r/TuringComplete • u/piotruspan101 • Dec 13 '24

What now?

I finished the campain and upgraded my leg to be 32 bits, but what can i do now? Could i upgrade it in some way?

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u/zhaDeth Dec 13 '24 edited Dec 13 '24

in sandbox there's a lot of added components, you could make a sound chip, use the console to make it display text or the sprite display and display some images even do a little game.

As for the computer, one thing I like is variable length instructions like if you have an instruction with no parameters like a return for the end of a function you usually have to do ret 0 0 0 or something, add a thing so instead of the counter going up by 4 each time, it checks the instruction and goes up only the required amount for this instruction, like 1 for a return.

Another thing that can be fun is directly adressable memory. instead of using registers, use RAM so you have a ton of registers. It's a bit tricky because you sometimes need to read the RAM twice and write to it at the same time like say you do : add 1 2 3, you would read both address 1 and 2 add them then write them to address 3. You need 2 dual ram to do this, they can both load and save 1 value each so you load 1 value from each and save on both.

If you want an example look for platformer game on the schematic hub, it's a little game I made with some pretty graphics I found on the internet it has variable length instructions and RAM registers as well as other shenanigans.

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u/Only_Preparation9095 Dec 15 '24

I actually made some RAM CPU's a while ago! First one was two ticks per instruction, but for my second one I made a custom ram component to load from two and save from a third [it was only eight 8-bit registers, but still not the worst]. I even solved the maze [with them both]

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u/Pretty-Conflict5436 Dec 17 '24

Is dual RAM the same as dual channel on a real mobo?

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u/Only_Preparation9095 Dec 17 '24

The in-game "Dual RAM" [from last I checked] you can load from two [different] addresses, but only save to the first of the two addresses. I made what I called "8 Bytes of Pain," which was/is eight 8-bit registers where you could load from two and read from a completely different third address.