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Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

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Re: Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

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How do people find the time to make stuff like this??

Probably by being young and not having to waste it on bullshit things like earning money to buy food and shelter.

Or he spends a lot of time on a hobby after work just like plenty of other reasonable and self-supporting people do?

Re: Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

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How do people find the time to make stuff like this??

As a matter of fact, with some external tools like MCEdit, it's not really as time consuming as it seems. A lot of large scale of Minecraft redstone contraptions are modular in nature, once you build and validate the basic idea, scaling up is just a matter of copy-pasting.

In my experience, the initial research/designing phase takes quite some hours (typically a good weekend), scaling up is must faster. In addition, most players who are into this typically have a number of creative worlds serve as libraries of past builds, so you'd almost never start from scratch.

Re: Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads

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Was there a particular need to model the World Trade Center towers with a plane flying at them? Is that part of the functionality of the hard drive?

I'm inclined to say "no", but I think most of us have deleted seemingly unnecessary appendices from code to spend a week fixing the aftermath.
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