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Even though I was impressed with the original article (so kind of contrary to the author) in the meantime I tried the same thing with Claude Sonnet 4 (because s
by ofrzeta 1y ago
Even though I was impressed with the original article (so kind of contrary to the author) in the meantime I tried the same thing with Claude Sonnet 4 (because some people here criticized the approach due to not using a proper "coding model") and got no better results. Now I tried about a dozen iterations but it did not manage to create a "BASIC programm for Atari 800XL that makes use of display list interrupts to draw rainbow-like colored horizontal stripes", although this is like a "hello world" for that technique and there should be plenty of samples on the Internet. I am curious to see if anyone can make that work with an LLM.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoAre there really plenty of examples on the internet? My first thought reading the article was that Atari BASIC is kind of a little specialized. If BASIC is kind of an under-represented language in general on the internet (you know, compared to Javascript, for example) then Atari BASIC has to be a white whale.
- ofrzeta 1y agoYeah, when you google for "atari display list interrupts" a lot of similar code comes up. Here's a complete example https://makezine.com/article/technology/generate-the-atari-rainbow-eff/ https://makezine.com/article/technology/generate-the-atari-r... Also, sure, compared to Javascript it's a small amount.