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

[Wing Fong Wong <wing@tardonttarus.uspamwa.emedu.au>]

In comp.sys.atari.8bit Chris Cowley <forename.surname@invalid.grok.co.uk> wrote:
> 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!]
This does sound like fun. Actually right at this moment I'm writing a 
random maze adventure game on my HP49g+. It a old conversion of a game
I written for the c64 years and years ago. IIRC it was quite a bit over
2K tho.

Oh well, back to writting.
-- 
Wing Wong
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