4ktro
nounEtymology Blend of 4k and intro. See k (“kilobyte”).
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Computing, Demoscene, Engineering, Lifestyle, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An intro that can be stored in four kilobytes of memory (intended to challenge the programmer, who must write compact and efficient code to achieve this).
- Win a price^([sic]) in the 4ktro compo! Win a price in the grafix compo! Win a price in the music compo! Join the Autumn Event in South Germany!1996, Hagen Deike, “InterCon LAST CHANCE”, in fido.ger.ibm (Usenet):
- I thought about writing a 4ktro for the TI-83 once, but really the only effects you could do would be rotozoomers, wire vectors, and scrollers.1997, h75h70, “ZShell anyone?”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet):
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