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Street Tuff
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 88 |
COMPO: ECM Demoeffect Comp
ECM Mode Demoeffect Competition
*** ECM Mode Demoeffect Competition ***
Competition Rules:
* The Effect must be a one-screener
* For ECM Mode only one Charset with 64 Chars is allowed
* The 64 Char Font is not allowed to be altered at runtime
* Play with your imagination. Maybe use the Petscii font in ECM mode
* Variations of the effect are allowed but it must be the same effect(code)
* Alteration or switching of the font on a per-line basis is not allowed ((linecrunching / etc.) set $d011/d016/d018/vic-bank only in init)) |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 512 |
com'on guys, ECM doesn't stand for Exaggerated Complicating Motherfuckingrules...
the organizer wrote down a few basic rules to make the compo possible and have fun. next time he'll type a list of rules longer than those lovely EULA texts; and it'll take more to read it than to code something :)
P.S.: @Raistlin $d016+$40*i, $d018*$40*i, $d011+$40*i should not be allowed IMHO. but you put a smile at the end so you know that already :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2844 |
And it's SPLIT, not SPLITTED.
But my point is the muddled mix of barebone no-raster-tricks rules with no such restrictions in other parts, then some semi-strict restrictions sprinkled in. All without apparent rhyme or reason. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2844 |
Anyhow, not complaining, just pointing out. Setting a few registers once a frame is good enough for my purposes. :) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11116 |
Quote:And it's SPLIT, not SPLITTED.
EXTENDED! |
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Rastah Bar
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 336 |
Quoting ZeSmasher... and it'll take more to read it than to code something :)
This thread :-)
If the rules don't become clear soon, the deadline will need to be ... |
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Shadow
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 355 |
To me at least I think the "spirit" of the compo is to do an effect, with the ECM only, no trickery with spritewalls or changing cols in the middle of the screen etc.
I think a "VIC registers can only be changed once per frame" in addition to the "No changing of charset/VIC bank runtime" would have made sense as a general rule and would have made things clearer. |
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mhindsbo
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2014
Posts: 50 |
what is the deadline? done coding, but waiting for music. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1989 |
Quote: what is the deadline? done coding, but waiting for music.
30 November 2020 |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 559 |
So.. as things stand... are we saying the current #1 and 2 entries are disqualified? One changes D011 twice per frame, the other changes D016 each frame.
Hard to enter the compo when we’re not sure what the rules are... |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2844 |
Quoting RaistlinSo.. as things stand... are we saying the current #1 and 2 entries are disqualified? One changes D011 twice per frame, the other changes D016 each frame.
Hard to enter the compo when we’re not sure what the rules are... Make an entry that adheres to the lowest common denominator of the rules.
Changing the 5 colour registers at most once per line each, no other VIC register updates after init (including VIC bank, excluding sprites), fixed charset, wall-of-sprites with full-blown sprite register splits and updates. I might have forgotten/misinterpreted some things. =) |
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