Text Editor Created In Minecraft

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 8, 2015 @01:47AM from the already-has-dedicated-adherents dept.

jones_supa writes: The redstone mechanics in Minecraft can be pushed surprisingly far to create rather advanced digital circuits. Thanks to a user nicknamed Koala_Steamed, there now exists a text editor inside the game (YouTube demonstration). It comes with a 5 x 10 character matrix in which each character uses a starburst (16-segment) display. There are 7.357 x 10^92 different combinations the screen can show, all of which can be controlled from a single line. The scale of the workings used to make this piece of logic, using only redstone, is dauntingly huge.

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Re:Next thing you know by wonkey_monkey · 2015-01-08 02:32 · Score: 4, Informative

It's getting there.

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Can you infringe copyright with redstone? by tepples · 2015-01-08 04:12 · Score: 3, Informative

given that you can already play Tetris in Emacs
How long will M-x tetris last given the ruling in Tetris v. Xio and Mr. Pajitnov's admitted belief that free software deserves not to exist?