Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-02-25
09:04:25
 |  Re: limiTED'09?
I do like the PETSCII demo thing (ever since I did "fancy" directories for some games I've been infected with this). However, in limited size demos, I'd rather see "everything" possible.
For PETSCII only demos you'd need to clarify many details, e.g. changing of background and border colors allowed?, softscrolling allowed?, non standard video modes allowed?, ECM allowed?, PETSCII in bitmap screen allowed?, doublebuffering allowed?, ...
Or you just allow anything but then just sticking to PETSCII doesn't make much sense because reloading VRAM lets you emulate chunky bitmaps which would destroy the PETSCII look.
In contrast to that, you could forbid almost any TED register access. Though, I do like sound in demos and sqeezing some music into a limited range of memory is an extra challenge.
Many things to consider and we might end up with a set of rules that suck. Therefore, I like a fixed byte size better and the only other rule should be "Needs to run on a standard C 16, C 116 and plus/4".
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