A way to save, load, and share circuits. about integrated-circuits

[skyem123]

A way of exporting disks into files somehow would be handy. Import would be needed as well.
Also, a pastebin like system for ICs (accessible in game) would be useful.

[Victorious3]

Indeed planned over a collaboration with ArmourersWorkshop to get a content hub service going. It would work similar to pastebin.

I might save the circuits globally somewhere, makes sense, if you create a bunch of circuit boards of the same type they all carry the full data right now, not efficient at all.

[GopherAtl]

a related note, you could make your disks work in ComputerCraft drives. You just have to implement the interface, IMount or something like that, and you could allow reading or writing the stored circuit design as a file. In principle, at least, I'm not sure how easy it would be in practice. Something similar may be possible with OpenComputers, not sure since I'm less familiar with the api there. This approach would let you offload the work of sharing files via another site, whether it's pastebin or whatever, to cc/oc, which are already set up for that sort of thing, rather than having to build it into your mod directly.

[MFernflower]

What about something like or based off of VHDL or Verilog?

[skyem123]

@MFernflower, That wil probably be too much effort.
I don't really know what they are like, but as far I know, they are for big (at least comparatively) FPGAs...

[MFernflower]

Why not spin your own version or make somthing based around the idea?

[skyem123]

So I think there are many things needed for this idea...

• Saving the circuits to a nice (preferably human readable, like source code) format (plain text)
• Exporting the data to file, and loading from it. (so someone can save something from a Minecraft server to their client)
• Accessing the data from computer mods, such as OpenComputers and ComputerCraft
• Finally, a service that allows people to share circuits online