| 29 Aug 2010 11:52:18 am by KermMartian |
Contest #7: One Week to Go!
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Don't forget that if it's 12:01am EDT (GMT-4) next Sunday, September 5th, 2010, you will have missed Cemetech Contest #7's deadline! Contest 7, a Doors CS-themed contest, challenges BASIC, ASM, and Axe programmers to create a program or game that takes advantage of the Doors CS features for that language, including headers and BASIC libraries for BASIC coders, and ASM features like the GUI system and AP system for ASM programmers. Entries will be graded by myself and Rivereye on the basis of originality, speed, size and use of Doors CS libraries. A first-place winner will be chosen from the ASM and the BASIC category, and an overall grand prize winner will be chosen from between those two winners.
The grand prize winner gets to choose between a unique Chameleon'd TI-73 converted into a TI-83+, the only TI-83+ in existence that can executed in RAM Bank 3 without crashing, donated courtesy of Brandon Wilson, and a TI-83+ Silver Edition, donated courtesy of Shaun "Merthsoft" McFall. The second- and third-place winners in each category will receive a USB power injector crafted by yours truly, which not only lets you plug standard USB devices like mice, keyboards, Bluetooth dongles, WiFi dongles, and more into your calculator, but injects more power than is provided by the calculator via a complex circuit and a 9V battery so high-current devices can be used.
So wrap up your entries, remember to add a readme and compress your files and readme in a zip (as well as mention which DCS versions you have tested under), and submit your entries before the deadline! Good luck to all the entrants, and feel free to post in this topic if you have any last-minute questions or points of clarification.
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| 29 Aug 2010 12:28:33 pm by _player1537 |
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Oh boy, I need to start work on my game NOW  Good thing I've got 5 math classes until then  |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:32:46 pm by KermMartian |
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| _player1537 wrote: |
| Oh boy, I need to start work on my game NOW Good thing I've got 5 math classes until then |
Good thing indeed! Although Cemetech of course does not condone working on contest entries instead of paying attention in your math classes. Good luck on your entry. |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:35:37 pm by TsukasaZX |
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| Mine's already sent in but I need to take a look at that strange graphical bug one more time to see if I can actually fix it. It has been bugging me for a while >.<; |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:38:49 pm by KermMartian |
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| KeithJohansen wrote: |
| Mine's already sent in but I need to take a look at that strange graphical bug one more time to see if I can actually fix it. It has been bugging me for a while >.<; |
Is it by any chance replicable via this?
http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=107836#107836 |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:44:29 pm by TsukasaZX |
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| KermMartian wrote: |
| KeithJohansen wrote: |
| Mine's already sent in but I need to take a look at that strange graphical bug one more time to see if I can actually fix it. It has been bugging me for a while >.<; |
Is it by any chance replicable via this?
http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=107836#107836 |
That seems to be an issue with real(3) and DCSxLIB. Mine's an issue with real(12) and xLIB. I might try a variant of that solution though. Seems like it's worth a go. |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:46:53 pm by KermMartian |
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Fair enough, and now that I'm thinking more clearly, it seems perhaps you said that you get the same behavior on both xLIB and DCSxLIB?
By the way, if you're reading this topic, you're entering, and you're not one of the following people, would you mind reminding me that you're entering?
> Souvik1997: Hybrid BASIC
> KeithJohansen: Hybrid BASIC
> Qazz42: Hybrid BASIC
> xxEpicxXXxFailxx: Hybrid BASIC
> Player1537: [unknown]
> BrandonW: z80 Assembly |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:50:15 pm by xXEpicxXXxFailXx |
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| Looks like the Hybrid BASIC category is gonna be a close one. And BrandonW will for sure win asm if nobody else enters. |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:51:22 pm by KermMartian |
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| xXEpicxXXxFailXx wrote: |
| Looks like the Hybrid BASIC category is gonna be a close one. And BrandonW will for sure win asm if nobody else enters. |
Indeed. It would be fun if he ends up winning the grand prize, if he picks his own calculator as his prize.  |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:52:02 pm by TsukasaZX |
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The same behavior occurs from the home screen with xLIB, from DCS6.2 with xLIB, from DCS6.2 somehow using DCSxLIB, and from DCS7 using DCSxLIB. It's an xLIB problem, quite self-evidently.
Also, it looks like BrandonW is going to win his division by default |
| 29 Aug 2010 12:58:04 pm by KermMartian |
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| Quick, someone else enter the ASM division and see if you can pull off stealing the win from BrandonW! |
| 29 Aug 2010 01:56:50 pm by Pseudoprogrammer |
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| I may enter the N-game game I made. Hybrid BASIC. |
| 29 Aug 2010 02:02:18 pm by KermMartian |
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| Pseudoprogrammer wrote: |
| I may enter the N-game game I made. Hybrid BASIC. |
Do it! You should definitely try to enter that. |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:32:32 pm by xXEpicxXXxFailXx |
Re: Contest #7: One Week to Go! |
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| KermMartian wrote: |
| ...Entries will be graded by myself and Rivereye on the basis of originality, speed, size and use of Doors CS libraries... |
Originality: Not many games like mine.
Speed: Pretty fast.
Use of DCS libs: YEAH!
Size: FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:41:26 pm by KermMartian |
Re: Contest #7: One Week to Go! |
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| xXEpicxXXxFailXx wrote: |
| KermMartian wrote: |
| ...Entries will be graded by myself and Rivereye on the basis of originality, speed, size and use of Doors CS libraries... |
Originality: Not many games like mine.
Speed: Pretty fast.
Use of DCS libs: YEAH!
Size: FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... |
Well, speed vs. size vs. reasonableness, of course. A 2KB sidescroller is decent, while a 2KB integer guessing game is not so decent (unless, of course, it's grayscale). |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:42:49 pm by Raylin |
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Oh. I wanted to know...
How EXACTLY is the 73 unique? Is it just Chameleon'd and case swapped? |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:43:20 pm by _player1537 |
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| No. Better. BrandonW touched it :O |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:45:29 pm by souvik1997 |
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| Raylin wrote: |
Oh. I wanted to know...
How EXACTLY is the 73 unique? Is it just Chameleon'd and case swapped? |
It can execute asm code above $C000 |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:46:10 pm by Raylin |
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| Practical application is what? |
| 29 Aug 2010 05:46:51 pm by souvik1997 |
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| Raylin wrote: |
| Practical application is what? |
Bragging rights!! |
