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Anyone who likes this should also take a look at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ At the end you have your own CPU with your own assembly language. Sadly stuck in early access since forever with some very rough edges

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I can also thoroughly recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/684270/Silicon_Zeroes/ which uses smart design to remove having to deal with binary in the circuit design. This reduces complexity by a surprising amount.

Love this game. Does anyone know if developers are still active?

Steam discussions seem to imply there is still something happening https://steamcommunity.com/app/1444480/discussions/0/7674379... But communication is definitely subpar. I completed it a few years ago, was fun but having prior knowledge about digital circuits is a must have in my opinion.

wow - will try it today!

They're bikeshedding pretty hard, making their own language for the simulation. You can access the unstable branch through steam, it was getting fairly regular updates last I checked.

is there anything interesting in the unstable branch??

also lmfao bikeshedding a custom language is EXACTLY what i would expect from the dev of that kinda nerd game. feels like a good sign tbh

Last I checked there's some rebalancing that looks pretty good, but the real advantage from the custom language is a huge performance boost.

I think its called yakshaving when you actually do it. Bikeshedding is discussing stuff that doesn't matter to avoid tlaking about the hard stuff

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