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From: [e-mail] (Justin William Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: 15K mod competition idea
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:57:31 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mattias Myrberg) writes:
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>Great idea, but how about moving the upper boundary a bit (not 1 bit !) ?

:)  I think a few more guidelines would help a bit more too.  For one thing,
I honestly think 15K is just a little too limiting (even though Zap managed
to pull it off pretty well :).  25K is better...or 30K.  Also, there
should be a minimum running time...say, 1:30 minutes.  And at least 5K of
music data (to avoid monotinous repeating of 2 patterns..even though I
think it's a given that such a mod wouldn't "win" :).  Actually, 5K of
music is also a bit small.  7-8K would be better (but I know 5K is more
than enough for SOME types of mods :).  Other things... I think "K"
should be interpreted as "1000 bytes", since that's what most would assume
anyways :).  Hmm... it'd be nice if we could limit the contest to
ProTracker-only, but we'd peobably lose about 5% of everyone who wants
to try it :).  But most importantly, there should be no "SYNTH" samples.

Anyone else want to add more? :)

-Maruku of (\/)ega(/\)atts
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Marc Brown