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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1088 |
X2016 Competitions: Your Input Wanted!
The 28th of october is still far away but getting closer and closer. The organizers have been getting busy and are now well underway to get everything sorted out for another smashing X!
Since entry delivery and running the compos at X14 went quite smooth and voting is now done in realtime, we believe we may have room for 1 or 2 more (small/fun) c64 competitions. Like a PETSCII compo or a 4k compo, or maybe you guys have an idea?
Or perhaps you think the straightforward demo/music/gfx compos are enough.
Let us know :) |
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Kabuto
Account closed
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 58 |
Random thought: "live mixed" music compo - specify style, tempo and duration so tracks are mix-able, and mix them duing the compo, like they did at TRSAC |
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PAL
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 271 |
Burglar: You are right... X is the peak compo c64 party, and only c64... 2sid would be nice however. Just to point out, when mahoney or noname create such massive one-filers there is no reason to split. Just do not add REU into one-files as it is done so here on csdb, that is just unfair to all them great one-file demos on the standard hardware. |
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Copyfault
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 475 |
-1 for Wild/expanded C64 (this would pave the way to the end of the c64 scene)
+1 for PETSCII
+1 for Dir-Art
-> maybe these two could be mixed, e.g. allow Dir-Art and Standalone PETSCIIs _or_ have some sort of "scrolling PETSCIIs" that are printed directly after a dir command
+1 for size coding compo
-> 1-block- /or/ code-that-effect- /or/ smth like a "realtime generated picture" theme would be interesting (just like that madonna pic by graham for ex.)
The more I think about it, the more I get to the point that the most important compos are the classic C64 compos MSX+GFX+DEMO. Maybe just sticking to these is the best solution ;) |
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CRT
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 87 |
Burglar:
Splitting one-filers from the rest would be a bad idea.
They should all be in the same compo, one demo compo. Just that the one-filer with the highest votes will win a one-file award and rank.
I think that can encourage some great small releases that might otherwise have been held back. |
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null
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 645 |
Quote: just for the records: i am very much against recording C64 demos at X. show them live and let them crash. AND FUCKING DONT SHOW THEM AGAIN IF SO.
and please use a proper 1541 for the damned compo too. not some half working emulator.
+1 for using a real 1541.
I'm not *entirely* against the 1541U, in fact, I feel like it does a reasonably good job for the most part, but having a disk swap menu pop up halfway through the demo isn't acceptable, especially when most demos with multiple sides have some effort put into the flip disk part.
But I also understand it's not entirely practical to use a real drive and that I'm just obsessed with using real floppies (: |
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Snabel
Registered: Aug 2015
Posts: 24 |
Quote: +1 for using a real 1541.
I'm not *entirely* against the 1541U, in fact, I feel like it does a reasonably good job for the most part, but having a disk swap menu pop up halfway through the demo isn't acceptable, especially when most demos with multiple sides have some effort put into the flip disk part.
But I also understand it's not entirely practical to use a real drive and that I'm just obsessed with using real floppies (:
Well, if you swap disk via telnet, you will not see any on-screen menus. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
pffft... back then we had demos with ugly decrunch screens, flashing etc (One Year Camelot 3) and now the sissy scene cant even accept disk selector menus popping up in a compo... |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11357 |
thing is, depending on what kind of stuff is going on in the turn disk part, it will simply not work at all. and yes, its butt ugly too. |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1088 |
+1 for real 1541. We will try to run multidisk demos from real 1541, but it's not a promise. For practical reasons we may switch to 1541U or chameleon...
One of the reasons X14 compo was so smooth was because we used a 1541U. And the only crashing demo, crashed because we used a real 1541 (and the disks weren't written on the same drive).
(@knoeki, do mind changing your username a bit? your utf8 madness is breaking the layout.) |
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Fungus
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 680 |
Jammer: go join the fucking PC scene then. |
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