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2019-10-13 20:12 shredder  
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left silo is easy, but try to do the same with the right silo... ofcourse there is a easy way to drop the boulders in the right way, with catching the diamonds. but precise choosing is impossible?  
  
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2019-10-15 11:32 shredder  
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why there is such a difference? items in 1 empty spot between the slimes change the state from 'falling' to 'neutral' for a short period of time (1 frame)? thats why rockford can collect the diamonds, but cant stop the flow of falling boulders?

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2019-10-15 19:27 Arno  
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i see what you mean... is this difference also present in c64 engines?

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2019-10-15 22:02 shredder  
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i don't know and can't check it out :(

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2019-10-15 22:13 Arno  
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interesting... i'll try out tomorrow; now bedtime! :-)

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2019-10-15 22:40 shredder  
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ok, let me know  Arno  :)   
  
 nesdori , please, can you explain this one? :)

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2019-10-15 22:43 shredder  
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...and thanks for playing  Arno ! ;)

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2019-10-15 22:46 nesdori  
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when a boulder/diamond is on top of slime and it gets scanned, the boulder doesn't yet fall through the slime but instead its status gets changed to stationary. when slime gets scanned, it first does permeability check and if it's successful, then checks if there's stationary boulder or diamond on top if it and empty space beneath, if all conditions are true, the object falls through the slime. the difference of silos is that on left silo there's an empty space beneath a falling boulder so boulder falls when it's scanned before rockford's turn, on right silo, boulder gets scanned but doesn't yet fall but gets stationary, then rockford is scanned but he cannot move to block a flow of objects because a boulder is still there. then after rockford is scanned, slime is scanned and boulder falls through. so in short, the difference is that on left, boulder falls before rockford's scan and on right, boulder falls after rockford's scan.  
  
because falling objects can't fall through slimes the objects indeed are stationary for short moment but if they fall through slime right away they aren't stationary even for one full frame but just partial frame (one row scan, until slime is scanned) or if the on-top-of-slime object is diamond and rockford is pushing left next to it, the diamond is stationary only a very brief moment because on next object scan, rockford will pick it up.

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2019-10-15 22:49 shredder  
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thank you!