10-04-2016, 04:31 PM
Hello!
I was a member of the ORE/RDF some years ago. I wasn't very chatty and didn't build anything special so none of you probably remember me. I remember understand the designs of alu/memory/buses/registers very well but just couldn't grasp how to combine them all to a compute unit. No matter how many hours I spent trying to reverse-engineer other people's cpus I just couldn't grasp how they worked in their core.
But that was when I was a kid years ago. Now, when I haw acquired a lot more knowledge in programming and computer architechture, I feel obliged to return and complete that redstone-computer I dreamed about building back then.
What do you like the most about redstone?:
How such complex things can be created of such a limited set of items.
What's a thing you have made which demonstrates redstone knowledge?:
I hope this counts; An 8-bit CPU!
Features:
As I said I haven't done redstone in years but here is some really old screenshots of my past redstone adventures and I hope I still remember some of it! Note that cpu in the album was really shitty and I never got it to work properly.
What do you plan on making for your build trial?:
I don't really know right now. but I promised to have came up with a masterpiece until then
Do you agree with the rules?: Yup
Minecraft name: Wingez
If this happens to be accepted could someone tell me at what time is the highest % chance of a admin to be online? For trial
Cheers!
I was a member of the ORE/RDF some years ago. I wasn't very chatty and didn't build anything special so none of you probably remember me. I remember understand the designs of alu/memory/buses/registers very well but just couldn't grasp how to combine them all to a compute unit. No matter how many hours I spent trying to reverse-engineer other people's cpus I just couldn't grasp how they worked in their core.
But that was when I was a kid years ago. Now, when I haw acquired a lot more knowledge in programming and computer architechture, I feel obliged to return and complete that redstone-computer I dreamed about building back then.
What do you like the most about redstone?:
How such complex things can be created of such a limited set of items.
What's a thing you have made which demonstrates redstone knowledge?:
I hope this counts; An 8-bit CPU!
Features:
- 256bytes RAM
- 8bit ALU with ADD/SUB and Overflow/Zero flags
- Up to 255 OP-Codes with maximum 32 cycles of excecution
- Decimal Output screen
- Variable clockspeed with manual and automatic stepping
- Branching
- 2 general purpose registers and 1 for the stackpointer
- Fancy lamps for easy debugging]
As I said I haven't done redstone in years but here is some really old screenshots of my past redstone adventures and I hope I still remember some of it! Note that cpu in the album was really shitty and I never got it to work properly.
What do you plan on making for your build trial?:
I don't really know right now. but I promised to have came up with a masterpiece until then
Do you agree with the rules?: Yup
Minecraft name: Wingez
If this happens to be accepted could someone tell me at what time is the highest % chance of a admin to be online? For trial
Cheers!
A properly explained ALU and general knowledge about the topic (which it seems you have) is enough.