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Meat Fighter
Personal blog · meatfighter.comgamesprogramming
Meat Fighter is a personal blog at meatfighter.com about games and programming. Since 2010, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “The MAD Computer Program”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
A mostly pointless blog about retro games, programming, comics, and experiments.
Most-linked posts?
- The MAD Computer Program5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-12-11
- Project Amiga Juggler4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-01
- ASCII Silhouettify3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
- CastlevaniaBot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-10
- Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-27
- Tetris Printer Algorithm (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-07
- Turing's Maze2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-06
- Tetris Printer Algorithm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-03
- /ascii-silhouettify/spa/index.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
- Castlevania III Password Algorithm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-31
What Hacker News says?
Awesome. This is the cleanest ascii-art tool I've seen, so far. To date, I've been using https://asciiflow.com/#/ and https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/ to create input text for TerminalTextEffects to create terminal animations like the following: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/img/change... https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
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on “Monodraw”Submitted ASCII Silhouettify as a story · 539 points
HN discussionThe web version never finishes (Chromium-based browser), but the CLI version works. https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/spa/index.html#/ Obligatory pandering: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@g @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@g @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@g @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@g @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@…
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on “ASCII Silhouettify”Submitted Tetris Printer Algorithm as a story · 235 points
HN discussionCoolest page on the site: https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/color-gallery.htm...
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on “ASCII Silhouettify”Submitted Castlevania III Password Algorithm as a story · 168 points
HN discussion> Would love a web version that's easily usable though; as much as I live in the terminal, just too much of a mental burden installing a new package. The link is above the fold: https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/spa/index.html#/
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on “ASCII Silhouettify”Submitted Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600 as a story · 92 points
HN discussionIf that brought a tear to your eye, you might enjoy: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816 "Puls" by Řrřola, 256b, MS-Dos Along with this interesting explanation https://meatfighter.com/puls/ of what's happening with the "binary-search" raytracing, lattice-effect, and tricks to make it fit in 256b.
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on “Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization”Submitted The MAD Computer Program as a story · 72 points
HN discussiondedication to create an svg version... https://meatfighter.com/mad/mad.svg
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on “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine”Submitted Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris as a story · 67 points
HN discussionI remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/
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on “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine”Submitted J4K Retrospective as a story · 35 points
HN discussionYup: http://meatfighter.com/superman3/part1/
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on “Source Code in TV and Films”Submitted Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris as a story · 33 points
HN discussionMost of the Tetris versions since 2001 are theoretically able to go on forever[1]. Even the old NES version which doesn't have the same cyclic bag randomization is able to be played far enough to be considered infinite by some[2]. Your life however, has no such guarantee of fixed randomness and you might be forced into a losing situation. [1] https://tetris.wiki/Playing_forever [2] http://meatfighter.com/nintendotet…
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on “Life is more like Tetris than Chess”Submitted Encounter with the Woz (2006) as a story · 14 points
HN discussionProject Amiga Juggler: http://meatfighter.com/juggler/ Step by step tutorial in Java.
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on “A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer”Submitted Castlevania III Password Algorithm as a story · 14 points
HN discussionOverlapping instructions/data is something also commonly encountered in tiny demos (512b and below), e.g. http://meatfighter.com/puls/ and http://finalpatch.blogspot.ca/2014/06/dissecting-128-byte-ra... I have no doubt that viruses of the computer kind also have made use of such techniques; and overlapping for obfuscation, not size-optimisation, is also a commonly seen trick in malware.
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on “The world's smallest self-replicating program”Submitted Project Amiga Juggler as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTyping in BASIC programs from magazines… brings back memories. Remember the Mad Magazine that had a program to draw Alfred E. Neumann? Here I just found it: https://meatfighter.com/mad/ That and going to the weird room at the dept. of education across from the library that kept drawers full of floppies and sifting through all the random public domain code & shareware.
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on “Moonlander.BAS”Submitted Weave Maze Generator as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLove the monochrome gallery of examples https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/monochrome-galler...
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on “ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering”Submitted Tetris Is Capable of Universal Computation as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> I don’t believe I’ve ever seen shape utilized in generated ASCII art, and I think that’s because it’s not really obvious how to consider shape when building an ASCII renderer. Not to take away from this truly amazing write-up (wow), but there's at least one generator that uses shape: https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/ See particularly the image right above where it says "Note how the algorithm selects the…
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on “ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering”Submitted Much Ado About Seven Bytes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTo skip the Tetris rules and read the A.I. parts, go to http://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/#The_Algorithm
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on “Applying Artificial Intelligence to Nintendo Tetris”Submitted The Mad Magazine Basic Computer Program as a story · 3 points
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