Alexander Knochel
Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz@MOOMANiBE Well thanks for the cliffhanger, HOW WAS IT RENDERED INVISIBLE
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Marcin Wichary
mwichary@mastodon.online@MOOMANiBE @inthehands What in the actual hell! Is this… steganography?
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Donald Hobern
dhobern@scicomm.xyzWhat did they implement in these 1760 bytes? It reads like they implemented the _interpreter_ in that. Or was this a window into which they loaded the BASIC program they wanted to run?
The description seems incomplete.
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Donald Hobern
dhobern@scicomm.xyzThat makes sense. And were the BASIC keywords themselves just 1 byte each (part of the character set)?
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Kernel Bob
kbob@chaos.social@Quantensalat @MOOMANiBE I'm guessing they set up a color map where all the identical-in-the-visible-bits entries mapped to the same color. That'd give 16 distinct colors with 8 bits/pixel.
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Paul Cantrell
inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis is a shitpost embedded ina Wikipedia article, right? Right?????
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@inthehands @MOOMANiBE @dduan Having worked in smartcard development, I find it plausible. When you put a bunch of engineers with very strict ressource limits, they can become VERY creative
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F4GRX Sébastien
f4grx@chaos.social@R1Rail @inthehands @MOOMANiBE @dduan oh yeah. Still doing that in 2025. My work platform has 16k of RAM.
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F4GRX Sébastien
f4grx@chaos.social@MOOMANiBE people knew how to code in that time. Now they cry to get more ram while doing everything in nodejs.
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PheebeUK
Pheebe@tech.lgbt@jbqueru @dhobern @MOOMANiBE based on the wiki page saying you have to use key combinations to enter the program via the calculator keypad, it sounds like it was entered tokenised like the ZX Spectrum.
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@MOOMANiBE there was an 8 bit 3d racing game that kept part of its code in the sky
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Pavel Machek
pavel
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