The YASEP, like any technology, does not exist by and for itself but as a continuous interaction with many people. Thanks to everybody for paying attention and providing some help, in a way or another ! As more people, young and old, discover it and wish to use it, my motivation grows ! I certainly forget a lot of people but here are some...
The YASEP appeared in 2002 as a crazy but fun idea to make a Very Simple Processor
on the back of an envelope. Christophe Avoinne gave the earliest advices
(think about the stack and stack frame, words and half-words...) and
Jürgen Göritz
added some feedback while it was still a secret hobby.
Then in 2008, Laura wanted to use the YASEP for her ours-agile (that's how the YASEP gained 16-bitness). Slowly the project gained momentum. In 2013, Jean Christophe Haessig reviewed the architecture, coded some Mandelbrot and helped invent some great tricks.
YGWM started in february 2009 and benefited from feedback from Laura, Milhouse and Stéphane Moriaux among others.
YGWM won a 2nd ex-aequo rank at the Open World Forum Code Contest in september 2011. What looked like a gadget was recognised as a serious tool (which it is). And that's how I met khorben, the author of the BSD-based operating system that now supports the YASEP architecture.
In august 2013, YGWM finally gets its own domain name: http://ygwm.org slowly becomes the repository of the toolkit that was developed for the YASEP. This new independent parallel life lets the interface evolve by itself and find other applications. The YASEP website can be leaner, without the YGWM-specific documentations, tutorials and examples.
yasep.org is hosted by Laura's server.
Many illustrations were drawn on a vintage Compaq Concerto and reworked with the GIMP. Text is edited with GNU Nano, all running GNU/Linux. Thanks to Richard and Linus, the trollific duo :-)
I (yg) write the english and french versions. Jeff "Framebugger" Davies translated the framebuffer tutorial from french to english.
Kris Jordan has provided the first spanish translation of firstrun, followed by Triny Prada who helped translate the internal messages.
Lars Pötter wrote the first german translation of firstrun on 2013/1/1 then Marco helped to polish.
There are some nice VHDL tools but Tristan Gingold's GHDL is pure awesomeness. Which wouldn't exist without GNAT and GCC under Linux, of course. And it is easily extended.
High five to Jeff Crispino, Antti Lukats, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo, Sergio Tanzilli, Lionel Sainte Cluque...
He certainly has no direct involvement in any way in the YASEP but Denis Bodor, and by extension Diamond Editions made it possible, in their own way. I'll never thank them enough!
Thanks to René Mages as well :-)