Computer Lab
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This is your hideout computer lab Computer Lab is Part of your Hideout
This is your hideout computer lab. It's filled with old mice and connectors for electronic devices you're not sure you own any more. There's even enough space for a computer!
Contents
With nothing installed but you have a computer to install
You can install your computer name (number programs ran) here.
or if not
You don't have any computers to install at this time.
When Computer Installed
You install your new computer. Nineteen eighty-two, here we come!
With Computer Installed
The named computer you have installed here can run # program at a time.
You can install your (selected computer) here instead.
Now Running
example programs you might have installed
GigantoFirm LookOut Calendar
iMyself blog software
Vlad's Decryptonomicon software
S.M.A.R.T. software
Use the install button and all options to change what you have running
i.e the checkbox, etc
with Vlad's Decryptonomicon software and nothing to decrypt
Decryption You don't have any items you can decrypt.
Uninstall This is the button you click to your computer.
With the submicroscopic submarine equipped:
Decrypting
- After installing a computer and setting the software to Vlad's Decryptonomicon software you cat set it to decrypt items that can be deccrypted. Doing so will result in an effect and give you a message:
- You plug the <item> into your computer and tell it to start decrypting. The software says it will probably require X minutes of uninterrupted work to finish the decryption. (Added for X minutes.)
- Decrypting heavily, moderately, somewhat or slightly encrypted swipe card takes 45 minutes on an electronic computer and 30 minutes on a positronic computer. You get either Computer 1: Decrypting Swipe Card or Computer 2: Decrypting Swipe Card, depending on the computer used.
- Decrypting mangled data plate takes 45 minutes on an electronic computer and 30 minutes on a positronic computer. You get either Computer 1: Decrypting Data Plate or Computer 2: Decrypting Data Plate, depending on the computer used.
- Decrypting city map, financial spreadsheet, physiology scan, signal processing or statistical analysis code take 20 minutes on an electronic computer and 15 minutes on a positronic computer. The effect you get depends both on the code and on depending on the computer used, though the name depends only on the computer used:
- financial spreadsheet code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a signal processing code)
- city map code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a physiology scan code)
- physiology scan code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a financial spreadsheet code)
- signal processing code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a statistical analysis code)
- statistical analysis code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a city map code)
Notes
- on Thu Jun 19, 2014 the computer lab was changed to 1 computer and more variety, no loss of installed computer on retcons, and some computer affecting skills added and altered. Positronics are able to run two programs at once, compared to electronics' single program. Decryption has its own category too.
- Trying to decrypt an item while another is already decrypted, or while the software running is incorrect (for example from another window) yields:
You can only decrypt an item if the computer is currently running decryption software and isn't busy doing some heavy decrypting at the moment. Either you're not running the right software, or the computer is busy, so it's not gonna work for you right now.
