Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 (VC³ 2023)

[BillG]

pzembrod wrote:

Interestingly, the shortest executable was version 2 with 764 bytes on the Commander X16, 492 bytes of which are the runtime library.

I would have thought that version 1 would be the smallest because it does not do division. Nested loops must be bad with that compiler.

[BillG]

The discussions at the other places have tapered off.

I will not try that hard to understand many of the shorter entries. Some of them rely on the meaning and effect of system variables while others use undocumented instructions. Both are tied to particular platforms and not something I want to spend much time learning.

[BigEd]

I thought I might go through the tail end of the video to see what the shortest entries are in the categories I might be interested in - documented 6502 opcodes, BBC micro in particular, Basic, BBC Basic, MS Basic, 6809. But I haven't!