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[BloodBeard]

I don't think windmills cause lag at all actually. Think about it - wind isn't actually represented in the game, so a windmill is just a 3x3 building that makes power.

But the windmills and all the gears and axles will animate, so I don't know. I'm not taking any chances.

[acetech09]

I don't think windmills cause lag at all actually. Think about it - wind isn't actually represented in the game, so a windmill is just a 3x3 building that makes power.

But the windmills and all the gears and axles will animate, so I don't know. I'm not taking any chances.

There might be some calculations, but the graphics rendering part of dwarf fortress (the few hertz that it needs) are multithreaded, and won't impact your performance unless your computer is really stressed.

[Flare]

Those grey things in the power lines are gear assemblies right? How did you manage to make them all deactivated so that the dwarves can walk through them?

[MagmaMcFry]

They can always be walked through, as long as there is a floor below.

[PhantomXD]

After many a build I learnt they can walk through axles / gears useful ... *facepalm*

[Loud Whispers]

Damn, how many trees died in the making of this?

[BloodBeard]

Damn, how many trees died in the making of this?

0, I modded free reactions of many materials so I could colour code things as I please (as well as so I don't need to worry about anything but the project at hand).

The first linking that i'm doing is the hatches that make up the display, of which I changed from schist brown to microcline blue so it looks better. I never thought I would talk about microcline like that... *shudder*

I wasn't sure if I wanted the keyboard to support mathimatical operators like plus and minus, but if I don't and I decide later that I want them it will be a serious pain, so i'll be adding them as well as a reset lever that clears the display (backspacing an entire sentance one letter at a time would be quite the ordeal).

[Loud Whispers]

AaaaaaaAaAaAAAAAwwWwww. I am disappoint.

At the same time though, I am jaw-droppingly stunned.

[Talvieno]

I can't wait to see the maze of axles and gears it sounds like it's going to take to link the levers up to the hatches... That sounds like it'll be mind-bending in itself.

[Matz05]

Just the word processor is amazing enough -- but an ELIZA on it? Mind-boggling. Best of luck though! I want to see a GLaDORF chatbot!

[Mego]

So, have you considered making the word processor into an interpreter and writing your own dwarven programming language?

[BloodBeard]

I can't wait to see the maze of axles and gears it sounds like it's going to take to link the levers up to the hatches... That sounds like it'll be mind-bending in itself.

The hatches are actually linked to the pressure plates in the gigantic mass of pumps and plates of which there are screenshots of earlier in the topic. The keyboard levers are linked to gears that power a pump that activates a pressure plate, and that's the plate that tells the fields of pressure plates what letter is to be shown.

So, have you considered making the word processor into an interpreter and writing your own dwarven programming language?

That would be a monster of a project in of itself, so probably not. The principle might not be so different then what I want the A.I. to be; recognizing commands and calculating a result/response. If I can get this to work then it might be possible. But not right now 

[BloodBeard]

All 32 user-display tiles linked up at a cost of 960 mechanisms (the AI-display can wait):

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This was probably the easiest to link up. Onto gear building and linking.

Adding pumps and pressure plates to support the mathimatical operator and 'clear' levers were no problem. Figuring out the gearing to clear the display was pretty easy too. I basically took my backspacing setup and removed the precautions I had set in place that limited the backspace to 1. It was really neat to watch it clear the mock display on my mini version. It doesn't clear everything all at once, it's more or less a backspace put on full-automatic. I'm really looking forward to typing a whole 32 character sentence and watching the dominoes fall when I hit the clear lever 

[Dwarf]

Just saying, but... already CPUs with many millions of transistors haven't got the processing power for truly elaborate AIs. How can one even hope to accomplish that in DF?

[Ieb]

With SCIENCE, obviously.
And possibly dark magicks and whispered deals with elder beings.