[Coco] A Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual “Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015
Salvador Garcia
ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net
Fri May 8 18:15:20 EDT 2015
Great article Brian!
I can help you fill in the blanks regarding the programming contest.
In fact, there were two contests:
1. Creating a BASIC program that would run in the DTSS BASIC emulator
2. Creating a program that would run in the CoCo I with 4K
I do not know what happened to the CoCo 4K programming challenge, but i can shed some light on the DTSS BASIC programming contest...
There were three entries by John Mark Mobley, Kip Koon and myself, Salvador Garcia
John Mark's program solved a puzzle which consisted of calculating the child's and father's ages given that the grandfather's ages was
evenly divisible by the child's age for 5 )or was it 6) consecutive years.
Kip Koon's program graphically presented a sine wave onscreen (quite impressive)
My program implemented a simple text adventure game called maze which basically consisted of finding your way out of a maze.
My program won and I was awarded .. uh... wait... now that I think of it there were no prizes! I guess just the glory of programming like it was 1964 :-)
Salvador
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Holman <me at brianholman.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, May 5, 2015 9:33 pm
Subject: [Coco] A Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual “Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015
I wrote an article on my website called a Newbie’s Thoughts on the 24th Annual
“Last” Chicago CocoFest 2015. I had a great time at the event. For those of you
who weren't able to attend it might give you some idea of what it was
like.
http://www.brianholman.com/retrocompute/
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