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Hi! I'm organising (the first?) ASIC demoscene competition! It's free to enter and you get your design manufactured on silicon.

For all the details check tinytapeout.com / competitions / demoscene

After the comp finishes we have to wait quite a while for the chips to get manufactured, but then I'd like to upload the recordings - so should this be a party?

Thanks and hope some people here submit some cool demos!

Other competitions have been added as parties so this could be treated the same I suppose. Whether it should be depends on if the entries for this compo will be downloadable in some form.

that's also what I thought. The entries are all open source and I suppose there will be recordings at least on youtube so seems reasonable

Cool idea, and gives me a reason to try Tiny Tapeout (otherwise I only thought to make a CPU, which everyone else is doing so there's no point). Tiny Tapeout does cost $100 per unit, though, so that is the real price to enter. And with the way it works, everyone who enters will get a free copy of everyone else's demo :)

i so wanted to try this out, but the deadline simply doesn't work at the moment. Maybe in the next iteration

super interesting idea, but the deadline (in 9 days!!!) is simply non realistic.

especially for someone like me who just found out about the compo, and never heard about tiny tapeout until few minutes ago. (plus, 4 of those 9 days will be spent at one of a few demoparties held this weekend, as it's summer and calendar is packed with demoparties). but even the original announcement, 12 days ago, wouldn't allow much more time.

maybe have this properly organised and held for TT-09 (or even TT-10), which would actually allow some time (for someone new) to develop something. but maybe i'm totally wrong and there are hundreds of demosceners already finishing and polishing their prod.

Thanks for the feedback!
Yes we'll probably run it again in the future - we've had 16 entries so far and that's already a great start from my perspective!