I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel

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@InkboxSoftware 11 ай бұрын

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@commanderofthewind 11 ай бұрын

Okeydokey

@CuriosityDynamics 11 ай бұрын

Next do “installing Windows 98 in Excel”

@R.B. 11 ай бұрын

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@barrycaplin1394 11 ай бұрын

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@misterhat5823 11 ай бұрын

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@baddreamreset 11 ай бұрын

Next episode: Excel running on Excel

@KatTheCaz 11 ай бұрын

*at 0.00000000000148 FPS

@absolutetruth9975 11 ай бұрын

Minecraft on excel. Doom on excel.. mario! Emulation! The possibilities!

@user7644i8 11 ай бұрын

@@absolutetruth9975Yes if you give it enough time and memory 😏

@pizzainc.1465 11 ай бұрын

This is so cliche and annoying. However, its better than the comments that are like “oH My gOodNeSS hE iS lIkE a gEnIus hE sHoUlD gEt a nObEL PEacE pRize”

@LKComputes 11 ай бұрын

If one were able to implement an 8086 and simple VGA, it’d be the best kind of possible.

@NigelMelanisticSmith 11 ай бұрын

I love the restraint of not using VBA. I'm always more impressed when people make things in Excel and PowerPoint and don't just transform everything using Macros.

@le9038 11 ай бұрын

Like that one guy that made PowerPoint Turing complete...

@gdutfulkbhh7537 11 ай бұрын

Excel on non-Windoze platforms is crippled, but this would work.

@s0lly 11 ай бұрын

Yea I did a raytracer only using Excel formulae. Much more fun having to work out solutions that don’t use VBA.

@philmcgroin 11 ай бұрын

I'd have been tempted to add some VBA right at the end to generate the clock, but I can see that would open the door to more stuff. So yes impressive restraint indeed and a great video!

@cjsmith411yt 11 ай бұрын

It might also make it more cross-platform compatible. Open Office sometimes has issues with Macro import, but cell formulas should be easier to import.

@randomnik70 11 ай бұрын

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@Samethok 11 ай бұрын

Dude's resume is just a link to this video

@prateekpanwar646 7 ай бұрын

@@SamethokThe resume is also made in excel.

@MacOSOperatingSystemUser 7 ай бұрын

@@prateekpanwar646 The entire video is made in Excel.

@slimeslayer5195 5 ай бұрын

@@MacOSOperatingSystemUser we are made in Excel

@MacOSOperatingSystemUser 5 ай бұрын

@@slimeslayer5195 Planet Earth is made in Excel.

@royalcities 9 ай бұрын

Dude I lost it when you said "I designed my own assembly language." Because of course you did lol. You're a genius.

@BikeArea 8 ай бұрын

That CPU design is awesome - for sure. But can we talk about the documentation, i. e. this video? So fabulously made and with the huge fonts and graphics an absolute joy to watch. Thanks for taking the time to create such a gem!

@amiraligh6493 2 ай бұрын

Ikr

@yds6268 11 ай бұрын

"The best kind of possible - theoretically possible" - I'm stealing that

@NotHumanPerson 11 ай бұрын

i love how that looks as if the source of the quote is "I'm stealing that"

@dylankrejci9965 11 ай бұрын

@@NotHumanPerson””The best kind of possible - theoretically possible” - I’m Stealing That” - Michael Scott

@LucaCiani-b7y 11 ай бұрын

yeah this is one of the best jokes i've ever heard

@Ce0ammer 11 ай бұрын

Slight adjustment to the Futurama meme innit?

