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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 08:24:52 JST tech? no! man, see...

   • Sir Garbagetruck

   @Truck external editing works in really old versions too but only in the pro build unfortunately

   it's easy to build the pro version (don't need to pay for it) but it's also easy to not realize you need to

   I do all my tic80 dev in emacs external editing with text carts

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     Sir Garbagetruck (truck@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 08:27:36 JST Sir Garbagetruck

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     @technomancy

     I've paid for it and I compiled it in.

     It just isn't supported in the bytejam setup, because... it basically sends changes to a file that is on disk, which is updated by tic80, and then sent over after that is updated.
     (If I understand what it does from how it works, without looking at the code, because don't have the server side code. And I only looked at the client side code long enough to say "nope not changing this now")

     I prefer the external editor and will continue to complain about this until I fix the client and server or someone else does (read: I fix it)

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 08:40:41 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Sir Garbagetruck

     @Truck oh I gotcha; this is a specific setup for this one competition you're talking about, not a general tic80 thing

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     Sir Garbagetruck (truck@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 08:46:48 JST Sir Garbagetruck

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     @technomancy

     s/one/many/ but yes. Specific.

     (The two things it adds are FFT support, because in live coding, having that input(instead of time or random) allows something sort of akin to "music synch." And since there's a DJ playing, and not a music track, well... it's very popular.
     However it hasn't been merged, as far as I can tell, into fennel, and thus I haven't used it.

     And this is why I think it should be re-implemented, as an external input, like, in a byte or something somewhere, so you can get to it from ALL languages via a peek() or something, rather than having it done via a new command, which is how I _think_ it has been implemented for other languages, but I don't really know. I'll have to ask someone else who's worked with that code, which I have to do anyway because of the 2nd thing:

     'lovebyte' mode, where it has a countdown timer and counts the number of tokens and you're needing to fit between an upper and lower limit, along with send that info to the server.)