Revan's OS

[turck3]

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I have been working steadily on adding pong into the OS, and in doing so, allowing for libraries to handle input on their own. The library is coming along well, and as far as I can tell in writing it out of notepad (so I don't loose my freaking data again), it should be working. While in theory it is working, you will not be able to test it until I release the updated versions of the other modules. It is also likely to be riddled with bugs which I'm going to work out some time within the next 6 hours.

Anyway, for those of you who can read it, here it is:

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[turck3]

Alright, I've been working hard on the pong, however I don't have it working yet. The display mode has been acting odd and the transmission of it either doesn't work or occurs too often, thus it will require much more testing. The real issue I had was in finding servers that arn't bad.

Theory about how phail servers are these days:
1. 90% of all servers that claim to have wire have a revision that is at minimum 1.5 weeks old
2. 75% of all servers that claim to have wiresvn have a revision that is at minimum 1.5 weeks old
3. 25% of all servers with wiremod have a revision that is before the E2 was released
4. 15% of all servers have crappy administration because the admins are n00bs.
5. 15% of all servers have crappy administration because they're build servers and they don't allow noclip.
6. 25% of all servers don't have enough RAM to run microsoft word effectively
7. 50% of all servers shut down or crash unexpectedly within 1 hour of a player joining
8. Servers with seemingly reliable names (Tricky's) are not at all. They're filled with lag causing minges, have plenty of admins, but they're never on the server, and meet at minimum one of the above stated problems.
9. 3% - Good servers

Between all these problems, in four hours, I wasn't able to find more than 5 of my seemingly endless bugs (probably more along the lines of 15).

The above percentages arn't completely accurate, it's just an observation. Yesterday I spent 5 hours trying to find a server that didn't suck. Anyway, now that I'm done with my small rant, the summary is, bad servers = little progress = no pong till tomorrow.

So that developers can start implementing the latest features, I will attach the updated files, however I advise that any user of the OS does *not* use them as of yet. There will be another announcement when these files are bug free and they will then be posted on the main post.

Note: That while I did attach an advanced duplicator file (os_b6), it is only so that the downloader doesn't need to recreate the setup of the computer. You must however download all the files listed below and apply each of the expressions to the advanced duplicator file *after* it has been spawned. At the moment, functions are working properly, you shouldn't encounter an error in running these, unless that is, you uncomment the lines in "os games.txt" and comment the ones above them (in the command area).

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[Syranide]

if(~Cmd2 & Cmd != "")
        {
            Cmd2 = Cmd2:lower()
            CCmd2 = Cmd2:left(Cmd2:find(" ") - 1)
            Params2 = Cmd2:right(Cmd2:length() - Cmd2:find(" "))
        }

Isn't that supposed to be Cmd2 != "" ?

[turck3]

AHA! Danke shen! Probably wouldn't have caught that!


EDIT:

Thanks to syranide's input, along with a few other fixes, I have pong not lagging all players to hell. It's not working, but I do have it drawing relatively appropriately. There are a few things that need some simple debugging, and I will probably take care of that tomorrow. I've gained a liking for descriptor's server, and since he shuts it down when he sleeps, I'll only be able to do it in the mornings. Thankfully however, due to midterms, I'll be able to wake earlier and get more work in. Pong will be done tomorrow....

Today... I learn the CPU/GPU... maybe.

[joeyjo0]

Modules, yes.

I've build something with this before. When you're done you can even fuse them all together!

[turck3]

I've build something with this before. When you're done you can even fuse them all together!

What are you talking about? I don't believe anyone really used the term module and OS in the same sentence until now (although I like Pheonix's system he never called his data stores/programs modules). Second, what are you talking about fusing? There's nothing to fuse and nothing to fuse with. If by fuse you mean put them all together, that in itself is *exactly* what I'm trying to *avoid* with this OS. It's designed so that you can *add* to it and remove from it quickly and easily without having to alter a great deal of the rest of the code!


Moving on......


Pong is currently on-hold because of: Wirelink - Multisend
Hopefully that will get implemented, if not, then once I know it wont I will try and come up with some global variable system instead, even though I'd prefer not too.

In the mean time.... NETWORKING! Gonna start on that now...

[Eirath245]

What are you talking about? I don't believe anyone really used the term module and OS in the same sentence until now (although I like Pheonix's system he never called his data stores/programs modules).

I did see his modular OS actually, I wrote a CPU program to take screenshots of the console screen for it xD

[hzzzln]

That looks very awesome. The module idea looks awesome, but... when I look at the code, I am like wtf. I just had a short look, but if you want to do it module based, id suggest you to write the code very clearly, don't use abbrevations and that stuff. (maybe its just me not having looked at the code clearly enough.)

i will have a look at this and ill try to write some modules (im thinking of string encryption/decryption stuff). Would be cool to be on the team.

PS: my PC is broke atm, I fried the power supply. it should be fixed in approx 1 week, when not earlier.

[-=Fox=-]

Also commenting the HELL out of your code is VERY helpful ^_^

[turck3]

When there's something more substantial, I guarantee I will sit down and comment the hell out of it, until that time, I'll pass. Basically, all I gotta do is get either pong or networking done before I do that. I think that I've made most of the CPU alterations that I've been planning on, but not all of them are fully working yet. When it is all going good, then you all get docs. Consider the previous posts a preview.

The other thing is, I may take a whack at the whole global variable thing... I've got an idea, and if I decide to implement it, I will be rewriting a *lot* of the code.

I'm also probably going to write a timout trigger for sending data out of the wirelinks, I'm tired of manual resets when it doesn't reply.

actually, come to think of it, I may rewrite a great deal of the whole send/reply areas of the cpu....

I'll think about it and see what I end up with....