Re: The 1st Annual 1-2K Text Adventure Competition

["RootShell" <RootShell@Netcabo.pt>]

"Chris Cowley" <forename.surname@invalid.grok.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:54:41 +0000 (UTC), Paul Allen Panks
> <panks@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> >I would like to officially announce the formation of The 1st Annual 1 to
> >2K Classic Text Adventure Competition. I will be accepting BASIC, C/C++,
> >Fortran and Assembly language submissions for 1 to 2K text adventures
>
> Sounds like fun. I think I might have a go at a game for the Spectrum.
> My creative writing skills aren't really up to much though!
>
> Like Gene Wirchenko, I'd also like to know whether the 2K limit is on
> the source or the binary. I personally think it would make sense for the
> limit to be on the size of the binary for submissions intended to be
> compiled/assembled, and on the source for interpreted submissions, with
> any dynamically-allocated space used for variables or temporary storage
> not included in the limit (it would start to get annoyingly difficult to
> police variable usage when you're at the mercy of platform-specific
> garbage collection, etc -- and this is supposed to be fun, right?).
>
> [rec.games.int-fiction removed -- I think that newsgroup is intented for
> discussing games that actually exist!]
> -- 
> Chris Cowley

Chris

For what i know ot the *raif* (rec.games.int-fiction) they are referring to
source code.