Elite's crazy tokenized string routine

Re:Elite's crazy tokenized string routine by fsk on Monday January 26, 2015 @07:44PM (#8950639)

It isn't that crazy when you realize that, on those old systems, every byte counted. If he could save 50-100 bytes with that weird method, it was worth it.

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Re:Elite's crazy tokenized string routine by Rabidgremlin on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:41PM (#8950983)

The entire universe was procedurally generated because you couldn't hold all the data in the memory of an early microcomputer.

I have a write up on how it worked here: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2015/01/14/procedural-content-g...

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Re:Elite's crazy tokenized string routine by teamonkey on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:17PM (#8950925)

I wonder if, as well as saving space and obfuscating the code for hackers, the tokens helped the random name generator produce more pronounceable results, perhaps more so than simply alternating consonant and vowels?

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Re:Elite's crazy tokenized string routine by rodgerd on Monday January 26, 2015 @07:51PM (#8950659)

About a third of a percent of the memory available in a Model B.

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