO_MAX_WIDTH * SCREEN_SCALE, VIDEO_MAX_HEIGHT * SCREEN_SCALE,
"Segan Voyager");
SetTargetFPS(60);
// ---- Escape is a byte, not a way out ----
//
// Raylib closes a window on Escape unless it is told not to, and this machine sends
// Escape to the console like any other key. So a program reading keys could be
// ended by one of them, taking whatever was in memory with it - which is a poor way
// to find out that a default was left as it was found.
SetExitKey(KEY_NULL);
// One texture, updated in place. Making a new one every frame would be a new
// allocation sixty times a second for a picture that is the same size every time.
Image blank = GenImageColor(VIDEO_MAX_WIDTH, VIDEO_MAX_HEIGHT, BLACK);
ImageFormat(&blank, PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_R8G8B8);
screenTexture = LoadTextureFromImage(blank);
UnloadImage(blank);
windowOpen = 1;
// The keyboard becomes the console's input, in place of a standard input the window
// does not have.
consoleSetInputHook(voyagerKey);
// ---- A slice a frame ----
//
// The machine gets its turn, then the window gets its turn. Closing the window
// stops the machine, and the machine halting leaves the window up so that whatever
// it drew is still there to look at - a program that ends should not take its
// output off the screen with it.
// A slice, then a frame. The machine halting leaves the window up so that whatever
// it drew is still there to look at - a program that ends should not take its output
// off the screen with it.
while (windowOpen && !WindowShouldClose()) {
// Before the running check, not after it: a machine that has stopped is the one
// worth restarting, and it is the one that cannot notice a reset by itself.
machineTakeReset(&machine);
if (machineRunning(&machine)) {
machineRunSlice(&machine);
}
presentFrame();
}
windowOpen = 0;
// Taken back before the machine stops, so nothing can ask a window that has gone.
consoleSetInputHook(NULL);
UnloadTexture(screenTexture);
CloseWindow();
}
machineStop(&machine);
return machineReport(&machine);
}