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- From: wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!)
- Subject: Hacking Contest
- Sender: news@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de (The Usenet-News System)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.174631.29070@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:46:31 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
- Organization: MSD software vault #9 @THD
- Keywords: BIOS,XBIOS,GEMDOS
- Lines: 69
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- HACKING-CONTEST
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- Change the screen color on a normal ST using only those XBIOS,
- BIOS and GEMDOS calls that have been available since TOS 1.2 in
- -as many different ways- as possible. Each entry is scored
- according to this table:
-
-
- Changes color voluntarily +7 pts ; these two are of course!
- Changes color +4 pts ; mutually exclusive
- Being resolution dependent -1 pts
- Crashes after changing color
- or terminating -2 pts
- Crashes w/o changing color -3 pts
- Used same idea with a different
- system call 1 pts max. for this entry
- Used small modification of the
- same idea with the same system
- call 0 pts max. for this entry
- Uses any non-TOS calls anywhere 0 pts max. for this entry
- Uses Supexec or Super anywhere 0 pts max. for this entry
-
- Solutions depending on special hardware can not be accepted.
-
-
- With changing colors voluntarily I mean, that you have full control
- over the (16-bit) color value.
- All points are added, the one with the most points wins!
- You have to accept that the way points are given are solely my own
- judgement.
-
- Each entry should be a *seperate* little source of working
- code in C and/or assembler. Please write as compiler/assembler
- unspecific as possible. A comment here and there might help.
-
- Remember: Just use XBIOS, GEMDOS and BIOS calls, that have been
- available since TOS 1.2.
-
- ***********************************************************
- * The end of the contest is 23.59 of Sunday (9 Aug. 1992) *
- * Mail your entries to: *
- * wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de *
- * Use this in your "Subject:" line: *
- * CONTEST: <yourname> ANONYMOUS: [n/y] ACK: [n/y] *
- ***********************************************************
-
- You may indicate whether you want an ACK that your entry has arrived,
- and also you may choose to remain anonymous if you so desire. You can
- of course use an assumed name as <yourname>, which will then be used
- in the final result list. You may send in your entries trickle-like
- one after the other. You may send your code uuencoded in .ARCed,
- .ZOOed or .LHArced form.
-
- The winner(s) will receive (for lack of sponsors) a purely symbolic
- prize in form of a custom "SO WATT Carebears Demo"-ripper.
- Of course the results and all the code examples will be posted to the
- net.
-
- Nat!
-
- HINT: With <way> I don't mean just setting different colors or using
- LSR.W instead of MOVE.W or using the same method accessing different
- memory locations.
- --
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