Shenzhen I/O
UPDATE: Quick fix for the hang on exit (Mac and Linux)
UPDATE: Quick fix for the XBus crash
This patch also contains an update for the MC4000, MC6000, and DX300 datasheets that explain the new simple I/O behavior introduced in yesterday's update.
Update: Quick fix for the empty design crash
UPDATE: Quick fix for the dst bug
FIRMWARE UPDATE VERSION 1.1 is now live!
NEW CONTENT
- Added the FM/iX "FM BLASTER", an FM-based synthesizer with one voice and ten instruments, available in the sandbox.
- Added a ¥0 "note" part that can be placed anywhere in a design to write additional documentation.
NEW FEATURES
- Pin names are now shown for all pins when tab (show traces) is held.
- Added Steam achievements to the game related to solitaire and the secret puzzle.
- Improved the appearance of histograms, especially low-value production cost histograms.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for the playback controls: space is bound to simulate and pause, E is bound to step, D is bound to advance, and escape is bound to reset.
- The current code line indicator now fades slightly when that microcontroller is sleeping.
- In custom LCD screens, a very light gray color can now be used to connect two segments together without the line gray showing up as an actual segment.
BALANCE FIXES
- Most parts are now unlocked at the start of the game but "soft-locked" to discourage inexperienced players from using them prematurely and getting stuck.
- Changed the behavior of the dst instruction when one or both operands (acc and the new digit) are negative. The new behavior is symmetric with dgt, setting a digit and the sign of the accumulator separately as specified by the "new digit" operand.
- Modified the "pocket I Ching oracle" puzzle to provide more room for player designs.
- Modified the test cases for the "aquaponics maintenence robot", "spoiler blocking headphones", "personal sandwich assembler", and "precision food scale" puzzles.
- Changed the order of a few mid-game puzzles based on feedback about their difficulty.
- Added a visualization for input to a certain puzzle that needed it.
BUG FIXES
- It is now an error to define the same label twice in a single microcontroller.
- It is no longer an error to block without sleeping in the sandbox.
- Music is no longer played while a design in the prototyping area is running. Go make your own!
- Fixed a bug where histograms wouldn't update when returning to the conceptMAIL or conceptCAD menus.
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UPDATE: Bookmarks, bridges, and bug fixes
- Added bookmarks (table of contents) to the PDF manual.
- Bridges can now be placed over, but not on, terminals.
- Fixed a bug where logic gates activated at the wrong simple I/O value.
- Added more information to the "part not sleeping" error message.
UPDATE: Bonus bug fixes!
- Fixing a crash when verifying the electronic door lock puzzle.
- Fixing a bug that prevented breakpoints from being added at the beginning of a test run.
- Trying one final thing to fix the Linux PDF-opening bug before we flip our desks over and give up.
UPDATE: More bug fixes!
- Instead of 3 fixed test runs and 1 random test run, the game now runs 8 fixed test runs. We're still trying to figure out what needs to be done for verification, but hopefully this will at least be a little less... random.
- Fixed a bug where you could place some parts on input/output board terminals.
- Fixed a bug where histograms wouldn’t display for Mac and Linux users.
- Attempted to fix the PDF opening bug on Linux. Whether it actually works for everyone is yet to be seen. Why is this the hardest part about porting to Linux?
- Fixed a bug where only comically low resolutions were available to Mac users with Retina screens.
- Fixed a bug where the breakpoint instruction text was wrong for Mac users.
- Fixed a bug where you could click the fullscreen button even when it wasn’t visible.
- Fixed a bug where some developer hotkeys were accidentally left enabled.
- Fixed a few typos and text content errors.
UPDATE: Lots of bug fixes!
- Fixed an issue on Linux where the "Datasheets" link didn't open the game's manual.
- Fixed an issue on Linux that caused the cursor to sometimes flash and/or corrupt graphics in a rectangle around the cursor.
- Fixed a crash when hitting delete or F2 in the solution browser with no solution selected.
- Fixed a crash when writing to the address and data pins of a memory chip in the same cycle.
- Fixed a bug that caused some conditionals to not work with the JMP instruction.
- Fixed an autoformatting bug involving two conditional symbols on the same line.
- Improved the first test-run data for the token dispenser to show an example of what should happen when both types of tokens need to be dispensed.