[HN Gopher] A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video] ___________________________________________________________________ A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video] Author : lawrenceyan Score : 130 points Date : 2023-06-27 20:49 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | 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. | | 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). | | 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. | | 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). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-29 23:01 UTC)