Speccy Tour 2004 Rules*** 4th Tournament of ZX Spectrum games with playback feature *** What's this all about? The Speccy Tour 2004 is a games playing tournament that will run for more then 2 months, giving you the time to improve your scores in the games that take part in the tournament. This means that you don't have to rush your scores. There's plenty of time to make a good score.
Start Date: October 1st, 2004 Ending date to sign up is October 8th, 2003.
Every player must send at least one recording on all ten games. Players who don't submit a score to all ten games are disqualified. You can send as many recordings to a game as you wish, as long as they are higher than your previous score. For a complete rules list remember to download the help files on the download page. The scores are automatically registered in the server, so they can be submited anytime. However don't submit *lots* of scores in order to keep low the quota in the server. The last 2 weeks are on 'special regime', as we need to avoid 'score hoarding'. During that time, when recording starts, players have to type 'public key' for that week and send records within 48 hours.
The highest score (the topscorer) in each game gets
100 points. His/Her score is made equivalent to 100%, meaning
that if the topscorer.For example, have a score on 100.000 points
and your submitted score is 70.000, you are awarded a score of
70% equal 70 points. The scores from all your ten games will be added
together to get a total score (which max can be 1000 points), and
out of that the standings will be calculated. If two or more players have e.g. 530 points, the
player with most top scores wins. If they all tops in 2 games, the
This year you have available even more emulators to join Speccy Tour! Current list: RealSpectrum DOS version. It uses AIR files. Ideal if you have a slow Pentium or don't like to manage with large recording files RealSpectrum 32 bits version. It uses RZX files. For Windows platform. Both are available at http://www.ramsoft.bbk.org/realspec.html Jonathan Needle's Spectaculator. It
uses RZX files. For Windows platform http://www.spectaculator.com GPL Fuse. For Linux and MAC OS X platforms. It handles the RZX format . http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/fuse.html
We are pretty busy preparing the compo itself, so please read carefully the docs of each emulator in order how to execute/compile it and how to record games. If you still have doubts, ask for help in your favourite forum WOS/CSS/ECSS. If you are really new at Speccy emulation scene, and don't know of this forums, then send a mail to speccytour@gmail.com and we'll try to help the best we can :)
Preferred way is using the recording submit page (link to be supplied later), however if you're getting trouble with the page or you can't access it and you have to send it urgently, you can send it to any of the tour staff members or speccytour@gmail.com IMPORTANT: Always keep a backup of your
recordings, old and new scores. Tour's judges will do their best to
verify player's scores ASAP, but... the whole thing is volunteer and
'real life' is...
Well, ask me, by sending an E-mail to speccytour@gmail.com, and your question(s) will be included on the Speccy Tour 2004 FAQ page.
Michael Bruhn the founder of Speccy Tour, who started the whole thing. Aley Keprt for making and creating the AIR feature, and for letting Ramsoft use it in Real Spectrum. Ramsoft for making RealSpectrum as suitable for the Tour as possible, and for being so friendly and helpful during this. All RZX developers, which have worked hard to give alternatives to participate in ST2004 Jonathan Needle and Phillip Kendall for providing us new emulators for the Speccy Tour
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