Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!kjetilho From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Why, I ask, why? Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 12:41:23 GMT References: <9102190401.AA23457@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> <1991Feb19.044536.3019@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 Approved: root@world.gov In-Reply-To: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu's message of 19 Feb 91 04:45:36 GMT In article <1991Feb19.044536.3019@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes: > Followup-To: line is what the Newsgroups: line was previously > then adds an *censored*: line and reposts it. Don't give the whiny guy any hints! :-) ObHack: I and a friend wrote a boot block demo on the Atari ST, that is, you only get 480 bytes of disc space. The demo moved a giant OUCH sign according to a sine wave up/down left/right, mirrored in a lake below. In addition, it was snowing down the screen, gathering on the ice into drifts. We contemplated making it auto-decompressing when run, but I couldn't get the decompactor below 102 bytes, so it would increase overall size. Regards, Kjetil T. Disclaimer: Newbie, and proud(?)