You bet! If there's a way for "them" to prevent you from beating them by
being smart, they'll use it. I've been ground-ruled out a time or two when
it looked like I might sweep 'em. Not in the coding arena, though. . .
<sigh>
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Program Challenge (was Re: z80 timing... 6502 timing)
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bill Yakowenko wrote:
Worrying about using 32K? For a simple little
Roman Numeral pro... uh...
<* light bulb goes on *>
You naughty _naughty_ programmer! That's not at all in the spirit of the
competition!
(Wish I'd thought of it.)
shhhhhhhhhh! Now they'll try to plug up the look up table loophole.
Y'know, if the rules don't SAY what it has to be, ...
OB_OT: A few decades ago, the Fremont race track used to have a 1200cc
aircooled "anything goes" class. Then they changed that to 1200cc
aircooled VW "anything goes" when I was 1/3 of the way through building a
car out of two Honda 600s. The Honda 600 resembles a Mini-Cooper, with
600cc 2 cylinder engine resembling a motorcycle engine, front wheel drive
with a trailer axle rear end; ~36HP, but ~45 with the Hawaiian head and
cam, plus ~10% more with some porting and polishing. By mounting an extra
front subframe where the rear used to be, it was 1200cc, 4 cylinder (2 in
each engine) >90HP, higher power:weight ratio than anything else in the
class, much cheaper to build than any of the serious contenders, 4WD, 4W
disk brakes, 4Wsteering (that REALLY takes some getting used to!) And
street legal. almost.