Today I have submitted my entry for the MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge. I think this competition is so cool and it is very challenging to build something nice in only 10K.
This year I have made an animation that is very much inspired by the demo scene.
Because the Commodore 64 still is my all time favourite computer I have added a funky SID tune ‘Unsophisticated’ by Thomas Manske (Peace). This tune is downloaded on the fly from the Stone Oakvalley’s Authentic SID Collection (SOASC=) where they have converted (almost) all SID tunes ever made to MP3.
To save up Kb’s the characters used in the animation are all in the Webdings font that is pretty much standard on Windows but I don’t know if it will also work on Mac OS. Please let me know if not!
In this post I have told you about my entry for the 10K Smart Coding Challenge. My app is doing great in this challenge and there is only a few more hours left to vote. So please vote for me!
Because of the 10K limitation there were only a few different words in my entry and the hi-score was not saved. So here is the extended version with lots of words and hi-score saving! Can you beat my hi-score? Please drop a comment…
This challenge reminds me very much of the old days when the size of your code really mattered. Note that when you start an empty Silverlight project in Visual Studio 2008 the size is already 6Kb!
Here are some tips to make your code a lot smaller:
Put all your code in one file to avoid extra “using” statements
Get rid of all comments and “private” and “this” keywords because you don’t need them this time!
Use refactoring to rename your variables and methods to one letter names
For this challenge you don’t need to put new lines, tabs and spaces in your C# and XAML code
The 8bit Philosophy is a very interesting and entertaining documentary about C64 musicians and remixers and you can download it here.
As you can you see and hear the 25 year old Commodore 64 holds perfectly stand against all the next-gen game consoles. You can even play Guitar Hero on the C64 with Shredz64
In 2007 the Commodore 64 has celebrated its 25 years anniversary. In 2008 you only need an internet browser and Java or Flash to enjoy pure computer nostalgia. I remember that when I was a 13 years old boy I always entered some BASIC program on a demo machine in electro stores.
FC64 Flash Commodore C64 Emulator JaC64 Java Commodore 64 Emulator (with cool Bonzai demo “Bonzieed” playing) c64s.com classic Commodore 64 games online! (Tetris playing) JSIDPlay the Java SID player with the whole HVSC SID Collection! TIP If you want to listen a good example then listen to Ouwehand_Reyn/Last_Ninja_3.sid
On Thursday 17 January 2008 my best friend Reyn will play with his one man band in Paradiso! Ofcourse I will be there and I will also be watching the main act Coparck.
Today I have submitted my entry for the MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge. I think this competition is so cool and it is very challenging to build something nice in only 10K.
During the christmas-holidays I have coded 
