Circuit Artist

This is genuinely great software, which combines several things that I love from similar programs/games: * Virtual Circuit Board - Pixel based drawing of schematics and logic (here on Steam as well), as well as time-reversal to analyze circuit behavior * Wired Logic - Found on GitHub, uses a minimal ruleset for wires and logic * Nandgame - Tutorial that goes from playing with NAND gates to building a simple CPU * Pico-8 - Retro game creation studio which supports sharing games as PNG files, giving this a plug-and-play feel * Hard Chip - Semiconductor simulation game which features propagation delay as part of the puzzles (also on Steam) It's hard to justify exiting the game whenever I do (total game time is probably closer to 100 hours).

Circuit sim goes brr *EDIT Honestly blown away that more people don't have this in their library, this is an incredible piece of kit for anyone interested in computer science or low level architecture. Heck - make your own architecture and poo-poo on people that can't, or maybe teach them the ways of the gods. Feature request: Can we have a terminal, or a way for this software to interact with files external to the simulator? For example, create low level simulated hardware to compress a text document on the host operating system. Input / Output / Filepointer. Or maybe don't do that because I'd share a peice of artwork to systematically format their entire hard drive partition with all zeros.

if you liked turing complete, get it - ridiculously underrated

best ux for a circuit game ever

Note: I wouldn’t recommend this for complete beginners, but if you type ‘nandgame’ into a web browser and get through at least 12 levels or so of that then you will no longer be a complete beginner. Digital logic stuff will be much easier to learn initially using a schematic-based approach using symbols connected by lines where you don’t need to care about pixels or exact positions of wires and such. Aside from being kind of new, I think this is the best "toy" hardware-like level logic IC simulator and educational tool that I've seen so far. It doesn't try to make you put down individual CMOS transistors, or try to simulate all annoying physics phenomena that occur in real integrated circuits, but it does simulate signal delays and the fact that pixel color doesn't matter (only black vs not black matters) means you have maximal freedom in picking colors for color coding, drawing pixel art, or whatever purpose you have. Aside from the art aspect, this is all at least a little closer to actual hardware even if things like P/N materials aren't simulated. It does allow up to 4 layers with the upper 3 being wire-only similar to a real IC. This is most similar to Virtual Circuit Board…

Quite a bit of fun to be had here. As a software engineer and hardware tinkerer this is exactly what I want from a circuit sim. Alternate title: "Whoops! All NAND's"