Zodiac France Contest 2006

[Drumaster]

Hi,

I’m one of the moderators of Zodiac France (http://zodiacfrance.com) and I post here you to inform you that we would like to organize a Zodiac coding contest soon.
We are in touch with http://www.gp32z.com and rewards would be items such as some 1/2gb sd/mmc cards, wifi cards, gps cards maybe, accessories…
Some of the more ‘famous’ coders from the GP32/Zodiac/Palm scenes are already interested in this contest.
The only restriction is that the app/game/emulator will have to offer a 480*320 possible display (natively or using the ATI stretching and smoothing feature).
If you 'only' have a standard Palm, that's ok too, just be sure your entry works on Zodiac.
Any app fully working on the Zodiac (apps/games/emus) will be allowed of course, and updates of existing projects too if they are importantly updated.
We will be glad most of you enter the contest when it begins.
Of course, anyone can participate, don't hesitate to talk about this contest to anyone around you until it is started.

See the contest page here (the rewards can be modified if not available) : http://zodiacdownload.free.fr/zodiac_contest/zodiac_contest2006_eng.htm

Important : Please mail me at drumaster@zodiacfrance.com (or mp) to get the poll url to vote for the date of the contest you prefer because the poll will finish on the 10th of March.

Also, confirm in a short delay (by email or mp too) that you will participate for sure to the contest. Thanks.

Best regards,

Drumaster from the Zodiac France team

[Tam Hanna]

Hi Drumaster,
this code does NOT check if your app works on a Zodiac!!!

It only helps you to determine if the machine that ypir program runs on is a Tapwave handheld or a different model.

[Drumaster]

Yes, I just checked that, sorry. :)

[Drumaster]

Hi everyone,

The poll about the deadline has been closed yesterday.
Two dates have most of the votes and Zodiac France decided to choose one of them.

So the deadline is officially set to the 30th of April 2006 at 11:59 GMT+1.

The contest page is still here : http://zodiacdownload.free.fr/zodiac_contest/zodiac_contest2006_eng.htm

Don’t forget to send me quickly the confirmation that you will participate in this contest.

Good luck to all of you!

[MetaView]

this code does NOT check if your app works on a Zodiac!!!

It only helps you to determine if the machine that ypir program runs on is a Tapwave handheld or a different model.

And isn't even the recommended way to do it. Tapwave documented the recommended way to do it: Check the TwAPI-Version instead of any freaky OEM-Manufacture.

Regards
Henk



Boolean TwCheckAPIVersion(UInt32 minVersion)
{
UInt32 version = 0;
if (FtrGet(twFtrCreator, twFtrAPIVersion, &version) != errNone)
return false;
return ( version >= minVersion );
}

[Drumaster]

Hi, here is the mail pasted I sent to all the devs :

"Hi everyone,

Due to a popular demand (especially Tinnus, ZodTTD and Vilmos to be honest :p), the contest deadline is finally delayed to the 15th of May, to let you finish your current project(s) the best you can.

As this contest wasn’t announced ages ago like the gbax compo (which is well known to be annual), some of you didn’t have enough time to complete their work, so that’s the reason why Zodiac France decided to report the contest deadline on the 15th of May.

Really hope (and I’m sure about that) that we’ll have good entries for this contest.

Good luck to everyone again and see you on the 15th. ;)"

[Ezikial Anta]

Soo, who won?

[Drumaster]

The results will be posted on this monday. :)