More than seven (!) years ago the Oneliner Challenge generated an outburst of creativity and diversity with no less than 36 single-lined MSX-BASIC listings - ranging from complete games and demos to character and sprite editors. All entries of that challenge, won by Germán Gómez Herrera, can still be enjoyed over here.
"If such nice and inspiring releases can already be made with one single line of BASIC, how much should be capable with ten times as much?", we wondered, and that is why we now start the MRC Tenliner Challenge. The rules of the challenge are as follows:
- Entries can be made for every MSX generation, so MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+, turboR and even One Chip MSX is allowed
- To make things even better, the inclusion of one (1) media file is allowed. The loading of this file should - of course - be handled within the 10 lines of your MSX-BASIC listing
- As usual: fun and fair play, so don't rip and steal, but create and invent! Other than that: anything goes!
You can submit entries as soon as they are ready, by submitting them as a download right here. The challenge closes on December 17th, exactly 10 weeks from now, on 23:59 CET.
The entries will then be rated by our jury, which consists out of MSX-BASIC Games blogspot webmaster Adolfo Gonzalez and the MSX Resource Center crew members Meits and Fukenko. When their work is done, we will announce the winner of the challenge. Depending on the amount of entries, there might even be multiple prizes! The winner(s) can pick their own prize from a collection of prizes that include MSX T-Shirts and girlies, but also the original MSX games Realms of Adventure, Moonlight Saga, Bomb Jack, The Lost World and Be-Bop Bout.
If you would like to support this and future MSX Resource Center challenges by donating a prize, please contact us or make a generic donation. Thank you very much in advance!
So there you have it. 10 weeks to code 10 lines of MSX-BASIC. Gentlemen, start your engines!
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