Desktop platforms

Following competitions are available for the desktop platform:

• Demo
• 64k intro
• 4k intro
• Browser demo
• GameDev

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).

• A Fast dualcore CPU
• 2 GB of RAM
• One of the competition machines will have a high end ATI Radeon display adapter (tentative: X1950 XTX 512 MB), and the other is equipped with a high end nVidia GeForce (tentative: 8800 GTS 640 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
• The entry must support either 800x600, 1024x768 or 1280x720p60 resolutions.
• It is highly recommended to have the entry to support 1280x720p60 resolution. This is to increase the image quality on the big screen and to move the demoscene to HDTV era.
• It is recommended to have the entry to support following 4:3 and 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios and resolutions:
  • 1024x768 pixels (4:3 screen aspect ratio)
  • 1280x720 pixels (16:9 screen aspect ratio)
  • 1280x800 pixels (16:10 screen aspect ratio)

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 9.0.60.120) and Shockwave player plug-ins
• Alambik browser plug-in
• Microsoft Silverlight player 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_33.dll) are available.

xbox 360 XNA Framework

ASSEMBLY and Microsoft are together organizing a xbox 360 compo for demos, intros and games developed for the XNA framework with XNA Game Studio Express. The best entry created with XNA will receive a special prize!

The following rules apply for the submitted XNA entries:

• The entry must work on xbox360 XNA Frameworks. To have the widest possible audience for your entry it is recommended to submit the binary also for Windows XNA Framework. This is not compulsory, though.
• The entry will be recorded from xbox360 by the competition organizers from a xbox360 binary. The source codes are not required.
• Both the xbox360 binary and the Windows binary, if available, will be distributed along with the video recorded with the xbox360.

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, PS3/Yellow Dog Linux, 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.