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Yeah, think I'll be making a first pass over everything before trying to dive in to compete.
For anyone trying to print the PDFs, the duplex setting should be "flip on short side".
Game looks mighty fine on 4K OLED.
Check out the books:
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I'm not a programmer so I've been struggling a bit but slowly making my way through the beginning of the game. I just completed the first arm level which took me an embarrassingly long time but felt great once I got a solution :P
Some of the scores in this thread seem like witchcraft haha
Some of the scores in this thread seem like witchcraft haha
Btw why Zachronics still does not allow results of your whole friend list? :/ Is it what? 4th game already? Come on man!
Also i spoiled myself a little with reddit, but there are some nice way to user T and X register as counter and loop breaks that i'm mad myself that i've not experimented first and figure them out. But it made managing loops so much easier, that i do not have TEST overlapping T as much now as i used to ;p
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Also i spoiled myself a little with reddit, but there are some nice way to user T and X register as counter and loop breaks that i'm mad myself that i've not experimented first and figure them out. But it made managing loops so much easier, that i do not have TEST overlapping T as much now as i used to ;p
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Yeah do that, i spent way to much time fiddling with first tasks.
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Nobody is using a chat of this group unfortunately ;/
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Goddammit Durante :)
I just spent like additional 30 minutes to get to your score and still felt flat ;p
I just spent like additional 30 minutes to get to your score and still felt flat ;p
Zach missed a pretty good opportunity.
How do you think I found swizzle? :P
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This is why I love Zach games. I think Jeff Gerstmann said puzzle games should make you feel like a genius for figuring out the answer. These games do that... for three seconds. Then you see you're on the bottom of the leaderboard even though you were sure you nailed it.
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I finally figured out how to get below the "60-something" cycle barrier on "Left Arm".
It's always incredibly satisfying to figure out a new trick.
(I don't know how Gotchaye is saving those last 2 cycles. I assume some pentagrams are involved)
It's always incredibly satisfying to figure out a new trick.
(I don't know how Gotchaye is saving those last 2 cycles. I assume some pentagrams are involved)
Fixed it!
I added the current iteration to the file I write the book to, that way I can know where I am
I'm stuck at the one way link tutorial.
I can't figure out how to copy the file by communicating between exa's and the magazine tutorial isn't helping either.
It says swap the number and the keyword so that the number is first when it asks you to copy the two values.
I tried COPY 9780, ECHO F M or
COPY 9780 F M
COPY ECHO F M
But it doesn't seem to like me entering the word echo or the number, I have my other exa ready at the outbox with the empty file in hand ready to read and drop it when it's done.
I can't figure out how to copy the file by communicating between exa's and the magazine tutorial isn't helping either.
It says swap the number and the keyword so that the number is first when it asks you to copy the two values.
I tried COPY 9780, ECHO F M or
COPY 9780 F M
COPY ECHO F M
But it doesn't seem to like me entering the word echo or the number, I have my other exa ready at the outbox with the empty file in hand ready to read and drop it when it's done.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, I think what you are looking for is "COPY F M" and "COPY M F" respectively.
In other news, I just made a really complicated solution which has absolutely amazing throughput for the "Heart" mission... but only as long as the sequence has at least 4 entries. And I don't think it can be fixed while keeping the throughput. A lesson in making sure of requirements :P
In other news, I just made a really complicated solution which has absolutely amazing throughput for the "Heart" mission... but only as long as the sequence has at least 4 entries. And I don't think it can be fixed while keeping the throughput. A lesson in making sure of requirements :P
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Reading a value from one file, sending it to the second EXA, then in this EXA saving it to the new file and moving at beginning of the loop.
Below 4 cycles per entry of course with validation of EOF/last M etc.
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Here are some hints:
- Consider that sometimes an error isn't so bad. It just kills an exa.
- Think about the specific structure of the file you are copying. Sometimes, there might be consistencies you can leverage.
If this game looks great. I'd really like to try and fumble my way through it, but I don't know if I'd get much time to sit at the computer to play. Do they ever release their games on the iPad?
I found TIS-100P on the App Store, which seems to be from Zachtronics, would anyone recommend that game?
I found TIS-100P on the App Store, which seems to be from Zachtronics, would anyone recommend that game?
I've reached the TEC Redshift stage, and cannot even think about where to begin.
Here are some thoughts I have on it:
Here are some thoughts I have on it:
Having tested with hard-coding 4-7-3 my plan is to, after every entry of 3 characters, clone an EXA to see if it can link 800. If not, it dies no problem, it so it can pick up the file and complete.
However, every time I begin on trying to get some system of passing in 3 characters to discover the password I just get stuck. I THINK I could write something to do it but then knowing which 3 unlocked it, I think I'd lose it...
In fact I've just had a thought, brb :) Thanks for being my rubber duck, ERA!
However, every time I begin on trying to get some system of passing in 3 characters to discover the password I just get stuck. I THINK I could write something to do it but then knowing which 3 unlocked it, I think I'd lose it...
