Date and place of Speccy.pl Party 2022.1

When: 23th April 2022, from 12:00 till end of day ;]


• Where:Poland, Warsaw, ul. Dywizjonu 303 7
  
  
  
  
• Entrance Fee: 40PLN

The most important events and attractions, demoscene competitions:

12:00	Opening cemerony
13:00 - 15:00	Games competitions - we will play on ZX Spectrum
15:00 - 16:30	Origins of polish ZX Spectrum demoscene. Memories how demoscene starts in 80s. We will talk with Mat/ESI, Dalton/Joker, Zoon, Raf/Katharsis. We will discuss in Polish language.
17:00 - 18:30	Bajtek - Meeting with some editors and authors from fameus Polish paper magazine in 80s. We will discuss in Polish language.
19:00	Demoscene competitions begins! Voting, pricegiving. After all, integrations!

Demoscene competitions

Registration

Sign on the guest list, let others know you will be at the party, let's check how many people are still actively interested in ZX Spectrum! Dedicated website is here

Terms and conditions of competition

• Each piece of work should be authorial. It is permitted to use other author’s materials from different resources or from Internet but it should be explicitly detailed in references/credits.
  
  
• It is not allowed to introduce any work that has already been published or presented in the past.
  
  
• No work should include any insulting, offending elements or promote forbidden by law elements or activities.
  
  
• Remote work submissions are allowed! In the case of winning prizes we send abroad!
  
  
• Every single creation registered for competition will be kept in Archive files of Speccy.pl
  
  
• Archive that consists sent/delivered work should be named as follow: Category_Author_Titleofwork.zip
  
  
• All files should be previously uploaded to google drive / dropbox or other cloud storage service; then links to that files should be send for: tygrys (at) speccy (dot) pl The information about accepting works for the competition will be sent in a form of responding for the submission's e-mail. It's also possible to send files directly for the e-mail address presented above, it is then necessery to keep in mind restrictions of the Google's security policy according to attachments.
  
  
• Deadline for all competitors and for works delivering is 22th April 2022 (Friday) by 23:59. It is also possible to bring your work to the party till 1pm on 23th April 2022. However, we cannot guarantee that any of works that were sent after deadline will take a part in the competition.
  
  
• TXT file should be attached to the sent/delivered work/works. Please include following datas:
  Title of work:
  Author:
  Category:
  Target Machine:
  
  
• If there is anything unclear in the Terms and Conditions of Competition please get in touch with Organisers.
  
  
• Organizers reserve the right to update the regulations, and what has changed will be clearly communicated.

Competitions will take place on following compo machines:

• ZX Spectrum:
  
  * ZX Spectrum 128K +2 (Gray)
  * JustSpeccy 128 + SLAM128 (ULA+)
  * Timex 2048 + interface AY
  
  We are going to use following readers: divIDE or divMMC
  
  

Competitions categories:

ZX Spectrum Demo

• Demo should work on any of computers provided by Organisers.

ZX Spectrum Intro 256b category

• Minimal loader in BASIC opening production, like: 10 CLEAR stack: LOAD ""CODE: RANDOMIZE USR address
  
  
• Max. total size of binary block: 256 bytes.
  
  
• Intro should work on any of computers provided by Organisers.
  
  

ZX Spectrum Intro 4KB category

• Minimal loader in BASIC opening production, like: 10 CLEAR stack: LOAD ""CODE: RANDOMIZE USR address
  
  
• Max. total size of binary block: 4096 bytes.
  
  
• Intro should work on any of computers provided by Organisers.
  
  

ZX Spectrum AY Music category

• We accept following music categories: AY, TurboSound / TSFM.
  
  
• One piece of work from one musician in one category is allowed.
  
  
• A track should be in executable file and working on ZX Spectrum.
  
  
• In case of lack of at least three works provided for one category, the Organisers keep the right to move them to the general competition.
  
  
• Cover versions will be moved to the Wild category.
  
  

ZX Spectrum GFX Standard

• There is a limit of maximum two works from one author.
  
  
• Allowed format: .scr (6912 bytes)
  
  
• It is also mandatory to provide at least four phases that describe the process of the creation.
  
  
• File conversions will be presented in the Wild category. In case of minimum three works provided in this category, the Organisers will open a separate competition category for them.
  
  

ZX Spectrum GFX ULA+

• There is a limit of maximum two works from one author.
  
  
• Allowed format: autoexecutable program that will run and show the graphics
  
  
• It is also mandatory to provide at least four phases that describe the process of the creation.
  
  
• File conversions will be presented in the Wild category. In case of minimum three works provided in this category, the Organisers will open a separate competition category for them.
  
  

Wild

• Any work that cannot be qualified to one of categories specified above
  
  
• The work will be presented basing on multimedia files provided by author (.avi, .mp4 etc.)
  
  

Awards

We encourage and invite sponsors of awards to contact us!

Orgas & people supporting party

Tygrys - main org

Borys - technical staff, main org of Xenium Demoparty

Nabij - technical staff

Kya - streaming

Mandi - support, org of AmiParty

Mario - sound equipment, org of AmiParty

and many, many more people who helps keep speccy.pl party live

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