Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/13/2015 03:24 PM, geneb wrote: If your BASIC of choice can produce a program for the contest, who the hell cares what dialect or platform it's for? As long as it's "vintage", run with it. I suppose that's why the winner will be chosen by random drawing. The winner could well be a Camb

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Chris Osborn
On Sep 13, 2015, at 5:24 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: > What format is the Commodore-sprites.spd file in? SpritePad http://www.subchristsoftware.com/spritepad.htm -- Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, Chris Osborn wrote: > The complete source code has been posted to github, and you can see the full > rules and check out other submissions here: > > https://redd.it/3ko0nd What format is the Commodore-sprites.spd file in? -- Eric Christopherson

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread geneb
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 09/13/2015 01:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore. Does it have to be TRUE BASIC, or are street BASICs accepted?

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated: > On 09/13/2015 01:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be > interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one > calls "BASIC" anymore. > > > >Does it have to be TRUE

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/13/2015 01:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore. Does it have to be TRUE BASIC, or are street BASICs accepted? I didn't want to bring up TRUE BASIC, a

RE: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread geneb
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote: Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore. Isn't that a Retro Question ? I seem to remember it being asked about GFA basic .. If the disks are st

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Fred Cisin
Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore. Does it have to be TRUE BASIC, or are street BASICs accepted?

RE: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric > Christopherson > Sent: 13 September 2015 21:07 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again! > > On Sun

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > > Guzis > > Sent: 13 September 2015 19:51 > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > >

RE: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 13 September 2015 19:51 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: It's BASIC Week again! > > On 09/13/2015 11:3

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/13/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Smith wrote: I know that this is for fun, and I don't need either reddit gold nor stickers, but the winners being chosen randomly seriously dampens my enthusiasm for participating. Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but to

Re: It's BASIC Week again!

2015-09-13 Thread Eric Smith
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Chris Osborn wrote: > and you can see the full rules and check out other submissions here: > https://redd.it/3ko0nd "At the end of the week I'll randomly choose two redditors from the entire week's submissions that will win 3 months of gold, and 5 runner-ups th