8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)

Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by linkdd on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:29PM (#26705464)

Neat!

Reminds me of:

  - Pacman in Factorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VR_b9YwqH8
  - Raycasting 3D engine in Factorio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24

My main questions are:

  - how long does it take?
  - how does Factorio compare to VS Code as an IDE?

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by b0afc375b5 on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:32PM (#26707364)

Additionally, Darude:

https://youtu.be/mgfwwqwxdxY

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by CGamesPlay on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:35PM (#26706582)

The video is in real-time, and calculating Fibbonacci is probably 4 instructions in the CPU, so you can get an idea of how fast it is.

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by sterlind on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:58AM (#26708869)

way faster than Minecraft though! it can take a minute per instruction in the redstone videos I've seen. probably because Minecraft works on ticks affecting adjacent voxels and Factorio is more like labview (not to mention its seemingly excellent engine perf.)

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Re:8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2... by CGamesPlay on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:58AM (#26709263)

It's probably more related to the fact that the basic building blocks in Factorio are much higher level than in Minecraft. You create these out of wires (adders), arithmetic combinators (any other arithmetic operator), and decider combinators (comparisons). Additionally, you have 2 "channels" for data (red and green wires), and "data" is actually a vector of numbers (since each wire carries a "count" for each "item type").

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