A Software Engineer Plays TIS-100 (Part 1)

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• RE

  @repeded_loot_main5403 · 5 years ago (edited)

  You REALLY overthought the third one. I think it exists only to fuck over competent programmers.<br>Hint: ACC doesn’t become 0 when you move it so you can use it twice.

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• TA

  @tallspy7150 · 2 years ago

  I found this game in my steam. thank you for showing me what on earth I was looking at.

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• RD

  @rdoetjes · 5 years ago (edited)

  It’s obvious that this software engineer wasn’t new to assembler ;) <br><br>This first puzzle I managed to do without the manual in a few seconds. <br><br>That 3rd one was a bit tricky for me and I love that you came up initially with the same solution and also get hung. In a Normal computer that would be very logical approach. And it took me a while and a read through the manual confirmed my suspicion, you can’t read and write at the same time from a block and I had to get pen and paper making a fictions truth table (I hadn’t noticed it was filled out of the left) and that it’s signed and not signed.<br>And logically I used an AND instruction to reset the MSB... &nbsp;but there isn’t and I read the documentation and found NEG too.<br> the 4th was a breeze again. And that’s where I’m at after half an evening playing.

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• LA

  @Lawh · 1 year ago

  I got this game a decade ago maybe. I tried it, loved it but wa confused, and left it. Then after about five years I had progressed a little, loved it, but didn&apos;t have time. Now I got into it once more, and finally finished it, and I didn&apos;t use a single tutorial except I think ten years ago I had to look up something about how something functions. It&apos;s been a really fun and long trip with this game and I feel I can&apos;t get enough of it. I sometimes run it in the background for fun whilst I&apos;m doing other stuff and then just play around with it here and there when I need a break.

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• UL

  @ultrio325 · 4 years ago

  Oops accidentally learnt assembly through a video game again

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• WI

  @williamweatherall5341 · 2 years ago

  your idea to pluralize the second one was really clever. My solution was just single. <br><br>Seeing you be creative like that inspired an idea for me that I will test when I get home. use the four blocks that it goes through as a method of doing the doubling in parallel, first block doubles and then passes the next three values. Second block passes the first value it gets and then doubles the second. <br><br>I don&apos;t know if it will work yet but I&apos;m looking forward to trying it.

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• KA

  @kaldenelphick7079 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Old video, but here&apos;s a suggestion: press the debug button when it shows on a module that says &apos;communication failure&apos; as they contain story.

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• SA

  @sacredyveltal4688 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Not related to the gameplay, but I love the way your keyboard sounds!<br>It&apos;s satisfying!<br> Please, never change it lol

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• GA

  @gabrielprasenaraj · 2 years ago

  all these years i&apos;ve wasted my life playing stupid games! great tutorial/walkthrough

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• IG

  @ignacynykiel · 6 years ago

  Was just looking to spend some time during summer and picked learning assembly! So cool to see people making related content in 2020

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• AN

  @andr2906 · 4 years ago

  Yesterday found this game. Vaguely reminds me of unit tests. Original and really good puzzle game! At most levels there is more than one solution.

• SP

  @Spiderboydk · 4 years ago (edited)

  Another example of a game, which comes with a manual, is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

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