@FastidiousFalchion 8 ай бұрын

🤓

@shaywaterstheone9477 11 ай бұрын

this man basically made a VM in excel. This is a level of genius i cant even understand

@WatercraftGames 11 ай бұрын

Turing completeness is so beautiful

@Breakfast_of_Champions 10 ай бұрын

Finally a Zoomer worth his salt

@tyttuut 9 ай бұрын

@@Breakfast_of_Champions ok boomer

@MoldCollecter 9 ай бұрын

can it run doom

@thechicken2634 9 ай бұрын

Technically it's an emulator

@jimlahey4995 11 ай бұрын

7:09 “most of the operations are simple” that is the most complex excel formula I’ve seen lol

@feixin_duke 10 ай бұрын

It’s pretty much just some simple code for doing math but in a really really unreadable way. Pretty much it’s like “okay is the clock tickin? Yeah? Ok then so like do I add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc…? Ok so you want me to add? Ok I’ll add these two numbers together.” In other words, “b30 is the clock tick and this cell is equal to a value dependent on the clocks tick as well as d30 which controls which operand is being done.”

@jeremiahevans4175 2 ай бұрын

@@feixin_duke The Excel equipment of writing an entire Java program in one line

@sgsax 11 ай бұрын

I took a microcomputer architecture class in college 30 years ago. I clearly have forgotten a lot about that class. Outstanding execution here. Thanks for sharing!

@portalwalker_ 10 ай бұрын

4:21 "Writing high level assembly code" is by far the best line

@Silvahhhhhhhhhh 11 ай бұрын

It's the year 2100, super computing became the consumer norm. Humans managed to emulate the performance of a 4090ti on Space-Excel and managed to run old games such as Starfield and GTA 6 with native Windows 11 support in a Windows 48 machine

@SheeshMiester 11 ай бұрын

Lol

@Arnauero3.0 11 ай бұрын

jajajaj

@zrayx7214 11 ай бұрын

They are waiting for Gta 7

@galacticviper4453 11 ай бұрын

@@zrayx7214 and Portal 3🤣

@AnonymousApexio 11 ай бұрын

@@galacticviper4453 and half life 3 😭😭

@Caeleste-42bit 11 ай бұрын

The moment your CPU notices you have been cheating on it with Excel

@birdgamerman 11 ай бұрын

it is more like a poly relationship really. Your cpu is totally in on it

@rav6324 9 ай бұрын

@@birdgamerman reddit cuck cpu

@casultaser 9 ай бұрын

Emulators and VMs be like:

@poka26ev2 7 ай бұрын

@@birdgamerman Imagine getting your gf pregnant and dating the fetus

@Terrazon 13 күн бұрын

@@EmeraldCraft0 ayo

@HeadsetHistorian 11 ай бұрын

'High level assembly code' **Bursts into tears as someone that has never gone lower than C++**

@jordixboy 11 ай бұрын

assembly is not that hard, its pretty simple language, a lot simpler than c++

@mikafoxx2717 11 ай бұрын

@@jordixboyI used to think assembly was complicated, but really it's just a simple functional language, in a way. You can get really creative with your solutions for problems instead of doing bulk things, like maybe leaving Y register untouched in this function specifically so the calling function can forgo saving it. Most assembly languages are just the same basic principles but with some different commands or limitations, some need more instructions to do the same function as an x86 one, for instance. That's why macro assemblers exist. Sure, it's probably not a good idea to do anything substantial in it, but at least knowing what decent assembly looks like, so your most used functions can be assessed for optimization. Could also have fun with a 6502 or z80 retro computer as a learning experience.

@ireallydontknowifiamhonest 11 ай бұрын

@@jordixboy assembly isn't hard in itself but the trickiness starts arising when you start doing everything in it, at that point you pretty much have to manage everything yourself, which is pretty fun actually

@BibleClinger 11 ай бұрын

I found 6502 assembly was really fun. It was designed to be used by humans. Even with as difficult as it is, there is something really enjoyable and simplistic about it.

@mikafoxx2717 11 ай бұрын

@@ireallydontknowifiamhonest yeah, bookkeeping in a way gets hard, or if your code block gets so big that directly indexed jumps aren't far enough.. and then you have to push and pop registers awkwardly and whatnot.

@curiousbat5368 11 ай бұрын

After all of the insane job, I still felt so anxious about the "MANAGEMNET" thing at 14:34 Lol

@wiley-harris-anderson 7 ай бұрын

Just what I like to see on my CPU!

@mariogonzalezramirez9486 11 ай бұрын

This is maybe the greatest video i have seen in the last few years. This video and your project would have helped me a lot to explain to my students of computer architecture. I will download all the files and analize them carefully.

