New MSX-BASIC contest and magazine

I have a question about rule number 2. Using google translate I get:

2. There will be no limit to use different techniques like Turbo languages ​​and machine code routines but, as is evident, as is most compatible with most models of MSX, the more likely to be better appreciated by the jury.

I'm assuming Turbo language means using Turbo BASIC (i.e. MSX BASIC Kun)? Using this would mean it doesn't run on many machines (as they need Turbo BASIC). However, using machine code routines it's easy to write code that runs on all MSX machines/models. In effect somebody could write an entire program in machine code and then just have a BASIC listing with a whole lot of DATA statements, a READ and POKE loop to get the program into memory and then execute it using USR.

I can get that it's appreciated if a program can run on many different MSX models. However, shouldn't it also be appreciated if a program contains mostly BASIC code? Such that maybe somebody can learn something from it as well. If I have a BASIC listing that just pokes an entire machine code program into memory and then executes it, nobody's going to learn anything from the BASIC program.

kanima: How do you mean it won’t run? BLOAD"xbasic1.bin",r:BLOAD"xbasic2.bin",r doesn’t work?

Ok, considering MRC is still hosting X-BASIC + tutorial and looking at the discussion at that download page it looks like X-BASIC is assumed to be free for public distribution. So there should at least not be any legal issues with everybody downloading and running X-BASIC in order to run some BASIC program that requires it. Requiring X-BASIC would still exclude machines that don't have the required RAM or extensions to softload X-BASIC, but I guess most machines still in use have been properly upgraded by now ;)

My initial question remains though: does the competition rate BASIC programs with little or no machine code higher than BASIC programs which mainly poke an entire machine code program into memory and then run that?

So, no binary files, no moonblaster, no mediafiles. And you would want that, typing is going to be hell...

I would consider asking MCCM if you could use ICP7.

I can do the translation if there is interest. I don't actually speak Spanish, but I can read it alright.

Well, there's a challenge, then. You could try and find a way to program more efficiently, and code DATA lines to an easy-to-type format.

Take the well-known Jake In The Caves listing, for example. The DATA lines are horrible! I can think of a couple of ways to shorten them considerably.

Give the player something to look at, or even to play with whilst waiting for the computer to finish reading the data.
Some Commodore-64 games had a simple shoot 'em up you could play while the actual game was being loaded.

A little animation, a color changing logo, a progress bar; anything that gives the player something to occupy his mind with for a few seconds. After all, it's not like he has to wait for ten minutes :-)