Wonderful idea, and relatively easy from a technical point of view.



Announce and advertise it on the frontpage. Make a separate page for the marathon itself, with some chat add-in that uses a channel on irc.speeddemosarchive.com. With updating that page and maybe having someone announce stuff in the channel you can easily distribute information. Like when which run does start.



The streams themselves could be easily hosted on some site like ustream, since I doubt SDA is currently able to broadcast something via Multicast.

Just make two or three SDA accounts and give the credentials to the people who run the games.

This way you don't need to get all the runners together and everybody can stream out of their favorite chairs at home.



The streaming part also is easy and rather cheap. Tiki does stream with a cheap USB capture thing and it looks good enough. Such things can easily be gotten for way less than 50$. iirc, those things went away at about 20$ with a buy now option the last time i checked. If we allow emulators to be used, people could use screen cap software, though this might need a rather new PC. Idk about demo versions and trials and such, but there's probably a way to keep costs around 0 for this.

The setup also isn't complicated and it really shouldn't be a problem to support people through IRC or even remote desktop stuff, if neccessary.



So from a technological point of view I don't really see a problem in setting up a marathon. Of course, the stuff described above does not cover other people commentating on someone's run, fancy split screen windows etc. But is this essential?

Wonderful idea, and relatively easy from a technical point of view. Announce and advertise it on the frontpage. Make a separate page for the marathon itself, with some chat add-in that uses a channel on irc.speeddemosarchive.com. With updating that page and maybe having someone announce stuff in the channel you can easily distribute information. Like when which run does start. The streams themselves could be easily hosted on some site like ustream, since I doubt SDA is currently able to broadcast something via Multicast. Just make two or three SDA accounts and give the credentials to the people who run the games. This way you don't need to get all the runners together and everybody can stream out of their favorite chairs at home. The streaming part also is easy and rather cheap. Tiki does stream with a cheap USB capture thing and it looks good enough. Such things can easily be gotten for way less than 50$. iirc, those things went away at about 20$ with a buy now option the last time i checked. If we allow emulators to be used, people could use screen cap software, though this might need a rather new PC. Idk about demo versions and trials and such, but there's probably a way to keep costs around 0 for this. The setup also isn't complicated and it really shouldn't be a problem to support people through IRC or even remote desktop stuff, if neccessary. So from a technological point of view I don't really see a problem in setting up a marathon. Of course, the stuff described above does not cover other people commentating on someone's run, fancy split screen windows etc. But is this essential?