+skr Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 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 2012 Rules for the ABBUC-Software-Contest 2011 (short form, full version see below): - everyone can participate - no demos, only games, apps and utils - must run on standard xl/xe - first release through ABBUC - previews and teasers are allowed 1. General Rules The contest is open to every user. ABBUC membership is not requested. Deadline for the software contest 2011 is 31 August 2012. ABBUC issues the following prizes: 1. Place: 500 Euro 2. Place: 250 Euro 3. Place: 125 Euro 4. Place: 75 Euro 5. Place: 50 Euro 6.-10. Place: a small non-cash prize each! For all registered software ABBUC receives the rights of first publication. The copyright remains with the author who might use his software freely after the end of the contest. The products will be presented on the ABBUC homepage, in the ABBUC magazine and on the ABBUC annual general meeting (JHV). Competition decision and award ceremony will happen during the meeting. The author is not requested to be present for presentation and award ceremony. The prize then will be sent or transferred. Please state your address and bank account during the registration! 2. Admission to the Competition Software for the ATARI 8-bit line 600XL(64 KB)/800XL/65XE/800XE/130XE. The head of software and the 1st chairman jointly decide on permits in special cases. Developments that have already participated in previous competitions, as well as commercial products are excluded from participation. Additional conditions: - hint on the "ABBUC software contest 2012" in the start screen - software has to be full functionable on real ATARI with 64K or 128K RAM - types of software: game, application, tool, utility, programming language, DOS - media: SD or ED 5,25" disk or ATR image - programming language: all – final software has to be runable without additional hardware or software 3. Test and Evaluation of the registered Software ABBUC software department performs function tests of all software submitted for the software competition on real Atari XL / XE computers with 64 KB and 128 KB of RAM. Therefore the registered software is applied to be sent to the head of software department. The evaluation of the software will be executed by the members of ABBUC by ballot awarding 1-10 points each. The products, which got the most points at the end, reach out to win the issued prizes. ABBUC reserves the right to reduce the prize money in case of moderate or low quality develop- ments. 4. Documentation of the Software A documentation or a user manual of two pages maximum and three screenshots have to be submitted with the Software. This will be published in the ABBUC club magazine. Language for all documents: English or German. 5. Miscellaneous At least three participants have to be registered for the competition. If this condition is not met, ABBUC reserves the right to not carry out the competition. Not awarded prizes/prize money will be distributed to future competitions unless ABBUC members decide to suspend the competition. For presentation purposes it might be necessary to rename filenames by software section. 6. Disclaimer The ABBUC software division immediately disqualifies software, which are recognized to be a plagiarism of existing or commercial Atari 8-bit software. Is this detected only after the award ceremony, the participant will be permanently banned from all ABBUC competitions. The participant has to return received cash or non-cash prizes immediately to ABBUC. Legal process is excluded. All rights reserved. Questions? ---> E-Mail to software@abbuc.de --- We are looking forward to your entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Sorry to be a pain... i was going to send a single XEX file rather than an ATR (since it's a single load) - is this okay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Wrong email adress of Walter. Here you find the right one: http://www.goodbytexl.homepage.t-online.de/ema.gif Sending single load files is better than sending atr's. Sascha has to squeeze all contributions on as less disks as possible, because the disks will be send on physical disks to all abbuc members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 21, 2012 Author Share Posted August 21, 2012 GoodbyteXL also made the rules available there: English German Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Let me know, that my contribution arrived... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 Let me know, that my contribution arrived... Touchdown confirmed. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 thx for info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 You should have my entry now too: Keep on Koastin'. It won't need much squeezing as it's only 4K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 You should have my entry now too: Keep on Koastin'. It won't need much squeezing as it's only 4K Yes, it arrived. Nice little game, thank you very much for sending it in. I wish you good luck in the competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 By the way: The ABBUC website is back online! Here´s the link to the Software Contest rules: http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-softwarewettbewerbe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 By the way: The ABBUC website is back online! Here´s the link to the Software Contest rules: http://www.abbuc.de/...warewettbewerbe Thanks to that page I discovered some nice games from 2005 contest: Monex, Laser Blaster, Joe's Adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Hello Philsan Monex isn't nice! It's addictive! Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 1. General Rules The contest is open to every user. ABBUC membership is not requested. Deadline for the software contest 2011 is 31 August 2012. Errrm, of course we talk about software contest 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Hello Sascha 2012 Rules for the ABBUC-Software-Contest 2011 (short form, full version see below): That should probably read: Rules for the ABBUC-Software-Contest 2012 (short form, full version see below): Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 27, 2012 Author Share Posted August 27, 2012 This was my mistake. GoodByteXL corrected all the data and the rules you find on the official pages show the correct year. It´s obvious which year we´re talking about, isn´t it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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