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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Chris Cowley" <forename.surname@invalid.grok.co.uk> wrote in
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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!]

Also, this should be in comp.sys.apple2.programmer,
don't you agree??  :o)

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