Could this be built in Minecraft using redstone?
The RC2014 Retro Computer
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#12People should make more 6809 kit computers..
So for example, then you can run OS-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 and emulate an 8080 to run CP/M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiwmUnLTcjY
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#13A 6502 backplane homebrew: http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=680. Especially impressive because Quinn etched the PCBs at home.
Fast-forward to the finished (and resurrected) project so you can see the backplane: http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=2644
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#14Could this be built in Minecraft using redstone?
Probably. It would take a fair amount of time, though.
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#15So much nostalgia. I made a 6502 computer from scratch in the middle 90s.
I wire wrapped mine. I did not finish in one evening!
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#16Are these real 8 bit CPUs or are they incredibly powerful modern CPUs emulating 8 bit?
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#17Funny how things turn around.
I remember still to see this type of kits on sale during the early 80's.
For many it was the only path for their first home micro.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be an 8-bit processor with no virtual memory. Why not a Raspberry Pi or something more powerful?
I'd love to be able to have the experience of writing all of the code for myself. Just a C compiler and a text editor and needing to build a world around me. Would be fun.
This kit seems very similar to the famous Altair computer which spawned MS-BASIC and CP/M. Anything like Unix and C is not desirable on such a system. Even a 'text editor', as we understand them today, is a reach on such machines.
You could build your own world, but you'd probably have to do it writing ASM out by hand and then entering through a cumbersome line editor. For most purposes, that's too hard, so you would probably invent a very 'basic' line-level interpreter. But, given what we know now, you'd probably come up with a better disk operating system.
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#19Are these real 8 bit CPUs or are they incredibly powerful modern CPUs emulating 8 bit?
Real, the Z80 has been continually produced for decades now.
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#20Could this be built in Minecraft using redstone?
There's a forum thread on 6502.org discussing the porting of the visual6502 schematics to Minecraft. It would take a lot of effort, and so far not much progress has been made.