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I think that patch to get around the lock-out-thingy is fairly notable

But I realized that I had problem sending pic files, backup files, and group files via direct (USB) link,

Those issues are actually being addressed right now.  More information can be found here.

GBC isn't very likely. It has quite a few more hardware features I would have to implement, not to mention twice the RAM and processor speed.

Wouldn't you also have to deal with the color part?  I think it would pretty much require high level grayscale to make almost any graphic look decent.

Two numbers are said to be congruent modulo n when their remainder upon division by n is the same (e.g. 7 is congruent to 3 modulo 4).  The modulus is n.  When you perform "a % n" and get "c", this is saying "a is congruent to c, with a modulus of n".  The word "modulo" translated from Latin literally means "with modulus".

The results are finally in!  Final scoring was determined with 50% due to judge scores and 50% from the public polls.

Congratulations to Builderboy for winning the ASM/Hybrid category with his port of Shift, and to drummist for taking the BASIC category with CaveDweller83

The prize is a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drive.  I will be sending the Hybrid/ASM prize, which should (hopefully) arrive in 1-2 weeks.  Noah will be shipping the Pure BASIC prize, which should arrive within 2-3 weeks (since it might be another week until he can check the forums).

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Scores:

ASM/Hybrid Category:

Shift by Builderboy
-Creativity:  26/30
-Speed:  28/30
-Size:  29/30
-Graphics:  24/30
-Game play:  26/30
-Replay:  25/30
--Total judge score:  158/180 = 87.8%

-Public Poll:  6/8 = 75%
--Grand Total: 81.4%

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The Blue Platform Demo by Eeems
-Creativity:  28/30
-Speed:  3/30
-Size:  28/30
-Graphics:  23/30
-Game play:  15/30
-Replay:  16/30
--Total judge score:  113/180 = 62.8%

-Public Poll:  2/8 = 25%
--Grand Total: 43.9%

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Pure BASIC Category:

CaveDweller83 by drummist:
-Creativity:  29/30
-Speed:  21/30
-Size:  29/30
-Graphics:  21/30
-Game play:  23/30
-Replay:  23/30
--Total judge score:  146/180 = 81.1%

-Public Poll:  8/8 = 100%
--Grand Total: 90.6%

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Stupid by Deep Thought

-Creativity:  21/30
-Speed:  23/30
-Size:  18/30
-Graphics:  25/30
-Game play:  5/30
-Replay:  18/30
--Total judge score:  110/180 = 61.1%

-Public Poll:  0/8 = 0%
--Grand Total: 30.6%

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Congrats again

Note to contest entrants:  You can submit your entries to ticalc.org or any other site now if you haven't already done so.

That sucks Eeems   I hope it isn't too long until you get your calc back.

Just to play devil's advocate:  People need sleep, especially if you're working on a large project that you need to have a clear and active mind for

that isn't possible for a BASIC program, but it will be able to do noshell ASM

I'm not sure which suggestion that was aimed at, but it is possible to tell if a program is Asm or Basic using CelticIII.  :"BB6D"=det(14,"PROG",0,2 will be true if PROG is an assembly program, and false otherwise (since every Asm program starts with BB6D).