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Published: 07/26 01:08
Following competitions are available for the desktop platform:
You may target your production for the PC or bring any other device within the same performance range. Information about the specific computing platform will be shown on the big screen.
PC
The competition machine will be a high-end PC with a powerful graphics card and a total budget of one thousand euros (not including keyboard, mouse or display).
- AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU
- 1 GB of RAM
- One of the competition machines will have ATI Radeon X1800 XL with 256 MB of video ram, and the other is equipped with nVidia GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB. Your production MUST work on both computers but you can request the entry to be recorded on specific platform. Should you wish to use this option please include a file called JURY.txt with your entry. It is possible to test your demo on the competition machine before the deadline – go to the Infodesk and ask for CompoCrew.
- DirectX 9 compatible sound device
- Maximum resolution is 1024x768 pixels
Operating system is Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed. The setup includes latest stable versions (as they are available two weeks prior start of the event) for:
- DirectX end user runtime (DirectX 9.0c)
- Stable display drivers from ATI / nVidia
- Java and Microsoft .NET runtime environments
- Macromedia Flash (version 9) and Shockwave player plug-ins
- Alambik browser plug-in
- Java 3D from Sun Microsystems
- Opera, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
You may assume that Visual Studio runtime libraries (msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll and msvcr80.dll) and DirectX DLLs (d3dx9_24.dll to d3dx9_28.dll) are available.
Other
Competitions on this platform are open for other commercially available personal desktop computing devices within the same performance and price range. This includes but is not limited to:
- Apple Macintosh
- Commodore Amiga
- PC within the same performance range and running Linux
- Sony Playstation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360
You are responsible for bringing the required hardware to the party place and making it available for us during the juries and recording of the competition entries. You need to contact us for approval of your device at least one week prior to the party.