[HN Gopher] A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video]
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A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video]
Author : lawrenceyan
Score : 130 points
Date : 2023-06-27 20:49 UTC (2 days ago)
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| russellbeattie wrote:
| I was already impressed, then I got to the part where he wrote a
| tool chain with Rust and a test suite for RISC-V which runs in
| game.
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| Then I decided the kid was a young whippersnapper who's way too
| big for his britches and "kids these days" and all the other
| things old people think to make themselves feel better when
| they're being obsoleted.
| ok_dad wrote:
| I figure I would never have competed with this kid; he's making
| people like jwz or antirez obsolete, not me! I'll always be way
| more mediocre than this person.
| harha_ wrote:
| It's an insane achievement.
| vincent-manis wrote:
| I am thinking back to when I was a wunderkind. If I'd had access
| to modern technology (software and hardware) back then, could I
| have done anything like this? NO!
| ZiiS wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501742
| herval11 wrote:
| [dead]
| wiederholen wrote:
| Pyrotherapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy
| haolez wrote:
| Wow. If you want to quickly see the insanity of this:
| https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY?t=550
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| awww man! here we go again, impostor syndrome kicking in.
| emrah wrote:
| People were able to build computers in many games like minecraft,
| factoria, terreria etc. I haven't played these games so I'm
| curious what kind of features allow for "computers" to be built
| inside games?
| jamestimmins wrote:
| If learning this type of low-level CS is interesting, I can't
| recommend the NAND to Tetris course highly enough
| (https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer).
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| You start with a NAND gate (NOT AND) and built the simple gates,
| multiplexers, ALU, machine language, VM, compiler for a high
| level lang, OS, graphics engine, culminating with a game you
| design that runs on this computer.
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| There's also a book with the same contents
| (https://www.nand2tetris.org/book).
| [deleted]
| misprit7 wrote:
| I'm the one who made this. The GitHub link was posted on HN
| yesterday as well, but I'm happy to answer any questions here if
| people have any!
| matttb wrote:
| The post from yesterday:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501742
| dillutedfixer wrote:
| I just want to say that this is incredibly impressive on so
| many levels. Your technical skills are obviously amazing but I
| really love how you were able to put this all together into an
| entertaining and well-produced video that anyone could
| understand. If you ever want to get paid 1/4 of what I'm sure
| you'll make as an engineer, you'd make a great teacher ;)
| billehunt wrote:
| Wow. So cool.
| rinzlerman wrote:
| Mind blowing. How can some one be so talented, I even fail to
| comprehend his work.
| umvi wrote:
| Nice. Would it have been faster to "just" write a Verilog =>
| Terraria save file compiler?
| kortex wrote:
| Man, rustc compiling of binaries that run on this computer,
| docker, github CI, this kid's going places (no idea how old he
| is, but he's squarely younger than me, a millennial, ergo, kid).
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