Disabled compatibility mode (which I activated on the faint hope) and restarted - same problem (Black Screen, slowness). Played with graphics settings and restarted couple of times). Lo and behold, now it works without issues. It was the graphics settings and the AMD card. Performance and graphics a...

The UI response is quite bad, it takes a noticeable amount of time to activate any button (even in the start menu). Opening existing save (even with reduced graphic settings ) results in this (ignore the task manager) f13v2.gif Now look at the task manager. It's cycling (in my case) between 50-90%. ...

I was not serious when I hinted that XP will be no longer supported. We all know that the proper way of doing these things, is to post an announcement along the lines of "Due to circumstances beyond our control XXXX will not be supported in the future releases.. Sorry" I think too much of ...

Yep 13.1 is borked as well. I get "Unable to execute file- CreateProcess failed, code 193" " %1 is not a valid Win32 application" So what's going on? Intern that's not working out? Microsoft hit team? I realize that we (XP'ers) are few (but proud!), but a bug confirmation would b...

I've done some additional work on MK2 CPU in order to improve the throughput and responsiveness. The new MK3 has approx 30% better throughput and supports interrupts which should allow much better reaction to unanticipated events. A brief video overview showing interrupt handling and explanation of ...

Same symptoms, running on XP. Auto update failed so I tried downloading 32 bit full install from Factorio.com (unzipped version). Message "Factorio.com is not a valid win32 app"
Now what?

much like what piriform posted on the previous page on this thread, but without the caveats... I like write once register design and can see uses for it, but I think that the two are different in use and operation. I believe that the write once register performs destructive (sic?) update, i.e. the ...

This is very exciting work with tremendous potential. Is your plan to partition it and do a staged release or wait until it's fully baked?

Here is a video of MK2 computer controlling a factory https://youtu.be/fA92JYrDzh8 During the demo, MK2: issues build instructions for several different items monitors build progress and when complete issues commands to collect the products into logistics inventory monitors status of raw materials (...

Nice!.

Here's a scheme for a cheap memory capable of storing all the signals (albeit with a reduced range) Caveats: - incoming signals must be 1 tick wide signals must be conditioned: -if negative values are desired and interval is 10M then 5M must be added to the incoming and 5M subtracted from the output...

I don't have time to test it right now but it looks Really Good. I think that this approach will be very useful. Off the top of my head I can think of the following apps 1. Input port 2. Your memory "compactification" scheme reader 3. A big one- Lookup Tables - fix the inputs in a constant...

Nice, clean design, but I have to apologize for wasting your and everybody's time (again). I read your spec (on a remote monitor) and saw this Input: 123 "A" , 0000246 "B", 0000500 "C", 2 "Blu instead of Input: 123 "A" , 10000246 "B", 20000500 &...

Am I right?

Yes, of course! Your (re)statement of the problem is correct, and I should have started with a formal problem statement ( my fault).

Dr. Walrus encoding/decoding method led me to create a mux circuit in which a value of a specific signal can be selected from several (many) signals, via numeric address (1..N). EDIT ------ XKnight kindly provided a more complete description of requirements (in lieu of the above vagueness). In summa...

This is my first attempt at a computer in factorio. It's 256, 5 by 7 displays arranged in a 16 by 16 grid and it can type, by placing copper plates in the "keyboard", do very basic maths and algebra and has some basic memory. Was hoping to put in a game next (chess??) and any advice would...

Once accomplished change the name from computer MK2 to SkyNet. Sure, no problem. I'll just put it on my list of things to do ;) let's see... #786 Skynet! What's on top of the list #1 Assembler and loader - OK, working on it #2 Beg for a compiler "Please Sir, Can you spare a compiler" :oops:

Will try to oblige, although it might take a week or two. BTW I got started down this path after watching your tutorials #46,#47 and had a thought hm... . Thanks for all the great videos you've made so far, please continue!

Hi, thanks for the feedback. MK2 is not quite ready for the pipelining as I don't have a good solution for the problem of Locks (i.e. certain instructions overrunning or colliding with the others), and I'm not interested in crocheting the code. I'd be very interested in seeing your approach. RAM is ...

Just in case you were itching to TOTALLY automate your factory and were wondering how to go about it, here's your answer. New, Improved, MK2 computer (some assembly required :D ). MK2 is fast(er) ( up to 12 IPS), better ( 32 instructions including BLT & BXRP) and greener (all those adder combina...