07-04-2013, 12:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-04-2013, 12:45 AM by CMOSprinkles.)
Bad news, Minecraftforum user Jxu had apparently already come up with the 2 tick half adder I designed quite a while ago. His half adder generates the carry in 3 ticks, but it's practically the same design as mine and can be made to generate the carry in 2 ticks by using my method. He also managed to compact it to 4 long, so the Adder he designed is only 12 blocks long. Even though I modified it, I'm giving credit for the design entirely to him since he most likely already knew how to modify the carry and chose not to for size. So I apologize for the plagiarism and I will remove the adder from my plot when I get home tonight. This brings my plot back to being entirely empty, apart from my unidirectional vertical shift register which is not very impressive, so that's a bummer. Work is continuing on the computer though, I'm going to use Jxu's Adder along with Minecraftforum user Aelond's 3 tick Universal Logic Gate to make the ALU. That's the next big update, and it's coming soon, so keep checking for new updates on the computer!