[Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 05 November 2012 14:09:26 Frank Pittel did opine:

> Any thought's about spliting entries into a couple of other catagories?
> I'm thinking of nitro9/os9 and coco-basic.
> 
> The Other Frank
 
I'll second that question, everything I do is for nitros9, and I have at 
least 1 entry.  Not a game even, but a troubleshooting, troublefixing and 
control utility that not everyone is aware of.

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:59:09AM -0200, Paulo Lindoso wrote:
> > So just to summarize it so far:
> > 
> > 1) Multiple entries allowed;
> > 2) There will be 2 categories: "newly-written" and
> > "refurbished/re-write (yet not previously released)";
> > 3) Entries must be "free beer"(preferably GPL);
> > 
> > 
> > Shall we agree that the starting date for the contest is TODAY  (Nov,
> > 5th) as it is a "nice" Monday, beginning of week?
> > 
> > Missed anything?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Nov 3, 2012 1:42 PM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> > > > Ok, I do have one good question about the contest.
> > > > Can you do multiple entries?
> > > 
> > > yes!  There is no per person or team limit.
> > > 
> > > > I would think, with the limitation of the number of active
> > > 
> > > programmer/users we have, that multiple entries would not be out of
> > > the question.
> > > 
> > > > Maybe even a limit to the number of entries one can make? 2.. 3...
> > > > ?
> > > > 
> > > > Just a thought
> > > > Bill P
> > > > 
> > > > Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > > > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > > > Bill Pierce
> > > > ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> > > > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > > > Sent: Fri, Nov 2, 2012 2:50 pm
> > > > Subject: Re: [Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Retro Canada
> > > > <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > other thing: would be allowed a game port (for example angry
> > > > > birds) to use ripped graphics and sounds ?
> > > > 
> > > > If you can recreate the graphics or sounds of a modern game
> > > > faithfully enough to qualify as a "rip"... you ought to enter the
> > > > technique you used to do that as it's own entry IMHO :)
> > > > 
> > > > How about a "don't ask don't tell" policy.  Let's not make this
> > > > overly complicated.
> > > > 
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