Anyone care to create a program that generates random MSX stuff? We could end up with Half-Life 2 for the MSX
eh eh eh!!! i tought like 15 years ago that!
if we aims to create a 32k ROM randomly, well, like a big counter, starting all in 0000000 and start counting untill get all FFFFFFFF over the 32kb!.... and we needs like 1 min. minimun to check if the result is usefull... so ... letme calculate.....
time needed = (2^8)^32768 !!!!!!!!!
HOOOOWAAAAAAA!!!!
ofcourse, in all those numbers there's 40000 apps that delete or format your (hard-)disk first
Excuse me for dropping in so late on the discussion, but the problem with software that creates random code is that the software doesn't know if it is coding most efficiently. You would have to check yourself, but if you suspect the code could be cleaner but can't do it yourself, you'll just have to wait until the program poops out a similar app.
You could end up with Half-Life 2, as well as Windoze 98 for MSX...
I'm afraid nobody might be watching thread anymore, but I still want to set some things straight. Coming back from a holiday, I found an email of Jelle (he found my email adress after all) about a submission of a program I allegedly had written. He sent it in without concerning me. That's too bad, because I could have told him it's not mine. One of the following mails told me the submission had been disqualified.
A long (!) time ago I made some variations of the original sky program: a two player version, a bit smoother and I got it running under KUN basic. I showed/shared it with Meits, that's probably where the confusion started.
It makes me happy to see people are still remembering the good old MSX days. :-D
no biggy, Ivor... Good to see ya hanging around at the MRC
Hee Ivor, how are you doing?