Разработчик: Funghisoft
Описание
- Become a hardware engineer
- Join the hardware startup Microhard
- Immerse yourself in the technology of the 80's
- Disrupt the tech industry
Build your own CPU
- Design hardware circuits with the integrated hardware development environment
- Write your designs in the MHRD hardware design language
- Create hardware designs based on more than 20 specifications (e.g. multiplexer, adder, ALU, RAM, etc.)
- Simulate and verify your designs
- Read the included manual to get started on your career as a hardware engineer
- Reuse completed hardware designs to build more complex ones
- Design a fully functional CPU and get your mind blown!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: x86 (64-bit)
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 150 MB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or later
- Processor: Intel Only
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 150 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 10.04+
- Processor: x86 (64-bit)
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 150 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Computer Engineering 101.
unplayable on steam deck
Fun parts of the game:
You solve logical puzzles while learning how the computers work. The game is very rewarding.
In addition to main game goal (create a CPU) you can add competition and try to create the elements of the CPU using as few logical gates as possible.
Frustrating parts of the game:
As elements that you need to build get more complex, their descriptions become more and more vague. Sometimes it's very hard to understand what it is required from you. My advice would be just start implementing small things that you do understand and continue as it goes. Most of the times, after you get your working solution, you will wonder on simplicity of it (especially with RAM, DECODER and CPU itself).
Also sometimes you may realise that you had to put a MUX somewhere, or there was some more optimal way to solve the element, and now you need to rewire 5 or more contacts, which is not very convenient in the editor.
If you made a tiny mistake and there's no issue in compatibility of the buses, the debugging becomes hell.
4/7 блин !
I just bought this game and finished it in 2h15m. I can confirm what the other negative reviews say.
- The game is very short. The decription on Steam says "Create hardware designs based on more than 20 specifications". That's because there are exactly 21 levels in the game. That count includes 2 levels where you just build a 4-bit version of a 1-bit component you previously built (1-bit not -> 4-bit not, 1-bit and -> 4-bit and) by replicating the 1-bit component four times, so the actual number of "unique" levels is 19.
There are three more of these "wider version of previous component" levels (1-bit full adder -> 4-bit full adder, 2-to-1 mux -> 4-to-1 mux, 1-to-2 demux -> 1-to-4 demux), but those actually require additional effort than just replicating the 1-bit version 4 times, so I am willing to consider them unique.
The ending is abrupt. In one of the levels you build a RAM, and in the level where you build the CPU, the description talks about how some of the pins of the CPU are to be connected to RAM. So naturally you'd think that you'll have a level of connecting the RAM and CPU into a computer / SoC. But the CPU level is the last level so you never actually get that payoff.
- The final two levels of building the ALU and the CPU are very easy. Both are just a matter of transcribing the textual description of the level into HDL. The CPU has three inputs, four outputs and five internal components, and yet there is no challenge because the game spells out precisely which one to connect to which.
- You cannot write more than one screenful worth of code. This is mostly not a problem, but for the CPU level I was unable to leave empty lines between independent parts of the solution (for cleanliness) and instead had to smush everything together to fit. The game certainly supports multi-page text because the game's own level descriptions and manual use multiple pages and require scrolling, so it is a mystery why that is not allowed for your code.
- The UI is deliberately clunky (keyboard-only navigation, very few shortcuts in the text editor compared to a modern editor), but I'm willing to forgive that since it's not too bad. Other games like TIS-100 also have such clunky editors to fit the retro aesthetic. It is a pain that if you want to read the syntax manual or the schematics of another component, you have to switch away from your current solution pane; I resorted to taking screenshots and putting them on my other monitor.
- There is no audio other than a simulated hard disk drone and chunky keyboard sounds when you type; you may want to mute the game if you play it for a long time.
So if you want to learn about making a CPU, I second the recommendation in other reviews for the game Turing Complete. That game covers basic logic gates, larger components like muxes, combining those into a CPU, connecting that CPU to RAM and IO to make a full computer, and programming that computer in assembly to solve puzzles. Furthermore you build the circuits visually like a schematic diagram and thus learn better. MHRD at best is an introduction to an HDL language if you wanted to learn those, but any Verilog or VHDL tutorial would give you that.
This is was the first game i used my brain to play
Fun little puzzle game. A little annoyed that the high scores have been set at unattainable scores by cheaters.
Learn logic gates and computer engineering in a fun retro way.
Actual time spent playing up until this review: ~7h (the rest were card farming and breaks I took without closing it)
Other reviewers pointed out the availability of similar premise games but with GUI. This goes for the more stylistic approach, with bare minimal controls and simulation of an old OS. I really enjoyed my time with it, except a bit on pre-last puzzle was confusing.
The good thing is, as you probably already know, it is actually applicable logic design and not some puzzles created just for the player.
I suspect they might have wanted to make an expansion of sorts, or maybe a dlc, or just update with more tasks, but never got to it.
Game is still good, grab it during a discount if you vibe with the style and idea behind it.
Teaches you how processor works on basic level
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Funghisoft |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 02.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (256) |