REAL-TIME DEMOS - 4 Categories
- Demo : real-time playback
on PC / Mac (30MB Zipped Limit). No captures. Must run live.
- 64kb Demo : PC / Mac
/ Amiga (64K Unzipped Maximum - including music)
- Oldskool Demo (OCS,
ECS, early AGA, C64, VIC20, Spectravideo & any other
platform before 1992)
- Wild Demo (Mobile phone,
DHTML, JavaScript, Java, Flash, hardware hacks or anything
else realtime!)
Absolute maximum playing time is 6 minutes
for demos (excluding pre loader).
Screen shots of some of the
enteries from previous years. |
REAL-TIME MUSIC
2 Categories
- Tracked / realtime music (S3M, IT, XM,
4ch-MOD, OctaMED or your own self-executing coded synth)
- Chip music (C64 SID, MOD <32kb, Original Gameboy,
or other pre 1986 machine). Must play from real hardware.
Maximum running time is 4 minutes (longer
tracks will be faded out)
No MP3's / OGG's or other pre-calculated formats. No M03
or other compressed formats (even lossless)
Size Limitation is 1MB for tracked and 32kb for Chip music.
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If you are
new to tracked music and are curious how it works and
why it is different from nuskool production methods,
cTrix^Syntax Party Crew has written this
introduction for tracking music for C64 and Commodore
Amiga.
Most tracking software is free, the formats are cross
platform and has a relativly easy learning curve. Musicians
in the demoscene community are traditionally very helpful
to new comers & oldskool members alike.
The Syntax Sound System is quite a serious set up with
a full multiband compressor stage (dbx), speaker management
and custom modified tri-amped speakers. Add this to
a C64 or Amiga line out and your tune will sound hot.
:-] |
NON REAL-TIME
2 Categories.
- Pre-rendered Animation (3D or 2D)
- 3D Render / 2D Graphics (PNG
or JPG format)
Maximum running time for animation is 3 minutes.
LAUNCH POINT
- Tools / DiskMags / Musicdisks
/ Artpacks
Do you have something outside these categories
to launch at the party? Be it an album, art pack, tool,
util, diskmag - let the organizers know and we will launch
it on the big screen for you. Standard demoparty rules apply
(see below)
Screen grab and short description required.
= = = Standard Demoparty Rules Apply = = =
.
Entry rules:
A member of your group or representative must
be in attendance of the party in order to
submit your demo.
Any submissions must be your original work
and had no previous release at
a party or film festival.
Any submitted work will be made
available for free public download via scene.org
and pouet.net
Usual rules regarding content: nothing illegal, nothing
racist / discriminatory, keep it an [MA] rating, etc
You do not have to release your source code if you do not
want to.
Playback Hardware
DEMO PC
Running XP SP2. DirectX
9 / latest OpenGL
Intel QuadCore 6700
nVidia Geforce 9800GTX
2 GB RAM
If you want to do something with vista or DX 10, then bring
your own box.
DEMO MAC
Bring your own hardware. We have an Apple Classic
128k and an Apple ][e
MUSIC PLAYBACK MACHINE
Amiga 1200 (for MOD / OctaMOD)
PC Running XMPLAY for the other formats.
Commodore 64
Revision C (slimline case). Disk and tape available.
Amiga
Amiga 1200 & Amiga 500 (unexpanded). We recommend you
bring your own hardware for the oldskool compo. Please provide
a composite output where possible although a tuner will
be available just in case. Your machines config will be
noted on screen before being executed.
