ILAC '04

InterNestor Lite Applications Contest

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Welcome to the ILAC '04 (InterNestor Lite Applications Contest) page. The objective of ILAC is to promote the development of Internet utilities for MSX, especially now that the ObsoNET project is progressing. The prize is an MSX Turbo-R computer.

In this page you can find the contest rules, as well as the list of the contestants that have announced its participation and some links that will be of interest for the contestants and for people simply interested. The three sections will be updated when necessary, so please visit this page regularly.

ILAC '04 news & status

• 19 Apr 2005
  

  • Added the second contestant: Carlos de Santa-Ana Garcia with an IRC client.

  • Fixed the limit date to send applications on May 7th 2005.

• 21 Aug 2004
  

  • Added the first contestant: Ricardo Bittencourt with Fudebrowser.

• 20 Aug 2004
  

  • This page has been put online.

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1. Contestants must present applications whose normal behavior imply communication with other machines by means of the IP protocol, for which InterNestor Lite (INL from now on) must be used. A "contestant" may be one single person or a development team.

2. Contestants from anywhere in the world will be accepted. Each contestant may present as many applications as desired.

3. Applications must work with all the implementations of INL. Features that are particular to a given implementation may be used, but then its use must be optional.

   For example, an application could offer the possibility of re-opening the PPP connection when it is lost. But then, this option must be offered only if the INL implementation that is running is the one that supports the PPP protocol.

4. Applications must work on MSX2 computers with 256K of mapped RAM (they can require just 128K, of course). Exceptionally, applications being exclusive for MSX2+ or MSX Turbo-R, and/or requiring more than 256K may be accepted, but only if the contestant justifies that it is really necessary for the application.

5. Applications must be compatible with MSX-DOS 1 and MSX-DOS 2, or compatible with MSX-DOS 2 only (no justification is needed in the later case). Applications that under DOS 2 do not work or have problems will not be accepted (for example, applications that arbitrarily access to mapped memory without checking the DOS version).

6. The utility of the applications will be valued over the originality. That is, there is no problem on presenting a clone of an application already existing on other systems.

7. Applications must be e-mailed to internestor (AT) konamiman (DOT) com, together with a user's manual in plain text format in english and/or in spanish. As an alternative, the address of an HTTP or FTP server where the application and the manual are placed, with instructions for downloading them, can be e-mailed instead.

   There is no previous inscription procedure, but it would be desirable that contestants announce their participation in advance, as well as the name and the features of the application or applications presented.

8. The limit date to send the finished applications is one week before the XXVII MSX Users Meeting in Barcelona; that is May 7th, 2005, included.

9. The name of the winner will be anounced on the XXVII MSX Users Meeting in Barcelona, whose date is May 14st 2005, and soon after it will published on the Asociación de Amigos del MSX page and on this page.
   The prize is an MSX Turbo-R computer, Panasonic FS-A1ST, donated by a person that prefer to remain anonymous, and will be given on the mentioned meeting. If the winner cannot assist, then the computer will be mailed to him, but then he must pay the postage, unless any sponsor offers himself to pay it.

10. The contest will be cancelled if after the presentation limit date there are not at least three contestants (NOT three applications presented by less than three contestants).

11. After the contest finishes, and unless the contestants explicitly express their disagreement for it, the presented applications will be put online available for public download on the Asociación de Amigos del MSX page and/or on this page.

12. For any suggestion or question about the contest please write to internestor (AT) konamiman (DOT) com.

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• InterNestor Lite - The TCP/IP stack for MSX2 computers which is the basis of this contest. For impatient and/or curious ones, the INL manual is here.

• MSX2 Technical Handbook - The official reference of the MSX2 standard and the MSX-DOS 1 operating system.

• MSX-DOS 2 Program Interface Specification - First part of the MSX-DOS 2 operating system specification.

• MSX-DOS 2 Function Codes Specification - Second part of the MSX-DOS 2 operating system specification.

• Easymbler - Funny Z80 assembler course (available only in spanish).

• ObsoNET project - Project to develop an Ethernet card for MSX computers.

• Asociación de Amigos del MSX - Organizers of the MSX Users Meetings of Barcelona.

• The RFC Editor - There are all the existing RFC (Request for Comments). RFCs are documents that describe and specify, amongst other things, the protocols used by Internet applications.

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