Author:

• Name: Vince Weaver
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make all

To use:

    ./prog

Try:

    ./try.sh

Judges’ remarks:

Why did this winning entry win the Sur prize? As the expression goes, “Seeing (and hearing) is believing”: or at least can lead to better understanding of the code. :o)

In addition to the visual output, this program will attempt to use /usr/bin/aplay to play a raw 8kHz/8-bit unsigned sound file (a copy of which may be find found in the file ref.raw).

In case you do not hear any sound, or lack /usr/bin/aplay, or otherwise cannot play a raw 8kHz/8-bit unsigned sound file: in separate window using your favorite sound player, play the WAVE file ref.mp3 while you are running this code.

Author’s remarks:

Requirements

This requires a terminal emulator that supports 24-bit ANSI colors. These days most Linux terminal emulators do, including stock xterm (at least on Debian).

There is sound too! On a Debian system at least if you have /usr/bin/aplay it will attempt to pipe the sound into it at the default 8kHz/8-bit unsigned. If aplay(1) is not detected it will write the sound to the file r.raw which you can then try to play on your sound program of choice, or if you have a SUN machine, cat it to /dev/audio.

Obfuscation

It was so hard to get this to fit in the size requirements that I stopped obfuscating once I made it fit.

Attempts to make things look cooler or shrink things more only seemed to make things bigger somehow.

Background

Hopefully it’s obvious what this is. I wish I had more space, I could have made it sneakier and also had a few more frames of animation.

It’s about half animation, half music right now. I should have optimized the music better.

Believe it or not this is actually a rough port of an Atari 2600 version of this program.

Primary files

• prog.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• prog.orig.c - original source code
• ref.mp3 - ref.raw converted into MP3, 256 kbps, 48 kHz, JntStereo
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 2024_weaver.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• ref.raw - 8kHz 8-bit unsigned raw sound file
• index.html - this web page

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