eviljonnyDec 11

Awesome! I finally got a horizontal 6 digit numeric display working in my Advent of Code solve on an Atari 2600.

It looks so much nicer, and it also frees up a LOT of CPU cycles to solve the puzzle faster.

Hopefully in a few minutes I should have a new "how long it takes to solve". Previously it was 81 seconds.....lets see how fast we can get!

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Boom! Using all the cpu cycles I freed up it now completes in 4.8 seconds!

It also looks a lot nicer (although very simple)

Dec 11 at 10:37pmWeb
Show threadeviljonnyDec 11
I think there is still a small amount of time that could be shaved off if I can learn to use the in built timing to count down instead of counting cycles and scanlines manually, I'm not sure it's worth it, although I will learn about the inbuilt timers, and maybe implement them as a learning exercise if they work well enough