@BrianBuonomo 11 ай бұрын

This is incredible. I’ve been teaching “computer repair” for 25 years. Over the years there have been a few students that actually asked “but how does the cpu move data? How does it process the instructions?” I always gave a simplified explanation, as it doe snot fall into the scope of building and troubleshooting desktop PCs. Now I can show them this video to get an idea on the logic. :-) Thankfully there are also videos out there on “building your own CPU.” Thank you for sharing this! Incredible work!

@BandetPandaCoin 11 ай бұрын

you ruined many student's life

@MAGNETO-i1i 11 ай бұрын

There is a great book that really explain the principles and logic of a cpu. Its called "But how do it know" I strongly recommend it

@StayBassd 11 ай бұрын

Code by Charles Petzold is also rly good

@radiokaos612 11 ай бұрын

Flip flops

@AnonymousApexio 11 ай бұрын

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@HomeofLawboy 11 ай бұрын

now we wait for the Doom ports, and the Bad Apple animations

@Ikxi 11 ай бұрын

www

@jimlahey4995 11 ай бұрын

This

@pabloalonso9083 11 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@afnankabir2190 11 ай бұрын

I was here ☕

@Mistyre 11 ай бұрын

And the rickroll music

@FireFox2313-di6bk 11 ай бұрын

If this doesn’t go viral, I’m actually gonna be mad

@killpidone 11 ай бұрын

That requires running doom on it

@FireFox2313-di6bk 11 ай бұрын

@@killpidone my god, a genius!

@Wasabialt 11 ай бұрын

Same.

@FireFox2313-di6bk 11 ай бұрын

@@Механизм-ж9я ik

@redrush-hp9li 11 ай бұрын

@robertnowak9473 10 ай бұрын

I work in IT and I've seen some cool things done in Excel. But this is unbelievable. You have a remarkable skill set. Wish you the best of luck in succeeding and achieving your dreams.

@deliveryboy 6 ай бұрын

its insane just by showing how complex it was to create the cpu- it made sense of how cpus work in the first place. essentially cylinders firing from an initial blast. awesome.

@ITPMMentor 11 ай бұрын

As a computer science graduate specializing in databases, I appreciate the brilliance here. This project would be a great introduction to CPU design in a comp sci course. Amazing.

@oneito947 11 ай бұрын

You arr so right, that was my thinking

@CallumsArmy 11 ай бұрын

I learnt more in this than my actual computer science course

@miguelelgueta5830 11 ай бұрын

this dude literally made a full course in cpu design in a 15 minutes video

@antonf.9278 11 ай бұрын

@@miguelelgueta5830Pipelining is an important part of CPU design and rightfully made up the last third of my university's basic course on the matter. The alu was also cut short in the videos explanation and is way easier to implement in Excel. Overall it's a nice video but by no means a course.

@TheGTX1650 10 ай бұрын

Excuse me, this would be the INTRODUCTION?? damn

@ZipplyZane 11 ай бұрын

The one bit of VBA that I think might be justified is a completely optional script that can "click" the clock cycle button for you, seeing how fast you can get it to run.

@R.B. 11 ай бұрын

100%. I think you can evaluate if a worksheet is calculating, so just monitoring that would be enough. Then you could have it clock the system. I think if someone is writing a compiler in Python, then using VBA for this sort of operation is an acceptable application. I think it would also be justifiable to apply the cell coloring for the screen pixels in the same way, allowing 16.7 M true color output... This is just because Excel has a restriction for modifying the color of cells programmatically, but it unlocks a lot of potential that conditional formatting can't. For the sane reason, VBA could be used for loading the ROM. This wouldn't be all that different than using an EPROM burner, which still doesn't diminish or detract from the Excel CPU.

@pacomatic9833 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, that would be a whole lot better than doing ALL of it manually.

