Unplaced and non-cart inspiration
What this is: everything in the inspiration corpus that is not assigned to a cartridge, program, or sister product. The placed corpus lives in cart-inspiration-map.md.
Source of truth: the kn86-inspo workbench.
Still to place (0)
Section titled “Still to place (0)”Nothing. Every source in the corpus is either assigned to a destination or deliberately dropped.
Non-cart surfaces
Section titled “Non-cart surfaces”Placed, but not inspiration for any cartridge or program. These inform the build, the runtime, and the attract pipeline.
attract / boot
Section titled “attract / boot”not a program: the attract pipeline and boot sequence.
| Source | Category |
|---|---|
| Soft-glyph plane (Atari, shipped ADR-0052) | generator |
| cbonsai | life sim |
| BOOTSTRA.386 | visual effect |
| KN-86 ASCII Effect Spec | visual effect |
| NES.css | visual effect |
| Vector / 3D Wireframe Engine — Prototype & Perf Characterisation (GWP-657) | visual effect |
| libcaca — Colour ASCII Art Library | visual effect |
| loopy | visual effect |
| neo — Matrix digital rain (canonical single-color screensaver reference) | visual effect |
| react-video-ascii — Video → live ASCII React component | visual effect |
hardware / build
Section titled “hardware / build”not a program: enclosure, keyboard, and BOM references.
runtime / engineering
Section titled “runtime / engineering”not a program: runtime, KEC Lisp, and build references.
| Source | Category |
|---|---|
| PHP Terminal GameBoy Emulator | arcade |
| Gorillas (QBASIC, 1990) | artillery |
| ELIZA engine (Atari, shipped as echo) | chatbot |
| Ecala (c. 1971-1973, DEC PDP-10) | chatbot |
| monobit | dev tooling |
| DOjS | dos authoring |
| LoveDOS | dos authoring |
| awesome-dos | dos authoring |
| MS-DOS (Microsoft) | dos emulation |
| PCjs | dos emulation |
| dosemu2 | dos emulation |
| em-dosbox | dos emulation |
| js-dos | dos emulation |
| Baker — List Processing in Real Time on a Serial Computer (1978) | essay / theory |
| Designing Virtual Worlds (Bartle, 2003) | essay / theory |
| Game Programming Patterns | essay / theory |
| BASIC Computer Games (1978, Microcomputer Edition, David H. Ahl) | terminal app |
| Big Computer Games (1984, David H. Ahl / Creative Computing Press) | terminal app |
| More BASIC Computer Games (1979, David H. Ahl) | terminal app |
| OpenTUI | terminal app |
| Perkins | terminal app |
| Bubble Tea | terminal library |
| Ink | terminal library |
| Lip Gloss | terminal library |
| Remotion — Practice Reference (kn86-attract pipeline) | terminal library |
| TUI Library Shortlist — Embeddability Evaluation (Architecture) | terminal library |
| awesome-tuis | terminal library |
| blessed-contrib | terminal library |
| emacs-request | terminal library |
| ink-web | terminal library |
| libuv | terminal library |
| pallet | terminal library |
| termbox2 | terminal library |
| terminals-are-sexy | terminal library |
| termui | terminal library |
| tuibox | terminal library |
| asciinator | visual effect |
| chafa — image → terminal graphics (image-engine library shortlist candidate) | visual effect |
| loopy | visual effect |
Dropped (9)
Section titled “Dropped (9)”Out of the exercise. Not deleted; the flag is reversible in the workbench.
| Source | Category |
|---|---|
| Beck — Tidy First? / Empirical Software Design | essay / theory |
| Dethrace | dos authoring |
| GitHub topic: ms-dos | dos emulation |
| Hickey — Simple Made Easy (2011) | essay / theory |
| Moore — Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (Forth, 1970) | essay / theory |
| Steele — Growing a Language (1998) | essay / theory |
| Weirich — Connascence (Grand Unified Theory of Software Design) | essay / theory |
| Wirth — A Plea for Lean Software (1995) | essay / theory |
| holykeebs Buyer’s Guide — KN-86 BOM Checklist | hardware |