[Coco] Anyone going to the 2015 NOMAM Retro Computing Meeting (04/11) in Lübeck?

[Jim Gerrie]

Just wondering if anyone is going to the 2015 NOMAM Retro Computing Meeting
(04/11) in Lübeck Germany?  They’re holding a 10 line Basic competition (see
below) but the program must be demonstrated on real hardware at the event.
If someone from this group was going and was planning to have a Coco or
Dragon running, perhaps they could demo the 10 line version of my “Overtake”
game called “OT10LINE.BAS” which can be found on the JG4K.DSK of my distro
at: http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/JGGAMES.zip

The Dragon version OT10LINE.CAS is in my Dragon distro:
http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/Dragon_JimGerrie.zip

 

Let me know, and I’ll enter the competition.

 

Just hoping,

Jim Gerrie

 

 

Originally Posted Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:15 AM in Atariage Forum

"Write a game in 10 lines of BASIC!"

 

 

For the fourth time this is the motto of the programming contest on the
occasion of the retro computer meeting NOMAM. In the years 2011 and 2013 the
BASIC Tenliners compo was a small internal competition and the programs were
made live at the meeting. In contrast, in 2014 contributions from all over
the world came. And only one contribution was produced live at the meeting.
Over ABBUC and AtariAge forums the incredible amount of 40 games from
Australia, USA, Chile, Poland, United Kingdom and Germany rolled in.

 

This year we want to give the competition a new impetus by opening it; both
in terms of legal systems, as well as with regard to authorized BASIC
dialects.

 

 

Legal systems:

 

Atari 8-Bit

Commodore 64

Commodore 128

Schneider CPC

 

Authorized BASIC dialects:

Atari BASIC (A8)

Turbo BASIC XL (A8)

Altirra BASIC (A8)

OSS BASIC XE (A8)

OSS BASIC XL (A8)

Commodore BASIC V2 (C64)

Simon's BASIC (C64)

Commodore BASIC 7.0 (C128)

Locomotive BASIC 1.0 (Schneider CPC)

Locomotive BASIC 1.1 (Schneider CPC)

 

Other BASIC dialects and computer systems are approved under the condition
that the contributions will be presented by the programmer on the original
hardware at the NOMAM (04.11.) in Lübeck.


Even if the fun of programming and the competition should be in the
foreground, but a few rules are needed.

Contributions are accepted in three different categories:

 

Category "PUR":

Program a game in 10 lines (max. 120 characters per logical line,
abbreviations are allowed)

Category "EXTREM":

Program a game in 10 lines (max. 256 characters per logical line,
abbreviations are allowed)

Category "LIVE":

On 04/11/15 a programming assignment is made, which must be resolved within
2 hours

 

Further rules:
- No reloading of data or program parts
- Call of machine language programs are prohibited
- POKEing is allowed (eg change the DL, PM-graphic)
- Deadline: Saturday 04/11 at 9 pm (Central European Summer Time) (Remote
posts: Wednesday 04/08, 9 pm)
- Voting: Saturday 04/11 at 11.30 pm, then awarding
- Together with the program a text file should be submitted with the program
description and instructions
- The programmers agree to the publication of the programs, the description
and the instructions by the organizer
- Only physically Attendants may vote
- Remote contributions, however, are permitted provided they are received by
Wednesday, 04/08 at 9 pm at GKANOLD-ät-GMAIL dot COM