Comment by proxysna

8 hours ago

What a great write up, and a video too! Even though Minecraft stuff ofc was a bit of a bait, it would be interesting see the answer to "Can it run Doom?".

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zimpenfish  7 hours ago

> a bit of a bait

"a bit" is doing a lot of work there. It was absolute nonsense. They were no closer to running a Minecraft server than I am to running UKGOV.

  • voidUpdate  7 hours ago

    They hosted a program that allowed minecraft clients to connect... I'd class that as a minecraft server, even if it wasn't a very good one

    • zimpenfish  4 hours ago

      > They hosted a program that allowed minecraft clients to connect...

      Connect in the sense of receiving a login packet and saying "yes". That's it. Steps 1, 2, 3, 9, 10 of [0] (they didn't mention encryption or compression, I'm assuming they didn't implement it.)

      They didn't mention anything about any of the steps past 10 - again, assuming they didn't implement them.

      It's a trivial thing they've implemented - good work, sure, but a Minecraft server? Absolutely not.

      [0] https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_protocol/FAQ#What's_th...?

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jandrese  3 hours ago

Feels kind of like when Usagi Eletric got "Doom" running on a vacuum tube computer with a teletype interface without support for even ASCII, but it was just an imitation of the background music.

Anything for the thumbnail.

voidUpdate  7 hours ago

It could probably run the code for doom, once recompiled for the risc-v emulator, but given that the only output is a paper teletype, displaying it would be a problem

  • toast0  6 hours ago

    > but given that the only output is a paper teletype, displaying it would be a problem

    You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. A cacodaemon floats by, hissing.

  • kmoser  20 minutes ago

    I wonder which would be faster: computing a frame, or printing it? If you could print one frame at a time, you could make a flip-book animation.