REAL-TIME DEMOS - 3 Categories

- Nuskool Demo : real-time playback on PC / Mac / Console (50MB Zipped Limit). No captures. Must run live.

- Oldskool Demo : C64, VIC20, OCS, ECS, ST, AGA, Spectravideo & any other platform before 1993

- Wild Demo : Mobile phone, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, Flash, hardware hack or anything else realtime! Post '94


Maximum playing time is 7 minutes for demos (excluding pre loader). Longger demos will be terminated at 7min.

All C64 demos will be executed via an 1541 Ultimate Cart from D64 or PRG unless otherwise requested.

The Demo and Wild compos maybe combined if not enough wild or nuskool demos are entered.

Screen shots of some of the enteries from previous years.

REAL-TIME MUSIC

2 Categories

- Tracked Music
Includes: S3M, IT, XM, 4ch-MOD, Madtracker, Musicline or OctaMED (no packed formats)

- Chip music
C64, Atari ST (YM), DMG Gameboy, Adlib, Sega mastersystem, or other hardware / synth chip pre 1993.
Must play from the real standalone hardware at the party and be available an unrendered distrutable format.
Unrendered formats = disk image, PRG, SNG or ROM image. eg. D64, ADF, ROM, EPROM image, etc. No MIDI.

Size Limitation is 1MB for tracked tunes. 64kb for chip formats.
Maximum running time is 4 minutes. Longer tracks will be faded out.
Strictly no MP3 / OGG files! No M03 or other compressed formats.
Chip crunched code (as long as it executes and decrunches on the hardware) is allowed.
The default player for PC for IT, XM and S3M formats will be XMPLAY. Intepolation will be set to sinc unless spec'ed.
MOD and OctaMED files will be played on an Amiga 1200 in mono with the filter turned off unless otherwise spec'ed.

The Syntax Sound System is usually quite decent with a full multiband compressor stage (dbx), speaker management and custom modified tri-amped speakers. Please advise the organisers if you require pan seperation for MOD files. They will be played in mono by default. If you are new to tracked music and are curious how it works and why it is different from nuskool production methods, cTrix^Disaster Area has written this introduction for tracking music for Amiga & C64. It is by no means complete, but should get you started. Almost all tracking software is free, the formats cross platform and sports a relativly easy learning curve. The tracking community is traditionally very helpful to new comers & oldskool members alike.

GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION (NON REAL-TIME)

2 Categories.

- Pre-rendered Animation (3D or 2D)*

- Pixelled and 3D Rendered Graphics (PNG or JPG format)

- ASCii and ANSI (native format). This is open to international enteries. Email to ascii[at]syntaxparty.org


*Maximum running time for animation is 5 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 = = =
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Entry rules:

A member of your group 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 / film festival / internet.

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

Party PC Machine
Running XP SP2. DirectX 9 / latest OpenGL

Intel QuadCore 6700
nVidia Geforce 9800GTX
4 GB RAM

If you want to do something with vista or DX 10, then bring your own box. Please test your code!


Party Apple Mac
Bring your own fruitbox. We have an Apple Classic 128k. It didn't run OSX last time we tried. (no DVD drive)

Commodore Vic20
Unexpanded - 1541-II

Commodore 64
Revision C - 8580 - Disk and tape available.
Revision B - 6581R4

Amiga
Amiga 1200 (2MB Chip & 4MB fast) - AGA
Amiga 1200 060/50
Amiga 500 (512 Chip & 512 Slow & WB 1.3) - ECS
miniMig (1024 Chip & 512 Slow & dynamic rom (switchable via SD card))

MUSIC PLAYBACK MACHINE
Amiga 1200 (for MOD / OctaMOD / Demos)
PC Running XMPLAY for the other formats. Edirol or Tascam AD converter.

We recommend you bring your own hardware for the oldskool compo. Please provide a composite output where possible. We have a tuner available just in case RF is the only option. Your machine and config will be noted on screen before being executed.