Hi to all suprise coding competition freaks,
The rules for the suprise coding competition of X'97 Takeover were made up by
Sparcus of Nostalgia. Together with Sparcus I was in charge of the surprise
coding competition. The rules of the competition were to make the smallest
possible program that displayed the text "X'97 Takeover" with a specified
pattern, the pattern being white and the background being black.
10 people did submit an entry. We had three winners this year, all of whom
managed to use only 79 bytes. At first it seemed like Quasar of Green would win
with only 67 (!) bytes, but unfortunately his text was grey, not white. After
he made the text appear white it was 79 bytes. His method however, was
different from all others, and quite original. When I disassembled his source,
I managed to use only 3 bytes more than his initial 67, so in the directory JAL
you'll find a 70 byte example.
The files in this ARJ are stored in directories 1 through 10. Here's a list of
who's in what directory:
dir coder group bytes rank
~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~
1 Senjin Shinobi 89 9
2 Hardey Twist 87 8
3 Derange Impuls 84 7
4 Quasar Green 79 1
4 Quasar Green 67 - (this one was disqualified)
5 Scid CoT 82 6
6 Cypher Image 79 1
7 Twain Pain - 79 1
8 Lord Cyrix BNS 81 5
9 Slater MTB 80 4
10 Omega DimX 828 10 (EXE-file)
JAL JAL Nostalgia 70 - (based upon the entry from Quasar / Green)
Well, that's it, and see you all next year at X'98 Takeover!
JAL / Nostalgia