BASIC 10-Liner Contest 12

The new edition of the BASIC 10-liner contest has just kicked off, the compo is all about short BASIC listings. Open for all 8-bit computers, this compo is well-suited for MSX BASIC developers. The 2023 edition of the BASIC 10-liner, organized by the Homeputerium, set its deadline at March 25.

The Homeputerium lab is part of the Eider-Treene-Schule in Friedrichstadt. It consists of a large number of donated computers from the home computer era between 1977 and 1989. In it, students get to know the computers of this time and learn how to use them. One of their goals is to keep retro-computer history up to par by organizing the annual BASIC 10-liner contest for all 8-bit retro computers. MSX included, naturally.

Contestants of the compo are challenged to get creative with short BASIC listings and make software in any form. Last year (2022) we had 10 MSX listings accepted to the compo. This year's categories are:

• Category "PUR-80": Program a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)
• Category "PUR-120": Program a game in 10 lines (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)
• Category "EXTREM-256": Program a game in 10 lines (max. 256 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)
• Category "SCHAU": Program a program in 10 lines (max. 256 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)

Where the first three categories ask for a BASIC game, the Schau can be any thing like a demo, a tool or an application program. Submitted programs that do not comply with the rules, however, will be grouped into the "WILD" category.

Since the jurors do not have the original hardware of all approved systems available, all entries should be able to run on an available emulator. No worries, we've got openMSX for that. If you're a BASIC fiddler, have your program delivered to the contest before March the 25th 2023.

relevant link: Edition 12 of the BASIC 10-Liner Contest
relevant link: Donate to the compo