diff --git a/2001/anonymous/try.sh b/2001/anonymous/try.sh
index fc509fca7..71330cfc5 100755
--- a/2001/anonymous/try.sh
+++ b/2001/anonymous/try.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2001/anonymous
+#
 
-make clobber alt all >/dev/null 2>&1
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
 
+# in this case we won't fail if we can't compile the code because we can still
+# run the supplementary program.
+make CC="$CC" everything >/dev/null
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
 
 TARGET="anonymous.ten"
 if [[ -f "$TARGET" ]]; then
@@ -28,6 +42,7 @@ if [[ -f "$TARGET" ]]; then
 else
     echo "cannot compile anonymous.ten.c as 32-bit, sorry."
     echo "will run 64-bit version directly."
+    make anonymous.ten.64
     sleep 3
     echo "$ ./$TARGET.64"
     ./"$TARGET".64