there is hope for tiny code!

Richard wrote: (ears ringing) Some of these are truly impressive, not only for their knowledge of x86 assembler, but also their knowledge of the environment they're running in. To squeeze space, many of these take advantage of things like OS kernel structures for "free" data, or known states of registers on program load/start, etc. One of the most impressive 256b programs I've seen is a full-screen textured tunnel the viewer is flying in. A quick look at the source code shows that it is over 70% floating-point instructions. Some consider that "cheating", others consider it genius. Up to you. There is a tradeoff, as always: Size vs. speed. Some of these 256b programs are very slow, even on modern hardware, simply because sometimes the smallest way to do something is the most inefficient way. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/