Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes

Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by iforgotpassword on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:59AM (#30404308)

Man, at 11 my programs mainly consisted of INPUT, PRINT and GOTO, which I wrote on my uncle's brand new IBM XT.

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Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by justinlloyd on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:06AM (#30405081)

It doesn't matter how we all started, or how fast we got here, we're here now, in the same place, the adventure only stops, when you don't want to learn new things.

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Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by rootsudo on Sunday February 20, 2022 @01:52PM (#30408221)

My programs at 11 were just Visual Basic 6 for an IE scrapper/clicker and making HTML websites in Dreamweaver 6.

Not sure why the 6 was so popular for many programs then. It was for sure Photoshop 7 era.

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Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by klyrs on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:33PM (#30410656)

My guess is that it was the last version of Visual Basic before they moved over to VB.net -- it was easy and simple, and didn't aim for industrial strength.

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Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by slim109ya on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:42AM (#30404494)

Yeah, me too. Mainly D&D character generators.

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Re:Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter ... by justinlloyd on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:09AM (#30405102)

D&D character generators were fun to write. And remember those name generators? And you could make planet name & planet environment generators, and then solar system generators for Traveller. I threw together a really bad dungeon map designer thing when I bought once of the earliest mice you could get, with the roller ball inside the mouse that you had to take out and clean.

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