I have been holding out on writing a new post until the 2.0 patch was finished, but it has been too long, so here is a status update. The good news is that you can play the 2.0 alpha already. Right click on the game in your steam library, click on properties and then channels and select "save_breaker". Do note though that there are A LOT of breaking changes, so you might want to back up your sa…
This update brings a verilog exporter to the game. Verilog is an industry standard hardware description language. With your favorite architecture exported to verilog format, you can theoretically simulate it with other simulators, simulate it on an FPGA (basically circuit simulation hardware) and presumably even get it produced as a chip if you can afford it. However if you are excited to try t…
Color blind mode was finally added. The red "OFF" color is replaced by purple, since green / purple should be differentiable for all major forms of colorblindness. Also the purple is brighter so it can be distinguished from contrast as well. Color blind mode can be enabled it in the options menu. If you have colorblindness, let me know how well it works!
Check out the schematic hub, it is finally live and there are already a few really cool things uploaded. Players who have 10 total upvotes or more between all their uploads on the 10th of August will get a badge on their profile.
New music Turing Complete now has a new synthwave soundtrack. As with all music, not everyone is going to like it but I personally can't stop listening to it! You can also find it on Spotify: Progress towards sharing Meanwhile work towards in-game sharing is continuing. Mostly I have been tying up loose ends (like translation) and trying to get to a stable set of components in the game. The goa…
The following was done since the realism patch 3 weeks ago: - Fixed levels, scores, achievements and other things that were broken as a result of the realism patch. - 16 bit and 32 bit components were introduced, as well as a 2 bit decoder and word sized NAND, NOR and XNOR. - The component menu was reworked which was needed to accommodate all the new components. Custom components in the menu ar…
Components now have to be connected to an input to simulate. Watched state had a major upgrade. In the component factory, use a "Watchable state" component to decide what state should be exposed on the custom component. This also adds a state indicator visually on the component. With this you can watch multiple different states inside a custom component or watch deeply nested state. You will ha…
This patch brings the file rom, while the console was added a few days ago. The console is the first of a couple of display components that are planned. It allows you to print colored characters to a 80x24 display. You can use this for displaying text, creating games or video. The file ROM loads bytes from any file on your computer. This can for example be used for importing large amounts of da…
A new idea was suggested which was just too good not to adopt. Instead of having the 1 bit memory be the basis for all memory, it is now a new delay buffer component. All the delay buffer does is take an input and output it the next tick. First of all, this is a good candidate for the simplest possible memory component, which is where we should start. Secondly, it lets the game introduce memory…
This patch completely reworks how simulation of schematics work. This should increase simulation speed, fix random crashes from a memory leak and a race condition and make UI components work in fast simulation mode. This might not sound too exciting, but soon I will add more screen components (the old one doesn't work now and will be removed), a new keyboard component, file and networking compo…
The save menu has been upgraded with the following features: - Folder support - Use filenames up to 45 characters - Add descriptions to your schematics - Rename custom components without having them disappear in your architectures - Get a warning before deleting custom components that are also in architectures Soon to come will be allowing nested components in the component factory. Also a bug…
WASD movement New Byte Expander and Byte Compressor that shows signed 8th bit A bunch of minor improvements to make the early game more accessible And a few bug fixes
Some of you have been building large circuits and have been complaining that frame rates started to drop after playing for a while. This patch should fix that.
This patch contains lots of little updates I want to get out there, but I wanted to give a heads up about the following: The link from architectures to custom components is now found in the custom component panel. So click on the custom component you want to edit, then click on the wrench in the upper right corner. (Note it doesn't actually take you to the same schematic as the custom component…
In this patch the decoder level was changed and moved to an earlier more natural place. Your old decoder solution will still work but some of it might be outside the level boundaries. If this bothers you, just create a new circuit and solve it again. Also I apologize for deleting the byte subtractor component the other day without a prior heads up, since it must have broken some players circuit…
The player base grew by 100x over night so lately there has been a lot quick hot fixes for game breaking bugs. Those were uploaded as soon as I could. In this patch though, you will likely notice that layout of the level map has changed in the following ways: - The level architecture level "Output Bit" was removed - The early game level "Double Trouble" was added to make "Counting Signals" easi…
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