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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
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Subject: Re: BADGE Killer Demo Contest (repost)
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Date: 14 Sep 88 02:31:03 GMT
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In article <6831@gryphon.CTS.COM>, mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
> >> WorkBench 1.3
> 
> Ditto here.  I don't have a copy of the 1.3 stuff (not being an
> "official" developer.)  I do want to enter the contest, but I'm
> gonna have to just assume my stuff will work with WB 1.3, etc...
> I really don't anticipate any problems, but the contest does
> seem to have a bias towards the official developer types because
> of the 1.3 restriction.

Actually, it is a little late to enter anyway...

The rule about 1.3 was put in eons back when it was assumed 1.3 would
come out "in a month or two".  The restriction was so that demos would
work with 1.3 which dealers, new users, etc. would undoubtedly be running.
Besides, you wouldn't want to show a demo to your friends and say:
"wait just a few minutes while I try to find where I put that dang
1.2 disk...".  If 1.3 came out tomorrow, I doubt that the judges will
take those rules as absolute (there might be heated discussions though).

Also, since 1.3 has been pretty well described on the net, and I haven't
heard of developer's complaining that program X won't run under 1.3,
I would assume that a reasonably well written program for 1.2 would
run under 1.3 (as compared to the (poorly written?) 1.1 programs that
crashed under 1.2).

Also, there are a few non-registered-developers who are BADGE members,
and I don't think BADGE would discriminate on that basis.  Actually,
there are no qualifications for membership (they haven't booted me out!)
except for an interest the technical side of the Amiga.  In fact, there
are really less than a handful of "official" members, but only because
Stanford required a certain number of members before BADGE (BAADG?) could
become offical.  The majority of the "attendees" are just freeloaders ;-)

Darin Johnson (...pyramid.arpa!leadsv!laic!darin)
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