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Advanced Monitors and Treasure Disks

Started by Dagda1984, 26 May 2014 - 08:49 PM
Dagda1984 #1
Posted 26 May 2014 - 10:49 PM
Hi Guys,

I am pretty new to Computer Craft and I have a couple of questions if anyone is able to help me with them?

Firstly when i use the computer, the screen background (and connecting monitor) is full of dots (or i guess pixels) and i am just wondering how i can get rid of them. I have looked at a few videos and tutorials online and all of the computers used in those tutorials all have plain black backgrounds. Im just wondering why mine is different and if it is some kind of setting that i am unaware of? the dots still remain even when i play the Star Wars clip.

Secondly I am trying to make a small cinema on my server to play the Star Wars Easter egg. i can type "monitor top dir/alongtimeago" which displays it on the monitor but i was hoping to try and use redstone to start and stop the movie. Is there a way of doing this with the treasure disks? I tried putting that line of code into the startup file and i keep getting an error message saying:

"bios 339: ,[string."startup"]:1, '=', expected"

Is there a way of getting round this?

Thank you for your time in advance and i hope to hear from you soon!
flaghacker #2
Posted 27 May 2014 - 06:00 AM
Post you code, you probably forgot your parentheses somewhere.