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Joshua Barretto

Virtual Circuit Board is unreasonably fun. I've already built my first CPU and now I'm planning another.

27 Oct 2023 at 18:11 | Open on social.coop
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curved-ruler

@jsbarretto
Digital Works was my playground, around 2005, but now I can't find a download link I could recommend, or who wrote it.

27 Oct 2023 at 18:20 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
John Christensen

@jsbarretto I can't believe I haven't heard of this yet. This looks amazing!

27 Oct 2023 at 18:34 | Open on hachyderm.io
Joshua Barretto

@JohnWithAnH It's so good! I've been looking for a decent logic sim for a while. Logisim was good, but its reliance on ICs was disappointing. VCB does everything right, that I've seen so far. In hindsight, doing things on a 'pixel grid' and having input/output be nodes on that grid, wireworld-style, is an obviously good idea.

27 Oct 2023 at 18:40 | Open on social.coop
Joshua Barretto

@JohnWithAnH Also, the simulation is really fast. The simulation of my CPU easily runs at a million TPS (which corresponds to about 30k CPU cycles per second) on my not-particularly-impressive PC.

27 Oct 2023 at 18:42 | Open on social.coop
John Christensen

@jsbarretto just tried it out, and I'm pleasantly surprised with how user friendly it is! It seems like they struck a really nice balance between being complex enough to enable some really cool simulations, but simple enough to still feel like a game.

27 Oct 2023 at 20:46 | Open on hachyderm.io
James Waples
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