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The competitions
Takeover'98 will feature the following competitions:
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The organisation reserves the right to cancel any competition when too little
serious entries have been submitted. Entering a competition does not garantee
that your entry will be shown or played, a jury will make a preselection. The
organisation reserves the right to spread all selected entries on the
internet and on CD-ROM. Entries that are not selected or disqualified will
not be spread by the organisers.
Deadlines will be announced at the party. In case we have enough time
we will accept newer versions of your entry after the deadline, but
only if an older version has been submitted before the deadline.
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The compo machine
The compo machine is an Intel Pentium 200 MMX with 64 megabytes of memory.
The video card is a Diamond Stealth II with 4 megabytes of memory. A Voodoo II card will be installed also. The soundcards are a
Sound Blaster AWE64 PnP Gold with 4 megabytes onboard DRAM and a GUS Classic with 1 megabyte onboard DRAM.
The machine will be running DOS 6.2, Windows 95 and a recent Linux kernel.
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[Takeover'98 competition rules]
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The competition rules
For all entries and all competitions the following rules apply:
| Entries must be delivered on clearly labeled 3.5" diskettes, CD-ROM or ZIP-disk. These will not be returned.
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| Entries must not have been released before.
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| Trojan horses, rip-offs, and other childish entries will be disqualified.
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| Only one entry per person or group is allowed for each competition, except for the demo competition and the 64 kb intro competition. For these competitions there is no limit to the number of entries per person or group.
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PC demo
| Each entry will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes.
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| Maximum total size of runnable demo is about 4 Mb (we do not want to enforce a strict 2^22 byte limit, but keep the size under 5 Mb). Decompression to harddisk is not allowed.
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| The demo must play sound (using either a Sound Blaster or a Gravis Ultra Sound).
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| DOS demos must run on MS-DOS 6.2 with Scitech Display Doctor (UniVBE) 6.0 loaded.
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| Windows demos must run on Windows 95 OSR2 with DirectX 5 installed.
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| Linux demos must run on SVGAlib or X. We will use the most recent stable kernel.
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| Hardware accelerated 3D is not allowed (so no Direct3D / OpenGL demos).
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PC 64 kb intro
| Each entry will be shown for a maximum of 10 minutes.
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| Maximum total size of runnable intro is 64 kb (65536 bytes). Decompression to harddisk is not allowed.
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| The intro must play sound (using either a Sound Blaster or a Gravis Ultra Sound).
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| DOS demos must run on MS-DOS 6.2 with Scitech Display Doctor (UniVBE) 6.0 loaded.
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| Windows demos must run on Windows 95 OSR2 with DirectX 5 installed.
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| Linux demos must run on SVGAlib or X. We will use the most recent stable kernel.
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| Hardware accelerated 3D is not allowed (so no Direct3D / OpenGL intros).
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PC 4 kb intro
| Each entry will be shown for a maximum of 5 minutes.
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| Maximum total size of runnable intro is 4 kb (4096 bytes). Decompression to harddisk is not allowed.
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| The intro may have sound.
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| DOS demos must run on MS-DOS 6.2 with Scitech Display Doctor (UniVBE) 6.0 loaded.
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| Windows demos must run on Windows 95 OSR2 with DirectX 5 installed.
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| Linux demos must run on SVGAlib or X. We will use the most recent stable kernel.
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| Hardware accelerated 3D is not allowed (so no Direct3D / OpenGL intros).
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Hardware accelerated 3D demo
| Each entry will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes.
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| Maximum total size of runnable demo is about 4 Mb (we do not want to enforce a strict 2^22 byte limit, but keep the size under 5 Mb). Decompression to harddisk is not allowed.
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| The demo must play sound (using either a Sound Blaster or a Gravis Ultra Sound).
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| DOS and Linux demos must run under the latest version of Glide.
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| Windows demos must run under DirectX 5, OpenGL or WinGlide.
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Java demo
| Each entry will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes.
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| Maximum total size of runnable demo is about 4 Mb (we do not want to enforce a strict 2^22 byte limit, but keep the size under 5 Mb). Decompression to harddisk is not allowed.
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| Only pure Java applets are allowed..
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| By default, we will run the demo on MSIE 4.0, unless you tell us to use Netscape 4.0 instead.
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| The demo will be run localy from harddisk, but it should also run from a LAN or a WAN.
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Music and house
| Each entry will be played for a maximum of 4 minutes.
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| Maximum playable file size 1 Mb (1048576 bytes).
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| Only tracker based music is allowed. MIDI, MP3 etc. will be disqualified.
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| The latest version of Fast Tracker will be used to play .XM files.
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| The latest version of Impulse Tracker will be used to play .IT and .S3M files.
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| The latest version of Cubic Player will be used to play all other files.
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| House music is only allowed in the house competition.
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| Non-house music is only allowed in the music competition.
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Graphics and ray-trace
| Each picture will be shown for about 20 seconds.
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| Maximum resolution 800x600x16M.
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| Scanned pictures will be disqualified.
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| The latest version of SEA will be used to display the graphics.
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| Handdrawn pictures are only allowed in the graphics competition.
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| Ray-traced pictures are only allowed in the ray-trace competition.
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Ansi/ascii
| Each entry will be scrolled down in textmode (25 or 50 lines) at a speed of 14k4 modem. Specify the linemode or else the default (25 lines) will be used.
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| Each entry will be shown in a VGA graphics mode for 20 seconds.
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| Maximum size 80x250.
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| Animation is not allowed.
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| The latest version of Acidview will be used to display the entries.
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Surprise
| The rules for the surprise competitions will be announced at the party.
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Voting and prizes
The surprise competitions will be judged by jury only, all the other
competitions will be judged by both the public and a jury. Voting rules will
be announced at the party.
Prizes can only be collected at the party during the prize ceremony. Prize
money will be in Dutch guilders. Hardware and software prizes cannot be
exchanged for money. The organisers have the right to refuse prizes to anyone
who misbehaved or did otherwise break the party rules. The actual prizes will
be announced at the party.
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[General party info]
[The competitions]