BOOMERANG

Back to the main Panel we go!

Specifications #

ARGUMENTS:
None

CREATES A TRUE OR FALSE BRANCH?:
No, Boomerang does not create a T/F branch.



NUMBER OF CYCLES USED:
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 in the Workshop (and not on the Main Panel, as you can’t go back any further once you reach this point).

Example of Use #

Back we go to the Main Panel! When this chip (Boomerang, green box below) is activated it will send you back to the Main Panel of your ChipWit’s programming (it’s the tab with the robot head on it).

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.”


CHIPWITS II (WINDOWS 95):