James Holderness

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Looking at the code for **digitalr.bf**, it definitely looks to me like it's intended to work with numbers and not letters. Every character that is read has 48 subtracted (i.e....

This seems fair enough - I think the changes you've made have mitigated a lot of the problems. I'm personally not a fan of _bef_ having warnings on by default,...

The reference interpreter will store the value as a signed char, i.e. -95, but there is a wide variation in behaviour by other interpreters. Some use signed values, some use...

The specification just refers to the playfield cells as "characters", which leaves some room for interpretation, but a signed long seems a bit of a stretch. Also, speaking as a...

I can confirm that MSVC is signed by default, and `/J` or `-J` enables the unsigned option. For Befunge programmers concerned about portability, it's worth noting that there actually quite...

`-p 4` should definitely be attempting to give you a representative palette. But if the images you are encoding contain a broad range of colors, then it may just be...

> I did try some B&W images and am still getting no change of the default palette. So, something's a bit off. OK, that is strange. Can you perhaps try...

> We want to backup a region of the screen, draw over the top of it, and then dismiss it and have what was behind it get restored. I wonder...

I was just doing some research on the rectangular editing operations ([`DECCRA`](https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECCRA.html), [`DECFRA`](https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECFRA.html), [`DECERA`](https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECERA.html), etc.), and it occurred to me that these functions may provide a solution to the layering...