Everytime I read the posts of this thread I ask me "what monster of applications do these guys pass in, finding more and more ways to cheat the rules?". (and how long they spent for such a "contest" - we all know in the end it's only a huge number of free showcases for Conitec )

Nevertheless I will take part with my tiny little proggy...

(@george - with #define you can shrink down a c-code very, very small.)

I'm sure that each entry will have something unique and I'm looking forward to testing all the contest entries. The ones I've got until now are very interesting!

so here is mine (screensaver/zip, 23MB)




mercuryus

@Mercuryus:

Nice demo! Though, I notice sort of "lattice" distortions in the layer tubes....?

In my opinion (I know, nobody asked for it ) cheating the rules is lame.

I think everybody knows roughly, what was meant with 100 lines of code. So all the hacks reduce the fun on entering the contest.

Hey Wolfgang,

I really sit here and enjoy reducing unnecessary bytes through better coding, preprocessor tricks, wrapping or such.. its real fun! I am always on the edge and each handful of free bytes is a good source for new stuff. I think this contest is comparable with those one held in the demoscene. Though, we don't limit the compiled EXE size + content, but the code amount. Maybe the next time we could have a contest vice versa .. that would be interesting as well because then we get a lot of approaches towards realtime generated content.

From a programmers point of view this contest is like Kirmes.

BTW: removing blanks is a good source to save a lot of bytes!

If it's a matter of bytes a good thing is to redefine all keywords to unique 2chars: e.g.

#define _v vec_set
#define _e ent_create
...

but I know all of you codeshrinkers know that

...and YES! "realtime generated content" would give a very interesting contest.
But one rule should be - the contest entry must be reusable with easy and clear defined interfaces.

i fully agree to that. i hope george is right and the rules didn't change. otherwise i am out too.

that's a bit late now and what is one command? a = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6; aren't these actually 5 add commands internally for example? a 100 commands contest is no good.

#define jcl while