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README.md
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ These are the files for a ... book? story? I'm writing.
Not really sure what to call it. It's a website.
You can read it here: https://book.lostcave.ddnss.de/
If that doesn't work for you, there is a mirror on GitHub: https://bodgemaster.github.io/new_dawn_mirror/
If that doesn't work for you, there will be a mirror on GitHub (tbd).
If you want to read it offline, you can `git clone` this (or just download
the files).

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<!-- perspective: Annie -->
<p>
Annie arrives at a house with multiple ground-level entrances.
She rings one of the doorbells and waits. Nobody answers. She checks
that it is the right door &ndash; yes, this is grandpa Karl&apos;s
Annie rings the doorbell and waits. Nobody answers. She checks that
she&apos;s at the right door &ndash; yes, this is grandpa Karl&apos;s
apartment. She rings again. A window on <span class="comment">in?</span>
one of the adjacent houses opens and she hears Isabelle quietly calling
her:<br />
one of the adjacent houses opens and she hears Isabelle quietly
calling her.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Annie, we&apos;re over here.</span><br />
She walks over.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Which door?</span><br />
@ -22,149 +21,30 @@
This place has been <span class="comment">vacant</span> forever, might
as well use it.</span><br />
Annie slides her shoes off and leans her bag against the wall. Then,
they go into the living room where cables and computer parts are all over
they go to the living room where cables and computer parts are all over
the floor. Lucas sits in front of the rack between two opened boxes.
The rack&apos;s side panels had been removed, revealing the devices
mounted inside and the cables connecting them. Lucas is pushing a circuit
board into a half-assembled metal box that hangs out the front. Karl goes
over to a stool next to the rack, carefully avoiding stepping on things,
and sits down.
The rack&apos;s side panels had been removed, revealing the rails holding
the various devices inside and their power cables. Lucas is pushing
a circuit board into a half-assembled device that hangs out the front.
Karl goes over to a stool next to the rack, carefully avoiding stepping
on things, and sits down.
</p>
<p>
Annie sits down next to Lucas and watches as he carefully
<span class="comment">synonym for careful?</span> inserts another
board. Karl is reading from a binder of documentation and tells him to
set some tiny switches on its front edge.<br />
While grabbing the next board, Lucas says:
<span class="quote speech">Annie, can you take these and prepare the DIP
switches?</span><br />
He pushes the box over to her. It contains four circuit boards, all
identical.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Uhm, okay.</span>
She takes one of the boards out and looks at it. It&apos;s full of
electronic components on both sides and one of the edges holds a tiny red
box with an even tinier row of switches on it.<br />
<span class="comment">Above is a bad description. Need naive description
of DIP switches from someone who doesn&apos;t know.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">So what do I set them to?</span><br />
Karl tells her a combination and she tries to push the switches up or
down as needed with her finger nails.<br />
Lucas says <span class="quote speech">Here, use this.</span> and hands
her a pen.<br />
Using it to flip the switches, she sets the combination Karl says, then
hands the board over to Lucas and grabs the next one.
Annie sits down next to Lucas and watches as he carefully inserts one
board after the other. Karl is looking at the manual and tells him
to set some tiny switches on the front of some of them.<br />
Karl says: <span class="quote speech">Annie, can you hand me these four
gray ribbon cables?</span><br />
She looks around, lots of different cables everywhere.<br />
<span class="quote speech">The wide, flat ones to your left.</span><br />
He takes them and plugs them somewhere into the back of the rack.
</p>
<p>
Karl takes the racks&apos;s power cable and plugs it in. Isabelle gets
the terminal from a corner of the room and lifts it onto the rack.
Meanwhile, Annie and Lucas start collecting the cables and loose parts
from the floor. Isabelle plugs the terminal into power and Karl connects
a cable between it and one of the devices in the front of the rack.
They all gather around and Karl powers it on. He follows the same
procedure that Annie and Isabelle performed in the library: Key switch
at the top of the rack to <span class="quote non-speech">RST</span>,
power up the hard drive, hold <span class="quote non-speech">LOAD</span>
and key switch to <span class="quote non-speech">RUN</span>. Then, he
pulls a floppy disk out of the documentation binder and inserts it into
the computer. He enters some commands, the drive clicks a few times, and
the terminal displays a menu.
