3 new BBC BASIC ultra short 10Liners for Elk/Beeb

[0xC0DE]

Competition rules: max 10 lines of BASIC, max 72 characters on each line, abbreviations are allowed.


"Get rich, or die trying"

https://0xc0de.itch.io/get-rich-or-die-trying


"Money Grabber"

https://0xc0de.itch.io/money-grabber


"ASCII Invaders"

https://0xc0de.itch.io/ascii-invaders

[BeebMaster]

I've always been interested in these one-liner (or similar) game challenges. Has there ever been something similar for 6502 machine code, say write a game which assembles in under 256 bytes for instance? Maybe that's not much of a challenge given the very small amount of RAM the earliest 6502 boards would have had, perhaps 128 bytes? 64?

[leenew]

Me too.
I love to see these tiny BASIC games.
I think 64 bytes sounds like an impossible challenge for a game!
Maybe 128 is impossible too?

*Note: I am useless at assembler...

Lee.

[Lardo Boffin]

Best I ever managed was around 600 bytes of Z80 on a ZX81 for a ‘driving game’.

[0xC0DE]

I don't know of any specific machine code challenge but I've been toying with the idea of starting one (for fun). 256 bytes is not much. Maybe have different categories? 256, 512, 1024 bytes.

[lurkio]

Nice work, 0xC0DE! Is it okay that I've uploaded your games to bbcmicro.co.uk?

Btw, is there a generic term for an entry in this kind of game jam where you're programming under a ten-line contraint? Something like "constraint-based game program"..?

[Lardo Boffin]

Code golf?

[0xC0DE]

Thanks lurkio, no problem if you put it on bbcmicro.co.uk.
I've heard the terms "code golf" or "10Liner", or "sizecoding" perhaps.

[EdwardianDuck]

http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page looks interesting.

[BigEd]

BTW these are nice little games! Thanks for sharing.

I don't know of any specific machine code challenge but I've been toying with the idea of starting one (for fun). 256 bytes is not much. Maybe have different categories? 256, 512, 1024 bytes.

There's a Conway's Life in 256 bytes for the C64...

... and Eben Upton's Copter was written for the Hackaday 1k challenge.

(2048 is about 4k, which is a shame. But it's not at all compressed.)

[lurkio]

Sizecoding on bbcmicro.co.uk:

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?search= ... ng&on_S=on

[0xC0DE]

@BigEd thanks!
@lurkio looking good

[scruss]

There's a Conway's Life in 256 bytes for the C64...

and Linus Åkesson's stunning “A Mind Is Born” demo, all in 256 bytes on the C64.

or even Adrian Cable's PC Emulator in 8086 nibbles (4043 bytes) of C.

N. Silver's old one-liners from Beebug were pretty neat. The 230 byte "Asterisk Tracker" is something I've played many times:

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1L=0:REP.L=L+3:MO.4:DR.1279,0:DR.1279,452:MOVE1279,572:DR.1279,1023:DR.0,1023:F.I=1TOL:V.31,RND(32)+5,RND(31),42,30:N.:P.(L-3)/3:X=0:Y=512:REP.PL.69,X,Y:X=X+4:Y=Y-(INKEY-74+.5)*8:U.PO.X,Y)=1ORX=1280:U.X<1280:V.7:REP.U.INKEY-99:RUN