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[KingMachine]

So does redpower bundled cable not work for rednet communication anymore?
Am I out of the loop here or something? I remember it working on 1.3, but now I try "rednet.open(side)"
and it tells me "No modem on left side"
Dafuq?
There is so a "modem" on the left side!

and before you ask me if I'm dyslexic or something...


As you can see in the background, bundled cable

[Shnupbups]

Yes. They removed that function because it was obsolete and unneeded.

[KingMachine]

I don't consider it obsolete...why..Why did they get rid of it? Why no just stop updating it? Wouldn't that take MORE effort? ARGH... Should have just considered it deprecated...jerks...

[Sammich Lord]

They are adding their own cables, bro. You shouldn't call the devs of the mod you are playing jerks for removing a feature.

[KingMachine]

Sammich Lord, on 12 February 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

They are adding their own cables, bro. You shouldn't call the devs of the mod you are playing jerks for removing a feature.

Quite obviously I wasn't being serious..unless you actually take "jerk" as some form of viable insult...lol...

However, I gotta say, I can't wait for the cables they bring us. Hope they're just as useful as the bundled cables though...

[immibis]

Copy the rednet API from 1.481 onto your computer, load it, and run it. Then you'll have bundled cable support.

[Cruor]

It was removed due to upcomming cables and the fact that it used an extra corutine on every computer. And LuaJ for some random reason makes a new thread for every coruitine.

[immibis]

Cruor, on 20 February 2013 - 04:10 PM, said:

It was removed due to upcomming cables and the fact that it used an extra corutine on every computer. And LuaJ for some random reason makes a new thread for every coruitine.

Doesn't 1.5 use an extra coroutine just to translate modem_message events into rednet_message events?

[PixelToast]

yea, its the new replacement for rednet.run

[Cruor]

immibis, on 20 February 2013 - 04:41 PM, said:

Cruor, on 20 February 2013 - 04:10 PM, said:

It was removed due to upcomming cables and the fact that it used an extra corutine on every computer. And LuaJ for some random reason makes a new thread for every coruitine.

Doesn't 1.5 use an extra coroutine just to translate modem_message events into rednet_message events?

I have no idea might aswell be in the same corutine that rednet runs in?

[Cloudy]

immibis, on 20 February 2013 - 04:41 PM, said:

Cruor, on 20 February 2013 - 04:10 PM, said:

It was removed due to upcomming cables and the fact that it used an extra corutine on every computer. And LuaJ for some random reason makes a new thread for every coruitine.

Doesn't 1.5 use an extra coroutine just to translate modem_message events into rednet_message events?

Yeah, although to be honest I'd rather change that so we throw two events from the modem - and I'll speak to dan about that.

[Cruor]

Cloudy, on 21 February 2013 - 12:28 AM, said:

immibis, on 20 February 2013 - 04:41 PM, said:

Cruor, on 20 February 2013 - 04:10 PM, said:

It was removed due to upcomming cables and the fact that it used an extra corutine on every computer. And LuaJ for some random reason makes a new thread for every coruitine.

Doesn't 1.5 use an extra coroutine just to translate modem_message events into rednet_message events?

Yeah, although to be honest I'd rather change that so we throw two events from the modem - and I'll speak to dan about that.

I personaly think that you should only get rednet_message events if you have a modem opened via rednet api, but that might just be me that sounds logical to me atleast XD

[Cloudy]

You only get modem_messages when you have a modem opened anyway... rednet_message is only there for backwards compatibility.

[dan200]

You only get modem_message if you receive a message on a channel you've previously opened. You only get rednet_message if you've called rednet.open().

[Cloudy]

Makes sense! So basically, exactly what Cruor said it'd make sense if it happened