Isabelle grabs the terminal from a corner of the room and lifts it onto
the rack. Meanwhile, Annie and Lucas start collecting the cables and
loose parts from the floor. Karl plugs rack and terminal into power and
connects a cable between the terminal and one of the devices in the front
of the rack.
</p>
<!--
Hardware in this machine:
- 1x HDD (platters: 1 removable, 3 fixed)
- 2x FDD
- 2x backplane (8 slots each)
- CPU (1 board)
- FPU (1 board) (removed, replaced with NC 2000)
- Number Cruncher 2000 (4 boards)
- HDDC (1 board)
- FDDC (1 board)
- MTDC (1 board)
- memory (8 boards)
- 1x PDU
- 1x MTD
16M = 16777216 => 0x00000000 to 0x00FFFFFF
64M = 67108864 => 0x00000000 to 0x03FFFFFF
128M = 134217728 => 0x00000000 to 0x07FFFFFF
-> 32-bit address bus
1 PC SIMM = ~1MiB
16 SIMMS = 1 memory board => 8 boards installed, 128M
//TODO: realistic EPROM sizes?
ROMs:
32k platform code (bootrom)
8k FDDC
8k HDDC
8k MTDC
Registers:
- CPU: 32x 8 bit? - are these mapped into RAM?
- A (32-bit) / Split registers 2x16-bit, 4x8-bit
- B (32-bit) / Split registers 2x16-bit, 4x8-bit
- C (32-bit) / Split registers 2x16-bit, 4x8-bit
- D (32-bit) / Split registers 2x16-bit, 4x8-bit
- Address pointer (32-bit)
- Flags (32-bit)
- Interrupt Return Pointer (32-bit)
- software interrupt capabilities?
- context switching capabilities?
- timers?
- ?
- Number Cruncher 2000:
- Instruction Register (32-bit)
- Flags (32-bit)
- 32x 32-bit / 16x 64-bit general-purpose register
- DMA load pointer (32-bit)
-->
<pre class="terminal">
[ SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS v3.15 ]
----------------------------
1. Quick Test
2. Run All Tests
3. CPU Test
4. Memory Test
5. FPU Test
6. DMA Test
7. Serial Test
8. FDD Test
9. HDD Test
10. MTD Test
11. Load Module...
Choice: &#9608;
</pre>
<p>
Lucas asks:
<span class="quote speech">Odds of this working first try?</span><br />
Karl says: <span class="quote speech">We will see...</span><br />
He types a number and presses enter.
</p>
<pre class="terminal">
Choice: 2
Initializing...
Loading CPU Test...
Registers: Pass Branching: Pass
ALU: Pass Long Words: Pass
All Instrct:Pass Stress Test:Pass
Result: PASSED
Loading Memory Test...
Memory map:
00000000-
Result: FAIL
Loading FPU Test...
NC2K OpROM init
FP Arithmetic Test
SIMD Test
<!-- TODO: what kinda tests does this thing do? -->
Result: FAIL <!-- because memory error -->
</pre>
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<p>
Jack puts the soldering iron back into its holder and admires his
creation. This hack job of bodge wires and not quite right replacement
components, held together by what remains of the corroded motor driver
board is truly beautiful in the ugliest way possible &ndash; in his eyes
at least. He picks it up and ispects the other side.<br />
creation. This hack job of bodge wires and not quite the right
replacement components, held together by what remains of the corroded
motor driver board is truly beautiful in the ugliest way possible &ndash;
in his eyes at least. He picks it up and ispects the other side.
<span class="quote non-speech">Probably good enough.</span><br />
<span class="comment">A note on the spelling of &quot;bodge&quot;:
You may or may not have noticed that I tend to stick to American English.
