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[immibis]

Because that seems to have been locked prematurely, with almost no discussion.

To load a program onto a turtle with no screen:
* Create a file on a disk called "startup"
* Put the disk in a drive next to the turtle.
* Turn on the turtle.

[Cloudy]

To be honest I don't see any point in a screenless turtle. Lock stays.

[Left4Cake]

Because you are too lazy to push esc? That is really the only thing this would do.

[immibis]

Same as turning fuel off makes turtles slightly easier to use, disabling turtle screens would make them slightly harder to use.

[Spongy141]

immibis, on 26 May 2013 - 08:43 PM, said:

Same as turning fuel off makes turtles slightly easier to use, disabling turtle screens would make them slightly harder to use.

Without any knowledge on how to code in CC-Lua, turtles are already hard to use, to only thing that lets new players use them is the built in programs. I see no point in this, if you don't want a screen put a sticky note or something over the turtles screen on your screen were it will be.

[Bubba]

Spongy141, on 27 May 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

Without any knowledge on how to code in CC-Lua, turtles are already hard to use, to only thing that lets new players use them is the built in programs. I see no point in this, if you don't want a screen put a sticky note or something over the turtles screen on your screen were it will be.

The point is that it should be optional. A config option that, by default, is false.

I personally like the idea.

[Pinkishu]

Bubba, on 27 May 2013 - 07:22 PM, said:

Spongy141, on 27 May 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

Without any knowledge on how to code in CC-Lua, turtles are already hard to use, to only thing that lets new players use them is the built in programs. I see no point in this, if you don't want a screen put a sticky note or something over the turtles screen on your screen were it will be.

The point is that it should be optional. A config option that, by default, is false.

I personally like the idea.

You can optionally not rightclick on turtles and/or put a program on them that just only shows a black screen then :3
The latter should be a pretty simple ROM/BIOS edit

[immibis]

Server admins can't enforce sticky notes on peoples' screens.

The BIOS edit suggested would do what I'm thinking of.

[JJRcop]

Yeah a BIOS edit is what I started thinking of when my topic was locked.

I just kinda thought of it because the turtle robot that turtles were inspired by have no screens to put in code. (edit: And to prove a point.)