SPECCY.PL PARTY 2018.1

Polska wersja speccy.pl party 2018.1

We are extremely proud to invite everyone to the fourth edition of the Speccy.pl Party – the event for all followers and admirers of ZX Spectrum, aiming to integrate ZX Spectrum users. Of course, you do not need to own ZX Spectrum to visit Speccy.pl Party - just a bit of will, curiosity or idea for your own creation working on one of the Spectrum models.

Date and time Speccy.pl Party 2018.1

Date: 14 April 2018 from 10AM to 11PM

Venue: Klub Rivera Remont, ul. Waryńskiego 12a, Warsaw, Poland
Entrance fee: 20 PLN, tickets are available on https://gp3.evenea.pl/

At the same time you can go to Pixel's Market!

The most important events and attractions, demoscene competition:

Demoscene competitions will take part after the Pixel's Market. Depending on the amount of presented works we are expecting the following categories: Demo, Graphics, Music, Game oraz Wild.
During the event, there will be the Polish premiere of Memories of a Spectrum Addict movie.
Rafał Wiosna will do presentation about how ZX81 generates video.
Faust, author of new versions of Bajtek and Komputer magazine will talk about his reconstruction techniques for bringing to digital old classic computer magazines.
There will also a stand with a computer designed in Poland - Komputer Cobra 1. There will be an opportunity to meet and talk with the author of Cobra 1, Andrzej Sirko which will be present on the Party!
For the first time, we will bring as many Sam Coupé computers as we can into one place. Let's find out how many of them are in Poland. There will be an opportunity to take a special photo of the MGT family!
All versions of the Turbo Wieszcz will talk together - a program for generating poetry, written by Monster / GDC written for many platforms (including ZX Spectrum) will be running on different machines in one place!
Tomasz Pauszka live – Tomasz is a composer, producer and conductor, playing on many instruments and performing electronic music, enthusiast of lo-fi sound, old computers, gramophones, audio cassette, noises, cracks, clash, analogue synthesiser and mellotrons. He will play tracks from his latest album LO-FI LO-VE

All presentations will be in Polish.

Koszulki

There is no decent party without special shirts! The party and t-shirt logo was designed by the renowned demoscene graphic artist Slayer / Ghostown ^ speccy.pl. You will not be at the party but you want to have a T-shirt? It is very simple - choose design and size that suits you and buy it! Especially for Speccy.pl Party - you can buy them without any commission, only at the cost of production. To buy a T-shirt, click on the picture below

Demoscene competitions

Registration

Do you want to participate in the demoscene part that will take place after closing time of the Pixel's Market, that is after 18:00? Register! Thanks to this you will be able to vote for all presented work! Site for registration 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, but it should be explicitly detailed in references.
It is not allowed to have any presented work to be published or presented in the past.
Any work should not include any insulting, offending elements or promote forbidden by law elements or activities.
Every single item registered for competition will be kept in Archive files of Speccy.pl
Archive of sent/delivered work should be named as follow: Category_Author_Titleofwork.zip
All files should be send to: tygrys (at) speccy (dot) pl
Deadline for all competitors is 13th April 2016 (Friday) by 23:59. It is also possible to bring your work to the party till 3pm on 14th April 2018. We could not however guarantee that any of work sent after deadline will take a part in competition.
TXT file should be attached to the sent/delivered work/works. Please include the following: Name:
Author:
Category:
Target Machine:
If there is anything unclear in the Terms and Conditions of Competition please get in touch with Organisers.
Organisers reserve the right to update these Terms and Conditions. Any changes will be published in the changelog below this page.

Competitions are available on the following compo machines:

ZX Spectrum 128K +2 (Grey) or JustSpeccy 128 with the original ULA128
ZX Spectrum + interface AY
Timex 2048 + interface AY
We are going to use the following readers divIDE or divMMC

Rules for ZX Spectrum Demo category

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

Rules for 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 the computers provided by Organisers.

Rules for ZX Spectrum Music category

We accept the following music categories: AY, Beeper, 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 three works provided for one category, the Organisers keep the rights to move them to the general competition.
Cover versions will be moved to the Wild category.
Your work will be presented anonymously.

Rules for ZX Spectrum Graphics category

There is a limit of maximum two works from one author.
Allowed format: .scr (6912 bajty)
In is mandatory to provide two versions of graphic; one with signature, one without signature. We will be presenting version without the signature.
It is also mandatory to provide at least four phases describing process of 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.

Rules for ZX Spectrum Game category

It is permitted to have conversion from other platforms and variations of different titles.
The game is presented by author. If the author is not able to present the work, the Organisers will present it on his/her behalf, but it is possible that not all features are shown.
Manual should be provided with basic information and game rules.

