Antique Toy 3 (2005)
virtual ZX Spectrum music and graphics contest


--- 1. ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------------------------------

- Jeffie / Brainwave
E-Mail: jeffie@bwteam.org

- Newart / n-Discovery
E-Mail: newart@hotbox.ru


--- 2. COMMON RULES FOR ALL NOMINATIONS ---------------------------------------

- Works accept till 20th of July 2005 year.
- Only works with registration form are allowed.
- Maximum one individual and one collective works per author in each nomination
is allowed. Under collective works meant work made in co-author with anybody.
All authors are to name in form.
- Earlier published works are not allowed.
- If project doesn't respond announced nominations, organizers are able to move
it to another nomination or disqualify it.
- Works that don't answer the rules will be disqualified.
- Authors of disqualified works will be informed about it with explanation of
such decision.
- Advisable, that works will be specially arranged for Antique Toy 3.
- Organizers are able to change rules.


--- 3. ADRESSED FOR PROJECTS RECEIVING ----------------------------------------

E-mail: antiquetoy@bwteam.org

SnailMail: 424020, Russia, Mari El republic, city of Yoshkar-Ola,
Krasnoarmeyskaya st, house 96, room 59,
for Zhemkov Dmitry Olegovich

To avoid letters missing the best way is customized letter in SnailMail.

Authors of all received works will be informen in a week after receiving. If
during this time confirmation wouldn't be received, re-sending of work is
recomended.

All questions about organization send on E-mail: antiquetoy@bwteam.org.


--- 4. VOTING -----------------------------------------------------------------

By the end of works receiving, votelists will be produced. Votelists will be
presented in two formats: formed in special player and viewer on Spectrum and
available for viewing on PC and other platforms. In collections there will be
works names and their's conditional numbers. Numbers will be set randomly.

Deadline from the collection release - one month. If during this time at least
30 ancets woun't be received voting will be continued until necessery number
of votelists collected.

At voting each work will be estimated on a ten-mark scale. The minimal
estimation - 0, maximal - 9.

After the termination of voting and leading of results of competition will be
let out Collections of works with the open names of authors.

Deadline of leading the results is 1-2 weeks.


--- 5. MUSICAL NOMINATIONS ----------------------------------------------------

Nominations: Original, Oldschool, Cover


General rules:

- There is no timelimit for track but it shouldn't be looped.
- Works desirable to sent compilled under adress #C000(49152) and also in
simple cunstruction format. Adresses of points of enter for initialization
and playback are desirable to be pointed.
- Each work could only take a competition in only one nomination.


Original music nomination rules:

- Work might be absolutely in any style but should be original, i.e. completly
author's.

Oldschool music nomination rules:

- Work must be on Oldschool style.
- Main features of Oldschool:
+ Melody accent,
+ Base party without envelop (pure tone),
+ Using envelop for solo,
+ Higher than 5th speed,
+ Absence of break rhytm.
- Of course, not all of listed above criteries have to be.

Cover music nomination rules:

- Work must be remix/cover on any composition.
- If work is cover on any famous ZX composition there must be as much as
possible differences.
- In registration form author and name of original must be pointed.
- Megamixes are allowed, i.e. mixes for few compositions at once (they all
should be pointed in reg-form)


:: Registration form ::

Project name:
Author(s) (name/nickname):
Group(s):
Compo: original / oldschool / cover
Processor type: AY / YM
Stereo layout: ABC / ACB / BAC / mono and etc.
Playtime:
Contacts:
Cpmment: (for cover compo here listed author and name of original track)


--- 6. GRAPHICS NOMINATIONS ---------------------------------------------------

Graphics nomination rules:

- Name of author shouldn't be in obvious/implicit way in project. If wished two
variants could be senr: with name and without. Variant with name will be
included in official collection.
- Conversion from other platforms are not denied unless it's pure conversion.
Pure conversion (or with minimal modifications) will be disqualified.
- For each work, if possible, should be intermediate stages.
- Work could be in any style.


:: Registration form ::

Project name:
Author(s) (name/nickname):
Group(s):
Contacts:
Comment: (unnecessary field)


Translated from russian to english by Ail
(c) 2005, Antique Toy team.