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Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232300#Comment_2323002010-04-19T10:19:47-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00groundxerohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7299
Genius gamer creates working computer in-game
Chris Head (IDG News Service)
17 April, 2010
Dwarf Fortress is similar to many "God Games" in which the player assumes the role of an ...
Genius gamer creates working computer in-game
Chris Head (IDG News Service) 17 April, 2010
Dwarf Fortress is similar to many "God Games" in which the player assumes the role of an omnipotent being concerned with the care of a group of virtual followers.
However, instead of instructing the dwarfs to create a home, dwarves under the command of one player, "Jong89," have recently put the finishing touches on a working digital computer.
The computer consists of "672 pumps, 2000 logs, 8500 mechanisms and thousands of other assort bits and knobs like doors and rock blocks."
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Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232312#Comment_2323122010-04-19T11:07:41-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00SilentObjectorhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2587
WHAT. There is no end to how cool that is.
Hmm... I wonder if that computer can play Dwarf Fortress...
Hmm... I wonder if that computer can play Dwarf Fortress...]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232314#Comment_2323142010-04-19T11:29:16-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00icelandbobhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5250
... and then it becomes sentinent, believes the dwarves to be a threat to it´s existence, and therefore brings about an apocalypse with wooden "terminators"
No wait! it could happen....
No wait! it could happen....]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232328#Comment_2323282010-04-19T12:29:09-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Cameron C.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4226
Ummm... well... what the?
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232397#Comment_2323972010-04-19T15:57:16-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Warped Savanthttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2376
Oh God... the thought of someone having their character in Second Life play Second Life...
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232401#Comment_2324012010-04-19T16:02:10-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00RenThinghttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155
@warped
You think that might cause a recursive singularity?
You think that might cause a recursive singularity?]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232520#Comment_2325202010-04-20T03:41:28-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Ben Klumasterhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2723
@RenThing
Wouldn't it actually be a sort of reverse-singularity? Instead of our smart computers learning to make smarter things, our timewasting distractions find a way to waste their own time ...
Wouldn't it actually be a sort of reverse-singularity? Instead of our smart computers learning to make smarter things, our timewasting distractions find a way to waste their own time while also wasting ours. I assume the end result is all intelligence grinding to a halt.]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232525#Comment_2325252010-04-20T04:17:04-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Flabyohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306
If the tools are there this is surprisingly easy to do. Computers are, in their purely logical form, really quite simple things to construct.
I admire the man for realising you could do it with ...
I admire the man for realising you could do it with Dwarf Fortress though, and for having the patience to actually do it.
You could probably do it in Little Big Planet as well if the PS3 had more internal memory to hold it. As it is, I've seen adding machines built in that.]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232535#Comment_2325352010-04-20T05:12:29-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Kosmopolithttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346
So how many people (connected by the internet) would you need to emulate am 8 bit CPU?
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232701#Comment_2327012010-04-20T16:10:05-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00meaninglessnoisehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5880
Anyone ever see that 1999 film, the 13th Floor?
the 13th Floor?]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232777#Comment_2327772010-04-20T22:38:09-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Brendan McGinleyhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=93
The question is can he build a virtual computer with greater computing power than the physical computer it's stored on?
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232778#Comment_2327782010-04-20T22:48:25-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00ZJVavrekhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4243
It's weird. I read the topic title and went "Pfft, somebody already did that in Dwarf Fortress." I mean, this isn't a terribly new idea to the DF community.
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232789#Comment_2327892010-04-21T01:48:49-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00Flabyohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306
@Kosmoplit - one. It just wouldn't be very fast.
@Brendan - If you don't care about the speed it runs it, you could probably get to something computationally equivalent in power. You'd need a ...
@Brendan - If you don't care about the speed it runs it, you could probably get to something computationally equivalent in power. You'd need a ridiculous amount of memory to actually do it though.
Emulation is a fun thing to read up on if you're not familiar with it. Machines pretending to be other machines is a pretty fantastic thing. There are emulators for the Bletchley park machines that will run on your laptop quite comfortably. The Gameboy advance can play Doom using a CPU that costs a fraction of the price of the 486 you would've needed when it first appeared.
My favourite comedy emulation thing is where you take one of those arcade classic collections, lets say the Capcom one for the PlayStation One, and then run *that* on a PlayStation 3. An emulator, running an emulator. It's actually possible to go to ridiculous depths now (A spectrum emulator running on an Amiga emulator running on a Windows emulator running on Linux...)
Required reading for people who know a little math and want to understand what I meant by 'purely logical form' in my earlier post. The Turing Machine.]]>
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232834#Comment_2328342010-04-21T07:36:48-07:002010-04-21T07:38:49-07:00Kosmopolithttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346
Flabyo - yeah but I'd like to get several hundred - and use them to play Pong or Santa Paravia or something like that.
Genius gamer creates working computer in-gamehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=233191#Comment_2331912010-04-22T18:50:10-07:002013-06-19T21:52:55-07:00groundxerohttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7299
@meaninglessnoise
When I read about this it immediately reminded me of 'The 13th Floor'. Well, that and Dwight's "Second Second Life" from 'The Office'.
When I read about this it immediately reminded me of 'The 13th Floor'. Well, that and Dwight's "Second Second Life" from 'The Office'.]]>