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Is that how MFT works? Well then good.
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Is that how MFT works? Well then good.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoIn Manufactoria, your bitstring exists in an abstract space. Your program is still written in Befunge, and so the execution cursor must physically travel around a 2D grid, but instructions affecting the bitstring just happen -- there are no requirements for you to have positioned the various bits within the grid. So yes, the Befunge cursor in MFT is the command-issuing tool, and you could view the bitstring as being acted on by a separate color-blob-manipulating tool. In Spacechem, the command "pick up object" will only work if the logic cursor, which doubles as the robot, is currently over an object. In MFT, the command "rotate right" acts on your ineffable bitstring no matter where the logic cursor happens to be.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThat's probably a result of Spacechem's history: The Codex of Alchemical Engineering, the game which would become Spacechem, and to an extent Spacechem itself, focus on programming things to move physical objects. On a related note, thank you, Zach, for only having two mechanisms, using more visual programming, and adding a sync instruction. Until you play CAE, you cannot possibly know how good you've got it.