A 16 bit computer simulated on circuitverse

I didn’t know about circuitverse, so I’m going to check it out.<p>Visiting the page, and the title reminded me immediately of the game “Turing Complete” [1], which I played recently after one of my kids showed it to me, and I totally loved it. It’s practically a full semester course in computer engineering that you can finish in a weekend. The programming examples are adorable and fun (you write tiny games in assembly language, and TC takes care of displaying things). Designing my own ISA &amp; hardware in tandem isn’t something I got experience with in my college CS classes, it was fun to do.<p>Turing Complete has a channel for user-submitted projects, and someone built a complete 32-bit RISC-V implementation with ~8 million gates or something like that, and it boots and runs a chess game (even on my very old&#x2F;slow computer). I was totally blown away!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turingcomplete.game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turingcomplete.game&#x2F;</a> (I have no affiliation, I’m just a happy player)

Looks really cool, but a bit fiddly. Here&#x27;s some quick start instructions to save others the initial confusion:<p>1. Hover top right of simulation to display controls<p>2. Click full screen button<p>3. Hit tab button 3 times to defocus fullscreen button (otherwise typing anything toggles fullscreen, in Firefox at least)<p>4. Click the box labelled &quot;keyboard&quot;<p>5. Type &quot;d&quot; to load snake<p>6. Click the tiny box labelled &quot;WASD Pad Enabled&quot;<p>7. Click the box labelled &quot;WASD Pad&quot;<p>8. Press &quot;d&quot; to start<p>9. Use WASD keys

A fullscreen button appears if you hover over the top right.

Wow, I’ve never heard of CircuitVerse before, it’s very cool!<p>Just the other day I was wishing there was a ciechanow.ski for logic design and CPU architecture. Their interactive book is a great foundation for it. This is exactly the kind of thing I would love to work on… really need to light that FIRE.