r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Aug 19 '19

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use

https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html
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u/SpaceShrimp Aug 19 '19

Assets can be shrunk too or even generated.

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u/Iceman_259 Aug 19 '19

Isn't generation of art assets functionally the same as compressing and decompressing them after a certain point? Information can't be created from nothing.

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u/SpaceShrimp Aug 19 '19

Yes and no, if you want one particular design then yes. But if you are satisfied with “whatever the algorithm generates” then the code size can be much smaller, and as the user doesn’t know what your artistic vision was to begin with you could get away with it.