Gigatron Hackers

Very nice!
Many thanks for this.

best, Peter

ok.
Did that. In small sdl2 emu, I am waiting now app. 50min for any computer answer. In real HW, with 128kd7 rom, I am waiting now app. 30min.
No computer answer? I compiled again for PC i5 3k. Runs fine and answer is instandly there.

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best, Peter

Thx. On PC with i5 3GHz, the answer is instantly. On Gigatron emulation, I had to wait probably "hours" (broken up - hat to go).
I will test on real hardware the next days.

best, Peter

Thanks! I just did the required changes for modern C++ compiler. But now I replaced all occurrences of 1e5 with 2e4, and 1e9 with 3e4 and it runs fine now. Now we just need to figure out, how to have computer play black

best, Peter

See here: https://nanochess.org/chess.html https://nanochess.org/faq.html Just wanted to see, if glcc would compile it and if it would even run ;-) It compiles and runs - but: It always says 'illegal' to any input - something is wrong at reading and compute input? Since computer playing is activated...

Another nice contest could be:
"Size coding contest = create interesting/astonishing graphic effects with small piece of coding"

See: http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page

best, Peter

Maybe someone will suggest another? I am thinking of: "Write the nicest/most interesting/awesome demo/intro/graphic effect/game whatsoever" Any language, any size (but smaller is beautiful), could run in 32k/64k/128k, can be run from sd card or rom ;-) Should be run in romv5a, but if requ...

One more.

Here is mine solution (not sure, if screen is correct this way?): int main(void) { int x,y; for (x=0;x<160;x+=2) { for (y=0;y<120;y+=2) { screenMemory[y-1][x-1] = 0; screenMemory[y][x] = 0xff; } } } -rw-rw-r--@ 1 ich staff 141 13 Mär 17:53 Makefile -rw-r--r--@ 1 ich staff 265 13 Mär 18:09 zxs.c -rw-...

(I just copied his post into this new thread) PhiBrizzo proposes a new competition. Very old, from ZX Spectum forum. Goal: draw black and white 1x1 pixel chessboard on full screen. Rules: - must run on ROMv5+ - 32KB+ machines - no SYS functions - all tricks allowed The winner is: shortest gt1 file.