Место: Россия, Нижний Новгород. Точнее будет известно чуть
позднее на сайте демопати.
Время: 29-3О апреля 2ООб года.
Контакты: Влад Виноградов ака Vinnny
email:vinnny@aport.ru
icq: 1OO98HH82
fido: 2:5О15/112.32
tel: +7-91О-382-SОЧ1
Also on the organizing team: TimeKeeper, Payal, Zeebr,
Leopart, Bitl.
Historical information.
The first DiHalt was held in 1999. The orientation was only
to the ZX platform. DiHalt 1999 can be called a failure in terms of
organization (no third party funding, no
demo-party schedules, structures, etc.), and at the same time one
one of the most intense in terms of the number of works. Get burned once
it was decided not to do any more demo-parties. Despite this, in 2OOS he was revived with a new team
organizers, positioning themselves as a replacement for CAFe-demopati, which
could not take place due to some reasons. Remembering the failure of 1999
years, many doubted that something more or less would work out
good. The new team, led by Vinnny, showed what
dedicated fans of the demoscene are capable. Among the main differences:
sponsors appeared, the list of supported platforms expanded
(Amiga, PC, ZX), a normal large comfortable room appeared,
overnight accommodation for stagers, fun competitions, security, advertising in
the Internet, and the like. All this contributed to
convince visiting stagers that DiHalt can be great
organized event made by demosceners for
demosceners, without pathos, pomposity and finger-bending. :-)
See you at DiHalt 2OOb!
Follow the news on the website www.dihalt.org.ru
General rules of competitions
- For participation in competitions, works created for
platforms PC, Amiga/Pegasos, ZX-Spectrum.
- Works submitted for competitions must not have been previously
released into the world.
- If used as part of your work
other people's materials, then you must have rights to them
use.
- Each work at the festival requires a real representative
determined by the author in advance, whichwill be able to receive prizes
if the work takes a prize. Otherwise the author
work will only receive a diploma by mail.
- All works will be pre-selected,
during which some work may be eliminated (low
quality of work, violations of laws and/or ethics, and
etc.). The selection will be made by the festival organizers
together with invited experts.
- The winners will be awarded. The prize fund will depend on
number of visitors and sponsors.
- All works submitted to competitions can be distributed
festival organizers without additional approvals from
by authors, including on WWW/FTP/CD/DVD.
- The organizers reserve the right to reduce or increase
the number of works shown in any competition, depending on
quality or level of work.
- If there is a small number of works, there is the possibility of combining
some competitions.
Equipment
The organizers provide the following equipment for the competitions:
PC: Intel RF/3.2GHz, 1.5Gb RAM, Radeon X7OO Pro, Windows XP.
Amiga: A12OO, b8OBO/5OMhz, bCHM RAM, AmigaOS 3.1.
Pegasos: Pegasos II, GC/1GHz, 2SbMB RAM, Radeon9OOO, MorphOS
1.Part 5 & 3D-update.
ZX-Spectrum: Pentagon128k without additional extensions.
Determination of the winners
The winners for each competition are determined based on the results
voting of all those present in the hall according to the principle of average
points.
Registration and acceptance of work
Registration of works and participants (everyone who wants to submit
works for competitions) is required. Reception and registration of works
will be completed 2 days before the start of the festival - evening 2b
April. Most likely, the acceptance of work will continue after, and perhaps
straight to demoparty, but it is NOT GUARANTEED. Works for
Wild/Animation competitions (on CD/DVD) may be accepted
directly at the festival. Registration and uploading of works
carried out by email: dihalt@flatrate.ru. Letter size is not
limited (within reason). If within three days you do not
received confirmation of registration of your work, then contact
to the organizers. Don't forget to include it in the archive with
work on the descriptor file (file_id.diz), in which answer the
the following questions:
--------------------------
Name/Last name/Nick:
Team:
Competition:Requirements/platform:
Full title of the work:
Duration (minutes):
How to contact you:
Notes:
-----------------------
PC/Amiga competitions
*Chk Intro
- Intro size is notmust exceed CHO9b bytes.
- Display time - 3 minutes maximum.
- Total 10 works.
* bChk Intro
- The size of the intro should not exceed 653b bytes.
- Display time - 5 minutes maximum.
- Total 10 works.
