On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:32:58 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 00:20:35 +0000, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> BTW I must report to the list, with profound sadness, that Clarence has not >> sent me an ASM verson of my 'C' TSR ... no free beer for him. As I had scribbled to Ray a week or 2 ago: <quote> Lessee. I understood the challenge was to make a VGAtext screen grabber that wrote to Hercules. You wrote one in "C" that was about 4k. I said I thought it was about 300 bytes in ASM. You said if I could do that you'd by me a bunchabeer. Luckily for me (I thought) Guenter chimed in to say 300 was plenty, cuz he did it in 257 (I think). Unless I missed the POINT, that should be proof enough - after all I don't have a personal need for a VGA->HGC grabber. I do have the necessary cards and monitors, but no motivation. <g> If the point was can *I* write ASM that is more compact than "C" or can I write ASM at all, I thot the FIXMEM example (Michael Polak 8k - Clarence Verge 500 bytes) should serve. </quote> > Don't feel that you are alone in that respect. > I still haven't seen an ASM version of this one.<VBG> ;-) > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/drop487b.cpp Geez, they're all picking on me tonite.:( Thanks for an opportunity to pick at that scab again. If someone did have time to play at what I like most - writing in ASM - I think we would be further ahead to consider THESE: PNG2BMP.exe - 114328 bytes - an atrocity in C major. DJPEG32.exe - 110744 bytes - I'd rather just delete it. Insight.exe - 82400 bytes - should be about 4k max.:( WWWman.exe - 32540 bytes - this simple program should be less than 3k. BTW, the very use of the letters A S M in close proximity to one another has seemed to shut the list down for several days in the past. ;-) - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
