TIS-100 Tessellated Intelligence System

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 4:10 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #12

fpgaminer wrote: post #5

Looks cool, and I've enjoyed Zachtronics games before. I wish the demo video was longer and gave a better idea of the gameplay, though. I might throw the $7 at it anyway to find out. I've had a vague desire for a game like this lately. I wasn't really around for the early computing era (my first computer was a 486), but I've played with the old machines and learned a lot of the history. There's a special kind of fun…

> I wish the demo video was longer and gave a better idea of the gameplay, though. I might throw the $7 at it anyway to find out. Just spent about an hour and a half playing with it. What isn't obvious from the video is that the resources at each compute node are very constrained. You only get one accumulator register, and one additional "backup" register that isn't directly addressable. Furthermore, the size of each…

Post by paste0x78 » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 3:31 AM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #18

Too bad it's Windoze only.

Post by gosub » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 7:20 AM UTC

fpgaminer wrote: post #5

Looks cool, and I've enjoyed Zachtronics games before. I wish the demo video was longer and gave a better idea of the gameplay, though. I might throw the $7 at it anyway to find out. I've had a vague desire for a game like this lately. I wasn't really around for the early computing era (my first computer was a 486), but I've played with the old machines and learned a lot of the history. There's a special kind of fun…