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GoodbyteXL also made the rules available there: English German

Ok, I´m out.

Thanks for the email correction. I can´t edit my first post. Btw: The abbuc-email system is working, I got an email twice. But better double than nothing.

There is no pain, only a good question. Yes, as long as it loads on the real hardware (of course I will put a DOS or Gamedos on the disc, depends on the submissions) everything is fine.

The official ABBUC website was hacked and is down for maintenance. It seems, that the email system is affected too. So please send all emails regarding the software contest to my private email address, which is: sascha@skriegel.de and please copy (CC) it to: software@abbuc.de and GoodByteXL@abbuc.de (hope it will work again soon). I attach the rules in this posting again and would be happy if somenone could pin this thread until August 31st (Deadline). And please distribute a link to this topic as it is hard to find information about the competition with the ABBUC website down. Best regards and many thanks, Sascha Kriegel Head of ABBUC Software Ressort

If you include the libraries, it is no problem (as long as you don´t violate any copyrights). The point is, that the user must be able to use your software by just starting the file or booting your disc. For example: If you write a Turbo-Basic program you have to create a disc containing Turbo-Basic, so that the end user only has to boot your disk.

Ok, the ABBUC website is down after a DOS-attack, so here are the full rules again (@TMR: your question is answered at topic 4):

At the Fujiama meeting there was at least one person working on a compo entry. He tried to hide but some of us could peek a view. I think I have a picture of some code fragments as a "screenshot" on my smartphone There is no official submission yet, but there are some announcements so that I am positive that we will have a good competition this year. ye, ofc not before 1st setpember. does it mean that ure working on compo entry? btw.. is there anybody already signed for SW compo this year?

Ahhh, yes, I´ve heard about the RCM. When I am in Leicester, of course I have to visit it. I´ll check with the other guys as I can´t come before the conference (my x0th birthday is on Nov 14 and I´ll need the 15th to get sober again, I guess). Would be great if we could play M.U.L.E. there.

I have to beg your pardon and thank Bunsen and GoodByteXL for their support. I am the successor to Bunsen but I could not be as responsive as I should have been for personal reasons. You might have noticed that I was absent from this forum here too for a while. As Bunsen says, best is to use both addresses. Send it to "software@abbuc.de" and CC to "GoodByteXL@abbuc.de". The rules do not forbid that. The right for first publication regards the software itself. But keep in mind, that if your game is too great, it might keep others from handing in their software. And if we do get less than three submissions, there might be no competition.

Same here. Even worse seeing people with their SIDE in action sitting next to me at the Fujiama meeting.

Would it be possible you be able to build an adapter for a 1040 ST-Keyboard that would use the two Joyports so that the connected XL/XE has 4 ports again, like the 400/800? That would be cool M.U.L.E. XL/XE

Hello everybody, I work in a Planetarium in Germany but often visit conferences all over the world. In November there is the "Fulldome UK" meeting in Leicester: http://www.fulldome.org.uk/fulldome-uk-2012/ What the heck does that have to do with Atari 8 Bit? It seems to be that people working in a Fulldome Planetarium (not standard, which "only" can show stars) are freaks like me. So I made an appointment with three friends to play M.U.L.E. on my A800 before, while or after the conference. Leon Trimble from the Birmingham 8 Bit lounge most probably will be there too, so we are starting to find a nice location where more people can gather together and have a nice retro-night. Who from the UK members here at AA would be able to join? Or is somebody from Leicester here who could support us with finding a room? Best regards, Sascha

You need a DOS or a modified OS (EPROM). If you have a cable to connect your Mac/PC to the Atari (SIO2PC, SIO2USB, i.e. that one: http://www.abbuc.de/community/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6102 ) you can use an Emulator to run a DOS and create a real Disc.

*deleted* Argh. Ok, I should read before writing bullshit...

And here´s the time lapse video showing a little bit of the action:

I have to speed up writing my invoices... TWO! What a luck I am single and don´t have to explain the empty refrigerator to anybody...

Still a chance for me to get one or two of those? I was offline from earth for a while

Very nice. First I have to say that I don´t understand most of the code. Using WUDSN I get an error saying: Compiler 'MADS' output: sbx #$100-$06 ; +6 /Users/skriegel/Documents/eclipse/Atari/gtia_sound.asm (87) ERROR: Undeclared macro SBX (BANK=0) Using this works: clc ; too slow, replace with sbx adc #$06 tax ;sbx #$100-$06 ; +6 At least in the emulator (Atari800MacX on Mac Book Pro) it´s not too slow.

Just do it. Please.

I´m going to the 8 Bit Lounge in Birmingham in November by car. Will be a 2000km round trip, but I´m sure it will be worth every single meter. Fuck the petrol prices. And thanks to my Ex-girlfriend for leaving me, giving me the freedom to do so (and having much more space for my computers now :-) ).

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Ah, ok. "D" is a mini-circuit with probably 3 races. Now I understand. btw, trbb: Are you from England? I´m going to Birmingham in November, visiting the 8 Bit Lounge and some friends there. Maybe we can have a little Atari section inside the Lounge. Main topic that night is a Kick Off 2 championship. That´s one of my favourite Amiga games. :-)

Now I am confused: Why three races? I thought, only two? This is getting too complicated for me.

Sorry, didn´t want to be understood like that. Just want to show, that it can easily be self-made and that for Europeans there is a ready-built solution which will be available for about 15 Euro. It was announced in the current ABBUC magazine which just shipped here in Germany.