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by exebook 1361 days ago
Am I the only one who after seeing the title thought they are building Nintendo switch inside Factorio? Which makes me think can it at least run something like Atari 2600 at decent speed?
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A Minecraft-based Atari 2600 emulator was running about 1 frame per second last I knew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7T5_xH24M

And that's heavily based on internal scripting with real code.

The recent "Minecraft"-in-Minecraft emulation was done with pure Redstone internal to the game, but has to be run on a specialized server that accelerates Redstone operations by several thousands to be even fast enough to record time lapses at a reasonable sped.

In-game simulations of logic gates that are generally running at fractions of a Hz are a pretty steep obstacle to overcome for any "real" computing like that. Just to calibrate your expectations.

Lots of things already are in progress on similar things: https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/93cd1t/building_a...