On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 6:53:16 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:   
   > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:21:40 -0800, ArcadeAge wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 12:30:49 PM UTC+1, ArcadeAge wrote:   
   > >> On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 8:21:52 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:   
   > >> > Hello Commodore fans,   
   > >> >   
   > >> > You may have heard of the Advent of Code challenge.  For a bit of fun I   
   > >> > decided to do day 6 of the challenge on the Commodore 128 using its   
   built   
   > >> > in Basic.  It took days to calculate but it was great to be able to   
   > >> > complete it on this machine.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > I had to use Vice though as my real machine has a memory fault which I   
   > >> > need to get around to solving.  The advantage of Vice was that   
   > >> > I could easily transfer the code between the emulator and my Linux box   
   to   
   > >> > put it in a github repo and on my website.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > If you're interested here it is:   
   > >> >   
   https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#da   
   y6   
   > >> >   
   > >> I copied the code you published into VICE and was disappointed to get   
   nothing but an OUT OF DATA ERROR IN 6050.   
   > >> Trying to figure out what's missing, I realized that the site you linked   
   to merely gives a tiny example that's already solved in place.   
   > >> So I guess they give the additional problem data only to those who   
   register (which I won't).   
   > >> Does the challenge consist in writing a fully general solution to the   
   mathematical problem? Or are they content if your program can solve the given   
   major problem?   
   > >> Would it be a lot of work to devise a problem instance that is too hard to   
    solve by hand but still can be solved by a standard Commodore 128 within a few   
    minutes?   
   > >   
   > > Ok, there are enough data, but line numbers are re-used, overwriting   
   previously entered code. Easy to fix.   
   > > VICE running at ~4000% -- faster than any SuperCPU, I guess.   
   >   
   > I'm glad you noticed that.  I never noticed because I used petcat to   
   > create the .PRG so it wasn't a problem.  I have just gone back and   
   > changed the code.  Thanks.   
   >   
   > 4000% wow, my machine must be getting old, the most I've managed on   
   > vice is about 480%.   
   >   
   > Lorry   
   >   
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   More likely you're running VICE with all the bells & whistles on.   
   Switch off sound and true drive emulation (and anything else that's expensive   
   to emulate).   
   As I had to learn today, percentages are (of course) relative. The program runs   
    even faster in 80 column fast mode, although the percentage is then only 2500   
   -- relative to 2 MHz, that is.   
      
   Are any VICE developers reading this? We need a feature to pause warp mode once   
    the interpreter is ready again (or waiting for keyboard input, or has printed   
   a specified number of lines, or ... it's Christmas soon, isn't it?).   
      
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