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</p>
<p>
Jack gets up and walks over to the bunker door. He mounts the board to
the motor &ndash; using only two of the screws &ndash; and begins
connecting the wires. The moment the power cable comes into contact with
the board, the motor starts making a harsh buzzing sound. He drops the
cable and it stops.<br />
<span class="quote speech">So that&apos;s why this was burnt out.</span>
<br />
He fetches a multimeter and pokes around the board and the mess of wires.
One of the control wires is stuck on.
</p>
<p>
After a bit of fiddling with the electronics under the door controls,
he gives up and removes all the control wires. Then, he bolts the cables
for power and ground to their lugs and connects another wire to the power
cable. He touches it to one of the contacts. There&apos;s that buzzing
again. He touches it to the next one, The motor starts spinning and the
bunker door begins to move. It squeaks and scratches as it slowly
retracts into the ceiling.
</p>
<p class="comment">
Lay of the land from a neutral perspective:<br />
The bunker sits about a third up the side of a small valley with
a small river flowing in the middle. The bunker door faces north, down
into the valley. The valley opens up and gets larger to the west and
gets narrower/smaller and ends to the south-east.
In front of the bunker is a small flat area that is overgrown with
bushes. The flat area connects to a road coming from around the
mountain to the south-west and going a bit past the bunker to the east,
where it then takes a turn and crosses over a bridge to the other side.
From there, it follows the valley back to the west and disappears
around a mountain to the north-west.
In the next valley over to the north is the city of Ivydale.
The land gets flatter from there to the north-west, the location of
Ivydale's larger sister city Sentinel Shores.
</p>
<p>
Jack takes the wire off the contact and leaves it dangling. He steps
forward and looks outside. The area in front of the bunker is completely
overgrown with large bushes. He pushes the leaves aside and
the motor &ndash; using only two of the screws &ndash; and attaches the
wires.
</p>
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the place, some even out of the buildings&apos; walls. Dora runs up
to one of the bushes and barks at it. A young fox jumps out and runs
away.<br />
James calls her back:
<span class="quote speech">Dora, c&apos;mere!</span>
</p>
<p>

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and Jack. <span class="quote speech">Follow me.</span>
</p>
<p>
Mary says: <span class="quote speech">The closest access hole is right
Mary says: <span class="quote speech">The closest access point is right
there, behind the store.</span><br />
They walk around it and onto a field of <span class="comment">withering?
</span> plants. A large, partially buried pipe with just the top exposed
goes through it with an access hatch roughly in the center of the field.
Right next to the hatch is a <span class="comment">Gestell?</span> with
a boom to lower a large bucket down into it.<br />
a boom to lower a large bucket into the access hatch.<br />
Jack asks: <span class="quote speech">Is it all like this, buried pipes
going to fields?</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">Mostly. In the greenhouses, it&apos;s just
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connects to the inlet. It&apos;s a bit of a walk but I can show
you.</span><br />
She gestures for them to follow but Jack stops her:<br />
<span class="quote speech">Wait, we can drive there.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">That&apos;s <i>your</i> car? Heck yeah!</span>
<span class="quote speech">Wait, we can take the truck.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">That&apos;s <i>your</i> car?</span><br />
Her sudden excitement seems to take Jack by surprise.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Uhh... yeah.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">That&apos;s so cool! I&apos;ve only ever seen
the broken ones by the side of the road. We gonna drive there?</span>
<br />
<span class="quote speech">Uhh... yes.</span><br />
He seems to be taken aback by her sudden excitement.<br />
<span class="comment">Missing: explanation, they go to car, Mary sits in
the front with Jack</span>
<span class="quote speech">If you show the way.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">Heck yeah!</span>
</p>
<p class="comment">
Not sure of this should be the end of a chapter or if I should continue
here.<br />
One thing that has happened is that this chapter, while written from
Annie&apos;s perspective, has her be a passive bystander without even
having any introspection for most of it. This needs to be adressed
somehow.
</p>
<p class="comment">
Description of the inlet: Two &lt;translate: Stauwehre&gt;, a large one
and a small one. The small one can be adjusted with large screws.
Behind the small one is a pit with a grate covering the tunnel entrance.
They see a railway bridge not too far upstream.
</p>
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