[Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest

[Retro Canada]

other thing: would be allowed a game port (for example angry birds) to
use ripped graphics and sounds ?

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:
> I don't see a problem with a program that was started a few years before the
> contest that:
> 1 - hasn't been entered in a previous contest
> 2 - has been updated/revised since it's initial public release
> 3 - the contest rules should state that it can't be entered in an upcoming
> contest (sponsored by the same people as this one) unless major
> updates/rewriting has occurred.
> 4 - obviously new, original entries should be given a little more "weight"
> when judging. Something someone has worked on for a few months should
> obviously be more impressive than something one has worked on for a few
> YEARS... but that's subjective -- depends on the complicity of the program
> and will be up to the judges. This will be a major impact on previously
> entered and extensively updated programs, discouraging them but not
> disqualifying.
>
> We have few enough CoCo programmers, why stifle entries?
>
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> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:43:03 -0400
> From: Retro Canada<retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>
> I think I should be a completely new entry. No matter if you have been
> programming that the last 10 years, since it's a new non-published
> work it will be fine.
>
> Otherwise we will be opening a door for the entry to compete again
> every contest with few or minor updates.
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Aaron Wolfe<aawolfe at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> It's a good question.  I'd like to know what others who are
>> considering entry think.
>>
>> My initial reaction is that the entry should be written between the
>> starting and ending dates of the competition.  However, we all have
>> back burner stuff that might have a little code or design work
>> completed.  We also have no way to verify if someone followed the
>> rule, if there was one.
>
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