Lab Notes
Binary search in BASIC DATA statements
Behold! Binary search of five-letter words in BASIC DATA statements without pre-processing the memory! gist.github.com/dansanderson/8…
Electronic Bulletin Boards by Carolyn E. Cooper, a book report
Electronic Bulletin Boards by Carolyn E. Cooper, a book report by Dan Sanderson, age 12. Six handwritten pages, in cursive, with a cover page and five printed pages of figures from a Boise BBS. I got an A+.
What if the Bee had an S?
What would it be like if the #nytspellingbee had an S in it?
@thegridkid is on record as saying an S-Bee would be “too easy,” a nice way of saying it’s difficult to balance difficulty, size, and funness. I wanted a sense of this design space, so I did some computer’ing.
PICO-8 on the RG 351M handheld game console
Wow, #pico8 on the RG 351M handheld game console is fantastic! This one from Anbernic is metal, heavy, with solid controls. $139 USD is pricey but worth it.
Angle math demo in PICO-8
We were discussing angles and coordinates in the #pico8 Discord and I whipped up this quick demo while we were chatting. It’s a neat demo, and super-neat how easy it was to put it together! The value of a tight feedback loop cannot be understated. gist.github.com/dansanderson/2…
PICO-8 fillp shortcuts
DID YOU KNOW: 20 of the #pico8 typeable symbols are predefined fillp() patterns! Pass each one as the argument—without quotes—to get a fill pattern that looks a bit like the symbol.
Clockwork DevTerm and PICO-8
I wrote up my Clockwork #DevTerm adventures as a review and #pico8 tutorial on the PICO-8 BBS. Enjoy! lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=44522
hey everyone I figured out what #pico8’s “export .lua.png” does!
New P8SCII documentation
I spent today making a #pico8 wiki present for you all: a fully spec’d P8SCII character table, and enhanced P8SCII control code documentation! lmk what you think! (/cc @lexaloffle @Liquidream)
Tandy 1400 FD; NTS DreamWriter 200
Two quick ones today. First, a Tandy 1400 FD portable DOS machine with two 3-1/2” floppies and an LCD 80x25 screen. I don’t have a boot disk yet, freaks out after a few minutes, has a fishy odor. Looks cute though.
The HP 50g graphing calculator
In HP graphing calculators, between my beloved high school model (48GX) and the latest hotness (Prime) was the 50g. I thought I’d try to live without one but it actually has advantages over both of those models in programmability and data access (USB, SD card).