You’ve just finished a nice 16 color picture, a YM chiptune or a little demo on your ST and want to present it to a broader audience, but it takes ages until the next big Atari party is being held? Or do you just want to prepare an entry on your ST, but waiting for the next Atari-only party is not an option?
Whatever your reason may be, as a small service we want to provide you with an overview of the upcoming demo parties with competitions covering Atari ST specifications, esp. demo/intro and chiptunes competitions.
March 2025
Buxton Bytes
Type of compo: Fantasy cracktro
Date of the party: 14.-16.03.2025
Remote submission date: 16.03.2025
Description:
From the scrolltext of the invitro: "we love cracktros and of course so do you! Remember those more simple days - just 'teenage you', your trusty atari st/e, and a whole heap of freshly pirated diskettes sat before you? Will there, or won't there, be a cracktro?! The thrill! Let's bring those vibes back! So here's your mission: make a 'fantasy cracktro' that runs on real hardware (no codef versions you fucking lamers) and email it to us at -- 1337cracktros (at) protonmail.Com --, before or on sunday 16th march 2025. No rules. It can be any size, use any language, use dck, use ripped code -- go crazy!! Make it 30mb and need an hdd for all we care! Slather it with ai assets! Choose a real or fake game and imagine it's a real cracktro! Write a scrolltext full of fuckings to your enemies! We'll even give you a starter kit! Just do something!!!! For our part, we'll show all submissions at our little 'fantasy cracktro showcase' in march, and will also aim to create and release a compact disk full of 'em. Put some effort in and we may even make it trackloaded with a menu. And we may (no promises, kids) even stream the showcase via twitch, although a range of terms and conditions apply to this bold offering. What's stopping you??? "
Links:
💾 Download Invitation to the Fantasy Cracktro Challenge
April 2025
Speccy.pl
Type of compo: AY chiptune
Date of the party: 05.04.2025
Remote submission date: 04.04.2025, 23:59
Description:
Not the usual compo for your fancy 🔗 maxYMiser, 🔗 MusicMon or 🔗 TTrak tune, but if you have a music lying around done with 🔗 Arkos Tracker, which also sounds good when saved with Spectrum AY specifications, then you might give this one a try!
Links: 🔗 Speccy.pl Competition Rules
Revision 2025
Type of compo: Not published so far. The 2024 edition had an Oldschool Demo competition where your ST production could compete with demos for 8 bit-computers (!), but not with Amiga Demos. 2024 also had a 4k Oldschool Intro compo, an Oldschool Music compo and an Oldskool Graphics compo.
Date of the party: 18.-21.04.2025
Remote submission date: “You can upload your entries around April 11th.” (only info found so far about remote submissions)
Description:
- Oldschool Demo compo: provide a capture
- Oldschool 4k compo: provide a capture, maximum running time: 8 minutes including loading/precalc, which won’t be shown
- Oldschool Graphics compo: all formats allowed (fullscreen, rastersplits!), delivery in executable form and in PNG format, 4 working stages of your picture
- Oldschool Music compo: hold your horses (sample usage) with a size limit of 32768 bytes
Links:
May 2025
Gemtos 2025
Type of compo: 3D Construction Set compo (game or video animation), Music compo, Graphics compo
Date of the party: 03.-04.05.2025
Remote submission date: “before the end of April 2025”
Description:
- Music compo: Create a music on any Atari computer with the word “GemTos” in it
- Graphics compo: Graphics created with 🔗 Synthethic Arts (💾 manual) in RGH Format
Links: 🔗 Website of GemTos 2025
Multimatograf 2025
Type of compo: Oldschool music, Oldschool Graphics, Oldschool executable graphics, 256byte Intro, Demo (“This compo accepts ... for oldschool platforms: any 8-bit and 16-bit historical computers.”)
Date of the party: 02.-03.05.2025
Remote submission date: 02.05.2025, 12:00
Description: All kinds of ST entries allowed, see rules for details. The compo machines are a 1040STF and a 520STFM - if you want to use STE features, you better ask the organizers first!
Links:
Decrunch 2025
Type of compo: Executable music, Executable graphics, Wild Demo, Intro
Date of the party: 16.-18.05.2025
Remote submission date: yet unknown
Description: yet unknown, but in 2024 they organized the above mentioned competitions
Links: 🔗 Competition rules of the 2024 Decrunch competitions (update to 2025 follows asap
68k Inside 2025
Type of compo: Demo, Intro, 256 Byte Intro, Music, Graphics
Date of the party: 23.-25.05.2025
Remote submission date: yet unknown
Description:
- Compo machines: Atari STFM with 1MB RAM, Atari STE with 4MB RAM; if requested well in advance (i.e. at least one week before the party): Atari Falcon030 with 14MB RAM and FPU + CT63 accelerator at 66MHz, 128MB RAM
- Demo compo: size of the demo will be displayed
- Intro compo: Size limit: 64k
- 256b Intro compo: 256 byte executable, including header
- Music compo: size limit: 512k, separate chip music compo may be held if there are more than three entries below 32 kilobytes
- Graphics compo: only native formats for the platform (overscan pictures?), executables are allowed
Links:
Outline 2025
Type of compo: not decided yet, but in 2024 they had 128b and 256b Oldschool Intro compos, a dedicated ST/STE graphics compo, Music compo, and an Oldschool demo compo
Date of the party: 29.-01.06.2025
Remote submission date: not set yet
Description: no details known so far
Links: 🔗 Website of Outline 2025 (under construction)
That’s it for today, folks. We hope you find this overview a little helpful and some of your creative works finally get the broader attention they really deserve! Stay tuned for updates about more parties in the next months and see you soon with a forecast to June 2025!
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