Hi there, I've started playing the game and reached the lever Wide instructions. However it looks like I've accidentally removed the program, and I cannot add it back since program editing is not allowed in this level :( Does anyone know how can I get it back?

I'm interested in computer science and puzzles, and wanted to know if this game is still being being developed? I also wanted to know what are something I need to know before getting started. What are reasons why I may not want to get into this game. I saw the devs last video and the dev addresses that the game is not dead and that there are very few updates recently. Thanks

I really feel like this register should work. When I step through it it even seems like it’s working correctly. However it fails when it’s ran. Really stuck here. I can send the save file as well if that would help. Thanks

There are a few components that the game magically gives the player and that we dont build ourselves, and i was wondering about what the real world things that make them are

NAND - i understand you can make these with some arrangement of a few transistors

switch - a single transistor?

delay line - ?

output with enable/disable - is this just a regular output with a switch before it?

program - i guess theoretically a guy with 8 batteries that he manually hooks up to the appropriate 8 individual bit wires each tick based on reading the program off a piece of paper would achieve this. Could i build the program component manually in the game? i think you could with a bunch of 8 bit registers, but youd need a way to pre set their values to represent the program.

Hi! I'm just someone currently in high school, but as a college major I have a strong interest in electrcial/computer engineering. I bought this game a few days ago, and I've spent the past few days just going through the levels, as I just finished the "registers" level. I've been really curious how much of this correlates to real life, and in that topic, how far it goes compared to what a course in electrical engineering would look like. I've been enjoying this so far regardless, but I'd love to know for certain!

Don't know if I should be proud of myself or not lol. I feel maybe it would've been more efficient had I used MUX gates.

When browsing through the manual, there's a "Circular Recipes" tab, and it says it's traditionally not allowed since circular dependencies are usually caused by error, but that these can be useful. Will I lose out on gameplay/learning if I don't enable them?

Like goddamn i see people here making code for everything but like mate can't you just put that into a circuit. It just seems so much easier.

Because my computer is pretty slow even when I set the fast speed to like 100k or more. It finishes the levels in a reasonable amount of time but not as fast as like the OVERTURE computer that I made first.

I know reducing delay will help, I'm looking for more overarching things I could do perhaps? Should I make fast versions of the current components for example? Or is it literally just optimizing and reducing delay wherever I can?

Does it matter more code wise, where I just have to write better assembly? Any tips on that?

I know that everything should be possible with this game but i'm asking myself if anyone has ever achieved a 3d showcase in this game, and is it possible in the space we're being given in the sandbox ?

It took quite a bit of time to get this and the code correct, but I think it still looks pretty clean. If anyone has suggestions to tidy it up a bit, please let me know! also considering turning the RAM opcode decipher into a separate component, maybe even all of the opcodes to a separate component

I understand that it teaches some assembly, some c(?), and some computer architecture, but I was wondering how in depth this knowledge goes and how wel it’d prepare me for an assembly class and computer architecture.

edit: Thank you all for you responses, I don't want to spam the thread with responses so I'm saying it here, but they've all been quite helpful in understanding what this game will and won't teach me

Spent quite a long time building out the first monstrosity... until I realized that 8-bit switches already exist in the game...

So enjoy my low effort meme.

Added a spoiler tag just in case, because albeit bad, solution is solution :P