Michael Doornbos
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Writing some weighted depth first searches for some security software in my day job. Can't think of a better way to refresh my tree searches knowledge than doing it on a PET. #commodore
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Nov 21, 2021
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Michael Doornbos
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← I’ve never cared for the 80 Column hacks for the Commodore 64, but I love the Mandelbrot PETSCII program on the PET 8032 so much I could not resist. On this weeks episode of “Stupid Races Between Old Computery Things" PET vs C64(80 columns) vs 128 (10x speed) #commodore
This took me a while to figure out: All permutations of a naturally ordered string. In Python/Rust I'd use recursion, but on an 8-Bit you run out of space on the stack pretty quickly. Managed to come up with a working iterative version. Now I'll redo it in Assembly ;-) #commodore →