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.
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.
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?
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
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
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 87.0 ms ] threadSometimes side and off-the-cuff projects are just wacky enough to become amusingly interesting, and inspiring to try something crazy yourself.
Kinda makes me think of the show ReBoot.
Shoot! Would have been fun to create my block storage on an anarchy server and then fight to defend files in Minecraft.
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.
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
Write code in vim, run it in Minecraft!
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/5wl34g....
Video: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi489014553/?ref_=tt_vi_t_1
Tom7 made a similar one in Tetris as part of the above video
That man baffles me.
He spent 16 years running every street in Philadelphia, starting and ending from home.
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