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[drilltooth]

So, this could be ‼FUN‼.  I can't go into detail, for reasons.. but. let's say a Certain Company in the Defense industry has taken a significant interest my latest embark as a potential case study in Emergency Housing engineering.

[Button]

(removed some thread-sinky political posts)

Thanks Toady!

I guess the more forums change, the more they stay the same.

Except the ones that develop sapience, of course. (Don't hurt me!)

[Larix]

Ehehe. Yes, i guess that's the first rule of discussing the Merkeltron and CYBERLIZ:

Don't Even Start.

Anyway, our sysadmin managed to wedge the user interface and display routines of a stripped-down DF into the wait cycles of our  antediluvian 64-bit unit, while the world simulations use some idle time on the (fluidics-based) control units. Since we're a farming station on Ceres, it's not much of a surprise that it gives very good agricultural simulations, but you better don't try an embark with above-freezing temperatures.

There must've been some old computer virus in the electronics machine mixing things up, though. The last machine parts delivery contained a handful of granite puzzleboxes and a small barrel of what the cargo slip claims are ants brains. We wonder who bothered to drum up that garbage.

[Amperzand]

Message delivered for purposes of observation.

[TheBiggerFish]

Heh.

[TheBiggerFish]

Hoo boy, this thread almost died?
Oh dear.
I've been messing around with the Travestificator on the new release's raws.  And somehow, I got the code for a really old 2D version.  Wow.

[Amperzand]

Damn, how far back did it go? .42?

[TheBiggerFish]

No, 2D.  2D.  All the way back to 2D.
.42.xx was not 2D.

[Button]

No, 2D.  2D.  All the way back to 2D.
.42.xx was not 2D.

Just saying it was 2D is supremely unhelpful. The game spent 50 years in 2D. Toady didn't add holoscreen compatibility until like 5 years ago.

[TheBiggerFish]

No, the actual FORTRESS was in 2D.  It had a doom counter on adamantine.

[Helgoland]

Well, that was hardly 'DF' in the modern sense, just as we're not Homo sapiens. Sure, there's a common lineage, but that's about it.

[TheBiggerFish]

Yeah.  It's interesting though.

[Amperzand]

Certainly some severe travestification, though. It must have put a few gigabytes into limbo somewhere.

[TheBiggerFish]

It's possible.

[Mel_Vixen]

So did anyone notice that the DF raws are Bioprinter compatible and someone wrote a algorithm to fill in the gaps? I certainly didnt but recognized the fileformat in the genetics subfolder. Well i decided to print out a fox-cub since i like pets ... yeah so i must also have added a wrong option so i got a Fox-man-cub and have a daughter now.

Also bloodthorn is psychotropic and Poisonous? My Printer did warn me: "The genetic Material you try to build includes heavily expressed sequences for class 3 poisons and mindaltering substances that may be illegal in your Habitat ,State or Country. Do you want to suppress these Sequences?". And yes its a off the shelf printer .. didnt have the money to build my own.