deadline

Disclaimer
All entries must be original and previously unreleased.
Covers, remixes and tributes should be well credited, preferably
with permission. Ripoffs will be disqualified.
As organizers we reserve ourselves the right to use the entries
in future, non-commersial promotions of deadline.
A selected screening jury will examine the entries and can disqualify
any entry without motivation.

We reserve ourselves the right to change these rules, but we hope it
will not be necessary.

PC Demo
Compo Machine: P4 1,4GHz, 256MB DDR RAM, GeForce4 64MB, SB Live 5.1,
Operating System(*): Windows XP Home SP1 or Debian Sarge, Linux 2.4.20
Available API Windows: Latest DirectX
Available API Debian: SVGAlib, libSDL, ncurses, aalib, libfmod
Maximum demo size: 8MB
Must be exitable with esc thruout the demo.
Demo must not write to disk or network.
We will play the demo for max 10 minutes.
Only one demo per coder.

Accelerated Win32 Demo
Compo Machine: P4 1,4GHz, 256MB DDR RAM, GeForce4 64MB, SB Live 5.1,
Operating System: Windows XP Home SP1
Demo must support OpenGL or Direct3D.
Maximum demo size: 8MB
Must be exitable with esc thruout the demo.
Demo must not write to disk or network.
We will play the demo for max 10 minutes.
Only one demo per coder.

Amiga Demo
Compo Machine: We don't have any compo machine for this compo (but we will
have this compo) so we would like you to contact us if you are planning to bring
an Amiga to deadline. Write to: compos at deadline dot scene dot org
Maximum demo size: ?
We will play the demo for max 10 minutes.
Only one demo per coder.

C64 Demo
Compo Machine: C64 with a 1541.
Maximum 2 disksides.
We will play the demo for max 10 minutes.
Only one demo per coder.

Console Demo
You have to submit both the binary and a movie(**) of it.
Bring your console with standard audio/video equipment to play on bigscreen.
Only handhelds will be allowed to compete with its movie instead.
We will play the demo for max 10 minutes.
Only one demo per coder.

MP3 Music
MP3 or OGG
We will play the song for max 4 minutes.
Only one song per musician.

Multichannel
Song will be played with latest XMPlay.
Allowed fileformats: MOD, S3M, XM, IT
Maximum filesize: 2048kB
Songs may not be compressed.
We will play the song for max 4 minutes.
Only one song per musician.

Chip
Song will be played with latest XMPlay.
Allowed fileformats: MOD, S3M, XM, IT
Maximum filesize: 32kB
Songs may not be compressed.
We will play the song for max 2 minutes.
Only one song per musician.

Raytrace
Allowed fileformats: JPG, GIF, TIF, TGA, PNG
Maximum resolution: 800*600*24
You must hand in 2-3 working pictures.
Only one picture per artist.

Pixel
Allowed fileformats: JPG, GIF, TIF, TGA, PNG
Maximum resolution: 800*600*24
No scanning or raytracing.
You must hand in 2-3 working pictures.
Only one picture per artist.

MS Paint
Allowed fileformat: BMP
Maximum resolution: 800*600*24
Only MS Paint is allowed.
You must hand in 2-3 working pictures.
Only one picture per artist.

Wild
Everything is allowed as long as it is in a movie(**)
If it is a realtime demo we would appreciate to receive the binary as well.
We will play the movie for max 10 minutes.

Optional Compos
If we get at least three entries in the following categories we will have
a compo with one winner. If we get five entries or more we will vote three
winners.

C64 Music
Macintosh Demo

Deleted Compo
The following compos are deleted cause:
1. We don't think we will get enough entries.
2. Our budget is not big enough to give reasonable prizes to many compos.
3. We think it would affect the number of entries in other compos.

64kB intro on all platforms - Compete in demo compo or wild.
4chnl - Compete with multichannel.
C64 Graphics.

Surprice Compos
There will also be surprice compos with nice, non-cash prices.

(*) If any other PC Operating System is wanted mail us in advance at:
compos at deadline dot scene dot org
Demos for MS-DOS, Beos & OS/2 are not accepted cause these OS:es are dead.
(**) mpeg1, mpeg2, divx3,4,5, xvid - nothing else