ZX Pilot #33 18 июня 1999

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DI-HALT'99 - Rules konskursov.

           D I: H A L T 'Sept. 9



       RULES OF THE COMPETITION


   1. GENERAL RULES.


   a) The Competition will be held in the following categories:

   1) Demo

   2) 4k-intro

   3) 16k-intro

   4) Music

   5) Graphics

   6) Chunk-graphics

   7) ASCII-graphics

   8) Realtime coding


   b) All work submitted to the party,
must be fully copyright. Also forbidden to own handling of 
foreign works. When you have a selection committee serious 
doubts about the originality of work, the author is obliged to 
present the commission intermediate stages of creating the 
work, the text code, etc.


   c) All work must meet any legal and moral principles,
should not contain political or religious propaganda, should 
not discredit any natural or legal persons.


   d) The responsibility for the content of
carries only the author.

   e) Works do not meet these, and
as specifically provided for each
category below, may not be allowed to
demonstration.

   e) The work will be shown without
giving any information about the author
Registration will only be announced
Number of work.

   g) To demonstrate the works in the categories
demo, 4k intro and 16k intro, should be
presence in the party's work or a member of the group that 
created the work. To demonstrate the music and graphics the 
author's presence is desirable but not mandatory. 


   2. DEMO COMPO.


   a) The demos will be shown on the computer 
PENTAGON-128/3.5MHz/AY-3-8910 (12) / 5.25 "FDD / TR-DOS 5.03 
(5.04T), but must work (not hang) and SCORPION-256.


   b) The amount of demos is limited to one standard TR-DOS 
disk DS \ DD. Prohibited to use non-standard formatting. 

   c) The duration of demos - no more than 15
minutes. In case of time demonstrating beyond 15 minutes, the 
demonstration of will be interrupted.


   d) approved the use of animation as
part of the demos, but deme should not only consist of 
animation. 

   e) Dema should freely copied and
work in any area of ​​the disk.

   e) It is desirable for the presence of plaques interrupt 
vectors. Interrupt vector must be in fast memory. Execution

these simple requirements will ensure availability of your 
demos on machines with separate fields of memory and a volatile 
data bus. 

   g) It is desirable to have in your Deme possible to 
configure it to fit the specific hardware. This will avoid 
possible disruptions. 

   h) It is not advisable to use a Deme
sverhnavorochennyh turboloader'ov because Nobody knows their 
behavior on the drive, other than yours. 

   i) undesirable plant protection on the demos, it will 
complicate their adaptation to other disk systems. 

   a) From the same author (group) received only one job.


   3. 4K INTRO COMPO.


   a) The Intro should be of a
code block, not exceeding the amount of 4096
byte runs with load address.

   b) Intro can use all memory
except for page # 16 (22) and the printer buffer.

   c) The stack must be installed in the body
program and restored on exit.

   d) Intro should not be obsessed, after the completion of its 
work, it must return to RET.


   e) Preferred way out of the intro by pressing
BREAK (always subject to the conditions outlined above!).

   e) The intro should not apply to the disk.

   g) Use allowed AY.

   h) The maximum duration of the demonstration - no more than 
five minutes. 

   i) From one author can only
one work.


   4. 16K INTRO COMPO.


   a) The Intro should be of a
code block, not exceeding the amount of 16,384
byte runs with load address.

   b) Intro can use all memory
except for page # 16 and the printer buffer.

   c) The stack must be installed in the body
program and restored on exit.

   d) Intro should not be obsessed, after the completion of its 
work, it must return to RET. 

   e) Preferred way out of the intro by pressing
BREAK (always subject to the conditions outlined above!).

   e) The intro should not apply to the disk.

   g) The maximum duration of the demonstration - no more than 
10 minutes. 

   h) One author can only
one work.


   5. MUSIC COMPO.


   a) accept only on interrupt the music for the musical 
coprocessor AY-38910 (12) (YM2149F). 

   b) The music is made in a compiled form of address # C000 
(with player'om). On Currently player, written for listening to 
music at party, maintains following formats: ST XX, ST PRO, PT 
2.X, PT 3.31, PT 3.01, ASM 0.X, ASM 1.X, PSC to

1.06, SUPER SONIC, FT 1.X. If you use another editor, or some 
rare compiler, then send it together from work, or bring with 
them. 

   a) The music should not be fixated. By
After it should subside, and not start from the beginning.

   d) Maximum running time - 5 minutes.

   e) One author may submit only
one work.


