And the winner is...
Nobody! The competition was fierce... fiercely NONEXISTENT! Oh well.
TRANSCRIPT (full details on the language can be found here) offers a way to be creative and imaginative while writing simple little programs. Any text that isn't recognised as a command is ignored by the interpreter, so you can feel free to add as much or as little fluff as you want to the source files. Complete stories can be told within the structure of a TRANSCRIPT file, or complex, obfuscated TRANSCRIPTs can be written.
For this competition, simply implement the most creative, amusing, interesting, or amazing idea that you can which incorporates a working TRANSCRIPT source file as one of its main elements. This can be as simple as a TRANSCRIPT which produces some intersting output (such as another working TRANSCRIPT source file, or ASCII art, or whatever), a TRANSCRIPT which builds a mystery in the source file and gives the solution as output, or even a full-fledged IF game which, when played and recorded, gives a working TRANSCRIPT file which gives the solution to the final puzzle in the game.
To enter, simply send an archive (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2 preferably) to rfreebern@corknut.org by midnight EDT on Sunday, June 16th, 2002. If your entry is large (greater than 1MB in size), please place it in a publicly-accessible location and email me the URL to the file. Put "[TRANSCRIPTCOMP] in the subject line of your submission.
Judging will be performed by a secret cabal of highly intelligent monkeys over a period of two weeks, from June 17th until July 1st, and the winners will be announced on this page by midnight EDT on July 1st, 2002. All submitted entries will be posted here, but the winners will be featured prominently, so everyone will know that they're the winners. Because otherwise... never mind.
No prizes will be awarded to winners, but I hope that spending some time coming up with fun and creative uses of this cute little language is a prize in itself. Hah.