Topic title changed. To be fair, when I said "secure" I meant "your crypto nerd friends will go at it for about a week," rather than "1024-bit RSA suitable for issues of national security."

Though I did make 16-bit RSA once.

Quote from: Quigibo on November 28, 2010, 05:51:02 pm

Axe Parser
Delta 0.4.6
Static data can be stored to variable pointer

Thanks for bringing this to my attention: this helps a lot for MFQT

EDIT: formatting fail

Neat! I'd love to have that around. Good luck Xeda!

Quote from: Builderboy on December 01, 2010, 11:34:55 am

If that is the 16 bit OR operation, shouldn't you be incrementing A by 2 every cycle since you need to increment 2 bytes?

No. Because of how loading values into 2-byte pointers works, it actually returns the address of the pointer plus 1.

Thanks for the clarification.

Quote from: JustCause on November 30, 2010, 08:21:45 am

Lol scout. If I ever need to get out of the country you'll be the first person I call.

Not me?

Oh right, Canada is another country too...come to think of it, that's a little bit closer than Portugal. Hmm. I'll have to think this one over.

If you want a really extreme optimization for or-ing the screen, here it is.  It will be noticeably faster and smaller:

Code: [Select]

.# represents the 16-bit or operation
L₆→A
While -768-L₆
{A}ʳ#{A+L₃-L₆}ʳ→{A}ʳ+1→A
End

This seems like it should work. And apparently it runs >40x/second, so it's plenty fast. I've already implemented nondestructive sprites (with a noticeable speed increase attached,) so noncolliding text and backgrounds should come soon.

as rendering a $400 calculator unable to run tetris is apparently a common fate

As first posts go, this one is pretty awesome.
Welcome to the Omni forums, hope you enjoy your stay.

Some fun Q&A for you guys.

Whoa! It's JustCause! Where were you for the past few days?
Sadly, I can only get on Omni during school hours. Thanksgiving vacation meant that I was cut off for a few days.

Did your dad kill you?
No. Actually, we've reconciled (somewhat). Maybe his strict parenting style has something to do with the fact that he's a self-made man who grew up in inner Chicago with a Republican Catholic cop for a father, then went into the military despite the exact same bone defect that I had, used it to pay for college, and recently made it through three grueling years of law school. He doesn't have much patience for people with (what he sees as) lacking work ethic: of course, he holds people to the same standards he holds himself, which means almost no one measures up. (He's also not too bad at NFS Hot Pursuit.)
All jokes aside, he's a good man and I respect him, despite his temper. I really appreciate all the support you guys have offered up, and I do have the DCFS number memorized if I ever need to use it again. (That's right, it has come up before.)

So do you have an update for us?
...no.

Did you do any coding over break?
...no.

Are you giving up the project?
NO! I've simply decided to stick with things I know I can code for right now, which means I'll be making the switch over the next couple days to a different buffer system: I'll be ORing both buffers onto the screen and using nondestructive sprites like Builderboy suggested, in order to allow for non-colliding text and backgrounds. I'll also be adding a variety of static features with simple collision detection: features like, to use Portal 2 examples, Aerial Faith Plates and Excursion Funnels.

Where's that upload rush you promised?
Standard procedure. All updates must always take 3-5 days longer than expected to be delivered.

Would you, by any chance, happen to have bought an epic Mario hoodie yesterday?
Yes! How did you know?