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Q: First person to ever beat Classic Tetris

vengyBackground Blue Scuti became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Here's the Tetris kill screen Challenge Output the following Tetris kill screen board (10x20 blocks) EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEE...

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Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Divmod continuosly until the remainder is 1 or 0, then get the remainder, The Elements Of The Periodic Table!
 
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l4m2
l4m2
07:16
@Bubbler I mean someone modify sandbox to "Posted" or just the title, in this case does it still say here?
 
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mousetail
mousetail
11:54
TIL some unicode codepoints require 3 surrogate "pairs" to encode in utf-16. I guess pair isn't really accurate
l4m2
l4m2
Why didn't they use paging to simulate A20? Will they do that?
Simd
Simd
12:37
I can't work out if it is better to ask fastest-algorithm here or on SO. What do people think?
 
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Neil
Neil
13:49
@l4m2 paging? on the 286?
l4m2
l4m2
Just "0-FFFFF: 0, 100000-1FFFFF: 0"
Neil
Neil
(point being that 286 has the A20 problem but doesn't support paging)
also, even on the 386, paging requires virtual 86 mode via EMM386.EXE, so not available by default, and also another potential source of program incompatibility
 
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noodle man
noodle man
17:16
@Simd i think on SO you'd be more likely to get an answer but it would be less good, not sure though
SO people also like to close questions like that if you don't phrase it carefully
if the question is "how can i make this algorithm faster", you'd need to have code that works but isn't fast enough
or at least pseudocode
Simd
Simd
17:52
@noodleman thanks. I do think you get a better quality answer here even though there' are only a small number of people interested
noodle man
noodle man
that sounds right to me
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Nicolas FormichellaValidate a codice fiscale Every Italian resident/citizen is given a 16-character alphanumeric codice fiscale Challenge The final letter is a check code, which is calculated as follows : Characters of the code are split up into even and odd character according to their positions (check letter exc...


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