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Invitation to Assembly 1994
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  | Diskmagazine |   Ram Jam1001 Byte - 2fast - ACBS - ... | a6/94 added 6/95 |
#3 ASSEMBLY '94 Invitation #1
Helsinki, Finland, 5th - 7th August
Organized by:
#2ACCESSION - FUTURE CREW - THE MOVEMENT
SONIC PC - CARILLON & CYBERIAD
#1
Sponsored by:
#2ADVANCED GRAVIS - ID SOFTWARE - EPIC
MEGAGAMES - SSI - TEAM17 - TOPTRONICS
DATA SERVICE - TERTON - PC SUPERSTORE
TERRAMARQUE
#1
#2- - - - - - OPENING WORDS - - - - - -
#1
Again the time for the biggest
summer demo party is closing fast! If
great competitions, drinking a LOT of
Coke, spending sleepless nights,
making great deals with some computer
companies, meeting all your friends on
the scene and having a great time is
what you're after, you just can't miss
Asm'94!
This time the party will be held in
the very center of Helsinki, the
capital of Finland, from the 5th to
the 7th of August. There will be
competitions for Amiga and PC, and
thanks to our many sponsors, the
prizes will be amazing!
This textfile is just a kind of a
preliminary information package for
the people on the scene. We will
release another invitation intro later
in which the final information about
all the rules, etc. will be included.
Anyway, just keep on reading to see
what we have to offer!
#2- - - - - - - COMPETITIONS - - - - - -
#1
As this text file is just the
preliminary info, there might be some
changes to the final competition
rules. The organizers reserve the
right to make any changes to the
competition rules, and to disqualify
any entry if it is not suitable to
attend the competitions for some
reason.
All competitors have to be present at
the party place in order to attend the
competitions and to receive the
possible prizes (or at least one of
the authors of a competing piece of
art).
In the graphics competition on both
Amiga and PC, and also in the 4kb
intro competition on PC, the
competition version of the entry must
not display the author's name in any
way. This is to prevent the author's
name from affecting the vote. After
the announcement of the results, the
versions which are spread can include
the author's signature. In the music
competition on both Amiga and PC, we
will not show the author's name while
we play the song in the competition.
"Maximum running length" below is
only the amount of time we will show a
particular piece of art on the big
screen.
The demos/intros will have to run
without ANY user interaction once
started.
#2 THE VOTING SYSTEM:
#1
We will use a disk voting system.
Once you enter the party place, you
will be given the voting disk, which
will include the voting program. It's
not certain yet if the disks will be
dual-format (both Amiga&PC Compatible)
or if we are going to have separate
Amiga and PC compatible voting disks.
You will be able to give your
opinion on The Five Best in all compe-
titions, both on the Amiga and PC.
But before you can give your
opinion, a jury composed of known
scene people (maybe even you!) will
select a certain (yet unknown) amount
of entries in each competition to the
finals (to be shown on the big
screen).
We will give more details about the
voting system in the next invitation
intro.
#2 PC COMPETITION RULES:
#1
The competition machine we will use:
- i486DX2/66 with 4 MB of RAM
- MS-DOS 6.20
- Tseng Labs ET-4000/w32 Local Bus VGA
card
- 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card or
original Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
If your demo supports some other sound
card, bring it with you.
If your demo/intro requires a memory
manager, it would be suitable if it
worked under either MS-DOS 6.20's
HIMEM alone, HIMEM+EMM386 or under
QEMM v7.03. Otherwise bring all
necessary memory managers and a boot
disk with you (the demo/intro will
still be loaded from hard disk).
All intros (64kb & 4kb), pictures and
songs will be spread at the party
place after the announcement of the
results. In the demo competition we
will give exactly ONE MONTH of time
for the demo groups to finish and
release their demos, otherwise we will
release the competition version of the
demo.
#2DEMO #1
- Maximum size in executable form is
4096 kb
- Maximum running length is 15 minutes
- Only 100% VGA register level compat.
graphics modes are accepted(no SVGA)
- Pure animation files aren't accepted
#2INTRO #1
- Maximum size in exe form is 64kb
- Maximum running length is 7 minutes
- Only 100% VGA register level compat.
graphics modes are accepted(no SVGA)
- Pure animation files aren't accepted
#24KB-INTRO #1
- Max size in exe form is 4096 bytes
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- NO MUSIC or other sound is allowed
- Only 100% VGA register level compat.
graphics modes are accepted(no SVGA)
- Only one intro by one coder
#2MUSIC #1
- Maximum amount of channels is 32
- Maximum size of the song is 1024 kb
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- Bring your own player, if the format
isn't compat. with existing players
- If the song is a MIDI song,bring the
samples and everything that's needed
to play the song with you
- Only one song by one musician
#2GRAPHICS #1
- The graphics modes supported are:
ù 320x200, 256 colors
ù 320x240, 256 colors
ù 320x400, 256 colors
ù 360x480, 256 colors
ù 640x350, 16 colors
ù 640x480, 16 colors
+ all other 100% 256kb VGA
compatible modes
- The palette is the standard VGA one
with 262144 colors
- If the picture can't be shown using
VPIC or CSHOW, bring your own viewer
(the picture can be an exe file)
- Scanned, ripped and raytraced pics
will be disqualified
- Only one pic by one graphics artist
#2 AMIGA COMPETITION RULES:
#1
The competition machine is a A1200
with 2 megs chip + 2 megs fast.
