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Schmolendevice
Schmolendevice
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6th Aug 2015
27th Oct 2016
The future of TPT computing is on its way! This save features a 256 FILT particle 768 byte FRAM capable of read and write access 60 times a second! This device is the precursor to my 60 Hz BitStormer CPU. 8/12/15 User I/O interface finished.
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Comments

  • Schmolendevice
    Schmolendevice     11th Aug 2015
    @00yoshi Indeed, this is just the 'skeleton' possessing the most fundamental components which is an FRAM and a means for conducting conditional or unconditional branching on a frame per frame basis. To the bottom right of the FRAM there is a DTEC and ARAY which 'fires' to an 'access' row to which virtually any FILT based decoder can be connected. I still have to design a 60 Hz register and more compact decoder. But I'm on vac with cousins.
  • Schmolendevice
    Schmolendevice     11th Aug 2015
    Primarily the wonders of TPT wiki. This device is not yet a computer but at present is only capable of GOTO operations or jumping between addresses. From what I remember, to turn a memory location into a GOTO instruction to an address from 0 to 255, change its ctype to (2^29 + 2^16 + GOTO address). ctype of 536870912 + a 16 bit number is just a NOP for now.
  • 00yoshi
    00yoshi     11th Aug 2015
    idk = i do know :D
  • 00yoshi
    00yoshi     11th Aug 2015
    wow... wtf... idk what it does (it doesnt look like a cpu but as you said it is the precursor and this is just the code executer, right?)
  • Another_one_brony
    Another_one_brony     11th Aug 2015
    2hard4me
  • jx88
    jx88     11th Aug 2015
    holy crap its amazing. But may i know where you learn all this "magic" from? I rmb last time in tpt bray memory was quite popular but now it became filt memory and i have no idea how it works.
  • sapake
    sapake     11th Aug 2015
    So uhh do you have any example programs? Can you yet output to text or decimal? This is cool, but hard to understand :D
  • Schmolendevice
    Schmolendevice     10th Aug 2015
    @Zeitgeist321 Pretty much all one needs to know is that it's fast. Stores data, and when programmed it will be running programs at ridiculous speeds. I'm still trying to make an input terminal for manual access to the memory device. But indeed, a whole lot of DTEC, FILT, ARAY, PSTN, CONV and DRAY magic. Once you learn the TPT mechanics, making stuff is like writing in a new language of pixels.
  • Paul99
    Paul99     10th Aug 2015
    Amazing. I expect great things of this. Maybe we could eventually have something resembling a early computer with a teletext terminal.
  • IFDIFGIF
    IFDIFGIF     10th Aug 2015
    looks cool +1