Dirty Tricks 6502 Programmers Use

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https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html

This post recaps some of the C64 coding tricks used in my little Commodore 64 coding competition. The competition rules were simple: make a C64 executable (PRG) that draws two lines to form the below image (https://nurpax.github.io/images/c64/lines/lines-2x.png). The objective was to do this in as few bytes as possible.

[ Obviously this was intended for assembly language, but using any language you choose, how small a runtime can you produce that achieves the same function? The rules are very loose - have fun. --JR ]

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