[HN Gopher] 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factor... ___________________________________________________________________ 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019) Author : yellowyacht Score : 34 points Date : 2021-04-05 18:25 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (imgur.com) (TXT) w3m dump (imgur.com) | linkdd wrote: | Neat! | | Reminds me of: - Pacman in Factorio: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VR_b9YwqH8 - Raycasting 3D | engine in Factorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24 | | My main questions are: - how long does it take? | - how does Factorio compare to VS Code as an IDE? | Natsu wrote: | It always amazes me when people make things like this. It feels | like there's something special about games that can be programmed | within the game, because some of the best games all have that | feature: Minecraft, Terraria, Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, etc. | Though it's hard to even specify that because there are some | where it's not really part of the game per se (e.g. arbitrary | code execution in Super Mario World) though that was a great game | too, it's not quite the same feeling. | | I think my favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator, just because | overflow errors caused actual magma to overflow, which is just so | very Dwarven: | http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54046.0 | | It's too bad Notch never finished that space-themed game he was | once planning. I remember when HN went crazy with implementations | of his spec for a simple, memory-mapped 8-bit computer that was | going to be central to that game. | mywittyname wrote: | I just started another playthrough of Factorio and I'm impressed | just how well it manages to incorporate so many fundamental | concepts in CS/CE. It's an incredibly useful tool for refreshing | your memory of all that stuff you learned in college, but never | applied in the real-world. | | I built an S-R Latch for turning on steam power to my base iff | battery capacity falls below 10% and remain on until capacity is | above 50%. That, and figuring out how to distribute goods evenly | across _n_ belts when you can only divide in half is pretty fun | to figure out. | natas wrote: | can it play crysis? | fasteddie31003 wrote: | I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to | watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy | said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio | right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL | and started learning how to make DAPPs. | codezero wrote: | It's funny because to a lot of people making DAPPs is as | pointless as Factorio (though I think I may just be putting | Ethereum poo-poo out there in general). | | That said, I've been feeling similarly - playing on Steam and | seeing folks w/ massive play times thinking, I should go do | something productive. | | Where did you start off for learning DAPPs? Do you have any | goals in mind? | candiddevmike wrote: | I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-05 23:00 UTC)