Re:Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
by dpkingma on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:38AM
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Haha, I made that, thanks for dredging this up! I really enjoyed optimizing that z80 assembly code to make it sufficiently fast for that tiny processor. Back then we had no smartphones in class so the ti83 was quite popular for playing games etc, and hand written assembly code was the only way to make it fast. Great learning experience.
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I knew immediately that the link was to Desolate before opening it :) It blew me away the first time I played it, as I was used to my shitty turn-based TI-BASIC games.
Cool to see that one of the authors of the most cited paper in machine learning also got their start hacking on TI calculators. What a great learning environment that was!
Re:Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
by joshstrange on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:31PM
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Holy crap! This takes me back. I used this (or something based on it) on my TI84 SE+ to play around with grayscale over a decade ago. It's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article. I never got into ASM on the TI calcs but I wrote a TON of TI-Basic. I spent a ton of time on those forums and posted a number of apps/games I wrote (though I can't find them now).