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Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C

94 points · 17 comments · 2 days ago · nanochess

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QuaternionsBhop10 hours ago
I recently wrote klondike in Rust after getting frustrated with bugs in my friend's LLM-written version. I highly recommend it as a recreational programming exercise, the first 4 hour blitz filling out the types was a blast. Later, trying to make as many invalid moves unexpressable by the given types as possible was a fun challenge. I ended up with a 232 byte struct for the board state with all values stack-allocated. The only way to make it considerably smaller would probably be to encode card permutations.
yalue1 hour ago
Truly the biggest prize of the IOCCC is getting your name listed next to geniuses like the author of nanochess.
0fflineuser4 hours ago
Made me remember these neovim plugins :
https://github.com/rktjmp/playtime.nvim
https://github.com/rktjmp/shenzhen-solitaire.nvim
The author does some cool stuff.
baudaux9 hours ago
I put csol in https://exaequos.com:
https://github.com/nielssp/csol
Type: /usr/games/csol in the terminal (or find solitaire)
userbinator10 hours ago
Everyone knows that the != operator is a surplus of the C language, use only the minus operator.
It's notable that on most CPUs, the comparison instruction is equivalent to a subtraction but without writing the actual result.
saurabhsinghvi5 hours ago
My god this is insane! You'll steal a lot of hearts
patdoli1 hour ago
undo is always where these tiny games stop being tiny
Hugsbox5 hours ago
That source code is melting my brain
ares62311 hours ago
I thought games need GPU acceleration and React? How is this possible?
mgc88 hours ago
This is seriously cool, and as a bonus reminds me to brush up on my C knowledge to finally submit an IOCCC entry...
indianmouse5 hours ago
Fantastic read and article.
As an ardent follower of IOCCC since ages (where I learnt a trick or two during the initial C days around late 90s) this is seriously cool!
Many may not even appreciate the power of C! Becoz hardly it is getting taught and used nowadays. People who know knows it better. The laziness and wrappers have taken over the programming world and now AI is taking it to another level.
In near future, I guess people might even forget to code! Where to optimize and obfuscate then? Skilled ones would need to be preserved with awe!
Need to document them (not as a training material for AI for sure!), but somewhere else where it could be learnt by the one who needs it! Privately!
Having it on the internet is definitely prone to stealing / misusing it in the name of fair use policy.

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