1st Game: Snek - Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU @weirdboyjim

Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

In the last video I added the UART that I've been developing as a side series. For the first time I had both input and output in the built so I spent some time writing the first game. I chose an implementation of the classic "Snake" presented here in ASCII with ANSI color escape sequences. I'm using putty as a terminal emulator running on my pc.

This is just a brief demo to showcase the game, it's not going to win any game development awards but it is a big milestone in the cpu build. I do throw in a few comments about the next steps.

No, it's not Crysis.

1st Game: Snek - Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU

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