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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:35 AM
This is an enhanced picture of the one posted by dan200 4 days age
this is the original
To go with the picture he put linked this video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUptX0i55g[/media]
Any ideas / random conjecture about what it might be ?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:46 AM
printer for printing map?
or something like punch cards
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:45 AM
It seems like some kind of printer. Not sure. Maybe for turtle office buildings: Turtles prints papers, Then sell stuff on Rednet. Just idea.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 12:26 PM
Should be printers for 1.3.1 books, no? :(/>/>
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 01:46 PM
I would think he's busy porting now forge is out, but yeah, looks like a printer :(/>/>
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 02:34 PM
I would think he's busy porting now forge is out, but yeah, looks like a printer :(/>/>
for minecraft 1.3.1 or minecraft 1.3.2 ? I don't think the big popular mods are going to be updated any time some. some moders i was talking too were finding it difficult due to major changes in the code for example the merging of client and server. and the bigger the mod the more headaches.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:07 PM
for minecraft 1.3.1 or minecraft 1.3.2 ? I don't think the big popular mods are going to be updated any time some. some moders i was talking too were finding it difficult due to major changes in the code for example the merging of client and server. and the bigger the mod the more headaches.
1.3.2, I asked him and he said he was busy porting to 1.3.2 (And forge is out for it…)
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:07 PM
I just don't see the practical application of printers though. Unless I'm missing something, what would making printed paper accomplish?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:08 PM
I just don't see the practical application of printers though. Unless I'm missing something, what would making printed paper accomplish?
It would accomplish Printed Paper! *angel oooh* :(/>/> I have absolutely NO IDEA
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:10 PM
I just don't see the practical application of printers though. Unless I'm missing something, what would making printed paper accomplish?
It would accomplish Printed Paper! *angel oooh* :(/>/> I have absolutely NO IDEA
LOL, but what would it DO???
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:19 PM
I just don't see the practical application of printers though. Unless I'm missing something, what would making printed paper accomplish?
It would accomplish Printed Paper! *angel oooh* :(/>/> I have absolutely NO IDEA
LOL, but what would it DO???
NO IDEA
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:30 PM
What does anything in computercraft DO? It does whatever you make it do.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 03:35 PM
I was just looking for possibles, anyone else know what a printer would do? Other than printing, what kind of things could it do? I'm thinking maybe being able to print books?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 05:38 PM
Only for interest as peripheral developer: How long will it take until CC is updated to MC1.3.2? Just so that I can decide whether to add new features now or start porting to 1.3.2 myself.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 05:51 PM
well books are a feature of MC1.3 so it would be an easy way to print many books
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:30 PM
Only for interest as peripheral developer: How long will it take until CC is updated to MC1.3.2? Just so that I can decide whether to add new features now or start porting to 1.3.2 myself.
We are working on it right now - I don't know of the progress as I don't have any access to a computer until Sunday, but we are trying to get it out of the door as soon as we can. I can see dan doing daily commits to the 1.3 branch though!
Side note: I like how there's one feature in plain sight in that image which no one has even pointed out :(/>/>
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:37 PM
Yeah, what's up with the lime green floppy disk? It could be a colored disk that is easier to recognize, or it could be something more.
EDIT: Also, does anyone else see the second slot on the disk drive texture?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:44 PM
I think that it might be a printer that you're seeing… But nothing's confirmed yet. But it does seem likely giving what video Dan posted along with the picture…
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:44 PM
Interesting things pointed out with the arrow (what seems to be a different floppy disk and a new block?):
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:50 PM
Well the new block might likely be the one he has opened and yes there is a new feature of colored floppy disks :(/>/>
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:51 PM
It seems to me like a multiple disk loader, you can rotate through disks to read
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 06:53 PM
Hey, that's a good idea! I wonder if it would use commands like diskSlot() kind of like the turtles do…
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:05 PM
judging from how it is set out it would be like rotating through a queue of disks
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:08 PM
Doubt it, could do the same with turtles
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:09 PM
i guess, just an idea, but it is definitely using a queue system for processing mutiple items
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:14 PM
Could be for stacks of paper if it's a printer. and the slot on the left is for ink?