   6. GRAPHICS COMPO.


   a) The contest shall work in a format standard Spectrum 
screen 256h192, 6912 bytes.


   b) Prohibited scanned and translated from other platforms to 
work. In the case of a selection committee of doubt originality 
of work, the author is obliged to present the intermediate 
steps of creating the work. 

   a) One author made no more than three works.


   7. CHUNK GFX COMPO.


   a) The contest shall work in the following format:

   - First the file: Image HARCOR'ovskogo
format 3072 or 1536 bytes.

   - The second file: set 64 byte chunks, shipped from HARDCORE.

   - 3rd file: attributes - Standard
block size is 768 bytes, as in ordinary
images.

   Second and / or third files may be missing, then the picture 
will be displayed, respectively, with a set of chankovym 
built-in HARDCORE, and / or on-screen black and white PAPER INK.


   b) Prohibited scanned and translated from other platforms to 
work. In the case of the onset of the selection committee no 
doubt originality of work, the author is obliged to present the 
intermediate steps of creating the work. 

   a) One author made no more than three works.


   PS: Along with the rules is spread HARDCORE ver2.61.


   8. ASCII GRAPHICS COMPO.


   a) The contest shall graphics
work carried out by means of symbols
ASCII, as a text file in 886 (DOS)
encoding, end of line marker - CR or
CR \ LF.

   b) the maximum amount of work - 64h24
symbol.

   c) To demonstrate the work will be used ZX-WORD'ovsky font 
4x8 pixels. 

   e) One author may submit no more than three works.


   9. REALTIME CODING COMPO.


   a) The contest will be held in conjunction with MUSIC COMPO, 
at the same time to participate will be allowed 3-4 people. 

   b) The time allowed to perform the task - 1 hour.

   c) The contest will take place on machines
PENTAGON-128/3.5MHz/5.25 "FDD / AY. In the drive to insert a 
disc with all the necessary software to perform the task 
(chosen by a participant from the list below), after which the 
drive is sealed, in order to prevent the use of ready-made 
procedures, etc. and search parties looking for contraband 
disks. 

   d) Due to lack of color monitors, contestants will have to 
work for black and white monitors, but the results will be 
displayed in color. 

   e) This competition - the only one in which a limited number 
of participants approximately 5 participants, because number of 
machines / monitors is limited. 

   e) Competition will be held subject to
there are at least three members.



     LIST SOFT'A allowable

          REALTIME CODING COMPO


   Assembler:


   ALASM 3.8

   ALASM 4.1

   GENS 4.0

   MASM 1.0

   STORM 1.3

   TASM 3.0

   TASM 4.0 (XLD)

   TASM 4.12 (CBS)

   ZX ASM 3.0

   ZX ASM 3.1

   XAS 7.43

   XAS 9.06


   Debugger:


   MONS 4.0

   STS 5.1


   Graphics Editor:


   ART STUDIO 2.01

   ARTIST 2.0

   HARDCORE 2.61


   EDITORS Sprite:


   SPRITE MASTER 5.11


   Text editor:


   ZX-WORD 2.5

   ZX-WINWORD 2.1

   ZX / IBM TEXT EDITOR 1.5D

   MODERN WORD 2.0


   MUSIC EDITOR:


   SOUND TRACKER 1.3

   SOUND TRACKER PRO

   PRO SOUND CREATOR 1.06

   PRO TRACKER 2.1

   PRO TRACKER 2.4

   PRO TRACKER 3.01 (FRUNZE)

   PRO TRACKER 3.31


   PACKERS:


   HRUM 3.5i

   HRUST 1.2

   HRUST 2.1

   MAXSOFT SCREEN PACKER 1.6

   ASC SCREEN CRASHER 2.6

   LASER COMPACT 5.0


   Commander:


   DIRECT 3.4

   CONSUL 3.33

   REAL 1.7

   CONVER 4.6

   PERFECT 1.52

   JEMMINI 4.0T

   GLOBAL 1.1