DIHALT 2010 OpenAir
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DiHalt demoparty will be held 10th and 11th July in Nizhny Novgorod.
Festival will be in open air, on bank of lake, no more hot buildings. You can take sunbathes, swim, even make barbecue, not leaving demoparty. We hope that will make atmosphere of festival more friendly, unformal, more focused on communication with others and relaxing.

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General Competition Rules
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    * DiHalt 2010 is a festival of computer art, which will take a place on Jule, 10-11 in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).
    * You can participate in competitions with works created for PC, Amiga/Pegasos and ZX-Spectrum.
    * Previously released material is not allowed.
    * Copyrighted material can only be used with authors permission.
    * Each work must have a representative, determined by the author and present at the party, who will receive the prizes if the work will win a prize. In other case the author of the work will receive only the diploma by mail.
    * There will be preselection of all works and they can be disqualified for reasons such as poor quality, infringements of the legislation and/or ethics, etc. Preselection will be made by organizers of the party with an invited jury.
    * Winners will be awarded. The prize fund will depend on quantity of visitors and sponsors.
    * All works submitted in competitions can be distributed by organizers of the party without additional coordination with authors, including on WWW/FTP/CD/DVD.
    * Organizers reserve the right to reduce or increase the number of shown works in any competition, depending on the quality or the level of works.
    * Competitions can be combined if there are only few works in a particular competition.

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 Compo machines:
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Organizers give the following equipment for competitions:
PC: config in process.
Amiga: A1200, 68060/50Mhz, 64Mb RAM, AmigaOS 3.1.
Pegasos: Pegasos II, G4/1GHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon9000, MorphOS 2.4 & 1.4.5 + 3D-update.
ZX-Spectrum: Pentagon1024, TurboSound FM, GeneralSound.

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 Registration and reception of works
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    * Registration of works and participants (who would like to introduce works in competitions) is obligatory.
    * Reception and registration of works will be completed for 1 day prior to the beginning of demoparty - in the evening of Jule 8th. Most likely the reception of works will go on also after the deadline (probably directly at the party), but it is NOT GUARANTEED.
    * Works for Wild/Animation (CD / DVD) can be accepted directly at the demoparty.
    * Registration and uploading of works is done by email: dihalt10(at)flatrate.ru. If you have not received confirmation of the registration of your work in three days, contact the organizers.
    * Work and concomitant files (if it is indicated in rules) needs to be packed in any archive (for example rar, zip, lha) and necessarily to attach file (file_id.diz), designed approximately as follows:

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      Nick/Realname: Vinnny / Vlad Vinogradov
      Group: Dogma
      Full name of work: Sunrise
      Compo: Amiga/PC demo
      Requirements: WinXP+Radeon1600+Shaders3.0
      Duration (minutes): 7:28
      Contacts: vinnny@mail.ru
      P.S.: Demoscene forever!
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Amiga/PC demo competitions
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4k Intro

    * Filesize limit: 4kb uncompressed.
    * Runtime limit: 3 minutes.
    * Maximum entries: 10.
 

64k Intro

    * Filesize limit: 64kb uncompressed.
    * Runtime limit: 5 minutes.
    * Maximum entries: 10.
	
 
16mb Demo

    * Filesize limit: 16MB archived (zip, rar, lha, lzx) including all files (readme, etc...).
    * Works containing only an animation+player are prohibited.
    * Runtime limit: 10 minutes.

 
General:

    * You can use hardware acceleration (DirectX9-10, OpenGL).
    * You can use Macromedia Flash.
    * Exit by pressing LMB/RMB (Amiga), Esc (PC).

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Graphics competitions
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Gfx Rendered

    * Graphics created in 3D-tools (Lightwave, 3DMax, Cinema4D, etc).
    * Files in archive must be named as:
      name_xxx.jpg - phases of your work
      name_wire.jpg - wireframe version
      name_unsig.jpg - unsigned version
      name_sig.jpg - signed version

	
Gfx Handdrawn

    * Handmade pictures drawn on a computer. If you've used paper sketches in your work, it is desirable to give them to the preselect team.

	
Gfx Freestyle

    * Combined pictures made in different ways (Photoshop processing, 3D-render, photo, collage, handmade drawing, etc).
    * Use of the scanned fragments of images is allowed.


