|the electronic knights
|history crapbox issue -10
|december - october 2018
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** crap box ** history ** the electronic knights *historical* pack series issue -10 * compiled and code by bifat * music slash * gfx nero in this issue we present you some stuff from the compusphere and deadline parties - among them a really, really tiny production, a 256 bytes intro by wanted team. enjoy! I once made a 512 bytes intro ('Tide' for K2, check it out on crap box issue 2), and let me tell you that our platform may be the most ungrateful and unrewarding of all for tiny intros, because: - instruction size is 2 bytes at the minimum. - the executable header is 36 bytes alone, and there's nothing to abuse in there, as it is getting stripped away in entirety by the OS loader. - you don't have a FPU. - you have nothing in the OS of any use, because opening and using libraries takes way too much space. math libraries are not in the ROM, but on disk, and can't be used. - it takes you a large amount of code to set up a sine table alone. - cpu is way too slow to do demos in the color=f(x,y,t) fashion. - it takes a huge setup to start getting something on the screen at all. - using the blitter? maybe, but the setup is huge. and more... in 'tide', I was hardly getting everything set up and started in 256 bytes, so a 256 bytes production is really something remarkable. * wrap * wrap I said