[HN Gopher] A 16 bit computer simulated on circuitverse
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       A 16 bit computer simulated on circuitverse
        
       Author : tachyons
       Score  : 94 points
       Date   : 2023-05-03 11:35 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (circuitverse.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (circuitverse.org)
        
       | sixstringtheory wrote:
       | Wow, I've never heard of CircuitVerse before, it's very cool!
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       | Just the other day I was wishing there was a ciechanow.ski for
       | logic design and CPU architecture. Their interactive book is a
       | great foundation for it. This is exactly the kind of thing I
       | would love to work on... really need to light that FIRE.
        
       | zamadatix wrote:
       | A fullscreen button appears if you hover over the top right.
        
         | chankstein38 wrote:
         | Thank you I was sitting here trying to understand how this is
         | even viewable behind the like 100 tags that are over top of it
         | and won't go away
        
           | tachyons wrote:
           | Thanks for the feedback, created an issue on our tracker
           | https://github.com/CircuitVerse/CircuitVerse/issues/3744
        
       | dahart wrote:
       | I didn't know about circuitverse, so I'm going to check it out.
       | 
       | Visiting the page, and the title reminded me immediately of the
       | game "Turing Complete" [1], which I played recently after one of
       | my kids showed it to me, and I totally loved it. It's practically
       | a full semester course in computer engineering that you can
       | finish in a weekend. The programming examples are adorable and
       | fun (you write tiny games in assembly language, and TC takes care
       | of displaying things). Designing my own ISA & hardware in tandem
       | isn't something I got experience with in my college CS classes,
       | it was fun to do.
       | 
       | Turing Complete has a channel for user-submitted projects, and
       | someone built a complete 32-bit RISC-V implementation with ~8
       | million gates or something like that, and it boots and runs a
       | chess game (even on my very old/slow computer). I was totally
       | blown away!
       | 
       | [1] https://turingcomplete.game/ (I have no affiliation, I'm just
       | a happy player)
        
         | glorioushubris wrote:
         | Turing Complete is a fabulous game. I'd never done any
         | processor design in school, and Turing Complete had me obsessed
         | with it for a couple of weeks.
        
         | sdwr wrote:
         | Good to know someone is picking up the zachtronics torch.
        
       | tomxor wrote:
       | Looks really cool, but a bit fiddly. Here's some quick start
       | instructions to save others the initial confusion:
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       | 1. Hover top right of simulation to display controls
       | 
       | 2. Click full screen button
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       | 3. Hit tab button 3 times to defocus fullscreen button (otherwise
       | typing anything toggles fullscreen, in Firefox at least)
       | 
       | 4. Click the box labelled "keyboard"
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       | 5. Type "d" to load snake
       | 
       | 6. Click the tiny box labelled "WASD Pad Enabled"
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       | 7. Click the box labelled "WASD Pad"
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       | 8. Press "d" to start
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       | 9. Use WASD keys
        
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