07-06-2014, 09:31 PM
So. I have been a member of ORE for a few weeks now, but I only just stumbled on this sub-forum. You wanna know my story? Here it is:
Chapter 1
So once upon a time, I hadn't heard of minecraft. People at school started talking about it a lot, so I Googled it. I certainly didn't want to pay £17.50 for the full game, but I noticed a little link: looking for minecraft classic?
So I played on classic for a year, before I discovered mineshafter. Here I played survival for a while. Later on, I bought pocket edition. I looked up what pocket didn't have, but PC did. Huh. Redstone? What's that?
Chapter 2
So I looked up redstone. Seemed pretty cool. I had a little fiddle with it, and made an absolutely massive 2x3 door. Fail. I was terrible. I stumbled upon a youtuber by the name of bennyscube. His stuff was awesome, but I didn't understand how any of it worked. So I looked up on YouTube to see if there was any series teaching the basics of redstone. I came across flabiliki. I watched his "redstone basics tutorial" series, and learnt a lot. His videos showed me the XOR gate. I was fiddling with them, like I do with everything, and discovered the built-in AND gate. I had known binary the entire time, and knew computers used it. Something clicked. I thought: "wait, could I use these to make something that adds stuff?"
Chapter 3
So I fiddled and I fiddled. Eventually I created a 4 bit RCA, although I didn't know about this name at the time. Once I had heard about CLA and CLE, I assumed that what I had built was CLA. I looked up how to do subtraction, and eventually I had an ALU in front of me. I knew that I was relatively advanced at this point, but I got bored of just building random rubbish. Then I rediscovered bennyscube. I vaguely am aware of how CLE works thanks to him. But I was still bored. I looked up redstone servers, and found ORE.
Chapter 4
So I went around, and applied online. In this time, I helped crazyninja with his ASCII. I was finally approved for the trial. Magazorb was my superviser. Minutes before my trial, I discovered that what I was building wasn't CLA, but was RCA. I had heard of people being declined for RCAs, so I got really worried. I built a 4-bit ALU, with RCA at it's heart. It was slow and uncompact. I gave a decent explanation of how it worked, and then maga and some other people started asking me questions. When I answered one, the other people thought I was answering their questions. I got panicked. Eventually maga said: "good enough." Had I done the test 9 days later, I would have been denied, since that was when they stopped accepting entire ALUs if they were RCA. So now here I am, writing this.
All in all, one lucky slug.
Chapter 1
So once upon a time, I hadn't heard of minecraft. People at school started talking about it a lot, so I Googled it. I certainly didn't want to pay £17.50 for the full game, but I noticed a little link: looking for minecraft classic?
So I played on classic for a year, before I discovered mineshafter. Here I played survival for a while. Later on, I bought pocket edition. I looked up what pocket didn't have, but PC did. Huh. Redstone? What's that?
Chapter 2
So I looked up redstone. Seemed pretty cool. I had a little fiddle with it, and made an absolutely massive 2x3 door. Fail. I was terrible. I stumbled upon a youtuber by the name of bennyscube. His stuff was awesome, but I didn't understand how any of it worked. So I looked up on YouTube to see if there was any series teaching the basics of redstone. I came across flabiliki. I watched his "redstone basics tutorial" series, and learnt a lot. His videos showed me the XOR gate. I was fiddling with them, like I do with everything, and discovered the built-in AND gate. I had known binary the entire time, and knew computers used it. Something clicked. I thought: "wait, could I use these to make something that adds stuff?"
Chapter 3
So I fiddled and I fiddled. Eventually I created a 4 bit RCA, although I didn't know about this name at the time. Once I had heard about CLA and CLE, I assumed that what I had built was CLA. I looked up how to do subtraction, and eventually I had an ALU in front of me. I knew that I was relatively advanced at this point, but I got bored of just building random rubbish. Then I rediscovered bennyscube. I vaguely am aware of how CLE works thanks to him. But I was still bored. I looked up redstone servers, and found ORE.
Chapter 4
So I went around, and applied online. In this time, I helped crazyninja with his ASCII. I was finally approved for the trial. Magazorb was my superviser. Minutes before my trial, I discovered that what I was building wasn't CLA, but was RCA. I had heard of people being declined for RCAs, so I got really worried. I built a 4-bit ALU, with RCA at it's heart. It was slow and uncompact. I gave a decent explanation of how it worked, and then maga and some other people started asking me questions. When I answered one, the other people thought I was answering their questions. I got panicked. Eventually maga said: "good enough." Had I done the test 9 days later, I would have been denied, since that was when they stopped accepting entire ALUs if they were RCA. So now here I am, writing this.
All in all, one lucky slug.
