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2Bit Mess   [2011]

2Bit Mess Released by :
Crossbow

Release Date :
6 September 2011

Type :
C64 Basic Demo

AKA :
Goto Considered Harmful

Released At :
First International GOTO-less BASIC coding competition

Achievements :
C64 Basic Demo Competition at First International GOTO-less BASIC coding competition :  #2

User rating:**********  9.7/10 (18 votes)   See votestatistics

Credits :
Code .... Crossbow of Crest

Download :

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User Comment
Submitted by Viscid on 12 April 2020
I missed that one for 9 year. Srsly WTF ;)
User Comment
Submitted by slack_ on 10 September 2011
any character that could be typed at a c64 keyboard is legal.

If my analysis of the decoding tables at $EB81, $EBC2, $EC03 and $EC78 is correct, These are the bytes that can't be entered from the keyboard:

$60,$61,$62,$63,$64,$65,$66,$67,$68,$69,$6a,$6b,$6c,$6d,$6e,$6f,$70,$71,$72,$73,$74,$75,$76,$77,$78,$79,$7a,$7b,$7c,$7d,$7e,$7f,$80,$82,$84,$8e,$8f,$e0,$e1,$e2,$e3,$e4,$e5,$e6,$e7,$e8,$e9,$ea,$eb,$ec,$ed,$ee,$ef,$f0,$f1,$f2,$f3,$f4,$f5,$f6,$f7,$f8,$f9,$fa,$fb,$fc,$fd,$fe

As far as I can work out, those "illegal" bytes don't appear in the embedded strings, so it's all perfectly legit.
User Comment
Submitted by DeeKay on 8 September 2011
It's a bit of a cheat (wasn't "no illegal characters" a requirement? But that begs the question: What does "illegal characters" entail?), but I just love it how he manages to put the binary encoder AND a progress counter into merely 2 lines. I was also wondering why he started with 40, wasting several bytes, until i noticed that line 41 is actually part of line 40, and he just made it to look nice! ;-)

Also: Why was this added to CSDb and 4bit mess and 6bit mess not? 8) They're even better!
User Comment
Submitted by Mr. Mouse on 7 September 2011
Excellence!!
User Comment
Submitted by Medicus on 7 September 2011
Thank god this was no listing in a computer-magazine ;)
User Comment
Submitted by Digger on 7 September 2011
Amazing! 4 bit and 6 bit versions rulez too! (CMD+W to speed up)
User Comment
Submitted by Cobra/Samar on 6 September 2011
basic rulez:))
User Comment
Submitted by Stainless Steel on 6 September 2011
Awesome shit.

Is it a basic depacker that recreates the machine code ? atleast there's runable asm routines in memory after the "depacking". nice idea.

No way anyone could pull this off in pure basic, not even xbow :-D

User Comment
Submitted by WVL on 6 September 2011
ARRRR!!! No idea how you pulled it off (guess : extra bits in the listing that are not needed for the actual program), but i *love* the listing :D
User Comment
Submitted by Pantaloon on 6 September 2011
HAHA!!! awesome!
User Comment
Submitted by bepp on 6 September 2011
Beautiful! (And well worth the wait)
User Comment
Submitted by CreaMD on 6 September 2011
Not from earth.
User Comment
Submitted by Chico on 6 September 2011
OMG !!!!!!
User Comment
Submitted by Skate on 6 September 2011
basic listing!!! \o/
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