Music competitions
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The composer has to be present at the party personally. Alternatively, the entry can be handed in as a remote entry before the party
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Only one entry per composer and competition allowed
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In case that we will have to apply preselection: disqualified entries will not be spread and will not be votable
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Maximum allowed playing time is 4 minutes. Tunes that go beyond this limit will be faded out
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The use of unlicensed material is not allowed
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All contributions for the music, graphics and videocontent compos will be released under a Creative Commons Licence. Look here for more information!
Loop
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A looped piece of music
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Max. loop playing time: 7 seconds (that's 308700 samples at 44.1kHz)
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WAV or FLAC file format only
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Original loops (not used in a track before)
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Will be played for about 60 seconds and then faded out
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Must loop seamlessly in winamp or xmplay, or will be moved to a seperate compo called: "ZU DUMM EINEN SAUBEREN LOOP ZU SCHNEIDEN" ;-)
Streamed
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The entry has to be delivered as .OGG or .MP3 file with at least 160kbit/s average bitrate
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You will have to provide a list of tools you used in creating your entry. This information will be shown on the bigscreen
Tracked
This year we decided to tighten the rules a bit to intensify the oldschool flavor of the tracked music compo. Therefore newschool tracker formats will not be allowed anymore. For a special visual experience during compo we will show the pattern view of XMPlay during replay of the entries.
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The filesize limit is 1.457.664 bytes UNcompressed
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.MOD/.S3M/.XM/.IT : replayed with XMPlay (native support)
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.MED/.NST/.STM : replayed with ModPlug Sound System Input Plugin for XMPlay
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.TFM/.TFMX/.TFX : replayed with Winamp2 TFMX player v1.25 Plugin for XMPlay
Executable
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This is a cross-platform competition for all available machines (PC, C64, VIC20, Z80 Spectrum, Atari, NES, Amiga ECS...). Please bring special converters with you if your machine does not connect to a standard stereo mini headphone plug
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The entry has to be delivered as executable program and you'll have to prove that it works on the real machine (e.g. bring it with you and show the organizers)
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Maximum filesize of the executable is 32768 bytes (129 blocks and 2 bytes on C64)
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We won't show any screen contents during the competition
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Maximum allowed pre-calculation time: 30 seconds
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We will provide a C64 for the replaying of SID entries. Please tell us which SID-version you need on the submission form otherwise the organizers get to pick one for you
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If possible, provide a MP3/OGG encoded version of your tune
