You could simulate two black knights fighting at midnight.

Defender of the disk space

So on a floppy-disk you can store 300 games.
Your whole gamestash on one disk.

No need for the fancy usb-flashdrive modern stuff anymore.

I call that an improvement.

i like your projects too. it's a lot of fun to work with such limits.

i guess you can do a lot more with 4k of java than what was possible with 4k on a home computer from the 80s?

Well, naturally. Java's a very high level language, and high level languages are generally much more concise than, say, assembler.

Interesting note about java4k though: while your projects can only occupy 4k of disk space, they can however use as much internal memory as you need.

In Java4k, we are using a highly optimized and compressed archives. Not an executable.
Also Java provides many high-level methods Wich only need to be called. The unpacking is also handled externally.
And as said, you can use a lot (not all) of your provided memory, and much higher Processorspeed than in the old days.


All this adds to the possibibily to make complex games in such a small size.

Nevertheless, 4k does not give you space to store any
"normal" assets, images or sounds. So its heavily relying on
procedural generation.
Even a short text can often drive the game out of bounds.

The resulting sourcecode also looks very messi. And highly linear. (mostly using just one Class, with one main procedure, and 2 small Appletspecific procedures)

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Even in gamestudio, Im shure its possible to write a decent game
in like 64kB(zipped), if the enginefiles are not counted in.
Last 256k contest already showed that some cool games can result out of that.

Btw, this text here is already 1.034 Bytes ACSII

Vinter + Animations = <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeQbEP_Mpng

now that's what i call a sense of humour
nice games btw

The first version of the website with two first levels is finally online http://lilly.slindev.com

Wo studierst du jetzt eigentlich genau?