8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)
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#2I just started another playthrough of Factorio and I'm impressed just how well it manages to incorporate so many fundamental concepts in CS/CE. It's an incredibly useful tool for refreshing your memory of all that stuff you learned in college, but never applied in the real-world.
I built an S-R Latch for turning on steam power to my base iff battery capacity falls below 10% and remain on until capacity is above 50%. That, and figuring out how to distribute goods evenly across n belts when you can only divide in half is pretty fun to figure out.
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#3can it play crysis?
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#4I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
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#5Neat!
Reminds me of:
- Pacman in Factorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VR_b9YwqH8
- Raycasting 3D engine in Factorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24
- how long does it take?
- how does Factorio compare to VS Code as an IDE?Re: 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)
#6It always amazes me when people make things like this. It feels like there's something special about games that can be programmed within the game, because some of the best games all have that feature: Minecraft, Terraria, Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, etc. Though it's hard to even specify that because there are some where it's not really part of the game per se (e.g. arbitrary code execution in Super Mario World) though that was a great game too, it's not quite the same feeling.
I think my favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator, just because overflow errors caused actual magma to overflow, which is just so very Dwarven: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54046.0
It's too bad Notch never finished that space-themed game he was once planning. I remember when HN went crazy with implementations of his spec for a simple, memory-mapped 8-bit computer that was going to be central to that game.
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#7I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
It's funny because to a lot of people making DAPPs is as pointless as Factorio (though I think I may just be putting Ethereum poo-poo out there in general).
That said, I've been feeling similarly - playing on Steam and seeing folks w/ massive play times thinking, I should go do something productive.
Where did you start off for learning DAPPs? Do you have any goals in mind?
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#8I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not
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#9I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
Its funny because 1000 hours isn't even that much in the video game world. I have over 10,000 hours in team fortress 2 from back when I was in high school.
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#10I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
Its funny because 1000 hours isn't even that much in the video game world. I have over 10,000 hours in team fortress 2 from back when I was in high school.
Playtime doesn't really tell the whole story anyways...
I've got more than 1000 hours in Factorio, but _most_ of that time has been spend in the background while I did something else.