Are there any secret commands?

Solution 1:

Sort of.

There aren't any EXA commands, but there are 'macros', which are the EXAPUNKS equivalent to a preprocessor directive. All these macros do is allow you to replace repetitive code with shorthand, and because that shorthand is converted to code before the code is run, it doesn't add any utility in terms of optimizing code.

Instead of writing:

COPY F M
COPY F M
COPY F M
COPY F M

...you can write:

@REP 4 <--The number of times to repeat the command
COPY F M
@END

...and instead of writing:

COPY 0 F
COPY 1 F
COPY 2 F
COPY 3 F
COPY 4 F

...you can write:

@REP 5
COPY @{0,1} F <-- start at 0, increase by 1 each time
@END

The arguments passed to the macro functions must be numbers. Because the macros are run before the program begins running you can not use registers in macros.

So, yes and no. Yes, there are new and helpful commands in the second magazine, but no, these secret commands do not allow you new functionality that you didn't have before unlocking it, and will not cause you to have to re-optimize your bots.