AY Music contest

AAMSX, in collaboration with culturachip, has started a music contest specialized on the AY soundchip, available in several 8 bit computers like spectrum128, amstrad, apple ][ and, of course, our beloved MSX computers.

The contest is opened to any platform, tool and format, with the only condition that it must be designed for the AY chip. Here we've got the rules for the contest:

-Any AY format is valid, but we strongly recommend the use of .pt3 files (vortex tracker II or protracker 3) because its a file format easily playable y lot of 8bit computers like msx, amstrad or spectrum.

- There are no limits about the number of songs presented by each contestant.

- Only original songs: no covers allowed.

- Deadline: 12th november

The final results will be announced during the next MSX users meetings in Barcelona, around next December.

Also, with the compo, there will be:

- A musicdisk for several platforms with the songs of the contest. Availables platforms will depend if there is someone interested on creating it.

The AAMSX will create the music disk for MSX computers, including on it all the songs with formats playable from msx. If there is a song in a format that hasn't a replayer available for msx, the song wont be included on the msx musicdisk. Also, the AAMSX will prepare a little release of real musicdisk to be used on real msx computers, and these disk will be distributed on the next users meeting.

- AudioCD DIY, with portrait and ISO file so everybody can create its onw copy of the disk: it will be published under license CC-BY-NC-SA, with the right of selling it so contestants can cover production costs of the cd.

Here you've got a link with the official thread about the contest (in spanish only) and all the info about it.

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