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I built a 16MT RAM (it lagged a ton). I used red and green for storing 1 byte and the display has 256 addresses.

So I want 1GiB, thats 2^30 bytes

2^30 / 256 = 4,194,304 RGB displays for 1GiB

There could also be an optimization where you use the blue channel across 2 addresses. So then in 2 physical addresses could be stored 3B.

So thats 384B in a single RGB display.
2^30 / 384 = 2,796,202 RGB displays for 1GiB

So i got an idea for RAM that uses RGB displays. Because you can read and write a 8b value (using two colors for the two nibbles) to 256 diferent addresses. So it basicaly already works as RAM.

Now you can scale it up to how much memory you need. 64KB works fine. You can get 16MB working maybe with a litle lag but it's fine. With 4GB, the simulation crashed as it grabbed like 10GB of my 16GB. But a gigabyte should be kinda usable, at least on a solid PC. So i would not be suprised if someone will build a 32b computer that  used like 28b addresing.

I must say that Sebastian made leaps of progress to optimize the sim. In the previous version a 1KB of RAM gave 1FPS and now you can have MB with great FPS. I also don't know if using the RGB display is the most optimized way but it is most memory per built-in chip. So i think that something like a single SR latch is going to cause more lag than one of these displays.

When I build a 512B RAM, the lag was bad.

If you want at least few hundred bytes of RAM and not run the simulation at 5 FPS, then I would recomend you use the software implementation.

1: Yes, I could have done the RAM like that, but i don't thing it matters which way you make it.

2: I modded it and made the chips smaller, but then wires look large. So now I use this modded version: https://itch.io/post/8412027

Sorry for taking so long. Here you go: https://www.mediafire.com/file/b9qah9skw0kb9ng/BEPMOC.zip/file

This is my 8bit computer i've been making now and then for few week. 

Its name is BEPMOC - 8bit easily programmable multi-output computer.

Here it's in an infinite loop counting up:

The four decimal outputs display data in RAM using the display instruction. 

The first and second HEX displays show whatever is on the CPU bus and the third is current RAM address(which addres is the computer currently accessing). 

They also show you what you're coding.

BEPMOC starts executing instruction on address 0x00 when the BOOT UP pin is pressed. This , inside the CPU, activates the clock.

This is the CPU:

It has three registers(A,B,C). ALU output is stored into R_C

The ALU can: add, subtract, AND, OR, NOT, XOR, <<, >>.

 It has a register for input B and a output register, which is copied in R_C.

The FLAGS chip gets ZERO, NEG, SUB flags(also Carry which is not used anywhere). 

Inside the chip is a comparator chip which uses the flags to get new flags(ZERO,  EQUALS,  LARGER, SMALLER), which are then passed to the Control Unit.

This is the CU:

The CU uses 4bit decoders to select operations. 

Operation chips use 4bit counter to step through subinstrctions(ENBL R_A, STR R_C, etc.), when they finish they send DONE signal to the Instruction counter and the NEXT INS chip, which retrieves next instruction from RAM.

Instructions are devided into two type: RAM accessing and not. 

Instructions which don't use RAM(0x00-0x0F) use only the second nibble. 

Instructions which use RAM(0x0X-0xFX(X=address)) use the first nibble for OP Code, and second for RAM address

The RAM is only 16Bytes 

(it was pain to make)

Instruction set (X=RAM address)

The limitation of this computer is its small RAM.