Red game 4:

[dudearent006]

We enjoy using non-command block redstone, because it emulates boolean logic. Command blocks, whilst capable of doing so, detract from the joy of watching a beautifully laid out arrangement of wires flash. They , at least in my opinion, turn redstone into a series of cheap hacks.

I don't believe "it sucks because you can't see the blinky lights" counts as a valid point, but I see how you could find normal redstone more fun.

I find the fun in redstone computers to be pushing the limits and using whatever resources are available to make something cool in a game that wasn't designed to be used for the purpose you're using it for.
Along with that, building computers, be it in Minecraft, any other video game, or in real life, is pretty fun.

1: The pistons in your screen cause lag. You could replace them with turned on redstone or something like that, enabling it to be a bit lass game crashy.

2: The build is hardly optimised for command block mechanics. For instance, you can make your comparator work with fancy command block mechanics. And I'm pretty sure that because of some of the properties of command blocks the GPU rendering could become quite a bit faster.

I apologize for the post error; I don't know/remember anyone on RDF/ORE (except Xeomorpher).

1: what do you mean by turned on redstone? you mean active signals? that wouldn't work for the display, you'd need to test each of the 1024 redstone lines individually, and that would cause more lag than the pistons, and probably would take a whole lot more time to build.

2: my comparator? All decoders run on command blocks. Oh, you mean the 1D drawer/line filler things? It's actually been command block optimised now if you meant that. I often work in 2 stages: get it working first, optimise it only when it's working fine. I copy pasted that from the RG3 fully knowing it won't cause any bugs as it's already been tested, so I can focus on debugging the main elements. It's a whole lot faster now than in the video. I should record a new one soon...



As for your side comment, I realise this could possibly be better, it's just what I'm capable of. We'd need to start the "command block computer" revolution somewhere, though. Someone might make a better one after this one.

But this build has some features that make it quite a lot better than traditional computers. The main one is an external assembler AND compiler (with custom lexer written from scratch! quite proud of that ) allowing you to write cool high level programs, and upload it while minecraft is running using /scoreboard players set commands typed by the assembler/compiler program. No mods needed, no need to close/reopen minecraft. I'd say that's a pretty cool/new feature, but then again there may be computers out there with even cooler stuff that I don't know about yet.