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Mack - Prism (Comment by: Anarkhya 2010-07-12)
Sorry...Please, remove the "." at the end of the gfxzone url.
Mack - Prism (Comment by: Anarkhya 2010-07-12)
Indeed, GFXzone has a different version of this logo: http://www.gfxzone.org/theme/logo/06/mack-prism.html However, the prism.iff located at scene.org renders brown when gfxzone render pink... Mysterious.
bfox - CPU loves me (Comment by: CONS 2010-07-12)
my 3rd place choice. I like smooth faces better.
Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: CONS 2010-07-12)
My compo favourite!
Riskej - So, it was gray e-Male (Comment by: CONS 2010-07-12)
I can't see any blocks and i wonder if that is easier to archive with black and white than with colors.
Anyway, great work! My 2nd favorite in the competition.
Flower - Pearl Shell (Comment by: CONS 2010-07-12)
Beautiful
Zaac - The Clown (Comment by: Anarkhya 2010-07-12)
This is noise dithering AFAICT, sometimes this dithering style could be confused with scanner artifacts.

Although I don't have the PNG/IFF to confirm, judging by how color quantization/reduction affects this jpeg, it should be 32 colors.
Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: irwin 2010-07-12)
Nice find! but...
I add even more, for example Riverwash 2009 where in OldSchool gfx compo wins Amiga Aga pictures and great Atari 8bit picture took only 3th place. Of course Amiga pics are very good and should wins but Atari 8bit have much worse gfx modes then Amiga. Something wrong with rules.

This same in yours examples like Sundown, Euskal, Tum... where is no typical ZX compos. No typical ZX Party. So very little zx graphics (on Tum2009 only you make ZX Spectrum gfx - btw very good) So that's why no gigascreen/standard compos - for 1-3 pictures?

As you know, there is very big difference when you have 8x1, 8x2 blocks and 102 colors, vs 8x8 and 15 colors. Much more possibilities.
So in ArtField - mainstream ZX Party (not like Sundown, Tum etc) - two gfx compos. So separate beeper and AY music compos in ... DiHalt. So on AtariST scene, separate Spectrum 512 colors and 16 colors compo. This is a good way to compete. Everyone have this same limits.

Many peoples don't know about interlace and when vote online they based only on *.png file on web page - without flickering. Pros and Cons standard and gigascreen gfx no available in that way. Gigascreen has more colors but this cost something. On web page, on static *.png file this is not visible.

About " it's much harder than "standard pure zx power"
Yes/or not/ in one way harder, agree, but in other hand, more colors, less blocks - easier way to create better gfx with proper colors and less visible blocks.

I think gigascreen pictures should have own compo. This allow start one user in two compos (like in beeper and AY music). Allow this same limits to all competitors. This will be fair.

* sorry for my poor english.
Flower - Pearl Shell (Comment by: pohar 2010-07-12)
Nice shade of colours in the seashell!
R.W.O - Zailorpower (Comment by: CONS 2010-07-12)
The info from Anarkhya (see the link) cracks the brilliance of the picture a bit. Interesting and thnx for the info!
Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: mikme 2010-07-12)
Forever [1 category], raww.orgy [1 category], di:halt [1 category], sundown [1 category], chaos constructions [1 category], arok [1 category], retroeuskal [1 category], tum [1 category].

and look at c=64 scene where much more gfx modes and since 199x years only 1 gfx category for all modes at parties.

no cheating, just try to make something in this modes, it's much harder than "standard pure zx power". and it works at classik zx spectrum 128.
Helm - Kitty Empire (Comment by: elend 2010-07-12)
Quite funny actually. xD?
Zaac - The Clown (Comment by: elend 2010-07-12)
Yeah, too bad that there is too much JPG going on here. But kudos for working on it.
Archmage - Mescalinity (Comment by: elend 2010-07-12)
Wow cool.
Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: irwin 2010-07-12)
Why on ArtField is two gfx category? (Standard and Gigascreen). Why on many others parties two categories. Seems like you just don't know how and where it works.

No, i'm not joking about "one of the best pictures in the history gfx ZX spectrum scene"

About results - two results? Then why online voting? Anyway in online voting results, this pic win in standard gfx category.

Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: mikme 2010-07-12)
Irwin, are you joking about "one of the best pictures in the history gfx ZX spectrum scene"?
really good work, yep, but nothing more.

good color work, love details, but messy dithering and visible blocks.

and "cheating interlace" seems like you just don't know how and where it works.

about "real results" - it's online-voting results, real party result for this work - 8th place.
Piesiu - Frightened Birds (Comment by: irwin 2010-07-12)
8th place!?! WTF

This is one of the best pictures in the history gfx ZX spectrum scene. Almost no visible blocks. Great colors, great details, no cheating interlace, pure ZX Power.

Real results:
http://speccy-live.untergrund.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dihalt2010_results.txt
Trixs - Kral (Comment by: mikme 2010-07-12)
too much attrs clashing and messy pixels, but thumb up for handmade
bfox - CPU loves me (Comment by: irwin 2010-07-12)
Why sign is visible in compo picture? Should be disqualified because dihalt rules:
"Party version shouldn't show the signature of the author/group."
Anyway lots of 8x8 ultra visible blocks.
Mack - Prism (Comment by: Frogg 2010-07-11)
this logo used wrong color. Originally it was made on amiga using 2 copper list. Thus logo shoudn't have brown in the letter prism !
Check the CD i sent you, you should find the correct logo in PNG
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