@ragnarok7976 11 ай бұрын

I'll have to play with it next time I'm at my computer but I think you might be able to get some sort of iterative calculation going (there is a setting in excel to allow it). Might just end up in an infinite loop that will crash Excel but it would be so neat to have a fast clock powered by formulas to keep the whole thing as pure as possible. Not even sure my version of Excel supports them but I've heard there is a lambda formula that can call other formulas so there may be a solution to be had there as well. I guess you could also implement a function (not a sub) in VBA that toggles a cell in a loop and then use that function in the formula bar (excel treats VBA functions as custom formulas since they both take some parameter(s) and return a result). Still cheating to me (especially since you'd likely wouldn't be using the return value but rather the loop and a direct reference to a cell) but I guess slightly less than just banging out VBA and running it as a macro.

@Eji1700 11 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the limitation is not how fast you push the button but how long it takes excel to process the formulas. That’s what he demonstrated at the end where each press of the button takes a couple of seconds to process the clock cycle, so any automation there just means you can leave the program running while you run some errands and it finishes in an hour

@ZipplyZane 11 ай бұрын

@@Eji1700 He said it runs at a few hertz, which is about how fast you can click. But, yeah, it's possible it can't run any faster.

@dempsej 11 ай бұрын

That’s cool and all, but when you realize that all of that is happening right now on the device that you’re watching it (and on servers, routers, switches etc) is MIND BLOWING. And we take it for granted.

@maxarothdev7374 11 ай бұрын

At billions of times a second

@dimension3dyt 11 ай бұрын

This would be crazy to put on a resume.

@SimpleCarGuy 11 ай бұрын

Been Sys Engineer for 8 years and it was a struggle to follow and understand everything, very complex but cool. Awesome video!

@VmMW96 11 ай бұрын

But can it run Doom?

@murialvoid85 9 ай бұрын

Yes, google “excel doom game”

@realryder2626 9 ай бұрын

Port it from graphics calculator?

@axelkidd9850 9 ай бұрын

Or Wolfenstein 3Diagram 📈 ?

@theguywiththewhiteblanket 9 ай бұрын

@@axelkidd9850no, doom

@ben33045 9 ай бұрын

Yes

@lorenzopliskin1384 11 ай бұрын

if my college teachers used this shit to teach computers architecture I would have been hooked instantly back than great job

@bigbigx2250 11 ай бұрын

Emulating physical circuitry with excel is really cool. Great video!

@teemoammo 11 ай бұрын

Excel is already powerful so this wasv rudimentary at best...

@oneito947 11 ай бұрын

Should be taught on cs

@ChuckLennon 10 ай бұрын

That was one hell of a ride ! My gosh ! I am fond of PCs inner working, but wow ! The complex parts are so well-made ! And the concept is just mind-blowing ! Very good video :D

@jasonfails237 11 ай бұрын

This is one of the craziest projects I've ever seen, and explained so well at that. Great video! Earned my sub.

@xhec 11 ай бұрын

there are so many people that have crazy titles like this and then just use shortcuts and produce a simplified result then. but you, you stayed true, used no shit, made an interesting video and even explained well what you're doing. keep on doing this, you earned my sub

@brandonechols 11 ай бұрын

This is literally the best thing I've ever watched. It's really great to see others appreciate the power of excel WITHOUT using Visual Basic! The use of iterative calculation is genius, and the way you route everything together is truly splendid. Wonderful video, I'd love to see more videos elaborating on all these cool ways to utilize the functions!

@InkboxSoftware 11 ай бұрын

I was so disappointed seeing other Excel videos just write Basic programs, I had to undo an injustice.

@brandonechols 11 ай бұрын

@@InkboxSoftware EXACTLY! 😄

@oneito947 11 ай бұрын

Wow

@flameofthephoenix8395 11 ай бұрын

@@InkboxSoftware I personally would have just wrote nothing but VBA except for rendering the screen which is benefitted by =MAKEARRAY since VBA is not nearly quick enough to handle all those cells. Though, I do understand the challenge aspect, but when I did challenge myself to use almost exclusively formulas except for the one function making sure the player didn't have to manually hold F9, it was pretty boring even after I had completed it, it just wasn't very fun for me, but to each their own!