Note! All competition entries must be
autobootable!
#2DEMO
#1- Maximum size is 4 disks
- May work only from hard disk, so you
must leave it on disks that contain
a hard disk installer for the demo
- Maximum running length is 10 minutes
#2INTRO
#1- Maximum size in exe form is 40 kb
- Maximum running length is 5 minutes
#2MUSIC
#1- Maximum size is one disk
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- Only one song by one musician
#2GRAPHICS
#1- The pic may be in any AGA resolution
- Scanned, ripped and raytraced pics
will be disqualified
- Only one pic by one graphics artist
#2 SPECIAL COMPETITIONS:
#1
We will have all traditional Assembly
special competitions and some new
ones. The competitions include for
example soccer, disk-throwing
(Asm-record: 96m), modem-throwing,
etc.
#2- - - - - - - THE PRIZES - - - - - - -
#1
As said before, the prizes will be
the best yet, both in the Amiga and PC
competitions. Here we have included
the preliminary list of the prizes we
will have. If there are any changes
after the release of this information
file, they should only be to the
better. The actual prizes may be
software, hardware or pure cash. This
depends on our sponsors and how many
people pay the entrance fee. The
following list includes only the US
dollar values of each prize. Also
keep in mind that the money exchange
rates also affect this list (at the
time of the writing of this text file
one US dollar was 5,5 finnish marks).
We will include the more detailed
prize lists in the second invitation
intro, due to be released sometime
before the summer.
All the cash prizes will be paid in
finnish currency.
#2 PC COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES
#1
DEMO: INTRO:
1. $2700 $1400
2. $1600 $900
3. $950 $600
4. $700 $450
5. $500 $300
4KB-INTRO: MUSIC: GRAPHICS:
1. $600 $600 $600
2. $400 $400 $400
3. $200 $200 $200
TOTAL VALUE: around $13700 US
#2 AMIGA COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES:
#1
DEMO: INTRO: MUSIC: GRAPHICS:
1.$2700 $750 $370 $370
2.$1200 $450 $180 $180
3. $600 $200 $90 $90
TOTAL VALUE: around $7200 US
#2- - - - - - PARTY FEATURES - - - - - -
#1
Next is a list of all the basic
features at our party:
- Around 10000-15000 watts of music
power
- 2 or 3 big screens (4-7 meters wide)
- Multi-player game networks, such as
Net-DOOM
- Dolby Surround Laser Disc movies
- Space for sleeping + showers
- 24H food service
- 24H security personnel keeping
things&people in order
- Central TV-system for showing the
party schedule, etc.
- Party T-Shirts
- Cool raytrace movies will be shown
on the big screen
- Sponsoring companies selling all
kinds of hardware and software
- Electricity for all, so bring your
machine with you
- Lots of all kinds of shops near the
partyplace
- Only less than 1 kilometre to the
main center of Helsinki
#2- - - - - GENERAL INFORMATION - - - -
#1
The entrance fee will be around $26
US (140 FIM). Girls get a free
entrance! The reason for the increase
on the entrance fee is due to a new
tax invented by our lovely government
(so, this is NOT some rip-off thing!)
We are expecting around 2000-2500
demo freaks from all over the world to
attend.
If you are arranging a BUSTRIP to our
party, please, contact us for details
on entrance fee discounts, exact
location directions and possible other
stuff.
If you have ANY suggestions or ideas
about anything written in this
textfile, don't hesitate to contact
us!
NO ALCOHOL DRINKING OR SOFTWARE
PIRATISM ALLOWED AT THE PARTY PLACE!
#2- - - HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US - -
#1
You can reach us by many means
according to the following list:
#2Voice:
#1MeeGosh/TMM +358-0-505 2441
wknds only (Amiga)
Pehu/ACC +358-0-294 7906
(Amiga&PC)
Pehu/ACC +358-49-554 701
cellular
Edge/Unexpected +358-0-378 247 (PC)
#2Fax:
#1GORE/FC +358-0-420 8620
(Amiga&PC)
#2BBS:
#1StarPort (FC) +358-0-455 4801 (PC)
455 4805
455 4807
455 4810
455 4812
455 4827
455 4829
Sonic PC WHQ +358-0-804 3141 (PC)
#2Email, the fastest & best way:
#1
assembly94@cute.fi
all general questions!
jkavalef@alpha.hut.fi
MeeGosh/TMM (Amiga)
mpontine@cc.helsinki.fi
Moku/ACC (Amiga&PC)
aakko@cc.helsinki.fi
Pehu/ACC (Amiga&PC)
jtheinon@cc.helsinki.fi
GORE&Jake/FC (PC)
mmaki@cc.helsinki.fi
Henchman/FC (PC)
jaz@cute.fi
Jaz/Sonic PC (PC)
Internet www-server, reachable by
mosaic/lynx:
http://prime.mdata.fi (there choose
assembly 94)
#2Normal snail-mail, the slowest way:
#1
Assembly'94
P.O. Box 54
02701 Kauniainen
FINLAND