Landon Curt Noll
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The largest change was due to modifying `ioccc.css` that resulted in all year and entry tarballs being modified. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
Award presentation:
Watch the Our Favorite Universe YouTube show for this entry:
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.