I fixed a bug - kind of. Rather, I've revealed a bit about serial that wasn't previously known. It's commonly thought that you need some kind of redstone dust between repeaters in a serial chain; if you don't, then the repeaters can derp. I've accidentally stumbled upon a fix for the derp that does not require dust between repeaters. Simply add a 1-tick repeater before them.
This revelation has made so much more possible with serial memory because there is so much more usable space once that dot of redstone dust is removed. For example, here is my latest innovation: CRAM. It's an aptly named, high density memory (with a semi-recursive acronym, Crammed RAM) that nearly doubles the amount of data per unit of space (traditional serial memory is 1 bit/12 blocks, this is 1 bit/8 blocks). Here is the photo album for anyone who is interested. The pictured module is available at /warp cram.
Side note: I have not done extensive testing. I still do not know if this fix is direction-dependent; neither do I know if the blocks between the repeaters can be omitted completely. More research needs to be done on this development; this is just one application of the discovery.
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This revelation has made so much more possible with serial memory because there is so much more usable space once that dot of redstone dust is removed. For example, here is my latest innovation: CRAM. It's an aptly named, high density memory (with a semi-recursive acronym, Crammed RAM) that nearly doubles the amount of data per unit of space (traditional serial memory is 1 bit/12 blocks, this is 1 bit/8 blocks). Here is the photo album for anyone who is interested. The pictured module is available at /warp cram.
Side note: I have not done extensive testing. I still do not know if this fix is direction-dependent; neither do I know if the blocks between the repeaters can be omitted completely. More research needs to be done on this development; this is just one application of the discovery.
I'M BAAAAAAACK!
