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SuperVar Source

August 26th, 2003
v0.1
Score : 8.0 good
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SimonK
Peasant He/Him Australia
 
This is an example of how to store more than one value in one variable. A useful function if you need lots of variables (more than the 250 odd global variables the Dink Engine likes). But there is no guide of how to decifer this file. Yes you will get a headache trying to... use this source as not all the files refered to by the included scripts are here. So you can't run a little test easily. My guess is you can find the missing ones in FIAT source.

I'm hoping that with the source to the dink engine now released that the limit on variables will disappear and things like arrays and vectors will be introduced to store even more.

8 out of 10
February 14th, 2003
v0.1
Score : 7.5 good
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WC
Peasant He/Him United States
Destroying noobs since 1999. 
I just saw this has never been reviewed, so I'll take a wack at it.

First, this file is the basics of storing more than one value in a variable (so it's like 2 variables (or more) in 1). This is very handy for the fact that dink limits the number of global variables to 100, and with this technique, it easily raises it above 200. While you may be reading this and thinking you need to put this in your d-mod, you may wana think twice.

The code is a little hard to follow for the average d-moder, and if you aren't good with number, you will more than likely wana kill yourself. The code has almost no comments to tell you how it works so you will have to do the math in your head. But if you know how to code, and are good with numbers, you should be able to figure this out and use it fairly easy.