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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: Robert Spykerman
Date: Apr 17, 2008 00:03

On Apr 16, 8:47 pm, an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
wrote:
> On pages 176-179 of c't 9/2008 there is a description of how the
> Asteroids Arcade game (from 1979) works, and a contest for writing a
> program to play the game. For this they have adapted MAME to take its
> input and produce its output on UDP ports. The output is in the form
> of data for the vector graphics hardware (at most 1KB per frame).
>
> This might be an interesting task for competetition-loving Forth
> programmers. The contest runs until June 30. The winner of the
> competition wins some hardware or (his choice) EUR 3000, and there are
> prizes for the top 25 entries.

Wow, I hadn't heard of MAME till I saw this post. Do you actually have
a link for the contest? Tried googling but no joy.

Not that I expect I have the time or am good enough, it looks like fun
to look at anyways.
> - anton

Robert Spykerman
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