People build CPUs out of logic gates in Minecraft and Factorio.
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duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHaha my first thought was “I wonder if it’s possible to build a general purple CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker.”
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
That’s just resistor-diode logic with a 555 instead of a transistor. That means the timer only does buffering/inverting but not the actual computation.