Posted By
Csabo
on 2020-04-04
21:03:17
|  Re: 10 Jahre BASIC 10Liner Contest
Roe's stuff is awesome, but I'm geeking out over The Horde. Holy crap, this is clever stuff. From the screenshot, I couldn't believe that it actually had a custom charset. Just... wow!
Two minor things that this one got right and I didn't: I shortened SCNCLR to scN, but sC actually works. Also, I thought GETKEY had no shorthand... but it's actually gEkE. Clever! (I could have saved 3 bytes  )
Two minor things that The Horde could have improved: The loop in line 1 (fori=.to31:poke8512+i,asc(mid$(a$,i+1))-1:next) could have been changed to run from 1 to 32, which would eliminate the i+1, saving 2 bytes. The pO1177,63 in this line is nice but unnecessary, would have saved 9 bytes. I'm still amazed how well the custom charset was coded.
Also, the I/J/K/L trick... o_O Holy crap. That's some next level sh*t. It isn't used here, only in Mines Plus C16, but man... So deliciously clever. I love seeing clever stuff like that, hats off. |
