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Posted 07 May 2012 - 12:09 AM
This may be a common problem with Computer Craft users, I know I have it, trying to connect several peripherals and cables to a single computer.
The computer in my Testing Lab now has five different items attached to it (a disk drive, a monitor, a wireless modem, some bundled cable, and the ccSpeaker), I'm running out of places to connect things and space is tight.
There should be something you could attach to a computer that acts like a hub for peripherals and cables, meaning you attach it to a computer then attach more devices to it, you can even chain the hubs together to make even more room.
Another possible solution is to have the peripherals able to act like a hub so you can chain a bunch of different ones together and the computer can still use them, and still send or receive signals on redstone dust, and Red Power wires and cables when they are attached to a peripheral.
Think of things like this as USB hubs, SCUSI adapters, port replicators, and various other things along these lines, these things get used to open up more places to connect more devices when ports are limited.
To help keep this balanced, you could put a limit on how many items you can chain together similar to real devices of this type (for example USB maxes out at 127 devices on one chain and you need powered hubs for long cables).
The computer in my Testing Lab now has five different items attached to it (a disk drive, a monitor, a wireless modem, some bundled cable, and the ccSpeaker), I'm running out of places to connect things and space is tight.
There should be something you could attach to a computer that acts like a hub for peripherals and cables, meaning you attach it to a computer then attach more devices to it, you can even chain the hubs together to make even more room.
Another possible solution is to have the peripherals able to act like a hub so you can chain a bunch of different ones together and the computer can still use them, and still send or receive signals on redstone dust, and Red Power wires and cables when they are attached to a peripheral.
Think of things like this as USB hubs, SCUSI adapters, port replicators, and various other things along these lines, these things get used to open up more places to connect more devices when ports are limited.
To help keep this balanced, you could put a limit on how many items you can chain together similar to real devices of this type (for example USB maxes out at 127 devices on one chain and you need powered hubs for long cables).
