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[Mego]

He's doing good if his CPU(s) don't explode while trying to process all that.

[Urist Imiknorris]

His desk is going to melt when he tries to get it to say "hello, world!"

[BloodBeard]

We'll find out soon enough. If after I test out the backspacing and it works I don't think there's anything else to do but go full scale and link things up to the keyboard and display.

But I really don't think this part (typing things out with no A.I involvement) will be very laggy. Everything is configured so that if I don't need a pump to be running, it isn't. The big question mark for me though is what effect will all the gears have and having thousands being (dis)engaged at the same time. It could be the killer, I don't know.

[Mego]

FOR !!SCIENCE!!

[MaximumZero]

This. Is. Amazing.

[BloodBeard]

This should hold up for most types of testing:

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Just need to tear town and rebuild the coloured gears and pressure plates to reconfigure linkages for new tests.

[Talvieno]

All those pumps... All that power... All those pumps would one-hit my framerate. Awesome generator, though. I'd build it for kicks if I thought it would run on my laptop. 

[MaximumZero]

I wonder what it would look like with Phoebus' tileset...

[Mego]

If BloodBeard wouldn't mind putting up a save, I'd like to look at it. I have Phoebus, so I can do some screenies. Not gonna attempt to run it, though, for the sake of my processors.

[BloodBeard]

Mmmmmm not yet  .

But this should be enough to hold you over. I fully linked up my testing machine and it works. It Advances when a letter lever is pulled and backspaces when the backspace lever is pull. And I have video  .

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2397-notepadtest

The hatches represent a letter on the display. I'm pulling only one letter-lever, but all the different levers will basically do the same thing but produce different letters.

Long overdue edits: Oh, you wanted the save file for screenshots using a tileset. Eventually the save will be uploaded, probably after I get the display and keyboard functional.

[BloodBeard]

There's a few things I learned when making that mini-version. One, linking is going to be a bitch. Not just because of the sheer amount, but scrolling through all the gears to find the right ones to link was such a huge pain, and that was nothing compared to what i'll be doing later. I mislinked one gear and downright forgot to link 4 others. Which brings me to the second thing I learned, I need to colour code my gears better. A lot better. Thirdly, i'm going to need to go 'N'ote crazy, both ingame and on my notepad file detailing what links to what and what has and hasn't been linked yet.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Does forbidding gear assemblies remove them from the list of things to link to?

[BloodBeard]

Does forbidding gear assemblies remove them from the list of things to link to?

That would've been awesome if they did but no.

Gears are cycled through in the order they were designated to be built and i'm going to have over 2000 that only provide power, so what i'm going to do is tear up all the gears I have built and for now only rebuild the power ones. When cycling through gears to link them I won't have to go through those. I should also be able to make things easier by building gears and linking them in 10 at a time.

[BloodBeard]

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Power lines. There is much.

[Mego]

I think my brain just vaporized.