@strokkur24 11 ай бұрын

Ah yes, an average task in university: Build your own CPU, RAM, Display and make your own Assembly Language for it in Excel. What a classic! All jokes aside, this actually taught me a lot about how CPUs work and I am even more grateful now for being able to run something as insane as Doom Eternal on my pretty old pc

@SorensonCOD 2 ай бұрын

Hey look it’s the first video on KZbin. 0:30

@IshanGThe1andOnly 11 ай бұрын

This is so cool we started to implement our own ISA by scratch with RISC-V in my computer org class. Thanks for a great video!

@youtubegoogle4163 11 ай бұрын

This is absolutely beautiful. I am an Electronics Engineer, and am good with excel also. I still can't imagine how much of time and patience it takes to do this... Keep up the great work brother ❤ You deserve my subscription ❤

@martinkunev9911 11 ай бұрын

That seems like a very good project if you're learning about computer architectures. You didn't write a compiler, you wrote an assembler :)

@modlich_303 11 ай бұрын

It's funny how as a programmer, my family assumes i know that kind of stuff. Like, no, you don't need to know the inner workings of something to use it, most people don't know how the keyboard works, yet they can use it to write

@MagicThanos7 11 ай бұрын

would be better for you if you did though

@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm56 11 ай бұрын

Front-end dev spotted

@modlich_303 11 ай бұрын

@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm56 I make games and other programs, i don't make computers 🙃

@ragnarok7976 11 ай бұрын

If black boxes always worked exactly as you intend them too then I'd agree... But they don't and while I wouldn't recommend just opening everyone you find for the sake of it, it really does help to have some experience cracking a few cases because you will need to at some point. I'd hazard to guess this attitude is one reason why most modern software is horribly optimized and tends to be a nasty soup of cobbled together packages. Sure that might be a simple and blissful way to do things but ignorance will never produce something of higher quality than true understanding. Not to mention it doesn't pass the "what if everybody did it" test because at some point somebody needs to be able to create and service black boxes or the consumers will have nothing to stitch together.

@ammo2222 11 ай бұрын

Im just a PLC Technician not a Programmer, but how a CPU Works was literally the first Thing i learned. The First Code we wrote Was i Assembly, if you Understand how the Basics work, you can build on that

@stuartgibson9902 3 ай бұрын

Absolute nuts, genius. Didn't understand 99% of it! But quality.

@Cozmiccat101 Ай бұрын

This is awesome man! I love watching this kind of suff and have no clue what any of this means. I only had the attention span to make it half way through the video. 11/10 will watch again when I am smarter

@crysiank 11 ай бұрын

Dude. That was pretty cool. But the most important question: CAN. IT. RUN. DOOM?

@absolutetruth9975 11 ай бұрын

Theres a guy on youtube who sees if every device can run doom. Somebody needs to tell him about this.

@Anzeljaeg 11 ай бұрын

Sad ... Kinda cant in this condition, they need to finish the CMD, but as he say ... In theory, yes we can ... Just couple of more steps

@jamieevans5979 11 ай бұрын

Not without rewriting Doom itself. It was designed for 32-bit systems, and in this video, a very limited instruction set is used. It would not be possible to capture and react to keyboard input from an Excel spreadsheet simply with formula either. Would be cool though.

@Akira-Aerins 11 ай бұрын

@@jamieevans5979but can it ***fake*** running DOOM?

@jamieevans5979 11 ай бұрын

@@Akira-Aerins Sure. Just use a screen recorder and embed the video on the spreadsheet 😆

@MrPeloseco 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant!! I'm sure you're going to inspire many old fellas like me. Computer architecture was by far my favorite. We designed 16bit CPU's using the proper software. Ended up taking design VLSI... Of course this was early 90's. Now I really want to load Excel and start designing the flip-flops, counters, multiplexors, etc!! Thank you!! Very inspiring!!

@ALG397 3 ай бұрын

Have you done some projects on Excel? Is it possible to show them?

@FireFox2313-di6bk 11 ай бұрын

0:30 the “me at the zoo” video was a nice touch

@vasiovasio 11 ай бұрын

The Begining! :)

@joahchewbhaka5679 3 ай бұрын

I don't think AI is going to take you job bro! hahaha, great stuff, keep it up!

