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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1089 |
Event id #1610 : X 2010
The date is final: 1,2,3 October 2010 in The Netherlands.
New location!
More info will follow soon. |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Quote: hold your horses guys, still 198 days left till X10. give us some time to come up with a good compo setup.
My best advice is, to keep the deadlines strict - so you can start early, and democompo wont start after midnight and run until too late.
As I see it, its about controlling the deadline.
18:00 music
(break)
20:00 gfx
(break)
22:00 demo
if you make all deadlines at 14:00 - you have plenty of time.
But you must be a bitch, and say "no exceptions".
the delaying is always made from extending deadline, because 1 or 2 demogroups are not done with their stuff.
just tell people: if you want to release at X, have your stuff ready when you arrive.
bugfixing in last minute on a party is crap anyway.
Go to X with a finished product, then you can talk and booze instead of slaving over some trackmo that wont link correctly. :D
my 2 cents.. |
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Conjuror
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 168 |
Whats the big deal over time taken for the competitions with the party been over 3 days?
Why not have the individual competitions spread out during the main day?
I'd really prefer not to sit through hour after hour of entries without a significant break in between
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just tell people: if you want to release at X, have your stuff ready when you arrive.
bugfixing in last minute on a party is crap anyway.
AGREED! |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
My thoughts on compo entry disks:
Giving away a fragile 5.25" floppy with your music/gfx/demo, with a nicely made dir structure, only to see that you copy the stuff to other disks, break the dir art and so on..
its 2010
A large percentage is using a laptop, SD cards, MMC replay, 1541 ultimate.
Now please throw out that disk circus! :D
instead of the disks, let people come to a computer, where 1 guy sits. he collects all the material.
no running around, finding cba or another guy, let there be a drop station where all know where it is, put a big sign up! "compo upload!"
Now anyone can come with their laptop, SD card, usb flashstick or whatever, and you copy it to the compo pc machine.
Save everything as D64 or PRG, on a pc.
end of transfer hell, guys running around "can you transfer my music to a real 5.25 disk please" - end of that shit! :D
just let them come to you, and you copy it all to a pc.
when deadline is reached, you can write it all to real floppies if you need.
disk swapping demos, risk to bug when you flip disk on a 1541 U - but no swapping ones are perfectly safe.
try and run 10 random trackmos on a 1541 U to see how it goes, as a test. if you are satisfied, use 1541 U.
i just suggest this, because then you dont have that copy to real disk circus. only do that if really required.
well, i gave the suggestions..
i dont want to give you a good free disks every time, when the fact is that almost nobody even use a real 5.25 disk when they make demos and music - they use a pc! its 2010. |
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Conjuror
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 168 |
At Syntax we uploaded our entries via a web application.
All was taken care of from there. (not written to floppies though) |
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
Quoting Janend of transfer hell, guys running around "can you transfer my music to a real 5.25 disk please" - end of that shit! :D
Amen brother. Nostalgy and all, but it's fricking 2010. USB STICKS FTW!
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Yeah I agree on that - as long as the compo stuff is shown on real machines then all is good. |
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null
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Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 645 |
Nice try, Rambones, but what if I code something on my real c64 and have no means to transfer stuff to a USB drive?
I think your idea is stupid and people should decide for themselves how they submbit it (as long as the orgas are fine with it).
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Quote: Nice try, Rambones, but what if I code something on my real c64 and have no means to transfer stuff to a USB drive?
I think your idea is stupid and people should decide for themselves how they submbit it (as long as the orgas are fine with it).
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then you give them the 5.25 disk ofcourse.
you have misunderstood what its all about, its about that people can just come and deliver their entries, on the medias they have, and not have to transfer all to a 5.25 |
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Yazoo
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 227 |
yep :) good idea... i dont have a working 1541 anymore (well, i have 3 drives, but they all seem to be broken)... so i just use my 1541u...
so, i say YES to the invention of the USB-stick, SD-Cards and whatever ;-) |
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
Quoting knoekiI think your idea is stupid No, acutally it's not. Maybe it wasnt well thought through, but it's not stupid. I'd suggest both posibilities.
c64 Discs AND USB (or whatever other modern mumbo jumbo you prefer)
I've had the problem myself at the past 2 X's. I dont have either any floppy discs nor any real hardware.
And i know a couple of other composers who have the same problem.
And running around, begging for a disc and finding someone to transfer your shit is honestly a pain in the ass. |
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