Remarks: One-Liners
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| − | These one-liners make good use of the print and poke commands. We know that PRINT was inherited from the earliest Dartmouth BASIC implementation. Did Bill Gates invent the POKE command? | + | |
| + | One-liners such as 10Print are curt, minimal BASIC programs written to illustrate, imitate, or express an idea. Due to their brevity, they must often exploit resources which exist in the underlying platform. For example, 10Print relies on the PETSCI graphics system contained within the ROMs of the corresponding Computers. The one-liner itself contains no data pertaining to the curvature or pixels comprising the / and \ images. | ||
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| + | Block graphics sets - including those non-typographic / and \ symbols used in 10Print - have collectively produced a vocabulary of emoticons, stick-figures, balance sheets, windows, | ||
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| + | Commodore 64 users have experienced so many different system crashes that they can be aesthetically categorized. For example, the following one-liner pr | ||
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| + | *Snowcrash - do not use on real Commodore 64 | ||
| + | 10 poke 53248+24,timeand255: goto 10 | ||
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| + | Also, this one-liner imitates a particular set of crashes, those involving complex writes to the video hardware, which took place often. | ||
| + | *Crashes I Have Known and Loved. | ||
| + | 10 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255: goto 10 | ||
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| + | Some one-liners take advantage of symbols to present a part of a story. | ||
*Icicle Storm | *Icicle Storm | ||
10 poke 1024+rnd(0)*1000,78: goto 10 | 10 poke 1024+rnd(0)*1000,78: goto 10 | ||
| − | *Snowcrash | + | These one-liners make good use of the print and poke commands. We know that PRINT was inherited from the earliest Dartmouth BASIC implementation. Did Bill Gates invent the POKE command? |
| − | 10 poke 53248+24,timeand255: goto 10 | ||
| − | *Crashes I Have Known and Loved. | + | |
| − | 10 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255: goto 10 | + | Others depend upon non-standard, yet still legal behavior. In the following example, the video chip inside the Commodore 64 is modulated as fast as BASIC can go - which for this short loop is rather fast. |
*Windy Day in Chicago | *Windy Day in Chicago | ||
10 poke 53248+22,(time/10)and255: goto 10 | 10 poke 53248+22,(time/10)and255: goto 10 | ||
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*Random SID Tones | *Random SID Tones | ||
