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Anatoly Shashkin💾

Pretty amazing visuals generated by a 256 *byte* executable in MS-DOS: 😯
youtu.be/A9jn6ExjDw8?si=Z8J0Ub

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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@dosnostalgic

🤯 Is that somehow accessing some kind of resource elsewhere on the computer or online?

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@dosnostalgic

Yeah, but even so? 😮 That's a teeny tiny amount of space. Amazing achievement!

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@keengrasp @dosnostalgic

Not necessarily, it just saves lots of space if you don't need to store any kind of graphical data.

Some older video games used this trick for fitting more levels in limited space, but the levels were always the same.

Joshua Barretto

@keengrasp @dosnostalgic @FediThing Procedural generation just means 'applying a set of rules to produce content'. It's actually the philosophical *opposite* of randomness (although you can seed those rules to make the output nondeterministic, as many procgen games do).

Christian Lawson-Perfect

@dosnostalgic it feels sinful to stream a recording of that from YouTube, using orders of magnitude more space than the executable. It isn't an April Fools' joke?

root42

@dosnostalgic I‘d love to see a writeup how this works.

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