Summary

An implementation of Michigan Algorithmic Decoder, and its manual.

This program is a work of reconstructive archeology, a compiler for the Michigan Algorithmic Decoder (MAD) language from 1959-1962. It first translates MAD code into C, then uses the local C compiler to make an executable binary. It includes both a complete transcription of the original MAD manual and 100dpi scans of the original.

Resources


NEWSproject news
mad-1.2.tar.gzgzipped source tarball
COPYINGproject license
READMEroadmap file
mad.htmlDocumentation

The project repository is at https://gitlab.com/esr/mad.

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Recent Changes

   Forwaed-ported to Python 3 on 64-bit machines.
   Error messages now use modern GNU format.

Supporters

This work is funded by...

My Bronze supporters: Martin Hohenberg, Jae Yang, Daniel Garber, Kyle Burkholder, Mike Nichols, Mark Ping, Tom Taylor, Arnold F. Williams, George Brower, Michael Nygard, Brendan Long, Sven Dowideit, Dave Witten, Jonathan Cast, James Cronin, David L. Jessup, Christopher Chang, Killer Delicious, Jacob Lyles, Neil Anuskiewicz, Mordant, Clemens Ladisch, Wojciech Woytniak, Masa Bando, John Carmack, Xingyu Wang, Jane Tang, Steven Evans, Jan Roudaut, Hsueh Sung, Ken LaCrosse, taishi28012, John Simpson, Jerod Tufte, Paul Abbott, Stan Witherspoon, Donald Greer, Gratiela Chergu, Michael Ciagala, Dale Carstensen, Chip Davis, Liudmilla Karukina, Jim McCloskey, Dewey Sasser, Hal Hildebrand, Connor Wood, Ken Kennedy, darrin, Mark Gardner, William Christensen, Malcolm Ocean, Rod Davenport, Nodarius Darjania, Cheryl Evry, Wenfeng Liang, Irving Rivas, Bill Soistman, ReallyBored, Άρης Δάσος, Ron Lauzon, TheFred, Paul Theodoropolous, Doug Phillips, Les Vogel, Matt Pollard, Andres Cordova, Umgeher Torgersen, Syeed Ali, Raghu Veer Dendukuri, Perry The Cynic, Gustav A Wirth, Mitchell Bryant, Matt Krueger, Jim Mog, John D. Taylor.

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