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Good question. To run python on this CPU, someone (you?) needs to port Cpython to it. A CPU runs assembly language, and it's not hard for a hacker to port C to a new CPU, because C is small. In addition, implementing C is the sort of thing that hackers like to do. So you can count on C running on any given CPU, virtual or real.

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This thing will have a total of 128kB directly addressable ram (as 64k 16b words). There's no way, no how that CPython would ever do anything remotely useful here.

It depends what the purpose of the DCPU is. If it's the scripting engine, well, you can easily write an aimbot in 128KiB of .pyc files and the python VM. If your only access to the world is through the DCPU, yeah, you're probably out of luck, but the second scenario makes for a much smaller and less interesting game.

It's also an obvious in-game/micropayment reward to expand the address space, somewhat analogously to the N64's memory expansion pack.

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