You have an advantage there from being a User. Rinzler’s shown me some of the technology from the system and all of it’s configurable: vehicles, tools, weapons -- you just need to get your hands on the data storage. The device he showed me looked like some kind of baton, but there are probably other kinds of that technology on the Grid that a User could also manipulate. [Such as a disk, for example...]
All of it is defined by code, but… I don’t think you’ll need that much programming experience to use any of it. [He remembers the code on Rinzler’s disk, how easily it had molded itself to his every unspoken command. There’s a certain discomfort in using the knowledge he had gained there now, but the situation is too dire to leave any potential advantage unsaid.] Once you have access to the code, just focus on what you want it to do, and it should respond in kind. [Perhaps the results would lack the precision of someone who actually knew how to handle the code line-by-line, but it isn’t like he’d have time for that kind of attention-to-detail anyway.]
Re: audio;
All of it is defined by code, but… I don’t think you’ll need that much programming experience to use any of it. [He remembers the code on Rinzler’s disk, how easily it had molded itself to his every unspoken command. There’s a certain discomfort in using the knowledge he had gained there now, but the situation is too dire to leave any potential advantage unsaid.] Once you have access to the code, just focus on what you want it to do, and it should respond in kind. [Perhaps the results would lack the precision of someone who actually knew how to handle the code line-by-line, but it isn’t like he’d have time for that kind of attention-to-detail anyway.]