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There's a scent of holiday in the air!
It's time to regenerate, to sunbathen, to travel over the world... but it's time to code some stuffs for the scene, too!
We decided to co-organize a new challenge with ryo. Here are the rules:

1. The whole demo must be coded in a form of BASIC such as GFA, Omikron, STOS or any others out there on the Atari ST.
2. Only sound routines (chip, soundtrack) can be coded in another non-BASIC language. Although if you're good with the XBIOS(32) command, we expect some excellent music too :)
3. Screen may be converted from any of the famous demos (Cuddly Demos, European Demos, Mindbomb Demo, etc.) but it can also be a new and original production.
4. There is no size limit of the final file. Other than it should fit on a double-sided disk.
5. The demo has to be 1MB STFM/STE compatible.
6. You have to send the demo (source code & compiled) to the following address: contest@atari-forum.com


Beginning of the challenge: June 25th, 2007.
End of the challenge: December 31th, 2007.
All the .prg screens will be submited to Atari-Forum users.

A compilation of all productions may appear after the results.
Good luck to everyone and enjoy the holiday!
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Post by tobe »

Mmmm interresting :)
5. The demo has to be 1MB STFM/STE compatible.
Does it means it must be STFM compatible or STE compatible is enough?
3. Screen may be converted from any of the famous demos (Cuddly Demos, European Demos, Mindbomb Demo, etc.) but it can also be a new and original production.
We don't really need converted screens in my opinion, let's go for the new *and original* productions ;)

I think I'll try to do something :)
step 1: introduce bug, step 2: fix bug, step 3: goto step 1.
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No time to do something in GFA-BASIC, but I keep my time to see the final results of DCK compo :wink:
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I think I'm going to try and put something together for this. Not promising anything, will have to see how it goes. Time to dig out all my old GFA programs and see if there's anything useful in there...
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I'd like to have a bash at it too but I'm working on a 68000 intro for BFP 2007. Looking forward to seeing the results though!
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Post by Nyh »

I have set my eyes on two screens I want to convert to Omikron basic. One screen I think I can reproduce 100% in basic. The other I cannot do a 100% conversion but I think I can get pretty close.

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are there already coders which were put there????

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Hi,


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Post by Brume »

Hello ryo,

Juste pour savoir si tu as reçu quelques prods à l'adresse email que je t'avais créée.
Veux-tu que je poste une news sur Atari Legend pour relancer un peu le concours ?
A bientôt,

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Post by ryo »

Bonjour Brume,


Oui pourquoi pas. Cela relancera le concours.

Merci.
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Post by Tomchi »

Can someone tell me if anybody did or will release something for this challenge ??
Ryo ???, Brume ??? Someone else ???

I'm on the run to trying to do something before the deadline, but maybe that's not worthy if nobody did nothing .
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I would try something but I never did any demo coding! Know of any good resources for GFA Basic demo/game coding? If there's code to steal/use I would try it.
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Post by daeghnao »

I have a wonderful plan for a demo, but unless I get a lot of work done on it next week, it's not going to happen in time this year. I'll certainly keep on with it though, as I do like the concept of it.
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Post by Desty »

Ok, I set up Hatari, found GFA 3.6 somewhere and am having a play with it. Maybe I can knock up something, but it may be so laughably poo and undemo-like that I'll not submit it (or even speak of it again without crying).

Looking at the GFA manual, it seems to have quite a nice API - even some decent matrix manipulation commands in there! :)
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Post by Tomchi »

Desty wrote: but it may be so laughably poo and undemo-like that I'll not submit it (or even speak of it again without crying).
Well, the effects I'm trying to code are pure crap so ... :oops: :lol:
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Post by Maartau »

... around 6 months was a bit short IMHO for a contest of this kind ...

The idea will be great to start the contest from now or for the 31 dec./1 jan., letting one full year :thumbs: .

Just let's write it's delayed....

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Maartau wrote:...The idea will be great to start the contest from now or for the 31 dec./1 jan., letting one full year :thumbs: .
And then, everybody could wait till december 08 to start wondering if they code something or not :lol: :lol: :lol:

But maybe some people already did something .. though nobody seems to say something in that way. So maybe 1 more year could be ok.
The Atari forum demo took quite a long time before beeing released no ?
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Post by Maartau »

everybody could wait till december 08 to start wondering if they code something or not
Just letting the post open but "more" actualised. :lol: Yep yep! 8)
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31st of December ...
Here's a modest Gfa intro.
Phew !!!
It works with Steem and on STE with 1 meg ( still playing on mine ... :D )
Screen address isn't on a 256 bytes boundary otherwise the demo doesn't run in 1 vbl and I don't know why ... :(
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Post by ryo »

Hello,

The contest is still alive. Awaiting your productions ......

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Post by ryo »

Hi Tomchi,

Very nice intro...........
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That's a good thing to pass at the year 2008.

Many thanks Tomchi to give this intro for this contest !

I'm so very surprise to see our proper evolution in coding, I think it's original !

Are you ready to code in ASM ?
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Post by Tomchi »

So Ryo, did you get any other participation ?
Shall I send you the source code of my crappy intro ???
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Maartau wrote:I sell you the source of my (excellent) intro !
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Post by PaulB »

Thanks Tomchi. I read your scrolltext from start to finish. It's a good start for your first demo coded in GFA. As you said though, you should have picked a font with more chars lol. Thanks for the mention too :)
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