Competitions
The following scene-related competitions were held:
- mp3 music competition
- 64Kb intro competition
- demo competition
The rules for these competitions were:
mp3 music competition
- The song must be stored in the MP3 music format.
- Only computer based music is allowed.
- A current version of WinAmp will be used to play the song, using the
WinAmp default settings.
- No copyrighted material may be used.
- The song will be played for a maximum of 5 minutes.
64Kb intro competition
- The intro must run on Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with DirectX 8 and
OpenGL installed.
- The intro must consist of one executable, with a maximum size of 65536
bytes.
- The intro must play music.
- No copyrighted or otherwise 'borrowed' material may be used, unless the
origin of the material is clearly shown in the startup or end credits, and
in the info file1.
- The intro will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes.
demo competitions
- The demo must run on Windows 98 and Windows 2000 with DirectX 8 and
OpenGL installed.
- The maximum ZIPped demo size is 10Mb.
- The demo must play music.
- No copyrighted or otherwise 'borrowed' material may be used, unless the
origin of the material is clearly shown in the startup or end credits, and
in the info file1.
- The demo will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes.
1You may omit such an on-screen message in the final version,
as long as the party version clearly shows you are not using original
material.