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Posted 26 August 2012 - 06:05 PM
The following suggestion stemmed from an attempt to make the recipe more complicated, but doing so in a way that didn't just add a new item in the middle whose only purpose was that recipe.
Let's imagine we had this little item called the CPU. It could be used in three ways, and each way obviously has a zillion applications.
The less obvious one is kinda like a starting point for the mod. Rather than the base level tech being a computer (which is typically quite advanced) it could be a simple redstone CPU. You can place this cpu on the ground and create logic systems in the one block. It would take advantage of RedPower's micro block stuff (when RP is present, that is) and be one of those little plate things where you can place it on walls, put covers over it, etc. When you right click on it, it opens an interface. This interface would be a grid much like an inventory. There's buttons along the top to represent wire and logic gates. And there's slots on the sides of the interface to represent in puts on the sides of the block in the world. You can use all these things to create complex logic systems in a single block much like how a CPU can do. Here's a quick mockup showing the layout, and a couple of the buttons that would be used to put logic gates in it.
http://imgur.com/c703w
The more obvious use of the CPU is a crafting ingredient in the computer and turtle blocks (also, i believe monitors should be in the recipe instead of a glass pane). This makes the recipe a bit harder to make and a wee bit more realistic.
The final use, and the one i'd be most excited about, is using the CPU as a peripheral. You could use it to circumvent the ROM problem. Computers now all have to use the same ROM. But if you attach a CPU as a peripheral, it would basically just run a custom ROM. It'd work by some peripheral methods. Stuff like: cpu.loadROM("myRomFolder") or cpu.run(). You'd load your own ROM folder onto it, and then you'd run it. It'd look for a bios.lua file and then it'd make your computer act like it was running the system now on the CPU.
Let's imagine we had this little item called the CPU. It could be used in three ways, and each way obviously has a zillion applications.
The less obvious one is kinda like a starting point for the mod. Rather than the base level tech being a computer (which is typically quite advanced) it could be a simple redstone CPU. You can place this cpu on the ground and create logic systems in the one block. It would take advantage of RedPower's micro block stuff (when RP is present, that is) and be one of those little plate things where you can place it on walls, put covers over it, etc. When you right click on it, it opens an interface. This interface would be a grid much like an inventory. There's buttons along the top to represent wire and logic gates. And there's slots on the sides of the interface to represent in puts on the sides of the block in the world. You can use all these things to create complex logic systems in a single block much like how a CPU can do. Here's a quick mockup showing the layout, and a couple of the buttons that would be used to put logic gates in it.
http://imgur.com/c703w
The more obvious use of the CPU is a crafting ingredient in the computer and turtle blocks (also, i believe monitors should be in the recipe instead of a glass pane). This makes the recipe a bit harder to make and a wee bit more realistic.
The final use, and the one i'd be most excited about, is using the CPU as a peripheral. You could use it to circumvent the ROM problem. Computers now all have to use the same ROM. But if you attach a CPU as a peripheral, it would basically just run a custom ROM. It'd work by some peripheral methods. Stuff like: cpu.loadROM("myRomFolder") or cpu.run(). You'd load your own ROM folder onto it, and then you'd run it. It'd look for a bios.lua file and then it'd make your computer act like it was running the system now on the CPU.
