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The Gathering 1993 is a follow-up to
the very successful conference held
Easter 1992.  This year, a
organization called "Romerike
Dataforening" consisting of members
from Crusaders (Amiga) and Exile (PC)
will be the arrangers.

The date for this conference will be;

7th - 10th of April 1993

The location will be Skedsmohallen,
outside Lillestron in Norway, as it
was the last time.

The general concept will be somewhat
like the previous conference, but we
expect more people, more computers,
more software houses and just about
more of everything.

 r e g i s t e r i n g   s y s t e m
        i n f o r m a t i o n

As you all know, the registering
system we used last time was one of
the things that caused the most
problems for us.

This time we will be doing things
quite differently.

Remember that this is a pre-release
and matters have not been quite
settled yet.


          BEFORE YOU ARRIVE

On the invitation, there will be a
small piece of paper which is the
registration form.  This should be
filled out BEFORE you arrive so that
you don't have to spend time doing
that when you get there.

The form will have questions like
name/handle, group, and so on..


           WHEN YOU ARRIVE

At the entrance, billions and billions
of small slips of paper will be
available.  Yes, the same registration
form as on the invitation since 99% of
you will have forgotten the invitation
and the rest of you haven't received
the invitation at all.

You will now have to fill this form
out (by hand) before you can enter.



             WHEN YOU PAY

On each form there is a unique number.
This number will be used later.  When
you pay, the person receiving the fee
will check your handwriting to see if
it's humanly possible to read - or
not. So, no computers while you
register :-)

You will also be given a badge not
unlike the one used at The Party II
in Denmark.  This badge will show that
you have payed.


       WHILE YOU PARTY (PART 1)

While you run around having the best
time of your life, dozens of slaves
will be punching all your names into a
humongous database.  Each person
having a unique number.

There will be a big monitor constantly
running a slide show with information.
This will at all times show the number
of people who have registered.  Also,
hard copies of the names of the
registered persons will be available.


             TIME TO VOTE

When its time to vote, a special
voting form will be available.  This
form will have a field where you must
enter the same name you registered
with and the same number you have on
your sticker.  If the number doesn't
match the name, the vote will be
discarded.  After a while, the forms
are handed in and an even bigger bunch
of slaves will be counting the votes
using the same well-written and well-
tested software as used to count the
Eurochart votes.


          p a r t y   b b s

There will NOT be a party BBS at The
Gathering 1993!

The reasons have been explained many
times, but here they are again.

* We need ALL the people we can get to
help things run well with the party
itself.  We do not have any people
left over to be Sysop of such a
system.

* For us, The Gathering 1993 will be
even more expensive than The Gathering
1992, so the extra expenses of the
hardware required (modems, computers,
network, telephone lines etc.) are
simply more than we can afford.

* Even though the party BBS system at
The Gathering 1992 didn't work as well
as it should have, the reasons for
having a party BBS in the first place
is only to make party releases
available to people not at the party
as soon as possible.  Releases from
The Gathering 1993 will be installed
on THIS system instead.

* We cannot prevent any other groups
from setting up party BBS's but
remember that if such should be set
up, they will not be located at the
party place and would therefore not
have the desired effect.  Crusaders
and Deadline have NO RESPONSIBILITY
WHAT SO EVER of such systems!
  M A I N   C O M P E T I T I O N S

         GENERAL INFORMATION

Contestants for ANY of the main
competitions must contact the
Information Desk BEFORE the deadline
to receive a special envelope and a
special information sheet that is to
be filled out before entering the
product.  On this information sheet
you fill out a couple of fields
regarding the product.

* Products that have been entered in
other competitions can NOT be entered
in any of the main competitions

* Media (diskettes) that contain the
product will NOT be returned

* Once a product is entered, the
product may not be modified further

* Deadlines will be held as far as
possible, but we will of course accept
products a short while after since it
seems to be impossible for some to
finish something at the right time.
   

     BEST AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION

* Demo MUST run without problems on
Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 machines

* Demo MUST run without problems on
machines with 512K, 1 and 2Mb chipMEM

* ALL entered demos will be shown in
full length

* One person from the group that is
presenting the demo MUST be available
to control any interactive parts of
the demo (Pressing mouse, controlling
features with joystick and so on)

* The prize is an A4000 (unknown model)
value is 15,000 - 25,000 NOK.


      BEST GRAPHICS COMPETITION

* All pictures will be judged in ONE
category only

* Pictures from ANY machine can be
entered, but the picture MUST be
displayable on a Amiga ECS chipset
machine (PAL)

* Pictures MUST be entered on a single
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density
format diskette

* If more than a certain number of
pictures are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-
competing graphics artists will pick
out a portion of the pictures for a
final.

* The prize is an OpalVision graphics
adapter card.  Value 10,000 NOK. 


        BEST MUSIC COMPETITION

* All modules will be judged in ONE
category only

* Modules from ANY machine can be
entered, but the module MUST be
playable on an Amiga computer with NO
extra sound enhancing hardware

* Contestants can choose if the module
is to be played in mono or stereo

* Each module will be played for 3.0
minutes

* All entries for the music
competition must be entered on a
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density
diskette.  On the diskette there MUST
be nothing but the module itself and
an appropriate module player.  NO
EXECUTABLES!

