This is absolutely mind blowing

May 30, 2024 5:33 AM

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Thanks to the comments for the full source

https://youtu.be/FDiapbD0Xfg?si=G0dcnqW3lUm3FE_0

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, that's my favorite game of all time so I can't find anything wrong with this...

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I want to make a joke about how there's got to be an easier way to play tetris, but that's impressive!

2 years ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 1

Information: This was made on a server with a redstone speed-mod that boosted the redstone operations to 180x normal speed, and the creator said this was done to allow the games to be played in real-time.

Credit for original video to @iamkingflippynips comment here: /gallery/O2jej1J/comment/2397737733

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Oh yeah so it's like a mechanical computer you click then wait for the gear/red stone to turn so they're just sped up the turning of the gear.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually logged in to upvote and comment. From a software engineer.... this is insanely impressive. Blows my mind.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/505/

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anyone ever read Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age? Seems straight out of that.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so when will the dude from the future come here and do this with the cold fusion generator that runs on household waste? (We can use the specs soon please)

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And they’re not even very good at Tetris /s

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is there a version of that video that doesn’t fly around so fast and jerky that you can’t actually look at what dude built?

2 years ago | Likes 513 Dislikes 3

When you find the full version, which I think is posted in response already, sit back and enjoy. Its truly fascinating.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, this Hertz to look at

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right click, speed, x0.5.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 36

wow didnt know about this feature, cool! :) - however, this version is not detailed enough at x0.5 ieather to understand all the croks and crannies, it looks like a "for youtube shorts" version *yuk*

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And one that is not A PORTRAIT VIDEO OF A LANDSCAPE VIDEO!

2 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

And my axe!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lmfao

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

https://youtu.be/FDiapbD0Xfg?si=G0dcnqW3lUm3FE_0
Here you go my dude

2 years ago | Likes 191 Dislikes 0

You're a legend

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My favorite part:

The clip: "The gamer took years!"
The very first frame of the original video: "7 months"

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

When I can listen.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Now make a simulation that makes a simulation that simulates a computer that runs games

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But can it play Doom?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dude the thing can do Game of Life and Mandelbrot equations and visualizations, this is more than Tetris.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I assume it can run anything given enough memory!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So he wrote a compiler?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm currently programming up for a Commodore 64 a mandelbot program but I keep running into a problem with the math in it. I'm going to have to devise some machine language routines to speed that up

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not just a CPU. He must have built some sort of screen driver and control interface too.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not minecraft, just mind blowing
https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U?t=6m

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

JFC, scroll that damn specs slower! Some of us nerds are really nerding about nerd stuff like this.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nerd life yo!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This yet again takes away my supposed understanding of what Minecraft actually is.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Ok so the fucking imposible spinning of the video plus white text on almost white background is the worst. I took a screenshot to try and see what he made and that's how I saw there even WAS text. If anyone has a less seizure-inducing video pls share. This looks so cool but gotdamn.

2 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

Got damn?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Can I run doom on it?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fucking hell, that’s wicked cool. +1

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone have too much sparetime....

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Okay, neat! But can it run Minecraft?

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I should do something with my life.

2 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 2

I built a smol city with a working subway based on irl Toronto buildings. I wish I had more time to continue. All I have are short vids 1/2

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2/2 I recorded and uploaded to utoob where I explained my reasoning behind the way I built and decorated.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've found I'm much happier in life when I stopped comparing myself to others and just tried to enjoy the ride.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How about a nice game of thermonuclear warfare?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why spoil it now?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...in minecraft.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

not with that username you aren't...

2 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

just be a billionaire.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Rats

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I dunno, you might have something

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I don't even understand how this works...

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

CPUs... Man, how do they work???

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think they use magnets, 'cuz the the last time I dropped a glass of water on one...

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've taken computer science courses in college and I'm still at a loss for how something like this could be created

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

computer science courses don't really prepare you for what's in here unless you're specifically int he computer architecture track. You'd probably know caches and op codes and ALUs but that's about it. My guess is the boss who made this simulated and debugged it first using standard tools and THEN put it into minecraft. It's still impressive to do all the layouts and floorplanning manually by yourself, but MUCH easier than winging it in minecraft for sure.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There are things called transistors. Little things with three electrical contacts. You can only send electricity from the first to the third pin if you also hook up the second to power. It's like a switch. You can combine those to get funky reactions, a bit like turning on the lights at the top or bottom of a staircase. If you now use tons of transistors, hook them up to a display with many pixels and flip the input switches in the right order (that's your program code), you have a computer.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

To OP: and it's a whole f*** set of games, not just Tetris, OP.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Including Game of Life and a visualization of Mandelbrot

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How long until they put Doom on it?

2 years ago | Likes 111 Dislikes 1

Copy/paste a few dozen times and you've got a Pentium

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

For school we did simulations building a chip from the ground up (first build a transistor with diepads and go from there). After 3 months of work (about 400 hours), we had a BCD to 7 segment decoder that you could buy back then for 1$ in an electronics store. I wish I had the layoutplans though, they make for decent artwork.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's all about the Pentium, baby.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How long until it runs Crysis

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I know a lot of the actual bottleneck of running games in Minecraft is "Steve has no way to use mouse, and can only barely use a keyboard" and you already need mods to keep computers over a certain physical size all loaded at the same time. Short of this, the only real limitations are your ram, and how bad is frame rates and lag you're willing to put up with. I'm pretty sure they got Minecraft running in Minecraft, so like sky's the limit, eh?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The heat death of the universe.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

About -2 years? https://gamerant.com/minecraft-doom-play-no-mods/

2 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 0

Good ol reliable Internet. Thanks

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

1/500th speed

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gut-bacteria-proving-you-really-can-play-the-game-on-anything-184629896.html this takes probably "the crown", both in ridiculousness and in computational speed, or lack thereof.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The creator of the experiment says it would take 600 years to run through the game using this display.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

BTW that second to last one was a game of life simulation, which is the real insanity of this project of theirs. It also can plot graphs.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Game of life is SUPER easy to program these days with high level languages, but we're talking about something they had to effectively write

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this in their custom machine code for.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well actually I guess this one used an external assembler and compiler but still its a lot more complex than people think.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Doom NOW

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Don't worry, we are doomed already.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not with 256 bytes of RAM.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah....but only 4MB. Get building slacker

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure at the size it would end up being, the game would unload most of that to save resources.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Let me understand. Does the CPU really work as a CPU?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yes

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like a RISC architecture

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't know if this is a meme I don't understand, but it looks like it from what I understand. Maybe it doesn't look like modern CPUs which are absolutely huge and most of their area is just memory/cache. This one looks to be about 50% compute.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Has a 64 byte cache, 8-way set associative.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, You can read the specs of it if you continously pause the f*** fast video.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't really mind how fast it is. You get the gist if you know what it's saying, and if you don't then it makes no difference. There's a few neat things going on I think mostly to optimize for memory access and branching (because it's a slow CPU), but for the most part looks pretty standard.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(Luckily you typed all of this soooo slow, so I can at leas read it.)

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hardware call - stack is anything but standard. Some microcontrollers (like base/mid PICs) use that kind of approach AFAIK.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that's kind of what I meant by "optimize for memory access" so they don't have to go to program memory for it.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0