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by vaccinator 2041 days ago
a Minecraft clone in hardware means all code is hardware?
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Yes and no. The design includes a custom built 16-bit CPU, which uses a custom instruction set, which I wrote an assembler for. There is a small 4kb bank of RAM that contains a program written in this instruction set. From a hardware perspective it is just data, but from a a software perspective it's that program that is ultimately responsible for running the game (by reading input from the gamepad module, setting up GPU registers, etc.).
Yup.

The assembly language for this chip will be redstone :)