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Author Topic: TIS-100: Like SpaceChem But With Computers Instead  (Read 4668 times)

Hubris Incalculable

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Re: TIS-100: Like SpaceChem But With Computers Instead
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2015, 12:08:33 am »
bunping because reasons

My cousins and I were talking about the TIS today, and I wondered how easily it could be implemented in hardware...

my personal feeling is to veer away from the use of FPGAs and rather use more era*-appropriate chips

*1972-1979, according to the boot screen
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Re: TIS-100: Like SpaceChem But With Computers Instead
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2015, 07:44:10 am »
I just wanted to jump and say that this game literally makes my head ache every time I play it. Also, because I didn't read the manual properly, I didn't know you could use the 'mov' command with numbers for the first few puzzles, so I did silly things like this:

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You can see I had a whole routine for turning 2s into 1s and -2s into -1s. I guess I was in the spacechem mindset where data can be moved and manipulated but couldn't be created from nothing.
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