BOOMERANG

The Boomerang chip is a control chip that returns your ChipWit’s program from a SubPanel back to the Main Panel. It helps navigate between different panels in your ChipWit’s code.

Specifications #

• Arguments: None
• Creates a True or False Branch?: No, the Boomerang does not create a True/False branch
• Number of Cycles Used: 1
• Fuel: 1
• Range: 0

Note #

The Boomerang Chip only appears in the Radial Workshop Menu within the Control Chips section when you are actively on a SubPanel tab. It is not available when on the Main Panel since you cannot go back any further from there.

Example of Use #

If your ChipWit is running a program on a SubPanel and you want to send it back to the Main Panel:

1. Place the Boomerang chip on the SubPanel.
2. When the ChipWit reaches this chip, it will automatically return to the Main Panel (the tab with the robot head icon).

This chip is useful for organizing complex programs that use multiple SubPanels, helping the ChipWit smoothly transition back to the Main Panel when needed.

History #

“Boomerang” as it appears in various historic incarnations of ChipWits!


COMMODORE 64:


MANUAL:
“The Boomerang instruction is used only on Subpanels, when you want the program to return to the Main Panel. When a CHIPWIT program encounters the Boomerang, it jumps back to the Main Panel and continues at the location after the chip that ca led the Subpanel. A Subpanel can have more than one Boomerang chip.”




APPLE II:


MANUAL:
“BOOMERANG commands the ChipWit program to go back to the Mai Panel and continue execution with the chip after the Sub-Panel chip that sent the program away from the Main Panel. Since BOOMERANG returns the program to the Main Panel, it is only available for use on Sub-Panels. BOOMERANG has no Arguments. Like the LOOP and the SUB-PANEL Operators, BOOMERANG is a command to the program, not the ChipWit.”




MAC:


MANUAL:
“BOOMERANG commands the ChipWit program to go back to the Main Panel and continue execution with the chip after the Sub-Panel chip that sent the program to the Sub-Panel. Since BOOMERANG returns the program to the Main Panel, it is only available for use on Sub-Pane Is.
BOOMERANG has no Arguments. Like the LOOP and the SUB-PAN EL Operators, BOOM ERANG is a command to the program, not the ChipWit.”

CHIPWITS II (WINDOWS 95):