[ENDED] (Results Soon) Code Golf - The Reboot #2

[LDStudios]

153 bytes in PICO-8 (sorry Juju ^.^)

[Juju]

Dammit. How.

[lirtosiast]

Do we need to initialize the cursor at all (is it fine if the position of the cursor is the same as it was last session, and the program throws an error if a certain variable has an invalid value?)

Edit: I was told that we don't.

Is it acceptable if moving to the 5984 other pixels on the graph screen works, but not the single pixel (0,0)?

Edit: Never mind, I wasn't able to save that byte.

[Juju]

153 bytes in PICO-8 (sorry Juju ^.^)

Wait, did you do the "If a key is held, it doesn't matter. 1 pixel of movement per press." rule? Otherwise, I'm down to 162 bytes now

[LDStudios]

153 bytes in PICO-8 (sorry Juju ^.^)

Wait, did you do the "If a key is held, it doesn't matter. 1 pixel of movement per press." rule? Otherwise, I'm down to 162 bytes now

I just used btnp, that was the closest thing to doing that I could figure, I applaud you if you had found a better way of doing that ^.^
EDIT: Nevermind, thought of a good way to do that, I guess my old entry is invalid then, but I think I can implement this without throwing on too many extra characters

[Juju]

Yeah, BTNP still returns true every 4 frames, which is not what we want.

EDIT: 153 bytes! Which is the same score you got, but with the 1 pixel of movement per press thing xD

EDIT: 149! I forgot to remove one useless declaration. That's pretty crazy.

[LDStudios]

Yeah, BTNP still returns true every 4 frames, which is not what we want.

EDIT: 153 bytes! Which is the same score you got, but with the 1 pixel of movement per press thing xD

EDIT: 149! I forgot to remove one useless declaration. That's pretty crazy.

dam.. now that i fixed key presses, I'm at 202

[Juju]

I'm down to 144, almost on par with the PICO-8 guy.

[Scipi]

I'm down to 137 bytes

[TIfanx1999]

I'm curious though, I think you'd have to initialize the pixel somewhere on the screen(IE set an intial value fo the coordinates). Otherwise, it's possible your program will error from the start if the pixel is trying to display out of bounds. Also, just submitted an entry in TI-BASIC. How is size counted for TI-BASIC? Does the program name add to the size(My program name is a single character)?

[lirtosiast]

I'm told (this is the way JWinslow23 did it, anyway) that the program size is equal to the sum of the size of each token in your code, or equivalently the size shown on [2nd][MEM], minus the size of the program name, minus nine bytes. So the name doesn't matter.

I asked pimath about initializing the cursor, and they said it was unnecessary.

[TIfanx1999]

So how large is a single char program name, and why minus nine additional bytes?

[lirtosiast]

The TI operating system has some sort of nine-byte header that it uses to store information about the program; that shouldn't count.

The size of a program name is the number of characters in it; one character=one byte.

[TIfanx1999]

Ah, ok. Thanks. If I drop initializing the first pixel that puts me at 60 bytes.

[lirtosiast]

Art_of_camelot, did you remember to avoid key repeat? That was tricky for me.