* 1bmb Demo
- Size of the entire archive (accepted formats ZIP, RAR, LHA, LZX)
should not exceed 1bmb.
- Continuous animation is prohibited.
- Display time - 10 min maximum.
General:
- Acceleration can be used (DirectX9/OpenGL).
- Output via LMB/RMB (Amiga), ESC (PC).
- Maximum 2 works from the author in each competition.
Graphic competitions
* Gfx Rendered
- Graphics created by rendering programs (Lightwave, 3DMax,
Cinema, etc.).
- The files in the archive should be named as follows:
name_xxx.jpg - operating phases
name_wire.jpg - wire frame of the scene
name_unsig.jpg - unsigned version
name_sig.jpg- version signed by the author
* Gfx Handdrawn
- Images drawn by hand on a computer. If at
sketches on paper were used in drawing, they were also
It is advisable to provide it in scanned form for preselection.
* Gfx Freestyle
- Images obtained using combined methods (processing
in Photoshop, rendering, photography, collage, hand drawing and
etc.)
* Gfx Ascii
- The use of AUSI colors is allowed.
- Works will be shown in ACID.
General:
- For display, all images will be scaled to
resolution 8OOxbOOx2H bits (for Ascii there are strictly 8OxbO characters).
- All graphic work must have at least 3 intermediate
phases in the archive.
- Only original works are accepted. Scanned and others
copies are not accepted.
- Accepted file formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, IFF, PUG, US.
- The author/group logo for display will be hidden by a black square
- Pornographic images are not allowed.
- Maximum 2 works from the author, 3 from the group in each competition.
- Only 20 works for each competition.
Music competitions
* Multichannel Traditional Music
- Music of the following styles: pop, blues, pop-jazz,
rock ballad, new age, retro, classic, demoscene-oldschool, and
etc.
- Size no more than Hmb.
- Max. number of channels - bh.
* Multichannel Alternative Music
- Music of the following directions: Trance, Hardcore, Jungle,
DJ trends, etc., as well as “heavy” styles
Heavy/Thrash/Death Metal, etc.
- Size no more than Hmb.- Max. number of channels - bh.
*MP3/OGG Music
- Music created by various instruments, means and
programs, including songs (text must be censored
ethics).
- The competition version must have a bitrate of only 192kbps,
VBR is not allowed.
- ID_TAG must be filled in.
* Chip Type Music
- Tracker music created in limited conditions in terms of volume
module and number of channels.
- Size no more than bChkb.
- Max. number of channels - 1b.
General:
- Playback will be carried out by the XMPlay player (PC) or
DigiBoosterPro (Amiga) at the request of the author.
- Only original works. No remakes, remixes,
cover versions on “foreign” themes.
- Tracker music in the format of standard modules XM, IT, SЗM,
MOD, MED, DBM.
- No compressed samples.
- The use of 1b-bit samples is allowed.
- The soundtrack should not be looped.
- Playing time no more than 3 minutes.
- Maximum 2 works from the author/group in each competition.
- Only 15 works for each competition.
ZX-Spectrum competitions
* 512b Intro
- Works are launched without a BASIC loader.
- Maximum display time - 1 min.
- 2 works from the author.
- A total of 15 works.
*Chk Intro
- Works are launched without a BASIC loader.
- Maximum display time - 3 minutes.
- 2 works from the author
- A total of 15 works.
* bChOk Demo
- The demo size is no more than bCHOkb (one 5"25 TR-DOS format disk).
- Maximum display time - 10 min.
- A total of 15 works.
* bCHOk Game
- It is desirable to have a demonstration mode.
- It is desirable that the idea of the game be original.
- Maximum display time is 5 minutes.
- Total 10 works.
* ZX Spectrum Graphics
- Standard screen (6912 bytes). For b/w work there must be
the appropriate attributes are set.
- Everythinggraphic works must have at least 3 intermediate
phases in the archive.
- Scanned and other copies are not accepted.
- The competition entry must not contain the logo of the author/group.
- Pornographic images are not allowed.
- When demonstrating works, border O will be installed.
- Maximum 2 works from the author, 3 from the group.
- No more than a few works are involved.
* ZX Spectrum AY/YM-Music
- Works performed in any existing AY editor
ZX-Spectrum computer.
- The module must be compiled to the address #SOOO (Ch9152),
with mandatory indication of entry points for playback and
initialization.
