Draculark: Mudlarking and vampire hunting game in APL for the Commodore SuperPET

I don’t know how to better explain to the hn algorithm than upvoting - but THIS is the exact sort of thing that should be on the front page on a Sunday. Perfection!

⍴((U⍳U)=⍳⍴U)/U for counting the unique is wasteful too, as we only need the count, not the actual items, so +/(U⍳U)=⍳⍴U or (U⍳U)+.=⍳⍴U is enough.

That's awesome, and I assume a great way to learn APL. The source can be found here: https://solarbreeze.itch.io/draculark I wonder if and how the C64 Waterloo microAPL code can be easily ported to BQN or J, although I like the C64 the IDE and limited screen is not ideal.

There’s a fair amount of jargon here I don’t get all, but I think I get the vibe overall, and I appreciate it. This looks like a game I would have played over and over and over again at my buddy’s house when he was the only other kid I knew that had a computer besides myself

"Mudlarking" is the act of looking for historical artifacts (uncharitably: old garbage) from the river Thames when the tide goes out

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848024-mudlarking-in-the...

This is glorious! I hope the Array Cast guys cover it

Oh man. I have SUCH good memories of my school's SP9000. It was the first machine I really got to use APL with. Thx for digging this up. Also... there were APL compilers back in the day. It wasn't exclusively interpreted.

It'd be nice if the code was available as Unicode text too.

Love the premise/setting of this idea.