Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make
There is an alternate version with vi(m) key movements. See Alternate code below.
To use:
./ctk
Alternate code:
This alternate version adds to the movement keys l for right, h for left and
k for straight.
Alternate build:
make alt
Alternate use:
./ctk.alt
Judges' remarks:
No matter how careful you are, this guy eventually crashes. Most people can make at least one successful road trip without crashing.
This is, of course, another of the retro games.
Author's remarks:
This is a game based on an Apple
II Print Shop
Companion Easter egg named
'DRIVER', in which the goal is to drive as fast as you can down a long twisty
highway without running off the road. Use ,./, [ ], or bnm to go left,
straight, and right respectively. Use 1234 to switch gears. q quits. The
faster you go and the thinner the road is, the more points you get. Most of the
obfuscation is in the nonsensical if statements among other things. It works
best on the Linux console: you get engine sound (!) and the * Lock keyboard
lights tell you what gear you're in (none lit=4th). The q argument (no
leading -) will silence the sound. It won't work on a terminal smaller than
80x24, but it works fine with more (try it in an XTerm with the "Unreadable"
font and the window maximized vertically!).