Hello,
I whipped up this ridiculously small sprite converter program this morning, for those of you feeling the crunch of less memory.  It will convert the 8x8 sprite in the top left corner of the screen to hex for you, weighing only 60 bytes!  I challenge - no, I *dare* you to make a smaller sprite converter.

Note: This was inspired by re-reading this post: http://ourl.ca/8639/161291

That looks sweet, but you don't even ClrDraw =P I know it's for the speed and size

Quote from: Scout on March 26, 2011, 02:40:21 pm

That looks sweet, but you don't even ClrDraw =P I know it's for the speed and size

I don't do anything that would take up any size.  I don't even turn off the run indicator.  This is in pure assembly, I'm just displaying the raw bytes from the graph screen.

Will you post the code, though?

Wow's that amazingly small :O I still prefer a more GUI-based editor though, like your other converter.
Is this supposed to be a proof-of concept thing?

Nice, I guess it's good to see these tools as small as possible, especially if you have many small programs.

I'M starting to wonder if we will need a project/releases sub-forum just for sprite editors, converters and map editors now, though. (no offense)

Snap CmPwn your bluff just got called :O

Well, at first I thought the challenge was to store the sprite in a string in Ans (so you can recall it into an Axe program.)  Then I looked at SirCmpwn's version and realized the challenge was just to display the string on screen.

My first version (store the string in Ans) is 39 bytes of code:
        ld hl,16
B_CALL CreateTStrng
inc de
ld hl,plotSScreen
loop1: ld b,2
loop: xor a
rld
daa
add a,-16
adc a,40h
inc de
ld (de),a
djnz loop
ld a,l
add a,12
ld l,a
cp 95h
jr c,loop1
B_CALL OP4ToOP1
B_CALL StoAns
ret
(I feel like this could be optimized a little more.)

My second version (display the string on screen) is 26 bytes of code:
ld hl,plotSScreen
loop1: ld b,2
loop: xor a
rld
daa
add a,-16
adc a,40h
B_CALL PutC
djnz loop
ld a,l
cp h
ret nc
add a,12
ld l,a
jr loop1


In 83/84 basic, I got it down to 99 bytes with a one letter program name.  Wabbit crashed upon export, so I have no proof of it, but I doubt if it can get any smaller.

Edit: If I just have to display it, I can make it smaller (if anyone cares).