Posted By
Dunric on 2004-06-29 20:00:02
| 2K Text Adventure competition (June to September 2004)
I am organizing a 1 to 2KB text adventure competition. See below:
http://panks.freeshell.org/advcomp.html
"Is it possible to write a text adventure in under 2K of RAM? Some people have tried, and some have succeeded.
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 written for the following computing platforms: Commodore 64/128/+4/Vic-20/PET, TI 99/4A, IBM PC/PCJr, Atari 400/800, Apple II/IIe, Sinclair, TRS-80, Color Computer, Acorn, Tomy Tutor, Bally Astrocade, Linux, Mac and Windows/DOS.
Please submit your 1 to 2K adventure games to me. The 2K size can be either the source coce, or the EXE, BIN, OBJ, PRG, ELF or other self-contained, self-running binary. So you can thus have, say, a 8K source code listing, so long as the binary format doesn't exceed 2.9KB of size. You may also crunch the binary down with a compressing program such as UPX or Winzip. The competition officially begins on June 28, 2004, and runs through September 29, 2004. I will post all submissions, regardless of when they were submitted, and then review them and post grades on this page on October 7th. Good luck! =)
To help get you started, see my 8KB adventure game, in BASIC, called The Melarkian.
Sincerely,
Paul Allen Panks dunric@gmail.com
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