Whitechapel - Genius gamer creates working computer in-game Wed, 22 May 2013 13:28:21 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232300#Comment_232300 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232300#Comment_232300 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:19:47 -0700 groundxero

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."


READ FULL ARTICLE ]]> Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232312#Comment_232312 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232312#Comment_232312 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07:41 -0700 SilentObjector
Hmm... I wonder if that computer can play Dwarf Fortress... ]]> Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232314#Comment_232314 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232314#Comment_232314 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:29:16 -0700 icelandbob
No wait! it could happen.... ]]> Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232328#Comment_232328 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232328#Comment_232328 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:29:09 -0700 Cameron C. Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232397#Comment_232397 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232397#Comment_232397 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:57:16 -0700 Warped Savant Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232401#Comment_232401 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232401#Comment_232401 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:02:10 -0700 RenThing
You think that might cause a recursive singularity? ]]> Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232520#Comment_232520 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232520#Comment_232520 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:41:28 -0700 Ben Klumaster 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-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232525#Comment_232525 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232525#Comment_232525 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:17:04 -0700 Flabyo
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-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232535#Comment_232535 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232535#Comment_232535 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:12:29 -0700 Kosmopolit Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232701#Comment_232701 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232701#Comment_232701 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:10:05 -0700 meaninglessnoise the 13th Floor? ]]> Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232777#Comment_232777 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232777#Comment_232777 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:38:09 -0700 Brendan McGinley Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232778#Comment_232778 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232778#Comment_232778 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:48:25 -0700 ZJVavrek Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232789#Comment_232789 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232789#Comment_232789 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:48:49 -0700 Flabyo
@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-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232834#Comment_232834 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=232834#Comment_232834 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:36:48 -0700 Kosmopolit Genius gamer creates working computer in-game http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=233191#Comment_233191 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8085&Focus=233191#Comment_233191 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:50:10 -0700 groundxero
When I read about this it immediately reminded me of 'The 13th Floor'. Well, that and Dwight's "Second Second Life" from 'The Office'. ]]>