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The results for the 2022 “Beauty and the Beast” programming contest for the TRS-80 has been announced

January 1, 2023 3 Comments on The results for the 2022 “Beauty and the Beast” programming contest for the TRS-80 has been announced
Posted in Game Development Contests, Retro News, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), ViTNO News

(Article partially reproduced from trs8bit newsletter) This year’s competition centred on the popular Wordle 5-letter word guessing game. There were two ways to enter: write a version of Wordle for your favourite TRS-80 (the “Beauty” section) or show us how well the Wordle dictionary and answer list can be compressed (“Beast” section). Before getting into the winners, I’d like to…

The Double-Do Results – Find out the winners of the TRS-80 Software and Hardware Competition

December 12, 2020 1 Comment on The Double-Do Results – Find out the winners of the TRS-80 Software and Hardware Competition
Posted in Hardware, Homebrew Games News, News, Programming, Retro Gaming, Retro News, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)

The Double-Do competition winners were announced in the December issue of the TRS8Bit Newsletter. The competition had so many entries that the organizers decided to expand the categories and awards from two to six! The winners were spread in three different categories. The Monochrome category for software developed for the Model I/III/4, the Coloured category, for programs created for the…