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!