Dear friends, three days have passed after my announcement of the biggest scandal in the history of the ClassPad. In fact, I was so angry about this, that I actually left all my duties in cleaning up my room and I used one of my free days to include the programs that I submitted for the programming competition in one archive, in the unaltered form, along with all the documentation. You can not imagine my need to hear your comments on my complete works. Now you cannot get the excuses like: the source is quite unreadable, blah, blah, blah. Here is the location of archive mentioned:
http://classpad.org/.....jev Filip.zipThe uncompressed 65 files take up 15,621,307 bytes it is approximately 15MB of data!
This ZIP archive fills up almost a whole floppy (1,453,627 bytes large). Even maximum (best) ZIP compression could not compress under this amount. ZIP is really out-of-use!
I have tried out all the five winning add-ins; it means that I may comment all of them:
- I think that Dr. Harrison is the best add-in, although English support will also be fine;
- I do not plan to comment on Aspirin (illegal submission), Sokoban (boring, pointless) and Hangman (even the BASIC program was better, it does not offer anything new). If you see my programs I think that many people will say that I have done better things!
- I must spend a minute on 8Pool. You need to move your pen very quickly in both the ways along a same line, in order to make a shoot with the ball. In fact, you scratch the ClassPad touch screen while playing this game. When I play, I remember to this story:
One year ago, while the SDK was still not issued, Brian suddenly got an idea, to create an add-in in which you would have to kill bugs across the whole screen as many&quick as you could, or otherwise they would reproduce theirselves, and you would have even bigger problems. Happily, Brian is of course smart enough to realize that while playing this game, you would have to scratch the display all the time. The only thing I think of is that the author of 8Pool is not so smart; to be honest, I expected this real situation!
I would only add one revolutionary idea to the previous program (and I ask the author of 8Pool to compile that add-in, I am not that stupid): the bigger the bug you will have to scratch the touch screen over it longer and more heavily or else you lose the game!
At last, I must admit that I needed at least a whole year to realize that Dr Coyote was right; now I regret for not agreeing in my minds with that serious man with a daughter who predicted that everybody will be fooled one day by the actions of Casio or Saltire!
I am very sorry that this came to a reality; I was too much optimistic to believe in that truth. I see that there are people, who support that crazy judge, with no identity. I am wondering where is the neutral public. Is anybody to comment on my true arguments?
Just as Dr. Coyote, I am sad that I have bought so many calculators from Casio. If you can believe this, they are becoming more and more dull. Where is the lost confidence?
P.S. The place of the source code was not as a line of text in this forum, but as an attachment to an e-mail to
contest2005 AT classpad.org in the time between first of January and first of June. This is a so strict rule, that I feel very safe by noting this!
P.S. P.S. I have spend much of my free time in the prevous half a year to make my programs. I cannot realize how three add-ins of only 10KB are better than my Basic program which is 17KB compressed to EXE. I think Saltire had to say that all the programs written in Basic (and not games) will be automatically sent to trash...
P.S. P.S. P.S. I do not shame of my work. These brave men had to have a support of three other men each to create add-ins of only 10KB each. Very funny!!!
P.S. P.S. P.S. P.S. I always prefer to consult an Oxbridge dictionary rather than a programmer. What did you think, I was talking about some affairs between lovers?