fastbasic VS aoc

I'm going to throw FastBasic out there. You can program on the Atari itself or use the cross compiler. It kind of combines everything from Basic and Action! into a modern language that is still being developed.

Atari FastBasic

The Atari has a new updated Basic, FastBasic, which gives you speed with the ease of Basic.

Personally I just stick to raw arrays for most days, usually with static storage (so pre-allocated). Keeps things simple! Here's my repo.

- C -

Here's my solution. Sorry, I did go a bit overboard making it compact.

That was one heck of a tough day but also very satisfying. I spent quite some time working out a 3D rectangle splitting/merging algorithm on paper and then I had to go and implement that in C. It turned out pretty clean and idiomatic, if I may say so!

This was my first attempt (or at least in a very long time) at generating video. Here I'm generating raw RGB frames in memory and writing them to ffmpeg, which works well enough but it's a little primitive.

At 50 year sold and very stable, C must be one of the easiest languages to get working on old machines. Required just some of the polyfills I wrote back in 2020.

My original solution checked every character against every other character, which performed perfectly fine even for 14 chars, but it felt wrong.

- C -

First a straightforward solution with a double buffer, later realised you could do it in-place by just holding onto one value per row/column.

First wrote a short AWK program to convert the input to C and play with it while running a hopeless brute force attempt.