[1/2] Hardwave Demoshow - version 1.0!!!!
ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»
present
Festival of Computer Creativity
"Hardwave demoshow2002"
Serpukhov.
st. Firsova 5.
Moscow Regional Pedagogical College.
Rules (version 1.0)
Contents ?
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0. Introduction.
1. Date, time, place, etc...
2. General provisions.
3. Competition works.
4. Competitions.
5. Definition winners.
6. Prizes.
7. Registration.
8. Support
9. Contact addresses.
0. Introduction ?
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Computer creativity festival "Hardwave demoshow2002"
1. Date, time, place, etc... ?
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Date of the Hardwave demoshow - May 18, 2002.
Venue - Moscow Regional Pedagogical College, Serpukhov, st. Firsova 5.
Cost of visiting - about $2 (free for girls).
Platforms: PC, ZX Spectrum.
2. General provisions ?
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Rules of conduct that are required of all
visitors:
- Smoking is allowed only in designated areas.
- It is not advisable to bring food and drinks to the festival.
- Prohibited litter.
- It is prohibited to be drunk at the festival,
to bring anddrink alcoholic beverages.
- Access to equipment is possible ONLY with the permission and under
supervision of the organizers.
- All participants must undergo pre-registration by
filling out forms.
(this item is required)
3. Competition works ?
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- All works must be delivered to the organizing committee no later than
5 days before start of the party.
It is advisable to submit your works in advance to check them on
the organizers' computers.
(this point is important not so much for the organizers as for the
authors of the works themselves)
Works can be submitted in one of the following ways:
* By e-mail, addresses are given below.
* By ftp to the address indicated below.
* By regular mail
* On floppy disks, HDD or CD personally into the hands of the organizers.
Delivery of works on the day of the festival is allowed only in
exceptional cases and only no later than two hours
before the start
of the festival (we remind you that most works will not be accepted
on the day of the festival).
- The presence of the author of the work or his representative is desirable.
One person cannot present the works of different groups or authors
not included in the same group. Entries that do not have a representative
can also take part in the competition, but they do not
participate in the distribution of prizes.
- PC intro and demo mustwork correctly in a DOS window
Windows'95, complete the work by pressing Esc and after the
set time has elapsed.
4. Competitions ?
- - - -= PC =- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
General requirements:
- Celeron-633, 128Mb RAM (550Kb low mem), DOS window Win95 or
Win16/Win32,
Creative SB Live/Aureal Vortex2/General MIDI.
- “Pure” animation is prohibited.
- Maximum 2 works from the author (for each competition).
- All works must work correctly in the DOS window Windows95 and
be completed by pressing Esc.
- After the specified time, the work will be interrupted.
4K intro:
- Maximum 3 minutes.
- In total, no more than 10 works will be shown.
64K intro:
- Maximum 5 minutes.
- The total intro size is no more than 65536 bytes.
- In total, no more than 10 works will be shown.
MegaDemo:
- Maximum 10 min.
- Archive size (zip, rar) with demo no more than 10Mb.
- - - -= ZX Spectrum =- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
General requirements:
- ZS Scorpion 256/ Kay256/Ay/TR-DOS 5.04;
- by after the specified time, the program must
be completed;
- all works must be in TR-DOS without protection;
- works in SCL, TRD, Hobet format are accepted;
- works on regular TR-DOS disks are accepted;
4K intro:
- Simple Basic bootloader+ code block 4096 bytes maximum.
- Maximum 3 min. In total, no more than 10 works will be shown.
640K demo:
- Maximum size - 1 TR-DOS disk.
- Maximum 10 min.
Hand-drawn graphics:
- 1 work from the author.
- No more than 30 works in total.
- Transferred from other platforms or
scanned is prohibited graphics.
- Standard screen 6912 bytes.
Games (ZX Spectrum Game compo)
General requirements:
- all works must either work in demo mode,
or
be demonstrated by the authors or their representatives.
- the game must occupy no more than 1 disk.
- automatically complete no later than 5 minutes
after launch.
Musical there will be no competition on ZX.
- - - -= Music (PC) =- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
General requirements:
- Tracker compositions must be correctly played by
WinAMP v?.?
Tracker music:
- 4-channel music (standard ProTracker MOD):
- Maximum 3 min.,
- file size - no more than 1Mb,
- maximum 2 works from the author.
- in total no more than 15 works will be shown.
- Multichannel Music (S3M, IT, XM):
- maximum 4 min.,
- file size no more than 4Mb.
- 1 work from the author.
- no more than 15 in total will be shown work.
- It is not allowed to usepacked samples.
MP3 Music Compo:
- Maximum 4 min.
- Preferably VBR.
- 1 work from by the author.