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Quoting: wvstolzingYou guys are so naive... It's not an ordinary trademark; it's a stylized version of the emblem of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. These poor developers found themselves in the middle of a TEMPLAR conspiracy. Fortunately, they don't seem to have alerted the Illuminati yet.

... or have they? :S: :woot:

Pendantry: Isn't the red cross actually a stylized version of the emblem of the Knights Hospitaller, the Templars' foes/rivals?

Pendantry? That's the kind of cross you wear around your neck.
I don't think the Red Cross is related to the Knights Hospitaller; it's just a Greek cross (arms of equal length).

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Quoting: liamdaweUpdate: And it's over, my questions didn't get answered.

Yes, but did you ask anything? You were supposed to ask anything -- and before submission, hit the any key on your keyboard.

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Quoting: silmethThey should just use the Star of Life [External Link], which is pretty much universal ambulance marking today.

The mere existence of the Star of Life shows that the Red Cross can be pretty touchy about the sign. Also, the emergency doctors and medics I know, who also do not want to be associated with the Red Cross, and prefer the Star of Life sign.

Says the guy whose avatar looks like Anton LaVey.
So many layers of conspiracy, I'm getting dizzy ... first the Knights Templar, now the Church of Satan. Oh no!

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You guys are so naive... It's not an ordinary trademark; it's a stylized version of the emblem of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. These poor developers found themselves in the middle of a TEMPLAR conspiracy. Fortunately, they don't seem to have alerted the Illuminati yet.

... or have they? :S: :woot:

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Quoting: wvstolzingThis reminds me of the exercises in this book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems [External Link]

This seemed super interesting to me, but then I saw that the required software requires Java… :(

I haven't had any issues running them with the stock 1.7 runtime (wherever it comes from; I forget now) in the openSUSE TW repos; I haven't had to tinker with anything (like customizing launcher scripts).

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Quoting: ivantYou start working for Microhard, an obvious pun on Apple Microsoft, a company which tries to disrupt the CPU business in the 1980s.

That's kinda odd. Why not 'bintel', or 'HARM', or something that pokes fun at CPU designers/manufacturers?

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Quoting: GoboTrust your technolust!

There is a MOOC (Computation Structures) on edX.org by MIT that seems the perfect formal background for this. You'll be introduced to CMOS and build your own cpu as well. But games are always more fun ;)

Thanks, this looks like a great website.
I think these are the most relevant links:

https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-digital-mitx-6-004-1x-0# [External Link]!
http://computationstructures.org/notes/top_level/notes.html [External Link]

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Keep trading 'lemon ice cream' (wink wink) and you'll be rich in no time.

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Quoting: tuubiThe trailer doesn't tell me much. Is it an engineering simulation of some kind or is there an actual game in there? I love TIS-100, but this... I have no idea.

It probably works like TIS-100, where you get a series of distinct 'take this input, return this output' tasks in increasing complexity, and try to work out the most efficient solution. The over-arching goal could be related to a bit of background mystery, as in TIS-100.

The screenshots show the specifications for a NOT gate; I'm curious how they've implemented the more complex structures like the Arithmetic Logic Unit; also how much of the CPU's design is a ready template, and how much of it is up to the player. (I mean, there *has to* be ready templates for the more complex stuff; it's not like you get to create new architectures?!) Too bad I'm broke; or I would've got this.

(Another question is how complex the end product gets: Only a CPU? A complete computer with memory mapped devices?)

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This reminds me of the exercises in this book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems [External Link]

It's an amazing book; in the first half you get to construct a 16 bit computer, starting from individual logic gates. Then you write a pretty basic Assembly language for the processor, and write some simple programs in it. Eventually a complete operating system, and an object-oriented higher level language are designed; but I haven't studied through those parts. The book comes with several emulators / simulators to test the resulting hardware; and eventually the software written to run on that hardware.

It looks like this game will be similar. The 'NAND' that they refer to in the trailer is a basic logic gate from which all other truth functions (AND, OR, XOR, etc.) can be defined. I wonder how they've implemented the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), the memory registers, etc. Also in general I wonder how they've 'gamified' the whole thing. Looks really interesting.....

Here's a talk by one of the authors of the book mentioned:
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