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PICO-8 size optimization stuff

Here are some simple ways to make your PICO-8 code fit in 140 characters (as in the tweetjam craze). I did not invent these, I merely observed and collected them from the tweetjam thread.

LUA syntax stuff

Use single character variable names
Use x=.1 and x=.023, not x=0.1 or x=0.023
x=1/3 is shorter than x=.3333
You don't need to separate everything with spaces or write them on their own lines, e.g. circ(x,y,1)pset(z,q,7) works just as well

Patches to skip the splashscreen and logo/version display when the PICO-8 editor starts. Intended for development purpose only.

Please check the thread: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3485. It contains instructions on how to reproduce the patch for different versions and OSes.

Download one of the patches below matching your PICO-8 version, then patch your binary.

At first I didn't manage to upload binaries as raw gists, so I pasted binary dumps instead so you could convert them back to binaries with xxd reverse dump operation xxd -r my.patch.txt > my.patch.

But I managed to upload the binaries by cloning the repo and pushing the new files back, so now both the dump and raw versions of the patches are available.

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then cat <<EOF
	appify v3.0.0 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
	Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

	Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

	`basename "$0"` my-script.sh

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	"""
	Converts between QD and FDS disk images
	"""
	import struct


	def create_fds_header(side_count):
	return b"FDS\x1A" + bytes([side_count & 0xFF]) + bytes(11)

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	"""
	Converts between QD and FDS disk images
	"""
	import struct


	def create_fds_header(side_count):
	return b"FDS\x1A" + bytes([side_count & 0xFF]) + bytes(11)

	launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist && \
	sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist && \
	sudo rm -rf /opt/X11* /Library/Launch/org.macosforge.xquartz. /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app /etc/paths.d/XQuartz && \
	sudo pkgutil --forget org.macosforge.xquartz.pkg && \
	rm -rf ~/.serverauth* && rm -rf ~/.Xauthorit* && rm -rf ~/.cache && rm -rf ~/.rnd && \
	rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 && rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/X11

	int[][] result;
	float t, c;

	float ease(float p) {
	return 3pp - 2pp*p;
	}

	float ease(float p, float g) {
	if (p < 0.5)
	return 0.5 * pow(2*p, g);

	# start with web archive's interactive search to hone in on the urls we need...
	# e.g. https://web.archive.org/web//https://www.BeejBlog.com/wp-content/uploads//

	# viewing the ajax behind the search page (browser tools > network tab) we see the json feed for flat list of images & crucial wayback datestamp
	# https://web.archive.org/cdx/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.BeejBlog.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F%2F&matchType=prefix&collapse=urlkey&output=json&fl=original%2Ctimestamp%2Cendtimestamp

	# click into the first search result and viewing the page source we see the format for direct image urls:
	# e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20160601110654if_/http://www.beejblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/204996604.jpg

	# download the json list of our urls

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	# download a page, and then download all the files on the page according to the regular expression, and store them in the folder
	use strict;
	use URI::URL;

	my $urlchars = "[^\'\"]";

	parse("http://www.test.com/", "data-bt=\"($urlchars*?\.torrent)\"", "humble");

	sub parse() {

	from requests import get
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import re
	import os

	def make_filename(fname):
	for c in ',! ().':
	fname = fname.replace(c, '_')
	while fname != fname.replace('__', '_'):
	fname = fname.replace('__', '_')