Full Powder Toy Computer

  • Uberness
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @massey101
    If you give me information on the read/write commands, I can make you a hard drive.
    Do you mean bits? Because I was thinking "336 bits won't fit"
  • Mur
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Simply amazing. The most complex and functional computer in TPT. And it is compact too O.O
    Deserves to be on the notable creations list.
  • Uberness
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Mur
    Don't forget that I made the display.
  • Sylvi
    4th Feb 2011 Moderator 0 Permalink
    The start of Powder Toy inside a computer built in Powder Toy.
  • massey101
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    UPDATE: I have fixed the timing issue, the computer was just going too fast for its own good :D
    Although this means that the keyboard Green/Red will be out of wack but hey.

    @UBERNESS
    Its not 336 bits o.O
    it is 4 bits, the details should be going on the wiki very soon, but I will give it to you anyway:
    (Top to Bottom)
    Position IN (4 bit) tells where to read from)
    Data Out (4 bit) Kinda self explanitory
    Clock IN (1 bit) IDK why I included this but It could come in handy, it should continuously send the data out of the hard drive. However make you hard drive with Read/Write Capabilities so that programs can be coded onto it (like the PCL Computer). I will be adding the Read/Write Soon to the Port so watch out for it!

    EDIT: I might just merge the IDE and DDR Ports together because they are the same :D

    @Mur
    Do not include the display in my noteableness... (if thats a word)
  • Uberness
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @massey101
    You mean bits instead of bytes.
    "2. The Hard Drive is split into "sectors" where each sector is 14 bytes and 0000 will jump down a sector and 1111 will jump up a sector. Using this method about 42 bytes could fit inside the hard drive using my current RAM design. However this makes it difficult as the File System will not support files above 14 bytes."

    Making a 8X42 Solid State Stack takes up allot of room.
    Other than that are you going to use my NEO CPU 2
  • massey101
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    You will see that previously I have pointed out that a byte in this case is 4 bits because that is how the information is stored. So it will be a 3x14x4 Solid state stack.

    And yes U will use the NEO CPU 2 :D I just haven't gotten around to it, I might implement it in my PCL++ for this computer because once its ready for PCL++ I can easily implement it into other things, at the moment I am resting :D
  • Uberness
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @massey101
    Okay, I just needed to know because I was about to make a VERY huge hard drive. I updated the wiki, so that your editing will be easier.
  • massey101
    4th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @UBERNESS
    How is your Hard Drive coming along? If you are not working on it I will go ahead and make my own
  • Uberness
    5th Feb 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Thank you for implementing the keyboard I designed.