General:

    * All works will be scaled to 1024x768 24bit, for disproportionate works it will be set the black background.
    * All graphics works should have a minimum of 3 intermediate phases in archive.
    * Only original works by the author are accepted. Scans and other copies are not accepted.
    * List of allowed formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, IFF, PNG, HAM.
    * The logo of the author/group will be covered by a black square if you haven't included an unsigned version of your work.
    * Images with porn elements are not accepted.
    * Maximum 20 entries in any compo.

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Music competitions
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Multichannel Tracker Music

    * Tracked music in any styles.
    * Filesize limit: 4mb.
    * Channels limit: 64.

	
Chip Tune Music

    * Tracked music with limited size and channels.
    * Filesize limit: 64kb.
    * Channels limit: 16.
 

MP3/OGG Music

    * Music made with different instruments and programs.
    * Party version must be 192kbit/s bitrate only.
    * ID_TAG must be filled.
    * Playtime limit: 30 seconds.
 

32k.exe Music

    * The music generated by a program code.
    * Filesize limit: 32kb.
    * Maximum pre-calculated time: 30 sec.


General:

    * Playing will be carried out through library BASS.DLL (basis of XMPlay) with settings by default! A player with the test module it is possible download here.
    * Only original works by author are accepted. Remakes, remixes, covers, etc. are prohibited.
    * Tracked music format is XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MED, DBM.
    * Compressed samples are not allowed.
    * You can use 16bit-samples.
    * The song should not loop.
    * Runtime limit: 3 minutes (for MP3 - 30 sec).
    * Maximum 2 entries by each author in any compo.
    * Maximum entries: 15 in any compo.

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ZX-Spectrum competitions
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512b Intro

    * Works should start without basic-loader.
    * Time limit: 1 minute.
    * Maximum entries: 15.


640k Demo

    * Size limit: 640kb (one 5"25 TR-DOS diskette).
    * Time limit: 10 minutes.
    * Maximum entries: 10.
 

ZX Spectrum Graphics

    * Usual screen (6912 bytes). For B/W pictures attributes should be set.
    * Allow the Gigascreen format file. Gfx-editor for Windows is here.
    * All graphics works should have a minimum 3 intermediate phases in the archive.
    * Scanned pictures and others copies are not accepted.
    * Party version shouldn't show the signature of the author/group.
    * Images with porn elements are not accepted.
    * The border will be set to 0 during demonstration.
    * Maximum entries: 20.
 

ZX Spectrum AY/YM-Music

    * Works can be made with any AY-editor, and also with soundcard TurboSound (by NedoPC).
    * Module must be compiled to #C000 (49152) with total instruction about places of player and initialization.
    * The source of the module should be attached.
    * Size limit: 16384 bytes.
    * An allocated channels for playing by default is ABC. You can specify the arrangement of the channels.
    * Time limit: 3 minutes.
    * Maximum 2 entries by each author in compo.
    * Maximum entries: 20.
 

ZX Spectrum TurboFM-Music

    * Works can be made with soundcard TurboSound FM (by NedoPC).
    * The source of the module should be attached.
    * Time limit: 3 minutes.
    * Maximum 2 entries by each author in compo.
    * Maximum entries: 15.

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Other competitions
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Animation

    * Animations, videos making made computer with 3D-render tools, Flash-tools, animated cartoon, etc.
    * Video can be encoded for best quality with MJPEG, AVI, VCD (mpeg1)/ SVCD (mpeg2).
    * For AVI-encoding you must use DivX 4.0 or higher, or Xvid, audiocodec MP3 (0x55 = MPEG Layer-3).
    * We will take works on CD/DVD also.
    * Time limit: 5 minutes.
    * Maximum entries: 10.
 

Film/Wild

    * This competition is for works that have been shoot on a photo- or videocamera and translated into digital format, and also for works which rules of other competitions do not apply, including works on non-standard equipment.
    * Video can be encoded for best quality with MJPEG, AVI, VCD (mpeg1)/ SVCD (mpeg2).
    * For AVI-encoding you must use DivX 4.0 or higher, or Xvid, audiocodec MP3 (0x55 = MPEG Layer-3).
    * We take works on CD/DVD also.
    * Time limit: 5 minutes.
    * Maximum entries: 10.

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Changes from DiHalt2009
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    * PC/Amiga 512b Intro joining with PC/Amiga 4k Intro.
    * Remove ANSI/ASCII Graphics.
    * Multichannel Traditional Music & Multichannel Alternative Music combined in Multichannel Tracker Music.
    * Remove ZX-Spectrum 4k Intro.
    * Flash-demo joining with PC/Amiga intro/demo.

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see you there!
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