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Below is my point of view as expressed to other jurors (not necessarily everybody's point of view) :

Please do not submit productions > 512b to Tinytros category.

Yes, 57% of jurors are German (in some cases 100% per category) but jury duty is promised to be fair and not chauvinist (ie : Pouet Top List logic).

The difference between low and high end is same as oldschool newschol : software dependencies and/or accelerated and/or helpers such as shaders are considered High-end.

Please submit more productions but do not wait until the last moment February 22nd and do not assume obvious choices were already submitted.

how many 512b released last year?

ahh.. So using the gpu on a raspberry = high end, while only using the cpu cores on Skylake = low end.
And: A500 demo abusing blitter and copper = high end, c2p only 060 demo = low end.

There's no need to have an opinion on that. :)
The category description clearly states "256 bytes or smaller", just like last year.

Everything larger goes into "high-end intro" or "low-end intro".

I'm a bit confused about the AGA machines.
Usually only OCS/ECS machines are considered oldskool (including the Revision 2015 rules in the link). AGA machines are 32-bit, not 16-bit.

Is AGA a typo, and should it be OCS/ECS? Or are AGA machines also included? In which case, are we talking about stock AGA only? Most AGA productions (all 2015 prods?) target 040/060-accelerated Amigas.

Basically the question is "which category does TBL get into"?

No need for that question though, as they didn't release anything last year :)

Years blur together after a while, don't they :/

they do indeed :/

Who cares. TBL even win if they don't make a prod. :)

TBL are so arrogant they don't even need to be arrogant themselves!

512b intros of 2015 were both few and mostly for c64, thus it goes well into low end intro.
Might change next year, but this year considering 512b "not tiny" doesn´t make a big difference.

does ZX platforms needs ro be subdivided?

@Scali: AFAIK all classic custom chipsets (OCS - AGA) have a 16 bit wide data bus, although the 680x0s sport 32 bit registers and support 32 bit operations. As always with these hippie machines, they're quite ambiguous ;)
If you want to break down the classic Amigas into "newschool" and "oldschool" it would be the use of pipelined/superscalar CPUs (040/060) versus the non integrated FPU CPUs (000 - 030).

As for the Meteoriks category, I think they include the high end stuff as well, since the 060/AGA setup is now 20+ years old.

Well, I guess the same can be said for 386 and early 486 machines. The CPU and its data bus was 32-bit, but the ISA bus was still 16-bit.
So it's very arbitrary where one would draw the line of '16-bit' :)

Just a friendly reminder that you still have 10 days to vote for the Public Choice awards.

So head on to https://2016.meteoriks.org/taking_part/public_choice to cast a vote for Your favorite production!

Ehm, AGA is 32bit?

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

We are very happy to announce the nominees for Meteoriks 2016!

https://2016.meteoriks.org/nominees

This has been quite a trip, and we would like to thank everyone involved in the Meteoriks this time around. All the people working on productions, all the jury members and all the organizers!

Here are your nominees:

BEST ART DIRECTION

CORONOID BY STILL
EMIX BY EPOCH
HOLD-AND-MODIFY BY CNCD & FAIRLIGHT
JUPITER 666 VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM BY HACKERS
OFFSCREEN COLONIES BY CONSPIRACY

INTERACTIVE

CAREN AND THE TANGLED TENTACLES BY PRIORART
DEMOSCENE BATTLE CARDS BY DANISH UNDERPANTS BRIGADE
HOUSTON TRACKER 2.00 BY IRRLICHT PROJECT
INDIE VIBES BY KIKI-PRODS
SAFETY FIRST BY JCO

BEST PIXEL GRAPHICS IN A LOW-END DEMO OR INTRO

FANTASMOLYTIC BY CENSOR DESIGN & OXYRON
LAST TRAIN TO DANZIG BY GHOSTOWN & HAUJOBB
PLANET ROCKLOBSTER BY OXYRON
PULSE BY CHECKPOINT
SEA OF COLOUR BY DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY

BEST STORYTELLING / STORYLINE / PLOT

CUBED ADVENTURE BY POO-BRAIN
DAYTRIP BY ATE BIT & DESIRE
DEMOS BY SCHAEDELPRODUKTION
SMALL MATTERS OF THE HEART BY APPROXIMATE
THE RETURN BY BITLOVE

BEST HIGH-END INTRO

BLCK4777 BY RIBBON
HYDROKINETICS BY PRISMBEINGS
OFFSCREEN COLONIES BY CONSPIRACY
ON BY MERCURY
THE EVOLUTION OF MOTION BY ALCATRAZ

BEST HIGH-END DEMO

CORONOID BY STILL
EMIX BY EPOCH
HOLD-AND-MODIFY BY CNCD & FAIRLIGHT
MONOLITH BY ANDROMEDA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
WE STAND DIVIDED BY COCOON

BEST SOUNDTRACK

BACKSCATTER BY LOGICOMA
CORONOID BY STILL
JUPITER 666 VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM BY HACKERS
MONOLITH BY ANDROMEDA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
WE STAND DIVIDED BY COCOON

TINY INTRO

CENTURIO BY RED SECTOR INC.
ELECTRIC FORCE BY REALM OF ILLUSION
HYPNOTEYE BY DESIRE
IMMEDIATE RAILWAYS BY DIGIMIND
MEGAPOLE BY RED SECTOR INC.

BEST LOW-END DEMO

8088 MPH BY HORNET & CRTC & DESIRE
EIHWAZ BY HEDJ & SCHAFFT
FANTASMOLYTIC BY CENSOR DESIGN & OXYRON
KPACKU DELUXE BY KPACKU
WE WERE @ BY OXYGENE

BEST LOW-END INTRO

16 SHAPES OF GREY BY MAPA & PG
EIGHTEEN BY DEKADENCE
PAINTER'S EUPHORIA BY LOONIES & UNSTABLE LABEL
STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB BY TULOU
SWIRL BY LOONIES & DARKLITE

THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE ON THIS PLATFORM!

8088 MPH BY HORNET & CRTC & DESIRE
DERIVATIVE 2600 BY CLUSTER & DMA
FANTASMOLYTIC BY CENSOR DESIGN & OXYRON
IO BY LOGON SYSTEM
NEW VIEW 48K BY CONSCIENCE

NEW TALENT

DRAGON RISING BY ABERRATION CREATIONS
OPTICAL CIRCUIT BY 0X4015
PIMP MY BENTO BY NOOP
SHIROTOKUSAI BY DNLB
WATERCOLOUR SPACE BY THE NOT YET RUSTY COLLECTIVE

PUBLIC CHOICE

MONOLITH BY ANDROMEDA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
OFFSCREEN COLONIES BY CONSPIRACY
ON BY MERCURY
PB05: ZIPHORSE BY POO-BRAIN
WE WERE @ BY OXYGENE

Now all that is left, is to see us live at Revision 2016, where winners will be celebrated. See you there!

Cheers,
the Meteoriks Crew

Damn still no new talent nomination. Maybe next year.

ok, I'm _seriously_ stoked to be nominated for best soundtrack. Thank you guys so much!!!

Nice nominees. Looking forward to the show.

I'm honored to be nominated for best high end intro! Thank you :)

Thanks for being nominated for "Best Tiny Intro" - besides i know that at least two of the other great entries deserve the win much more ;)

Cool to see a lot of unexpected nominations in there. :)