Introduction

IC chips (*.cis files or any extension else) are similar to normal saves, but they can be embed to normal saves to make several use.

When embedded in normal saves, they looks like a square of normal element

*If we made it a special form area in game, it's indestructible

*If we made if by additional element(PCB for board, ICPT for ports), it's breakable, once it's melt, damaged, destroyed, the chip is useless.

The only thing can transfer between IC chips and main save is SPRK.

Chips used in main save also saved to the main cps file.

When running, chips are running background(More chips = need more powerful cpu), all visual effect are disabled, only basic simulation, for better performance.

Possible Implement

IC chips in main save:

This is a 1x1 chip(4x4 pixels) with 4 ports. A simple OR gate

You can check the chip design by click on it(or other method to achieve this):

Then this is the chip design, a simple OR Gate

Bigger chip is larger, but has more ports to use, up to 12 ports

In game, chips edit is EXACTLY same with normal saves, except there are port zones that remind you where to set output/input

If you're selecting 1x2, 2x1 or 1x1 mode, a boundary box will appear to remind you the valid chip room(Look the image above, it's under 1x1 mode). You can still place anything you want out of the box but they will have no effect when run as a embedded chip, and will be totally ignored for better performance.

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After editing, you can choose to save (to local drive or online) as normal saves or chip, they can be convert to each other easily later. But remember, only SPRK can transfered to main save, so a non-electronic save 'chip' is totally useless.

Usage in Game

1. Place chip (special area or additional elements or other method developers think proper)

2. Click the chip (as above, or other method developers think proper)

3. Choose proper chip (I mean proper size) then confirm

4. The chip is online! It's only 4x4 pixel but havs the same function as a complicated electronic save, for example, CPU. Then you can connect the ports to make use of it.

Of course, a save with 9 chips will hurt your machine like you're running TEN TPTs at the same time :)

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Another possible size mechanism:

Chips are always a whole save large, but you can choose the port numbers, which will determine/requires the responding structure size in main save.

For example, a 4-ports (1 at each edge) chip requires 4x4 pixel chip element/special area in game, while a 16 ports (4 at each edge) need a 16x16 square in game to import.

@Xenocide (View Post)

What's your idea? I'm interested.

@Xenocide (View Post)

Yes, an alternative way to including more things into one save without change the resolution... well if we can just simply make the save resolution changeable, this topic is useless.

@cracker64 (View Post)

Great, I'll keep waiting

@R3APER (View Post)

Yeah, kinda

But with the powerful elements is coming, we can make more complicated things (look those in the FP!)

Then the screen size is TEH limitation