@joaoarmandogallas1373 11 ай бұрын

I had a degree in electronics like 14 years ago and it's amazing to see this. you put a lot of work. nice job

@randomguy555 11 ай бұрын

Well, technically, the moment you showed both a NOT and an AND bitwise operation being supported by excel it was all possible, though actually getting it to work would be another matter :P Great video!

@secretsundersiege 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for providing actual human-written captions. Not many people do that anymore but it really helps.

@harmoen 11 ай бұрын

As an Excel nerd this is insane and I want to see more

@TheParamotorGuy Ай бұрын

This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in excel. I use microcontrollers for the majority of my career and I understand the internal operations of them. Excel is my goto program when I need solutions. I have really complex algorithms written in excel. I avoid macros at every possible calculation. So I understand this whole amazing process. This is truly impressive.

@suavesoft 11 ай бұрын

One word: OUTSTANDING!! Cant wait to see how you improve on it. Well done, sir!

@TracyNorrell 11 ай бұрын

I'm going to rewrite Excel to run on your new CPU!

@LukeWilliams91 11 ай бұрын

Between you and Ben Eater I think we have the best set of ‘how computers work’ resources ever made. Thank you so much for making this and giving it all away 🎉❤

@Nimantu 11 ай бұрын

Don't forget James Sharman

@darqed 11 ай бұрын

Bro this is actually insane. Using pure excel to make an actual working 16-bit cpu

@baawaa1949 8 ай бұрын

Blown away! Coded in 360 assembler back in the 70's and have great respect with what you accomplished. You have a great future ahead.

@Mantorix 11 ай бұрын

Have seen this in the news a few days ago and today your video popped up in my YT feed. I just had to click it. Amazing work, i expected some macro stuff but i never imagined this to even be possible just by formulas.

@Zach010ROBLOX 11 ай бұрын

This was hard enough with an HDL and a bunch of TAs to help us in class. Even though excel has a few tiny convenience features, this is awesome and I can't wait to see what else you have in store.

@tomcat.c 11 ай бұрын

I’m actively working on a full 3d cube renderer in excel and this has inspired me

@xdasdaasdasd4787 11 ай бұрын

Video when

@tomcat.c 11 ай бұрын

@@xdasdaasdasd4787 im not all that good at making videos but i will maybe upload one once i finish

@sol_pregnantguy 11 ай бұрын

Show us when it's done

@terrytibbs951 11 ай бұрын

Already been done use google

@nicholasmascioni3333 11 ай бұрын

This was the coolest thing I watched in a while, taking a computer architecture class right now and seeing some of the stuff we talk about made in excel is sick

@Ahmad-pd7fq 11 ай бұрын

"But can it run doom?"

@brin0019 9 ай бұрын

I would also like to see this

@luckstats7912 9 ай бұрын

Doom has already been run on excel and on lower capacity programs. I'm sure it'd 100% run doom

@maskedredstonerproz 6 ай бұрын

but has it been run on a cpu written in excell?

@rubenmunozverdu7528 11 ай бұрын

Seems that performance could be improved using INDEX instead of INDIRECT paired with ADDRESS. And I agree with other comments about naming ranges or even naming constant values. Did not download to check but with modern Excel formulas it is likely that more improvements could be introduced (LETs and LAMBDAs maybe?) In any case: super cool project!!!!!

@MsTiagoPotencia 11 ай бұрын

This is a masterpiece! Thank you so much!

@fromixty 11 ай бұрын

Hyper underrated, I've already said it, but more people need to see this.

@StevenAyy 11 ай бұрын

This channel has become instant watch for me. Love love love these videos.

@TheMikeStuff 11 ай бұрын

And I was happy I could do the (sum)= function

@cygil1 8 ай бұрын

This is highly educational, it's not just writing an emulator for the functionality, it's implementing excel analogues for the actual digital logic level constructs.

@Humble_Electronic_Musician 11 ай бұрын

Most impressive and intriguing thing I've seen on YT this year! Awesome job!