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Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by NoToP »

causality0 wrote: post #57
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades using Minecraft. Ok, to clarify, is MCHPRS a functioning Minecraft Server that can support a player logging in and mining? This story is seeming a lot more like "A 1Hz CPU made on something that has mechanical similarities to Minecraft".

It's more like a more efficient implementation of Minecraft. It's not wrong or cheating, it's no worse than that one mod that did nothing but optimize the game engine better than the actual Devs.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by NoToP »

SCLeo wrote: post #42

I think we will see more of these amazing Minecraft technical creations as people who played Minecraft as children are now finishing up their higher educations.

In the contrary, I think kids that self taught most of digital logic years ago are now being accredited for what the game already taught them, and are now doing it for money with silicon rather than redstone.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by swayvil »

ninkendo wrote: post #85
swayvil wrote: post #73

The 0.1fps time scale makes no difference to people living within this minecraft universe. From their perspective a second is a second and a day is a day. Funny. See Greg Egan's PERMUTATION CITY for more on that.

Also, for an extreme example, https://xkcd.com/505/

Woah!

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by swores »

postalrat wrote: post #76
swores wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet you're talking about it despite replying to someone who clearly wasn't gatekeeping. They were offering suggestions.

You don't start a suggestion with "Why 74xx parts, other than nostalgia for an era that was over decades before he was born?"

I agree that they could have worded that sentence more nicely, but "gatekeeping" isn't the automatic opposite of "charming and polite", nor does it describe any and all negative feedback. It's a specific term with, you know, meaning.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by samstave »

Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

Please ELI5 how people are able to make a CPU/anything-logic-gate etc inminecraft

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by PaulHoule »

taneq wrote: post #77
PaulHoule wrote: post #3

My son has gotten into designing logic circuit with Redstone. I wish I could get him to do the same with 74xx/54xx parts.

If logic ICs don’t appeal, maybe he’d be interested in relay logic? There’s something super satisfying about a totally electromechanical contraption clunking away and ‘thinking’.

It might be fun to get a big box of relays.

Sometimes I think I want to make a frame buffer out of 74xx parts and some SRAM.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

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Post by nsilvestri »

samstave wrote: post #98
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

Please ELI5 how people are able to make a CPU/anything-logic-gate etc in minecraft

Minecraft has a feature called redstone. It's "dust" that you can pour on blocks to create wires. These wires can be powered from in-game items. Combining two or more of these powered wires with some spatial positioning can give you an OR gate. Some of these power sources can be turned off if they receive power themselves. Those are NOT gates. With an OR and a NOT gate, the world's your oyster.
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