Below are 2 pics of 666 dueling RC in the mite tank in the 2011 May DDM.
Notice in the 1st pic the red laser is aimed just above the tank.


In the next pic the green cylinder is making contact with his tank which lands the frag. (Just imagine that it is. Watch the 2011 May Frag Fail for the vids)


I posted this thread because RC was confused on how I landed the frag.
I remember doing this to Ni in a game on the Bull map.

Aim the mass driver high rather than low, one will land more hits.

Note to self:
I figured this out practicing in the weapon map.
Yes, I have been practicing.
Have to beat the Cats.

Later all.

hmmm....
interesting number on the weapons count while reloading...

Yeah, it's a bug when you run out of ammo. Instead of going to 0, it sometimes goes to 65535.

That is interesting. But why that number?

16 bits of data, and if there are 4096 addresses, gives 4096*16=65535 bits of data, or 8 Kilobytes
[[ randomly found on the internet in a FAQ on early RAM modules ]]

well, heck if i know...
it would have to do with the program used to write TM, and how functions are defined, integer variables, number variables, text fields... garbage collection, resetting values upon certain trigger events, etc... you would have to talk to someone who programed software back in the good ol' days who had to deal with the limitations imposed by the software back then.... which is why, after a couple of programming classes, i stayed with bookkeeping :)

toodles,
harmless

Uh, harmless, look up the definition of bit :)

65535 is 2^16-1, or the largest value of a 16bit (2 byte) unsigned integer.

Thank you both for looking at this.

If only I could get folks to view the 2X fast vids now.
I mean, is it the music or the speed, some feedback would be appreciated.

Might be the fact I disabled Flash in Firefox because it sucked so much and HTML5 video is so jumpy it is almost unplayable...so I have to go to Chrome or Safari anytime I want to watch videos.

:)

Uh, harmless, look up the definition of bit :)
65535 is 2^16-1, or the largest value of a 16bit (2 byte) unsigned integer.

well, there you go... lol, i did a quick search for the number 65535 and there was
some old oracle FAQ on RAM modules where they talked about having 64MB of RAM and
how that should be enough for almost all known computer programs....
they had that calculation listed and it seemed good enough for me since 65535
was the end number... which i was shooting for... ok.... let's field some questions
about double entry accounting and the secret life of debits and credits :)

Thanks for the input RC.

ah bro, no thanks....LOL

not that it matters, but i stumbled across another instance of the 65535...
my work computer has w2k (no comments please)
and evidently word pad on w2k (with no service packs) [again, no comments please]
will only print 65535 pages max...



nothing special, just noticed it is all... move along now..
toodles,
harmless
:)

Since Tread Marks uses 16-bit numbers to count the ammo, it can only represent numbers from 0 to 65525.

So any weapon I make in TM, I can only have up to 65525 ammo count.
Well that solves that mystery.
Thank you everyone.