Hi Michal, I am trying to find your contact to send you a proposal for a C++ game kit. If you are interested I can contact you by email. Cheers!

cant run on windows server 2008 r2 x64

I was wondering if a version can be made where one can generate an iso (and also an disc) or something that can be playable on the normal Playstation (ePSXe), Playstation 2, or even Playstation 3?

Running this command:

dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:Mode=CoreRT

Produces this result:

error : Platform linker not found. To fix this problem, download and install
Visual Studio 2017 from http://visualstudio.com. Make sure to install the
Desktop Development for C++ workload.

Is Visual Studio really required to make these examples work? Is it possible
whatever its looking for is in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET? I dont mind a 153 MB
download of DotNet, but asking for a 80 GB install [1] to build "hello world" is
a little much.

1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/techtalks/mvp/installation-size-of-different-visual-studio-2017-workloads

Amazing. Did you ever try to execute C# on Arduino? I think it's possible to do that.

Hey, awesome article! I wanted to give a whirl to unleash upx --best zerosnake.exe on the 8k version, but I got

upx: zerosnake.exe: CantPackException: filealign < 0x200 is not yet supported

I don't have all the .NET / Windows development environment set up, but it looks like I would try to increase /filealign:16 in the last command to hopefully fix this. Even if it increases the size, UPX may go farther.

I guess it's kind of a cheat, but it would be interesting to see how much farther it's possible to go.

Getting following error. Am I missing something?

dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:Mode=CoreRT
MSBuild version 17.4.0+18d5aef85 for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored C:\test\SeeSharpSnake.csproj (in 287 ms).
  SeeSharpSnake -> C:\test\SeeSharpSnake\bin\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\SeeSharpSnake.dll
  Generating compatible native code. To optimize for size or speed, visit https://aka.ms/OptimizeCoreRT
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\7.0.100\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.ConflictResolution.targets(112,5): err
or NETSDK1152: Found multiple publish output files with the same relative path: C:\test\SeeSharpS
nake\obj\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\apphost.exe, bin\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\native\SeeSharpSnake.exe. [C:\test\SeeSharpSnake\SeeSharpSnake.csproj]

bart@myLaptopWithWsl2:~/SeeSharpSnake$ dotnet run -r linux-x64
Unhandled exception. System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Operation is not supported on this platform.
   at System.ConsolePal.SetWindowSize(Int32 width, Int32 height)
   at System.Console.SetWindowSize(Int32 width, Int32 height)
   at Game.Main() in /home/bart/SeeSharpSnake/Game/Game.cs:line 91

I guess the only solution would be getting #if fy ?

First go here:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1

Download SDK Windows Binary x64, then extract. Then run:

dotnet new console -o sunday

Then take one of your example commands:

dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Release /p:Mode=CoreRT sunday

this creates:

$ fd exe sunday -x wc -c
169984 sunday\bin\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\publish\sunday.exe
169984 sunday\bin\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\sunday.exe
169984 sunday\obj\Release\netcoreapp3.1\win-x64\sunday.exe

I dont know why it makes 3 of the same thing, but whatever. So if you try to run
one of them, you get:

A fatal error occurred. The required library hostfxr.dll could not be found.

So how is that self contained?

Downloaded from https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/SeeSharpSnake/releases/tag/v1.0

When i am running the game i get this error: │ Unhandled exception. System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: The value must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the console's buffer size in that dimension. (Parameter 'top')
Actual value was 20.
at System.ConsolePal.SetCursorPosition(Int32 left, Int32 top)
at System.Console.SetCursorPosition(Int32 left, Int32 top)
at FrameBuffer.Render()
at Game.Run(FrameBuffer& fb)
at Game.Main()

To expose some of the functions?