TIS-100 Hacker's Guide

Introduction

The TIS-100 Hacker's Guide is for people intrested in the guts of TIS-100.

• Puzzle Lua documents how TIS-100 interacts with puzzles written in Lua, for use both by puzzles creators and emulator creators.

  • Lua Library documents the functions and constants available to puzzle Lua.

  • math.random() and math.randomseed() documents how TIS-100's versions of those functions behave and can be reproduced.

  • Lua Style documents the style used by the official puzzles.

• Assembly is designed to carefully document the exact behavior of TIS-100 solutions, with an eye towards supporting emulators.

  • Graphics Display documents the interface to the "visualization module"

• Save File Format documents how TIS-100 saves solutions on disk. This may be useful to emulators wishing to load or create compatible save games.