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12 kilobytes isn't much of a constraint. Before 1979, few computers had that much room. Check out this Mario Brothers game written in only 10 lines of Atari BAS

12 kilobytes isn't much of a constraint. Before 1979, few computers had that much room. Check out this Mario Brothers game written in only 10 lines of Atari BASIC on an Atari 8-bit computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpBZrfk1w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpBZrfk1w8

emptybits 7y ago
That's super impressive! The Mini Bros game is 2.5 kilobytes of high level source[1] so a fair resource comparison should either include FastBasic 3.4's runtime footprint (if interpreted?) and/or a compiled standalone executable size (if FastBasic is capable of it). i.e. ROM + RAM requirements to run on bare metal, including libary/runtime dependencies. But my byte-counting pedantry aside ;-), you're exactly right to celebrate authors of such tight works that are still actually fun and attractive. I enjoyed the author's line-by-line walkthrough and dev journal. I know some modern programmers may not see the point in these apparently arbitrary competitions targeting old platforms but I really think there is wisdom and magic in this frugality! [1] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zj7u96etduyq6bv/AABfTzwMu3pqoNSNAn7jCMM0a/A8/22%20Mini%20Bros?dl=0&preview=MINIBROS.LST&subfolder_nav_tracking=1 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zj7u96etduyq6bv/AABfTzwMu3pqoNSNA...