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Text Editor Created In Minecraft

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Surprisingly Far? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is this surprising? It's a simple mechanic to understand, what limitations did you think you were going to run into?

  2. Cool, but why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obviously a talented individual, think of that useful software could have been written with the same amount of time and effort.