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. news about the cruelization ten and beyond .
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. F O R E W O R D .
here I intend to write some important stuff about what happened, what
happens and what will happen to the Cruelization these days. read it
through - you might find pieces of information you'll need to know in
order to enter or judge ;) or if you have entered already, and wondering
what's happening to your song's score, comments, etc. read ahead!
. P A S T .
The past few months have been a complete disaster as far my internet
connection was concerned. not being able to connect for about a month
was bad enough, but i've had continuous connection and e-mail problems
since then to this very moment. that is why i've registered in all
possible emails I could, and now I have a whole bunch of e-mail addresses.
here they are, priority from top to bottom - use the top ones 1st and
please do not mail to them all together - if the email bounces from one,
THEN use another. since i'm checking all the POP3's on one e-mail check,
my mailbox becomes flooded with the very same mail if you send it to all
those addresses at once. so please, don't. so:
Crcr@Securenet.Net <-- the stablest email so far :D use this when not sure.
Cruel@Kosmic.Org <-- 2nd main e-mail, seems to work now, was down w while
ago.
CCZ@HotMail.Com <-- pretty damn slow, but reliable.
CC@ThePentagon.Com <-- seems to work with no problems so far.
Cruel@Demoscene.Interstat.Net <-- seems ok, although the server is down
for short periods sometimes (which does
not affect email, because SMTP servers
send email for 5 days :)
HTTP://wwp.mirabilis.com/191061 <-- Send me short (450 char max) messages
over the world wide web. No email needed.
On to more interesting things :). the vote program i've made got some
good comments - however it had problems on about 15% of Windows machines.
I've found what the problem was, but did not have enough time to re-code
it, so Cruelization 9 voting pack has a text form for voting. I am
currently rewriting the voter completely, it has now a better interface
and a setup screen, will also have some new functions and back-version
compatibility (meaning that all of you Cruelization 6, 7 & 8 entrants will
get the full results, with comments, once I am done). Unfortunately,
without the working program I can not release the official (exact) results
for Cruelization 7 and 8. I am about to release 'pre-results', which should
not deviate much, but unfortunately they have no comments. Eventually the
comments will be released, with the official results :-/ .
More 'past' stuff - ftp.cdrom.com also known as ftp.hornet.org had some
problems lately, due to the music archive transfer. The Cruelization dir
moved too, but it is linked and now accessible. Another mirror of
Cruelization packs is http://demoscene.interstat.net/cruelization or
http://packs.home.ml.org for short :).
. P R E S E N T .
So, what's going on now? After I finish this text, I'm releasing the
Cruelization 10 sample pack and 9 voting pack. The Cruelization web page
will be up soon, big thanks to MrData for giving me web space and a shell
on his work machine.
The rules haven't really been majorly changed yet, the only change that
is there is that a composer cab enter up to 3 tunes to a regular, non
special Cruelization.. Some people track like crazy :) It *IS* fair,
because each song is evaulated separately. The 10th Cruelization still has
5 songs max as a Special contest.
Off to the future..
. F U T U R E .
Whee :) Alot of stuff is coming up. The Cruelization home page, as I've
already mentioned, is under way. It is not the top priority right now
though, so it might not be ready to the 10th or even 11th Cruelization's
deadlines. The main objective right now is to get that voter done :) As fast
as possible.
"The Best of Cruelization X" music disk will be released after
Cruelization 10 results will be released. Every tune from Cruelizations 1
to 10 (inclusive) which was rated 14 or more will be included. It will not
and I repeat will not be a contest pack - just a music disk with the best
music :) I will not even put in the scores of the songs. More information
on that will be available later, I will gather info from every composer
who rated 14 or more in one of the Cruelizations. The deadline is still
pretty far, so for now it is not the issue.
An idea of "Cruelization Remixes" was contributed by Lemm, I've ehcnanced
it and now am woring out the details. Nothing official yet, but it will
probably be an "extra" pack to vote on. I will notify in advance so don't
worry about that for now.
I'm accepting ideas for 'special' contests - mail me! If your idea is
interesting enough and simple enough :), I might issue it in one of the
'teen' Cruelizations :).
During the summer, "The Grand Cruelty" project will, hopefully, begin.
It will be one-level-up contest, like MC and Nebulosity. Being generally
against size limits whatsoever, I will have to enforce one - the samples
are all own, it can be anything :) . I believe the limit would be 2.5 mb,
whicb should be enough for everyone. As for voting and rules systems, it's
too early to say. I'm just sharing a plan :) If nothing goes wrong, it will
get under way in the beginning of July.
. C O N C L U S I O N .
I should get more sleep. :) Who said exams can't be aced without preparing?
Aside from that, that's it folks. Hope you've found this file informative.
E-Mail me if you got any questions/suggestios/ideas/complaints/reports/cash
:).
Yours,
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- Cruel Creator - - cruel@kosmic.org -
- The Cruelization Organizer - - crcr@securenet.net -
- cc@thepentagon.com -
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