- Maximum size - 1638H bytes.
- By default, the distribution of channels for playback is ASV.
If desired, indicate your channel location.
- Playing time is notmore than 3 minutes.
- Maximum 1 work from the author, 2 from the group.
- A total of 15 works.
Other competitions
* Animation
- Animations, videos created on a computer.
- Video can be packed with the best quality in MJPEG, AVI
or standard in VCD (mpeg1) / SVCD (mpeg2).
- When compressing to AVI, you should use the DivX P.O video codec
and higher, or XviD, MP3 audio codec (Ox55 = MPEG Layer-3).
- Works are also accepted on CD/DVD.
- Display time no more than 5 minutes.
- Total 10 works.
*Wild- Scenes shot on a photo/video camera and digitized, as well as
works for which the rules of other competitions are not suitable, in
including on non-standard equipment (contact
organizers).
- Video can be packed with the best quality in MJPEG, AVI
or standard in VCD (mpeg1) / SVCD (mpeg2).
- When compressing to AVI, you should use the DivX P.O video codec
and higher, or XviD, MP3 audio codec (Ox55 = MPEG Layer-3).
- Works are also accepted on CD/DVD.
- Display time no more than 5 minutes.
- Total 10 works.
* Flash Hm demo
- Max. size Hmb.
- Animation using Flash is allowed, use
jpeg video is only possible in small fragments.
- Display time no more than H min.- Total 10 works.
Indicative schedule
Saturday, April 29:
O9:OO - the beginning of the launch of visitors to the venue;
1О:ОО - opening speech, voting procedure, announcement
sponsors;
1О:3О - ZX Spectrum graphics
11:OO - ASCII graphics
11:15 - Traditional music
12:OO - ZX Spectrum 512b intro
12:3О - ZX Spectrum Chk intro
13:3О - Freestyle graphics
13:5О - ZX Spectrum Game
1H:CHO - Animation
15:2О - Wild1b:OO - ZX Spectrum AY-music
17:OO - ZX Spectrum Demo
2О:ОО - closing of the first day of the festival
Sunday, April 3rd:
O9:OO - the beginning of the launch of visitors to the venue;
1О:ОО - comments on the past day, voting order,
announcement of sponsors;
1О:3О - Amiga/PC Render graphics
1О:5О - Alternative music
11:5О - Amiga/RS Chk intro
12:CHO - Flash compo
13:3О - MP3/OGG music
1H:2O - Handdraw graphics
1Ch:CHO - Amiga/RS bChk intro
15:CHO - Chip music
1b:CHO - Amiga/PC demo
19:15 - announcement of winners, awards, display of the best works;
2О:ОО - closing of the festival.
The first DiHalt was held in 1999. The orientation was only to the ZX platform. DiHalt 1999 can be called a failure in terms of organization (no third party funding, no demo-party schedules, structures, etc.), and at the same time one one of the most intense in terms of the number of works. Get burned once it was decided not to do any more demo-parties. Despite this, in 2OOS he was revived with a new team organizers, positioning themselves as a replacement for CAFe-demopati, which could not take place due to some reasons. Remembering the failure of 1999 years, many doubted that something more or less would work out good. The new team, led by Vinnny, showed what dedicated fans of the demoscene are capable. Among the main differences: sponsors appeared, the list of supported platforms expanded (Amiga, PC, ZX), a normal large comfortable room appeared, overnight accommodation for stagers, fun competitions, security, advertising in the Internet, and the like. All this contributed to convince visiting stagers that DiHalt can be great organized event made by demosceners for demosceners, without pathos, pomposity and finger-bending. :-) See you at DiHalt 2OOb! Follow the news on the website www.dihalt.org.ru General rules of competitions
- For participation in competitions, works created for platforms PC, Amiga/Pegasos, ZX-Spectrum. - Works submitted for competitions must not have been previously released into the world. - If used as part of your work other people's materials, then you must have rights to them use. - Each work at the festival requires a real representative determined by the author in advance, whichwill be able to receive prizes if the work takes a prize. Otherwise the author work will only receive a diploma by mail. - All works will be pre-selected, during which some work may be eliminated (low quality of work, violations of laws and/or ethics, and etc.). The selection will be made by the festival organizers together with invited experts. - The winners will be awarded. The prize fund will depend on number of visitors and sponsors. - All works submitted to competitions can be distributed festival organizers without additional approvals from by authors, including on WWW/FTP/CD/DVD. - The organizers reserve the right to reduce or increase the number of works shown in any competition, depending on quality or level of work. - If there is a small number of works, there is the possibility of combining some competitions. Equipment
