The Pico RP2040 Mandlebrot challenge!

[techman-001]

Can you beat Matthias's Mandlebrot binary of 252 Bytes ?



See this URL for the details and complete project including the Assembly source.

https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/rpi-pico.html#the-pico-mandlebrot-challenge

[SiliconWizard]

Well, there is an assembly source, but no Forth source code to be seen? Isn't mecrisp stuff meant to be Forth?
I would have been curious to take a look at the Forth code for this.

[techman-001]

Well, there is an assembly source, but no Forth source code to be seen? Isn't mecrisp stuff meant to be Forth?
I would have been curious to take a look at the Forth code for this.

The Mecrisp-Stellaris architect wrote the Mandlebrot challenge in Assembly as his aim was minimal binary size.

Mecrisp-Stellaris is 100% Assembly itself and its users are conversant in both languages.

[hamster_nz]

Worth squirreling away for the H/W setup code alone... (which is about 2/3rds of the projects ~300 lines). 

[techman-001]

Worth squirreling away for the H/W setup code alone... (which is about 2/3rds of the projects ~300 lines).

Plus the toolset is all GPL'd, (like everything Mecrisp*).

[techman-001]

New Release @ 1 March 2021.

Prints a Mandlebrot to a serial terminal and has a breathing LED effect while waiting for keypress, all in a 252 Byte binary!

Also includes a lot of extra information including emulator, fully commented assembly source and proof of concept files.

Same URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/files/mandelboot.tar.gz

[techman-001]

New Release @ 4 Mar 2021.

Now with Mandlebrot and Tricorn Set plus a breathing LED cosine effect while waiting for keypress.

 Still in a 252 Bytes binary executable for the Pico.

https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/rpi-pico.html#the-pico-mandlebrot-challenge