EDIT: could be still going with floppies, but changing the color with dyes?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:24 PM
Tips: the "new block" is the one that has the GUI opened
@
"i had to drop all the items in my inv that gave the answer away before i took the screenshot (though i forgot the block itself)"
its likely a printer or book copier or disk copier
disk shuffler can already be easily done otherwise (e.g. turtles) so its not that
as dan said "but i wouldnt add a new block to do something you can already do easilly"
Its one of those:
disk colorer
book copier
multi-disk burner (again likely not)
Also:
[15:54:50] <+Neppy> "Printer" does not became the same as his word when i pixelate it
[15:54:58] <@dan200> Neppy: yeah it dose
[15:55:01] <@dan200> i mean
[15:55:01] <@dan200> no
[15:55:02] <@dan200> it doesnt
[15:55:07] <@Cloudy> Hahaha
[15:55:07] <@dan200> keep looking
If anyone wants to try, its standard MC font, size 12 using the paint.net pixelate effect with edge-length 5
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:24 PM
Now there's a theory, but what would that achieve at the end of the day? constant link between separate disks would be cool but I'm doubtful that they would do that
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:25 PM
Now there's a theory, but what would that achieve at the end of the day? constant link between separate disks would be cool but I'm doubtful that they would do that
imo colored disks will just be to identify them easier
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:28 PM
meh…. seems pretty pointless to be honest…
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:33 PM
meh…. seems pretty pointless to be honest…
so if you have 20 floppies you wanna hover over every single one to read the label? :(/>/>
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:37 PM
I wouldn't be carrying them :(/>/> that's when you make a turtle roam around with a disk selection system
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 08:48 PM
Well the new block might likely be the one he has opened and yes there is a new feature of colored floppy disks :(/>/>
Naughty Neppy relying on IRC info :)/>/>. Yes, coloured floppy disks are in.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 08:50 PM
But why? I agree with KaoS on this one. Why would a colored floppy, other than being able to see easier, be better?
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 08:56 PM
But why? I agree with KaoS on this one. Why would a colored floppy, other than being able to see easier, be better?
We had a request for them - it was an easy feature, so why not? I make no judgement as to whether they are better or not, but if people want pink floppies, let them have them :(/>/>
Just to be clear, the feature in the picture is nothing to do with floppies.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 09:03 PM
I suppose, if people want colored floppies, why stop them? But nothing to do with floppies, you say? Hmmm…. Mysteries abound!
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 11:31 PM
Should be printers for 1.3.1 books, no? :(/>/>
Yep, I think that's what it is.
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 12:51 AM
RED floppy DANGER:virus sample
GREEN floppy Recovery DIsk
BLACK Buildcraft oil control backup
I can see some advantages to multiple colors My guess is 16 like RP colors.
Maybe that is how we color the disks? automated disk production system allowing for software mass production for sale on servers ?
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 12:58 AM
What, to craft it we just rub cactus green on it or something? Not sure that's how it works IRL… :(/>/>
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 02:05 AM
What, to craft it we just rub cactus green on it or something? Not sure that's how it works IRL… :(/>/>
Let me just go back in time to when stores sold them and try it. :)/>/>
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 05:52 AM
But why? I agree with KaoS on this one. Why would a colored floppy, other than being able to see easier, be better?
We had a request for them - it was an easy feature, so why not? I make no judgement as to whether they are better or not, but if people want pink floppies, let them have them :(/>/>
Just to be clear, the feature in the picture is nothing to do with floppies.
I am quoting this post at every person who posts "Reading signs is useless". Thanks Cloudy!
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 09:25 AM
I should clarify that just because it is easy doesn't always mean we will do it - it depends if it fits in with the mod still :(/>/>
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 04:44 PM
Floppy cloner!??!!?
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 06:56 PM
I should clarify that just because it is easy doesn't always mean we will do it - it depends if it fits in with the mod still :(/>/>
But it means that just because something doesn't "have a purpose" *cough*readingsigns*cough* that it's necessarily off the table. After all, colored floppies don't really have a use beyond the people who want them.
Floppy cloner!??!!?
Already very easily possible.?.!.?!.??.!!1
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 11:45 PM
I should clarify that just because it is easy doesn't always mean we will do it - it depends if it fits in with the mod still :(/>/>
But it means that just because something doesn't "have a purpose" *cough*readingsigns*cough* that it's necessarily off the table. After all, colored floppies don't really have a use beyond the people who want them.
Floppy cloner!??!!?
Already very easily possible.?.!.?!.??.!!1
Floppy clonner that mass clones floppies?
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 04:33 AM
–SNIP–
Floppy clonner that mass clones floppies?
You can do this easily using turtles and diskdrives.
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Posted 19 August 2012 - 04:42 AM
Minecraft Forge came out yesterday! 1.3.2!!
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 10:26 PM
Forge for 1.3.2 has been out for over a week?
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 01:16 AM
Printer. The blurred text indeed looks like "Printer"
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 09:20 AM
Why would a printer have an interface like this?
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 03:38 PM
Put ink in the left slot, paper or books in the top, printed paper comes out on the bottom slot?
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 03:47 PM
Yes, but why would you want to print 6 books at once?
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 06:22 PM
This is probably obscure but…
…it has 6 slots because it's a printer that prints two-sided (books have two sides per page)
…it is a fax or scanner device with a paper-queue for input.
The last idea is probably more realistic, because reading MAPS like in the printers peripheral is bit-manipulation, but reading BOOKS is just reading strings from a java interface with Version 1.3.2 now. So, why not? It should be easy once you figured out to do a printer, and if cloudy says easy things are done, why not.
But I have to admit that the blurred text neither looks like Printer, Scanner nor Fax. So, let's just wait for the update, shall we?
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 06:40 PM
Sigh.
It's a printer. The game has been given away many times in this thread and in IRC, including a quote from dan200 where it is obvious.
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 07:39 PM
Yes, but why would you want to print 6 books at once?
My guess, by the arrows, is that it cycles through the 6 slots, you're not printing all 6 at once. Printed books/paper obviously can't stack.