The organizers provide the following equipment for the competitions: PC: Intel RF/3.2GHz, 1.5Gb RAM, Radeon X7OO Pro, Windows XP. Amiga: A12OO, b8OBO/5OMhz, bCHM RAM, AmigaOS 3.1. Pegasos: Pegasos II, GC/1GHz, 2SbMB RAM, Radeon9OOO, MorphOS 1.Part 5 & 3D-update. ZX-Spectrum: Pentagon128k without additional extensions. Determination of the winners
The winners for each competition are determined based on the results voting of all those present in the hall according to the principle of average points. Registration and acceptance of work
Registration of works and participants (everyone who wants to submit works for competitions) is required. Reception and registration of works will be completed 2 days before the start of the festival - evening 2b April. Most likely, the acceptance of work will continue after, and perhaps straight to demoparty, but it is NOT GUARANTEED. Works for Wild/Animation competitions (on CD/DVD) may be accepted directly at the festival. Registration and uploading of works carried out by email: dihalt@flatrate.ru. Letter size is not limited (within reason). If within three days you do not received confirmation of registration of your work, then contact to the organizers. Don't forget to include it in the archive with work on the descriptor file (file_id.diz), in which answer the the following questions: -------------------------- Name/Last name/Nick: Team: Competition:Requirements/platform: Full title of the work: Duration (minutes): How to contact you: Notes: ----------------------- PC/Amiga competitions
*Chk Intro - Intro size is notmust exceed CHO9b bytes. - Display time - 3 minutes maximum. - Total 10 works. * bChk Intro - The size of the intro should not exceed 653b bytes. - Display time - 5 minutes maximum. - Total 10 works. * 1bmb Demo - Size of the entire archive (accepted formats ZIP, RAR, LHA, LZX) should not exceed 1bmb. - Continuous animation is prohibited. - Display time - 10 min maximum. General: - Acceleration can be used (DirectX9/OpenGL). - Output via LMB/RMB (Amiga), ESC (PC). - Maximum 2 works from the author in each competition. Graphic competitions * Gfx Rendered - Graphics created by rendering programs (Lightwave, 3DMax, Cinema, etc.). - The files in the archive should be named as follows: name_xxx.jpg - operating phases name_wire.jpg - wire frame of the scene name_unsig.jpg - unsigned version name_sig.jpg- version signed by the author * Gfx Handdrawn - Images drawn by hand on a computer. If at sketches on paper were used in drawing, they were also It is advisable to provide it in scanned form for preselection. * Gfx Freestyle - Images obtained using combined methods (processing in Photoshop, rendering, photography, collage, hand drawing and etc.) * Gfx Ascii - The use of AUSI colors is allowed. - Works will be shown in ACID. General: - For display, all images will be scaled to resolution 8OOxbOOx2H bits (for Ascii there are strictly 8OxbO characters). - All graphic work must have at least 3 intermediate phases in the archive. - Only original works are accepted. Scanned and others copies are not accepted. - Accepted file formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, IFF, PUG, US. - The author/group logo for display will be hidden by a black square - Pornographic images are not allowed. - Maximum 2 works from the author, 3 from the group in each competition. - Only 20 works for each competition. Music competitions * Multichannel Traditional Music - Music of the following styles: pop, blues, pop-jazz, rock ballad, new age, retro, classic, demoscene-oldschool, and etc. - Size no more than Hmb. - Max. number of channels - bh. * Multichannel Alternative Music - Music of the following directions: Trance, Hardcore, Jungle, DJ trends, etc., as well as “heavy” styles Heavy/Thrash/Death Metal, etc. - Size no more than Hmb.