Rules for Wild category

In this category we accept the following:

Work in various formats (coded productions, video animations, graphics not qualified to the Graphics category, music tracks that are cover versions of existing tracks).
Production can be suitable for any hardware platform. Please get in touch with organiser to check an availability of the required hardware platform/player.
In case of receiving at least three works in any category it is possible to create an additional dedicated Wild category.

Awards

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors!

From an anonymous sponsor we received below awards:

Z80 8-bit UIDE - IDE controller for ZX Spectrum 128 +2A/B & +3

ZX Taper - utool that allows you to feel the real tape loading.

tooloudtoowide dedicated the following awards:

Cart to Interface 2 with the content loaded by its author, that includes, among other items, a diagnostic ROM.

Book of games - The Little Book of ZX Spectrum Games written by Chris Wilkins

SJS1 Joy Tester (Sinclair Joystick for ZX Spectrum 128 +2 and+3) that is also and adapter for manipulators compatible with the Atari standard.

Gal Anonim dedicated the following awards:

Two units of Flash Card to Interface2, wherein you can load your soft, designed for this device ;-)

martin381 founded following awards:

1. Dandanator Mini with set of games and diagnostic software.
2. 1x RGB cable for ZX Spectrum 128 (tostrack). Can be usable also with ZX Spectrum 128 +2 (grey).
3. 2 x RGB cable for ZX Spectrum +3, +2A or +2B.
4. KOMPUTER - special edition "Tajniki ZX Spectrum"
5. FDD 3.5" for ZX Spectrum 128 +3

Results

ZX Spectrum Demo

01. {404 pts} THX ZX! by Resistance & RKLE Team [Download]

THX ZX!

02. {361 pts} Slideshow by Monster / GDC [Download]

03. {270 pts} Riverwash 2018 invitro by Riverwash Team [Download]

ZX Spectrum Intro 4kB

01. {398 pts} Pyramid's Cube by Dalthon / Joker [Download]

Pyramids Cube

02. {342 pts} GDC!4Kb by Monster / GDC [Download]

GDC!4Kb

03. {177 pts} dawaj swierzaka! by tooloudtoowide [Download]

ZX Spectrum Music

01. {294 pts} Send To Far Away by EA / Antares [Download]

02. {265 pts} At The Last Minute by Catman / speccy.pl [Download]

03. {259 pts} Jasmine by MotionRide [Download]

04. {244 pts} Amber Potion by Voyager / speccy.pl [Download]

ZX Spectrum Game

01. {378 pts} Gem Slider by Monster / GDC [Download]

02. {306 pts} FRO by dox / DC-S [Download]

FRO

ZX Spectrum Graphics

01. {411 pts} xenoform by Piesiu / speccy.pl [Download]

02. {387 pts} Let Me Dream by DKL / Ghostown ^ speccy.pl [Download]

03. {377 pts} Birdbrain by atom / speccy.pl [Download]

04. {370 pts} Rainbow Cat by Catman / speccy.pl [Download]

05. {366 pts} Springtime by Slayer / Ghostown ^ speccy.pl [Download]

06. {324 pts} In Glitch We Trust by Slayer / Ghostown ^ speccy.pl [Download]

07. {323 pts} Puppy by Ziutek / ESI ^ speccy.pl [Download]

Puppy

08. {320 pts} Out There by Pan Nexus [Download]

09. {314 pts} Funky Robot by MotionRide [Download]

10. {311 pts} Data Sapiens by Pan Nexus [Download]

11. {277 pts} Happy Boy by Rogal / Pixel Nation [Download]

12. {273 pts} Bad Dreams by kya / lamers [Download]

13. {272 pts} Wannaplay by tooloudtoowide [Download]

14. {270 pts} 2001 anniversary by ZX Freeq [Download]

15. {224 pts} Cybermind by Monster / GDC [Download]

16. {144 pts} Rainbow Dragon by Monster / GDC [Download]

Wild

01. {426 pts} HighColor (Sam Coupe) by speccy.pl [Download]

Rainbow Dragon

02. {395 pts} Spectrominacja VOL1 (video) by PixelNation [Download]

03. {302 pts} AmiParty invitation (Amiga) by Crap Team [Download]

04. {293 pts} SirClive by Monster / GDC [Download]

05. {286 pts} Antarctica (stream music) by Dakti [Download]

06. {265 pts} Overlay (ZX128) by Abrimaal [Download]

07. {257 pts} Overlay bonus (ZX48) by Abrimaal [Download]

08. {250 pts} Androids Do Dream by Monster / GDC [Download]

09. {176 pts} memory transfer: knight lore by chicadii [Download]

10. {164 pts} memory transfer: the way of the exploading fist by chicadii [Download]

Demoscene rules 'Changelog':

[2018.04.07]
* correction for minimal loader for intro: added CLEAR address.

[2018.03.13]
* change word 'Graphic' to 'Graphics'

[2018.03.10]
* initial version