Categories
AMIGA DEMO
The production is designed to run on an Amiga computer with a 68000-68060 processor – any other platforms, including emulated processors like Vampire or Emu68k, are not eligible.
AMIGA GFX
Please submit your work along with several steps confirming its creation.
AMIGA PROTRACKER MUSIC
The base format is the well-known and popular .mod that runs under ProTracker 2.3d on the Amiga. If errors occur under ProTracker 2.3d, the author of the work is solely responsible.
STREAMING MUSIC
Any style and technique in popular audio formats is acceptable.
WILD
Anything that doesn’t fit into the above categories goes here. Without exception, whether it’s a wonderful Atari demo, a wonderful C64 animation, or a brilliant module in MilkyTracker/VortexTracker/whatever – they’ll have their place at this party.
Compo Rules
General information:
- entries can be sent electronically to amiparty@chal.pl or submitted in person during the party,
- each entry should be accompanied by a text file with the same name as the work file, with the .txt extension and the contents as in the template at the bottom of the page, of course, the file should be supplemented with the appropriate data,
- each participant can submit one entry in each category,
- the entries must not have been previously published or exhibited in other competitions,
- the deadline for entries handed in personally at the party is Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 17:00, in the case of „remote entries” – Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 13:00,
- compos start on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 19:00,
- only those present in person at the Party can vote (votes will be distributed at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday),
- questions about the rules, deadlines, voting can be sent to the following e-mail address: amiparty@chal.pl,
Compo machines:
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- Amiga Demo Compo : Amiga 1200 + Warp1260 KS 3.1 or Blizzard 1260 KS 3.1, Amiga 500 0.5MB Chip + 0.5MB Slow, KS1.3, other configuration if necessary (after prior arrangements), but Amiga Demo Compo is as the name suggests Amiga Demo Compo, we do not make exceptions
- Amiga GFX Compo – Amiga 1200 + Warp 1260
- Amiga Protracker Compo – Amiga 1200 + Warp 1260 and ProTracker 2.3d
- Streaming Music – laptop
- Wild – here the rules are not so strict and you can use basically any machine owned by the organizers, but please arrange the details with the organizers in advance or provide the production in the form of a video file.
- Votes with votes will be collected immediately after the end of all Compos, the results will be announced after counting the votes, an hour or two after collecting the cards, on the website http://chal.pl, Facebook and PPA.pl, they will appear the very same day, if all goes well
- in case of cancellation of the party – all entries and prizes will be transferred to the next possible party – the date will be announced, unless the participant wants to withdraw their entry
- if in a given category, due to too small number of entries not all prizes are awarded – the prizes not awarded are transferred to the next edition with stage competitions
- prize collection:
- directly at the party place as soon as the results are announced;
- shipping at the organizer’s expense within the EU
- winners from outside the EU – shipping possible, but the winner makes the arrangements and pays for the courier.
Amiga GFX Compo:
- IFF format – all entries will be displayed in Deluxe Paint IV on A1200. All OCS/ECS/AGA (PAL/NTSC) modes are allowed, entries in the „cycle palette” mode is allowed. Entries in other formats will not be accepted,
- please provide some phases of the image creation process.
Amiga Protracker Compo:
- MOD format – modules in Protracker format, will be played on Amiga 1200 (Paula) in Protracker 2.3d,
- module duration up to 5 minutes, if the module is longer, it will be muted.
Amiga Demo Compo:
- any entry (demo, intro, dentro, slideshow, etc.) in an executable file or on a bootable floppy/disk image, possible to run on one of the Amiga: Amiga 500/OCS/0.5MB Chip/0.5MB Slow/KS 1.3, Amiga 1200/060/WB 3.1. Other Amiga-related and non-Amiga related platforms, by definition and because of the prizes, this year end up in the Wild category.
Wild Compo:
- any entry that does not meet the conditions of other Compos – animation, music, graphics, film, etc.
File template “entry_name.txt”:
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COMPO: ………………………… …………
TITLE: ………………………………. ..
AUTHOR/GROUP: ……………….
E-MAIL: …….. …………………………..
Information for the organizers:
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Program in which to open the entry, specific
requirements, etc. – this information will not be shown
on the big screen.
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Information to be displayed on the big screen (after
the announcement of the results, the best entries will be shown
again on the big screen and this information
will be displayed. During the Compos,
only entries without additional information will be presented