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 Computer Art Festival 2002

 version 0.2

 General information

Date: August 24, 25, 2002.
Place: Kazan, Mayakovsky Palace of Culture, st. Schmidt, 35.
Time: not yet determined
Cost: ticket price for 2 competition days is 100 rubles,
for 1 competition day - 50 rubles.
Prizes: will be

  The latest version of these rules can always be found at:

 - http://cafeparty.org.ru
 - rulez@cafeparty.org.ru

 General rules

- works created for
platforms: Amiga, PC and ZX-Spectrum- works made for the Amiga and PC platforms are evaluated together
- the competition in each nomination will be held on the condition that
two or more works will be presented
- the order of display of works in nominations will be determined by lot
- all works must be made specifically for the competition
- only works that have not previously been exhibited anywhere are accepted
- works packaged with rar, zip, lha archivers are allowed,
lzx
- videotapes submitted to the animation competition and wild demos,
authors are not returned
- a participant who took a prize (1-3) in one of the nominations
at the competition, receives a prize
- it is advisable to send the work in advance for testing, and
tests on demo machines
- deadline for submitting works is 60 minutes before the competition
- each participant must fill out the registration form at
every work he exhibits
- work without a registration form will not be accepted for the competition

 Competition rules

Amiga / PC

- AMD Athlon XP 1900+ GeForce2-whDDR 768MB DPMI (Win98 DOS window)
VBE2.0-3.0 DirectX8.1+ OpenGL GUS/SB16/General MIDI
Win98/Win2000
- Amiga A1200 MCb8060@50 128MB
- login by pressing ESC [PC] / LMB [Amiga]
- pure animation is prohibited
- work without user intervention
- work afterlaunch SetPatch [Amiga]

Demo
- maximum volume 10 MB.
- maximum 10 min.

64K intro
- maximum volume 64 KB. (65536 bytes)
- maximum 5 min.

4K intro
- maximum volume 4 KB. (4096 bytes)
- maximum 3 min.

512b intro
- maximum 1 minute.

Music
- playback in trackers/winamp 2.78
- only the first 3 minutes will be played
- 15 works in the nomination
- one work from the author

4-channel music
- maximum volume 1 MB.
- standard ProTracker MOD

Multichannel music
- allowed formats - xm, it, med, dbm, mod
- the use of packed samples is prohibited

MRZ music
- no more than 128 kbps

Graphics and animation
- each work will be shown for 30 seconds + 10 seconds
final viewing
- two works from the author

Hand-drawn graphics
- maximum 1024x768x32
- only works done in 2D editors
- the use of scanned images is prohibited

Simulated graphics
- maximum 1024x768x32
- the use of scanned images is prohibited

ASCII graphics
- allowed formats - 80x25, 80x50

ANSI graphics
- allowed formats - 80x25, 80x50
- only static works

Animation
- any standard format (fli, flc, avi, mpg)
- maximum 10 min.

 Other competitions

Wild demo
- no rules
- everything you need for listening/viewing software and
hardware provided by participants
- maximum 10 min.

Flash demo
- maximum volume 5 MB.
- maximum 800x600x16
- maximum 5 min.
- two works from the author

64K Web page
- maximum volume 64 KB.
- maximum 1024x768
- the use of JavaApplet and Flash is prohibited
- maximum 90 seconds
- two works from the author

 ZX-Spectrum

- Pentagon 128 AY-3-8910A(ACB) TR-DOS 5.04 5.25"/3.5"
- work without user intervention
- trd, scl formats are allowed

Demo
- maximum volume 640 KB. (1 TR-DOS disk)
- maximum 10 min.

4K intro
- maximum volume 4 KB. (4096 bytes)
- maximum 3 min.

512b intro
- maximum 1 minute.

Graphics
- the use of scanned images is prohibited
- standard screen 6912 bytes
- two works from the author

AY-music
- allowed formats - asm, st, st pro, pt2, pt3
- maximum 3 min.
- maximum 15 works
- one work from the author

 Registration

All work must be registered in advance. Necessary
send your work with a completed registration form to one of
official addresses of CAFe'2002.

 Organizers

The groups taking part in the organization are Excess team, Secular,
Extreme and PAVIT corporation.   Official address -
info@cafeparty.org.ru.

 Contact persons

Pavel Vladimirov (pasha/Secular^PAVIT)
e-mail: psh_@mail.ru
icq: 47686451

Pavel Yarmolchuk (Paparazzi aka xPasha/Excess team)
e-mail: pavel@ksu.ru
icq: 14438879

Alexander Levin (Lasoft/Excess team)
e-mail: lasoft@mail.ru
icq: 52162803

Konstantin Zuikov (zksystem/Excess team)
e-mail: zuykov@pisem.net
icq: 82327775

Damir Nasyrov (Adam Bazaroff)
e-mail: adam_bazaroff@mail.ru
icq: 141563810