How much can you fit into 2k memory?

Lost User

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.

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Jeremy Falcon

And to think, these days we can't even fit an empty app into that using .NET.

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BillWoodruff

Hail Squeezer !

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bogel bogel

maybe this only slightly

Mark_Wallace

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?

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CPallini

I am proud to say I am able to store 2048 bytes in 2 KiB of memory. :-D

Lost User

That's a beginning.

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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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Lost User

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[^]

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W Balboos GHB

The entire "Stoned" virus fits into the 512 byte boot sector (with a bit of room to spare). That's true craftsmanship[^].

Ravings en masse^

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Mike Hankey

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.

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Lost User

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 fucking 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.

Mike Hankey

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.

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MuThink

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?