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TMDC 12!

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Finally managed to release the official invitation, it's here.

Same rules: no evil tweaks, no palette change, 7.3 MB zipped, must have sound.
Same goal: make text mode look good!

Submission time starts 11.11.09
Submission tim ends 12.12.09

Results will be out somewhere in late January.

Any question or concern: the gmail address of tmdc.org, or post here :)

Reminder: there is still a template available for anyone lazy who just want to make a quick hack with fmod and libCACA.

Hope to see your text mode demos!
added on the 2009-11-10 07:43:51 by BarZoule BarZoule
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Same goal: make text mode look good!


How's that ?
added on the 2009-11-10 08:23:03 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
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Same goal: make text mode look good!

So you admit that it looks bad, do you? ;)
added on the 2009-11-10 11:21:08 by nystep nystep
To all textmode whingers: If you don't like textmode, don't watch the demos. I like textmode demos.
added on the 2009-11-10 13:54:33 by xeron xeron
Wow.

whinge

 /ʰwɪndʒ, wɪndʒ/ [hwinj, winj]
–verb (used without object), whinged, whing⋅ing. British and Australian Informal.
to complain; whine.
Origin:
bef. 1150; dial. (Scots, N England), earlier Scots quhynge, OE hwinsian (not recorded in ME); c. OHG winsōn (G winseln); deriv. of Gmc base of whine
added on the 2009-11-10 14:49:53 by sol_hsa sol_hsa
I thought the whinge was just a typo...who knew it was actually a word?
added on the 2009-11-10 15:18:35 by [HamsTeR] [HamsTeR]
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Same goal: make text mode look good!

i guess Trixter proved it cant be done
added on the 2009-11-10 16:10:37 by the_Ye-Ti the_Ye-Ti
i thought they were niggers whining :/
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So you admit that it looks bad, do you? ;)

I've never said otherwise. Textmode is very hard to make look good.
The color palette is over saturated and the resolution is crap.
However some people go and make it look good. Many people. Every year. Thanks to TMDC :)
added on the 2009-11-10 17:11:33 by BarZoule BarZoule
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i guess Trixter proved it cant be done

via his approach, maybe =)
added on the 2009-11-10 18:08:31 by sol_hsa sol_hsa
It all depends on the source material. Choose crap source and you get crap text.
added on the 2009-11-11 06:42:40 by trixter trixter
Ture.
added on the 2009-11-11 09:50:30 by sol_hsa sol_hsa
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I thought the whinge was just a typo...who knew it was actually a word?


Well, quite obviously, I did.
added on the 2009-11-12 11:58:00 by xeron xeron
Whingin' pommie.

Lol and I <3 textmode. :P
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Finally managed to release the official invitation, it's here.

Same rules: no evil tweaks, no palette change, 7.3 MB zipped, must have sound.
Same goal: make text mode look good!

Submission time starts 11.11.09
Submission tim ends 12.12.09

Results will be out somewhere in late January.

Any question or concern: the gmail address of tmdc.org, or post here :)

Reminder: there is still a template available for anyone lazy who just want to make a quick hack with fmod and libCACA.

Hope to see your text mode demos!


1 day left, or 2 depending on your timezone. We've got some cool nifty prizes, including: 1GB MP3 Player, an EA game (of your choice), Wicked Defense 2 (from Ixchel Studios), the BBS Documentary, a DarkDomains DVD, ND pins, the diplomas.

only sad thing is that we haven't heard much from anyone. So please please please send something asap, even if it's just a "we gonna give you something" notice.

We will also extend the deadline for 1 week (19th). That means you still have time for a little scroller or a couple of ribbons :)
added on the 2009-12-11 05:59:44 by BarZoule BarZoule
and also a small update in the rules: removed mandatory support for Win2K or P4 256 MB RAM. I guess it's been there for long enough :)
And Vista/Win7 support is not mandatory since they don't support textmode [in fullscreen] :P
added on the 2009-12-11 06:10:16 by BarZoule BarZoule
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only sad thing is that we haven't heard much from anyone

Not much? Not even from bits?

I would throw something together, but I haven't written so much as a line in C in a long time.
added on the 2009-12-11 06:20:07 by QUINTIX QUINTIX
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1 day left, or 2 depending on your timezone

So I can cheat by saying that I'm in a completely different timezone?
we'll probably get 4 or 5 BITS demo at once when the deadline is over, but that's not the point.

And you don't have to write it in C, QBASIC can probably do the job :)
added on the 2009-12-11 07:20:26 by BarZoule BarZoule
so... how much recycling is allowed? :)
added on the 2009-12-11 08:56:47 by britelite britelite
most textmode demos are impressive about as much as drawing ansi with gif2ans
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added on the 2009-12-11 11:46:06 by tFt tFt
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most textmode demos are impressive about as much as drawing ansi with gif2ans

nowadays most people use their own converters so it's at least as interesting as watching a bunch of different kinds of gif2ans :)
added on the 2009-12-11 14:00:41 by paulius paulius
if you are ok with sth in BITS-style, i could make sth in that remaining week then, just dont think it will be any good, haha ! just to keep TMDC alive, i love textmode !
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if you are ok with sth in BITS-style, i could make sth

quality is good but quantity will do!

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so... how much recycling is allowed? :)

as much as you can get away with, just like with any other demo compo :)
added on the 2009-12-11 20:30:11 by BarZoule BarZoule

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