{"id":1141,"date":"2010-09-30T18:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2010-09-30T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:43:52","slug":"computing-with-your-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/09\/computing-with-your-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing with Your Torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug\">16-bit ALU implemented in the 3D environment of <i>Minecraft,<\/i><\/a> which has been much discussed by now. I&#8217;m glad to hear this game is keeping up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/dwarf-fortress-turing-machine-computer\/\"><i>Dwarf Fortress.<\/i><\/a> By the way, the particular piece of hardware that has been (virtually) built, on the way to creating a full CPU, is the one described in <i>The Elements of Computing Systems,<\/i> a book <a href=\"http:\/\/grandtextauto.org\/2006\/01\/08\/12-step\/\">I wrote about on <i>Grand Text Auto<\/i> back in 2006.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to mention the 16-bit ALU implemented in the 3D environment of Minecraft, which has been much discussed by now. I&#8217;m glad to hear this game is keeping up with Dwarf Fortress. By the way, the particular piece of hardware that has been (virtually) built, on the way to creating a full CPU, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/09\/computing-with-your-torch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computing with Your Torch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,17,11,23,19],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-hardware","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}