The Powder Toy

post bugs here by jacob1

jacob1
jacob1
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29th Sep 2012
16th Mar 2014
Post any bugs you find here. But there aren't as many bugs that are really bugs and I don't already know about than when this first started, so also use this as a general conversation save, or to ask / tell me anything. #1 most commented save in tpt!
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Comments

  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     29th May 2015
    j1=jacob1... I've said that before and you seemed to pick up on it.
  • jacob1
    jacob1     28th May 2015
    PortalPlayer: who is j1? :P. Also the wikipedia page used to be all about TPT but then it was rewritten to be more generic which is how they want the article to be.
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     28th May 2015
    j1: I was curious, have you done any sort of CS course? Or is it all stuff you've read/learnt? My knowledge came from my dad (who did CS).
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     28th May 2015
    Oh whoops, that last comment was meant to be preceded by "Wikipedia has a lot of good articles" :P
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     28th May 2015
    Except the powder toy, which redirects to "Falling sand game". Although there are a few mentions of TPT, and the main image looks like one of the second page saves, with added fire+mayhem+chaos.
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     28th May 2015
    Atomic10: when Unix time expires, it will roll over to negative values due to how the sign bit works, thus making the year 1902 or something. Wikipedia has a good article on it.
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     28th May 2015
    Atomic10: actually, Unix time expires in 2038 :P Y2K was completely unrelated. Also, 2^31-1 is when using signed integers, unsigned goes as high as 2^32-1. God knows the maximum for floats, ask him. j1: Although using arbitrary limits is possible, it's more efficient to use the machine's natural word size, though I'm sure you know that :P Atomic10: That last statement should have been addressed to you.
  • jacob1
    jacob1     28th May 2015
    Atomic10: yep, those limits are very important in computers. Even when we set arbitrary limits, we often set it on bit / byte boundaries. The 8 bit (1 bytes) limit for element IDs is why it is 255, but we are probably going to change it to 9 bits some time. 65535 is because life is stored using two bytes in the save format. This is to save space and will stay that way :P.
  • jacob1
    jacob1     28th May 2015
    lostfox: don't worry, the user was banned within like 10 minutes for that save :)
  • lostfox
    lostfox     28th May 2015
    he had a really bad...ummmm not for tpt save .....i want to be a mod....