- Max. number of channels - bh. *MP3/OGG Music - Music created by various instruments, means and programs, including songs (text must be censored ethics). - The competition version must have a bitrate of only 192kbps, VBR is not allowed. - ID_TAG must be filled in. * Chip Type Music - Tracker music created in limited conditions in terms of volume module and number of channels. - Size no more than bChkb. - Max. number of channels - 1b. General: - Playback will be carried out by the XMPlay player (PC) or DigiBoosterPro (Amiga) at the request of the author. - Only original works. No remakes, remixes, cover versions on “foreign” themes. - Tracker music in the format of standard modules XM, IT, SЗM, MOD, MED, DBM. - No compressed samples. - The use of 1b-bit samples is allowed. - The soundtrack should not be looped. - Playing time no more than 3 minutes. - Maximum 2 works from the author/group in each competition. - Only 15 works for each competition. ZX-Spectrum competitions
* 512b Intro - Works are launched without a BASIC loader. - Maximum display time - 1 min. - 2 works from the author. - A total of 15 works. *Chk Intro - Works are launched without a BASIC loader. - Maximum display time - 3 minutes. - 2 works from the author - A total of 15 works. * bChOk Demo - The demo size is no more than bCHOkb (one 5"25 TR-DOS format disk). - Maximum display time - 10 min. - A total of 15 works. * bCHOk Game - It is desirable to have a demonstration mode. - It is desirable that the idea of the game be original. - Maximum display time is 5 minutes. - Total 10 works. * ZX Spectrum Graphics - Standard screen (6912 bytes). For b/w work there must be the appropriate attributes are set. - Everythinggraphic works must have at least 3 intermediate phases in the archive. - Scanned and other copies are not accepted. - The competition entry must not contain the logo of the author/group. - Pornographic images are not allowed. - When demonstrating works, border O will be installed. - Maximum 2 works from the author, 3 from the group. - No more than a few works are involved. * ZX Spectrum AY/YM-Music - Works performed in any existing AY editor ZX-Spectrum computer. - The module must be compiled to the address #SOOO (Ch9152), with mandatory indication of entry points for playback and initialization. - Maximum size - 1638H bytes. - By default, the distribution of channels for playback is ASV. If desired, indicate your channel location. - Playing time is notmore than 3 minutes. - Maximum 1 work from the author, 2 from the group. - A total of 15 works. Other competitions * Animation - Animations, videos created on a computer. - Video can be packed with the best quality in MJPEG, AVI or standard in VCD (mpeg1) / SVCD (mpeg2). - When compressing to AVI, you should use the DivX P.O video codec and higher, or XviD, MP3 audio codec (Ox55 = MPEG Layer-3). - Works are also accepted on CD/DVD. - Display time no more than 5 minutes. - Total 10 works. *Wild- Scenes shot on a photo/video camera and digitized, as well as works for which the rules of other competitions are not suitable, in including on non-standard equipment (contact organizers). - Video can be packed with the best quality in MJPEG, AVI or standard in VCD (mpeg1) / SVCD (mpeg2). - When compressing to AVI, you should use the DivX P.O video codec and higher, or XviD, MP3 audio codec (Ox55 = MPEG Layer-3). - Works are also accepted on CD/DVD. - Display time no more than 5 minutes. - Total 10 works. * Flash Hm demo - Max. size Hmb. - Animation using Flash is allowed, use jpeg video is only possible in small fragments. - Display time no more than H min.- Total 10 works. Indicative schedule Saturday, April 29: O9:OO - the beginning of the launch of visitors to the venue; 1О:ОО - opening speech, voting procedure, announcement sponsors; 1О:3О - ZX Spectrum graphics 11:OO - ASCII graphics 11:15 - Traditional music 12:OO - ZX Spectrum 512b intro 12:3О - ZX Spectrum Chk intro 13:3О - Freestyle graphics 13:5О - ZX Spectrum Game 1H:CHO - Animation 15:2О - Wild1b:OO - ZX Spectrum AY-music 17:OO - ZX Spectrum Demo 2О:ОО - closing of the first day of the festival Sunday, April 3rd: O9:OO - the beginning of the launch of visitors to the venue; 1О:ОО - comments on the past day, voting order, announcement of sponsors; 1О:3О - Amiga/PC Render graphics 1О:5О - Alternative music 11:5О - Amiga/RS Chk intro 12:CHO - Flash compo 13:3О - MP3/OGG music 1H:2O - Handdraw graphics 1Ch:CHO - Amiga/RS bChk intro 15:CHO - Chip music 1b:CHO - Amiga/PC demo 19:15 - announcement of winners, awards, display of the best works; 2О:ОО - closing of the festival.
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