I remember x86 real mode back in the day. Pretty hideous and hacky compared to what we have now.
What's real mode?
A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
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#12Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amateur hour... /s (Just kidding this is actually super cool.)
It's Tron-ish (the post says Tron, where did you read snake?) :P
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#13If you want to see demos (as in demoscene) in a tweet of 140 characters - https://www.dwitter.net/
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#15This is great, and ironically it’s sitting next to another HN article where, in the comments, someone is actually defending a NYT news article that weighs in at 6MB.
In a time when most software is filled with superfluous waste and endless layers of abstraction and libraries, it’s nice to see that the art of writing minimal software is not completely lost.
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#16This is great, and ironically it’s sitting next to another HN article where, in the comments, someone is actually defending a NYT news article that weighs in at 6MB. In a time when most software is filled with superfluous waste and endless layers of abstraction and libraries, it’s nice to see that the art of writing minimal software is not completely lost.
There is something to the saying "less is more".
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#17Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amateur hour... /s (Just kidding this is actually super cool.)
It's Tron-ish (the post says Tron, where did you read snake?) :P
It's a fair assumption to make, as the difference between Tron and Snake is effectively just single player vs multiplayer.
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#18I was confused as to how you could represent a bootable CD image in printable characters. It turns out that you can't. This is a tweet of a perl script which creates a cd.iso file that you can then boot from. The perl script significantly decompresses the data in the tweet. That said, this is a playable game in around 60 bytes of actual data which is impressive.
I'm reminded of the RSA in Perl "weapon" t-shirt :)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munition...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's Tron-ish (the post says Tron, where did you read snake?) :P
It's a fair assumption to make, as the difference between Tron and Snake is effectively just single player vs multiplayer.
No it isn't.
In TRON you leave a trail behind. In Snake, you grow as you eat and drag your body along the path you crawled.
TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.
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#20The actual tweet: https://twitter.com/alokmenghrajani/status/10075143375929876...