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revisiting EXAPUNKS pt 3: yayyyyy the real game!!!

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 and now, after some delay (sorry) i am back and ready to start the "real" levels! they still start off simple enough, but they definitely scale up, and pretty quickly at that. but for now, here we go:  although actually, quick story update. the person(?) who has been connecting us to these networks,  ember-2, keeps asking questions about who we are and our motivations, only explaning it away as "wanting to learn about us". regardless, we don't really have a choice but to answer her and do what she says, because she made a deal with us that every hack we do for her, she will get us a dosage of our medication, and we have no other way to acquire it. as our first "mission", she wants to test our skills one last time and have us hack into a pizza place and steal a pizza to talk over.

revisiting EXAPUNKS: part 2: oh god this is still the tutorial

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 my genuine estimation of this part is that it will exclusively be me going back to TWN 4 and trying to optimize the M register and see what I can do, but who know, maybe this will be quicker than that. RETURNING TO TWN #4   just for a quick refresher, here is what we are working with, im not gonna explain it here, but my previous post went fairly in depth with how this is solved.    Also quick note on notation: X[letter] is used to reference the starting EXAs, XA, XB, XC, and so on. When an EXA makes a repl, that is denoted with [name]:[index] where index is the number of repls that EXA has made previously. Therefore, if one of your EXAs, XB, makes 2 repls, they will be called XB:0 and XB:1. This makes it easy to notate which EXAs are doing what at various points in the algorithm.   my basic plan for using the M register to write faster goes pretty much as follows: XA  move to outbox make a file read in from the m register to the new file will eventually ...