[HN Gopher] Create block devices on your computer backed by Reds...
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       Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory
        
       Author : super_linear
       Score  : 139 points
       Date   : 2024-10-29 00:16 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | jesse__ wrote:
       | The ingenuity of Minecraft players never ceases to amaze me
        
         | mroche wrote:
         | I'm speechless, it is amazing this is even possible. But it's
         | more impressive to me that someone actually thought of this
         | idea and decided to attempt it in the first place.
         | 
         | Sometimes side and off-the-cuff projects are just wacky enough
         | to become amusingly interesting, and inspiring to try something
         | crazy yourself.
        
         | peterleiser wrote:
         | I look forward to watching my future grandchildren install a
         | minecraft mod that dematerializes them and let's them play
         | inside minecraft. Then I'll start ranting about Tron and
         | they'll just shake their heads about Grandpa and how he still
         | lives on the old Earth moon colony.
        
       | hun3 wrote:
       | All fun and games until Enderman starts shitting bad sectors all
       | over the place
        
         | iterance wrote:
         | Manual error correction in Minecraft the equivalent of going at
         | one's hard drive with a magnetized needle.
        
         | seized wrote:
         | Or steal the block that has your bash profile....
        
         | blharr wrote:
         | Wouldn't be too hard to add some hamming encoding
        
           | undersuit wrote:
           | You're going to need redundancy of some sort. The Enderman
           | can just steal your read (head)block.
        
       | kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote:
       | Oh, good, now when a creeper blows up I lose more than just my
       | fancy dirt house.
        
         | teeray wrote:
         | Just need ECC redstone memory. Creepers are just a Minecraft
         | cosmic ray.
        
       | nkrisc wrote:
       | How about a Minecraft server that contains its own data in the
       | world.
        
         | shepherdjerred wrote:
         | This would be such a fun idea for a game/server
        
           | jszymborski wrote:
           | Set up a bunch of creeper spawners and try to defend the
           | server files before the server goes down.
           | 
           | Kinda makes me think of the show ReBoot.
        
       | lukebuehler wrote:
       | > If playing multiplayer, the mod must be installed serverside.
       | 
       | Shoot! Would have been fun to create my block storage on an
       | anarchy server and then fight to defend files in Minecraft.
        
       | ryukoposting wrote:
       | Every day we get closer to my dream of hosting a Minecraft server
       | inside of a Minecraft server.
        
         | singlepaynews wrote:
         | What's left here? I never took operating systems, going direct
         | from EE bachelor to CS master's, so this post/comment is
         | perfectly at the gap in my education--I understand the
         | metal->transistor->flop memory we see here, and the
         | server->application->Minecraft you're imagining, what needs to
         | be built from red stone to go from flop memory->server?
        
           | dartos wrote:
           | Just someone willing to build a full ARM emulator with VGA
           | and IO in redstone.
           | 
           | Once you can get Linux booting, you can start writing kernel
           | modules to support the various redstone IO devices.
           | 
           | Once that's all hooked up, you try compiling Java. Once Java
           | is running you're off.
           | 
           | It'd probably be terribly slow though, unless you made a
           | redstone optimized CPU. Then you'd need to get Linux building
           | on that.
        
             | singlepaynews wrote:
             | Rock on, I have implemented the components of ARM, but at
             | an undergrad homework assignment level, not a "emulate ARM"
             | level. Am I correct to say this class is called computer
             | architecture?
             | 
             | Linux is obviously Operating Systems, and "compiling Java"
             | is Compilers--I think this is a 3 semester project if we
             | can align schedules and keep the team together
        
               | dboreham wrote:
               | Not everything is a class.
        
               | xena wrote:
               | It is in Java!
        
         | revskill wrote:
         | What is minecraft for ?
        
       | snapcaster wrote:
       | This is so cool, love it
        
       | jorgelbg wrote:
       | Now we can recreate the Hackers(1995) movie scene(s) about the
       | files:
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/5wl34g....
       | 
       | Video: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi489014553/?ref_=tt_vi_t_1
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | The cool thing is these were physical plastic models rather
         | than CGI renders.
        
       | Madhouse61 wrote:
       | This is really cool, I've always liked the idea of being super
       | close to hardware, like being able to visually inspect it, walk
       | around it like it's your kitchen or something, and make
       | modifications to it. Something akin to walking downtown NYC or
       | any big city
        
       | kstrauser wrote:
       | This is getting close to the metaverse I actually wanted.
        
       | _jholland wrote:
       | Another great Harder Drive to add to the list:
       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
       | 
       | Tom7 made a similar one in Tetris as part of the above video
        
         | Topgamer7 wrote:
         | I watched that video a few days ago. It was wild. The ping
         | backed memory storage is great .
         | 
         | That man baffles me.
         | 
         | He spent 16 years running every street in Philadelphia,
         | starting and ending from home.
        
           | hun3 wrote:
           | > The ping backed memory storage
           | 
           | It's worth noting that this is a network reincarnation of the
           | old tried-and-true delay-line memory.
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
        
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