[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.
       | 
       | 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).
        
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       | 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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