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SplitBit-Emulator/Tests/expected/cosmosFlip.out
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Anachronaut 115efa1fa1 A crash takes the lander apart, instead of just saying so
The verdict used to be the whole of it: a line of text and a lander still
sitting there in one piece, so somebody watching a recording had to read
the words to know what had happened. That is the same problem the flames
were for.

The lander goes, and both flames with it, and six pieces of it leave in a
rough hexagon at its own colour for about a second. Then they go too,
rather than hanging over the words. The world is not running while it
plays: it is a loop of its own, so nothing else in the program has to
know how to be half destroyed.

Yellow, which is the lander's own colour, because it IS the lander - and
it is only free to use because the lander itself is hidden by then. The
check that counts exactly forty pixels of yellow looks at a flying frame.

---- Two mistakes worth keeping ----

The block went in between touchdownCrash and touchdownStop, so a crash
fell into the explosion and returned from there - no verdict, no end of
run, and the lander sitting there being crashed into the ground again
every frame. The linter caught it as a subroutine nothing called walking
into, which is exactly what it was.

And copyWord goes DP0 to DP1, so setting the pieces off from the lander's
position had the pointers the wrong way round: it copied the empty pieces
OVER ShipX. Since that is in the view block, it took the lander's own
column with it, and the one piece that could be seen drifted out of the
top left corner of the screen.

Three checks, each seen to fail on its own break. They measure the SPREAD
and not the count: two of the six leave the top of the screen on the way,
so the count drops from twenty four to sixteen, which is correct and
would make an exact count a check that breaks the day a lander crashes
somewhere else.
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CosmOS
> Say before Flip
it says: before Flip
finished
> Flip
A screen is drawn where you cannot see it. A key shows it, another comes back.
finished
> Say after Flip
it says: after Flip
finished
> dir
greet.sbx 211
hello.sbx 53
Life.sbx 1396
Snake.sbx 2164
Keys.sbx 664
Say.sbx 156
Break.sbx 149
Grid.sbx 571
Press.sbx 872
Mode.sbx 48
Flip.sbx 173
Sprite.sbx 442
Depth.sbx 672
Lander.sbx 7913
Pad.sbx 264
Crash.sbx 632
vars.script 50
blocks.script 343
loops.script 272
tune.sbx 306
notes.txt 21
Apps <dir>
hi.script 121
bad.script 45
plain.script 24
cross.script 280
nonl.script 38
outer.script 376
inner.script 44
loop.script 35
29 files, 1 directory
> exit
halted
Execution halted.
[exit 0]