I'm not sure if it's optimal, but this is a 2-burn solution that does 1 burn to hit x=20 and another to hit v>=-14 right afterwards: https://gist.github.com/sgentle/d88dd6fe37e76f9167db24379dc7...
Even then they were underwhelming...
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/sbqa61/gorilla...
anonzzzies•3mo ago
[0] https://archive.org/details/msx-gids-nr.-08/mode/2up
citbl•3mo ago
All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.
No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.
Good times.
1313ed01•3mo ago
Almost 40 years later, in 2025, I learned about the "protected" save format in GW-BASIC, and that there are tools to open those files and allow you to list the code.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7104/how-...
dahart•3mo ago
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.