Official Judging Rules for the QB Demo Contest 2002 ==================================================== Thank you for volunteering to be a judge for this year's QB Demo Contest. The judging submission deadline is June 4, 2002 at 12:00AM GMT. Here are the instructions and official judging rules for the contest. I. ENTRY ARCHIVE DOWNLOAD AND JUDGING ENVIRONMENT SETUP Download VDMSound from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=20091&release_id=46941 and install it, if you haven't done so already. Download the demo entries from the following internet link: http://www.tekscode.com/~toshi/ENTRIES.ZIP The ZIP archive will contain the following files: OPTIMUS.ZIP SANE.ZIP QASIR.ZIP TOR.ZIP FFIX.COM ENTRY.BAT Extract all of the files from ENTRIES.ZIP using Winzip from http://www.winzip.com or WinXP's internal zip extractor to a directory of your choice, for example C:\qb45\2002. Unzip each of the entries into a subdirectory of the same name, for example OPTIMUS.ZIP into C:\qb45\2002\OPTIMUS\. Now your directory structure should look like this: C:\qb45\2002\ C:\qb45\2002\OPTIMUS C:\qb45\2002\QASIR C:\qb45\2002\SANE C:\qb45\2002\TOR Open the folder where you unzipped the entry files to. Right click on ENTRY.BAT and select Run with VDMS. If a tips window shows up over the DOS prompt, then press the "Close" button. The DOS console should look like this (minus the vertical bars on the left): | VDMSound DOS loader, version 2.01 (Aug 04 2001) | Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Vlad ROMASCANU. | | VDMSound is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), version 2 or later, as | published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (http://www.fsf.org/). | | Loading 'VDDLoader.dll'... | Successfully loaded & initialized (hVDD = 0x01). | | Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] | (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. | | C:\qb45\2002> Now type FFIX.COM to start the QuickBASIC floating point accelerator TSR as shown below. C:\qb45\2002>ffix.com FFIX (c) 2000 by v1ctor [av1ctor@yahoo.com.br] loaded to memory. Choose a entry to judge, for example QASIR, then change to the entry's subdirectory, then search for the demo executable (it will be only file with the .EXE extension.) Run the demo executable. C:\QB45\2002>cd qasir C:\QB45\2002\QASIR>dir *.exe Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 14E2-FF35 Directory of C:\qb45\2002\QASIR 06/16/2002 12:00 PM 93,964 ispman.exe 1 File(s) 93,964 bytes 0 Dir(s) 28,694,540,288 bytes free C:\QB45\2002\QASIR>ispman In some cases, the sound output may sound horribly distorted or the demo may cause the DOS prompt to crash. Sane has confirmed that his sound output code is hardcoded for his machine, so it will most likely not produce any sound on your card. I have also found Qasir's mod player to cause sporadic or bad output. Please report problems like these to toshi@tekscode.com. In these cases, as a corrective measure, you should choose to run the demo without sound using the -NOSOUND option. For example, C:\QB45\2002\QASIR>ispman -nosound In the cases where the outputted sound detracts more than enhances the demo (regardless of reason), the demo should be run with -NOSOUND and judging should proceed as if the demo had no sound to begin with. This case should be noted in the comments section for the demo. II. JUDGING You will rate each demo entry in three areas: 1. Technical 2. Artistic 3. Wow and "Coolness" Factors For the technical area, you will judge how fast and complex the audio-visual effects are combined and executed. The other two areas are subjective. For the artistic area, you will rates the demo's sense of beauty, conveyed through its music, fluidity, and atmosphere. The wow and coolness factors are actually two separate but related factors. The wow factor is how pleasantly surprised you were when you watched the demo due to its originality. The coolness factor is how impressed you were with the demo overall, and how likely you are to watch the demo again for the awesome experience. You will rate each of the areas by assigning a score on a scale from 1 to 5 as briefly explained below: 5 = excellent 4 = very good 3 = good 2 = okay 1 = sucks Please don't give a 5 unless it's really excellent and nearing perfection. On the other hand, you should give a 1 if the demo is of poor quality. Namevoting (scoring on the basis on the demo author's previous reputation) is not allowed. Demoscene judges: Please keep in mind that these effects were coded without the use of assembly language (though it was not strictly required) when scoring for the technical section. III. SUBMITTING JUDGING RESULTS Use the following form to submit judging results to toshi@tekscode.com. The judging submission deadline is June 4, 2002 at 12:00AM GMT. Fill in all the underlined areas with scores or comments. You are encouraged to write more than one line of comments explaining your ratings. ---====================[ QB DEMO 2002 JUDGING FORM ]====================--- 2002\OPTIMUS 1. TECH: ___ 2. ART: ___ 3. WOW: ___ 4. Comments: ___________________________________________________ 2002\QASIR 1. TECH: ___ 2. ART: ___ 3. WOW: ___ 4. Comments: ___________________________________________________ 2002\SANE 1. TECH: ___ 2. ART: ___ 3. WOW: ___ 4. Comments: ___________________________________________________ 2002\TOR 1. TECH: ___ 2. ART: ___ 3. WOW: ___ 4. 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