[Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest

[Retro Canada]

It must be new and non published work otherwise people like SockMaster
will release all his source codes and win the next 10 contests in a
row :)

The idea is to foster new developments.



On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, and appreciated.  I plan to create a nice website with all the
> usual stuff this weekend.
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:
>> If you have more formal details (who to contact, additional links, etc.), I
>> can do a front page blog post on Armchair Arcade if you wish. It may or may
>> not attract additional interest or exposure, but it wouldn't hurt.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
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>>
>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some of you may remember I took a survey of interest in a CoCo
>>> programming contest a few months ago.
>>> The responses were encouraging if not overwhelming, with twelve people
>>> saying "yes, i definitely want to enter" and four "maybe I will".
>>>
>>> Well.. the time has come, and the Angry Birds thread is a good reminder.
>>>
>>> I'm going to try to make it happen.  Based on survey responses,
>>> comments, and discussions on IRC, here are the tentative details.
>>> Please feel free to comment, suggest changes, etc on the list or to me
>>> directly.  We can change anything now if needed, but I'd really like
>>> to finalize this over the coming weekend.
>>>
>>> The rules are simple and few:
>>>
>>> 1. All entries must be programs that are executable on a Tandy Color
>>> Computer.  Points may be awarded for compatibility with CoCo 1 or 2
>>> and for making good use of resources, i.e. running in 16 or 4k.  Use
>>> of add on hardware, upgrades, etc is allowed but discouraged unless
>>> the project fundamentally requires them (this is to encourage entries
>>> that the widest range of folks will be able to run on their own
>>> systems).
>>>
>>> 2. All entries must be released under a “free beer” license.  A "free
>>> speech" license such as GPL or compatible is very much encouraged so
>>> that interested people can appreciate your entry in source form, but
>>> binaries without source will be accepted provided the binaries are
>>> licensed in such a way that all interested CoCoNuts can have a copy.
>>>
>>> 3. The results of judging will be announced at the 2013 CoCoFest! in
>>> Chicago.  Entries should be in reviewable form one month prior to the
>>> fest and must be demo-able during the Fest.   Fest attendance is
>>> highly, highly recommended (because its fun!) but not in any way
>>> required to participate in the contest.
>>>
>>> Review publication:
>>> Each entry will be reviewed in depth by volunteers. The reviews will
>>> be published in a Rainbow-like publication.  We will hopefully also
>>> have some celebrity reviewers who offer insight on each program.
>>>
>>> Judging/prizes:
>>> The judges may consider many factors, including some that are not
>>> directly part of the program itself, such as the (in)experience level
>>> of the programmer(s) involved or the quality of a blog detailing their
>>> efforts along the way, etc.  There will be one "grand prize"/"best of
>>> show" type award to the single entry the judges agree is most
>>> outstanding, but there may be any number of additional awards given
>>> for an unknown number of undisclosed reasons.  From offers already
>>> made it seems there will be real prizes including CoCo gear and even
>>> cash.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you'd like to participate but something about these rules makes you
>>> less interested, now is the time to see if we can't sort that out.
>>> -Aaron
>>>
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