In fact I've just had a thought, brb :) Thanks for being my rubber duck, ERA!
In the end i did not use similarity in the last string in files, but "synchronized" it way differently ;p
There goes being happy about my score, i looked at reddit and somebody got 162 in this level :O
There goes being happy about my score, i looked at reddit and somebody got 162 in this level :O
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Well I have a working solution for TEC Redshift but it is size 52, and I can't see any way to cut down :(
SWIZ you beauty!
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What am I suppose to copy though? It tells me to copy the values to exa 2 but I don't know what I'm suppose to tell the command box since it gives me a error message when I input the values.
You don't actually input the values. The values will change between test runs. The command "COPY F M" says "copy the value at the current position in the currently grabbed file into the M register" and then the other exa can read from the M register to get that value. Each time you read from F, the position in the file will move ahead by one, so that if a file contains "A, B, C, D" and you do COPY F M, COPY F M, COPY F M, COPY F M then the value that is copied into M will be A, then B, then C, then D.
EXA syntax highlighting in Visual Studio Code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pizzafox.exa-syntax-highlighting
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pizzafox.exa-syntax-highlighting
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That's cool. I was missing stuff like vertical editing. Though my use cases for that are mostly made obsolete by
macros
This one's way easier than TIS or Shenzhen. I'm getting decent relative scores this time too. Still unsure what Activity is - registers? occupied nodes?
https://steamcommunity.com/id/makaimariano
https://steamcommunity.com/id/makaimariano
Woof, I had to move on from that one after staring at it for far too long and not seeing anything beyond the brute-forced solution you see there. I must be missing something major, and when whatever it is dawns on me and I realize I've been glossing over it the whole time, I'm going to feel like a huge idiot, haha.
lol, my first Library one was ugly. I did it with parallel workers but they kept running into each other / killing targets passing by, so I wound up just padding it out with NOOPs at random points until the timing happened to work (hence the size 95)
I'm sure there's a cleaner way to track the new file IDs and coordinate the retreat. That'll be a fun one to figure out later.
Cleaned up a bit:
I'm sure there's a cleaner way to track the new file IDs and coordinate the retreat. That'll be a fun one to figure out later.
Cleaned up a bit:
MODE
GRAB 300
MARK S0
COPY F X
REPL READERSPAWN
TEST EOF
FJMP S0
WIPE
HALT
MARK READERSPAWN
LINK 800
DIVI X 100 T
MARK S2
LINK 800
SUBI T 1 T
TJMP S2
NOTE IN THE RIGHT ROOM
REPL WRITER
MODI X 100 T
ADDI 200 T T
GRAB T
NOTE GOT THE FILE
MARK DICTATE
COPY F M
TEST EOF
FJMP DICTATE
DROP
KILL
NOOP
REPL 400
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 401
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 402
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 403
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 404
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 405
HALT
MARK WRITER
MAKE
MARK W1
COPY M F
JUMP W1
NOTE GET KILLED
MARK 400
GRAB 400
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 401
GRAB 401
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 402
GRAB 402
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 403
GRAB 403
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 404
GRAB 404
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 405
GRAB 405
JUMP RETREAT
MARK RETREAT
LINK -1
TJMP RETREAT
GRAB 300
MARK S0
COPY F X
REPL READERSPAWN
TEST EOF
FJMP S0
WIPE
HALT
MARK READERSPAWN
LINK 800
DIVI X 100 T
MARK S2
LINK 800
SUBI T 1 T
TJMP S2
NOTE IN THE RIGHT ROOM
REPL WRITER
MODI X 100 T
ADDI 200 T T
GRAB T
NOTE GOT THE FILE
MARK DICTATE
COPY F M
TEST EOF
FJMP DICTATE
DROP
KILL
NOOP
REPL 400
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 401
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 402
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 403
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 404
NOOP
NOOP
REPL 405
HALT
MARK WRITER
MAKE
MARK W1
COPY M F
JUMP W1
NOTE GET KILLED
MARK 400
GRAB 400
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 401
GRAB 401
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 402
GRAB 402
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 403
GRAB 403
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 404
GRAB 404
JUMP RETREAT
MARK 405
GRAB 405
JUMP RETREAT
MARK RETREAT
LINK -1
TJMP RETREAT
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lol, my first Library one was ugly. I did it with parallel workers but they kept running into each other / killing targets passing by, so I wound up just padding it out with NOOPs at random points until the timing happened to work (hence the size 95)
I'm sure there's a cleaner way to track the new file IDs and coordinate the retreat. That'll be a fun one to figure out later.
I aimed for low activity and low-ish size on this one. Expectedly my cycles is LARGE:
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I made a feature request:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/716490/discussions/0/1744469130475609404/
I don't expect it to get implemented, but just think about how awesome it would be.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/716490/discussions/0/1744469130475609404/
I don't expect it to get implemented, but just think about how awesome it would be.
You miss only the blue and red glasses they give you, but they're cheaper if you buy them outright.
You guys are way too good at this, I'm absolutely not adding you as friends to compare scores haha
