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Remember the sprites we encoded last week? I have been debugging, optimizing and squeezing and now I'm ready to start with the main game loop.
So far I have squeezed all this into 2k memory:
- assembly routines for drawing sprites and strings
- a random number generator
- interrupt routines for the graphics chip
- the video buffer and the stack
- sprites and text strings
- the first two screens to select the difficulty and mission details
Here[^] you can see a test with the two sprites we made in the emulator and parts of my improvised development environment and the emulator.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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And to think, these days we can't even fit an empty app into that using .NET.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hail Squeezer !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Quote: There's Klingons on the starboard bow! Scrape 'em off, Jim!
Who needs all the f@rt-@rsey textures and 3D mapping, if the gameplay is good?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am proud to say I am able to store 2048 bytes in 2 KiB of memory. 
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That's a beginning.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I've been getting nostaligic recently, I remember playing this on a 3.5k VIC 20..
Frogger for the Commodore VIC-20 / Commodore VC-20 - YouTube[^]
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The entire "Stoned" virus fits into the 512 byte boot sector (with a bit of room to spare).
That's true craftsmanship[^].
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Looks cool!
Have thought about making an updated version of the ELF but with the new Harvard architecture it would not work so I would need to investigate other chips. But it would be fun.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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It really depends on what you want to do. If you skip some of the oldfashioned stuff, you can build a very compact Elf with not very many parts. If you want nostalgia, then the Elf is also great: The original Elf from 1976.[^]
I'm currently working on such a board which is later intended to be the master processor that coordinates up to 8 worker processors. It does not have much I/O of its own, but for starters it is going to get a simple software controlled (bit banged) RS232 to hook up a notebook with terminal emulation.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The problem with the Harvard architecture is that the flash and ram are in separate sections/partitions/memory space so to be able to program it dynamically is a problem. I would have to go to a chip with a different architecture. It can be done I just don't have the tools to do it.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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An Apollo programmer once told me 2K is what they had to work with to get to the Moon and back. But hey, I do know how to strip a C "Hello World" program down to a 2K file... So, haven't we have progressed rather far in the last 45 years?
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It's usability is about the same as a jaw-less zombie. 
Marc
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We use it for Bugs, Change Requests, and Source Control. Works just fine for us. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Works just fine for us
Besides the klunkiness of the UI, it also takes VS forever to load and to do any operation, like adding new files, committing, etc., probably because the whole thing has to go through a proxy that connects to a server on the company's internal network 3000 miles away. But why it even has to do that, as compared to, say, Git or SVN -- make your changes, review your changes, including new files, and commit.
And I don't like integrated source control, I like to have options (meaning 3rd party separate apps) for exploring the repo, doing commits, merges, etc.
Marc
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My favourite "feature" is that deleting a file from the Solution Explorer then performing a checkin doesn't actually commit the delete; you have to open Team Explorer then check in there for the deletes to actually commit...crazy.
This also causes complete havok with NuGet which attempts to delete a package that doesn't get deleted so it can't be replaced. I find I have to checkout the whole kit and kaboodle, manually delete the packages, check everything back in, in Team Explorer so packages actually get deleted, then checkout once more, then add the new packages then perform another check in. 
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...and if you rename or move that file before deleting it the check in comes to a screeching halt because *gasp* the file isn't there anymore. TFS gets itself into more existential conundrums than a nihilist week-long retreat.
I know MS. Clearly I'm not "holding it the right way".
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I completely agree. Whoever designed the UI for TFS online is a total moron. Completely confusing.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: the UI for TFS online
The forms can be customized, by the way.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Straight outta the box it's a total mess. It's not at all intuitive. There's no clear indication where you are or how to do even the simplest things.
Every try deleting a project??? That took a bit of Googling to finally find the right page and then the right little drop down widget thingy.
Add a project.... and wait 10 minutes while it's created.. WTF could possibly take so long to create a few records in a DB somewhere?
Wanna give someone rights? LOL - Good luck trying that.
Then, after alllll that - you think I'm gonna "customize" it... hell I can't figure it out in its default configuration. Screw customizing.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Git, of course.
Or, Mercurial (Hg)
Visual SourceSafe should'a been your warning for TFS. 
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raddevus wrote: Git, of course
Sadly I'm forced to use the source control system that the company is using.
Marc
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I used to wrap my directories in a git repository, but when I tried that here, Visual Studio saw that I had a git repository and would no longer show me the normal tfs team stuff and would only offer its git interface in the team tab...even Visual Studio knows that git is superior to tfs.
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Have been using it quite happily for a number of years. Not the best nor the worst tool. However, I have persuaded management in a few places that it would be best if we employed a TFS consultant to set it up initially to suit our needs and then we could move on from there. That works well. Also depends on how complex you want/need to make the branching model and what other parts of it you need to use.
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