* If more than a certain number of
modules are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-
competing musicians will pick out a
portion of the pictures for a final

* The prize is a Vector 68030, 25mhz
accelerator w/math co-processor, MMU, 
4mb RAM.  Value 10,000 NOK.
            AMIGA EXTRAS

All 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in all
Amiga competitions will also recieve
a full years subscription to "Amiga
Forum".

If the winnere of the Amiga music or
graphics competition are owners are
A500 owners, the prize will be
equipment to the value of 10,000 NOK.


       BEST PC DEMO COMPETITION

* Demo *MUST* run on a 486 33MHz IBM
compatible computer with 16Mb RAM,
ET4000 1Mb display adapter and a
SoundBlaster/16 sound card

* One person from the group that is
presenting the demo MUST be available
to control any interactive parts of
the demo (Pressing mouse, controlling
features with joystick and so on)

* ALL entered demos will be shown in
full length

* The prize is 486, 50mhz, 4mb Ram, 
130mb Hard drive, SVGA adapter and
SVGA monitor with a Gravis Ultrasound
music adaptor.  Value 18,000 NOK.


    S u g g e s t i o n s   f o r
       c o m p e t i t i o n s

Since there has been so many
suggestions for competitions,
the thing we've settled for is that
YOU arrange the competition
yourself!

We'll help you as best we can with the
equipment and space.  Also, if there's
a "final" in your competition, you can
run it over the big screen and
possibly over the sound system.
Get together with a couple of friends
and arrange your VERY OWN competition!


       S o u n d   s y s t e m

Some of you who attended The Gathering
1992 party complained that the sound
was sometimes more than a human could
cope with.

This time we will instead of having
two extremely powerful speaker systems
in one end of the hall, have up to
eight extremely powerful speaker
systems located in each corner and at
the longer sides.
No, just kidding :-) The speakers will
of course be smaller and just enough
to give a perfect sound to everyone in
the hall during the main competitions
and so on.  The sound system will NOT
play background music like it did last
year!

If you want music while you work, we
suggest that you bring your portable
stereo that won't ruin the sleep for
2000 people.

The sound system will be used for
messages during the party.  Such
messages can be handed over to the
Information Desk, should you have
something to say to everyone.




    E X P E C T E D   G U E S T S

Just wanted to let you know some of
the people we expect to arrive at The
Gathering 1993.  You MUST understand
that most of these have only been
invited so far, so it is not certain
that they will have the time to come
and visit us.

Software Houses, Computer Magazines,
Media, Radio, Media, Newspapers - List
coming up.

              Media, TV

    - NRK1:  "Norge Rundt" and "U"
    - NRK2
    - TV Norge
    - TV3, Norway
    - SuperChannel
    - ITN (Runs news for SuperChannel
      amongst other things)
    - Cable Network News (CNN)
    - Beyond 2000 Inc
    - Music Television (MTV)


 All information is subject to change.


           C O N T A C T 

If you need any information or if you
have any questions reguarding any
aspects of the Gathering 1993, call one
of the following numbers immediatly.  
We speak Norwegian, English and some
German.

Mike of the Crusaders can be reached
on: +47-6-842853 (Ask for Trond)
 
Dr. Outtasight of the Crusaders can be
reached on the following numbers;
+47-6-833754, +47-22-470708, 
+47-31-41160

If you have Internet access; 
edb880023@mv.bi.no

If you have a modem, you can call the
Crusaders BBS;
+47-6-833980 (3009-2400)
+47-6-833981 (4800-14400, V.42)
+47-6-833982 (2400-12000, V.42)








      T   h   e     G   a   t   h   e   r   i   n   g     1   9   9   3





   C   o   m   p   u   t   e   r      c   o   n   f   e   r   e   n   c   e





                 G   e   n   e   r   a   l     i   n   f   o









The Gathering 1993 is a follow-up to
the very successful conference held
Easter 1992.  This year, a
organization called "Romerike
Dataforening" consisting of members
from Crusaders (Amiga) and Exile (PC)
will be the arrangers.

The date for this conference will be;

7th - 10th of April 1993

The location will be Skedsmohallen,
outside Lillestron in Norway, as it
was the last time.

The general concept will be somewhat
like the previous conference, but we
expect more people, more computers,
more software houses and just about
more of everything.

 r e g i s t e r i n g   s y s t e m
        i n f o r m a t i o n

As you all know, the registering
system we used last time was one of
the things that caused the most
problems for us.

This time we will be doing things
quite differently.

Remember that this is a pre-release
and matters have not been quite
settled yet.


          BEFORE YOU ARRIVE

On the invitation, there will be a
small piece of paper which is the
registration form.  This should be
filled out BEFORE you arrive so that
you don't have to spend time doing
that when you get there.

The form will have questions like
name/handle, group, and so on..


           WHEN YOU ARRIVE

At the entrance, billions and billions
of small slips of paper will be
available.  Yes, the same registration
form as on the invitation since 99% of
you will have forgotten the invitation
and the rest of you haven't received
the invitation at all.

You will now have to fill this form
out (by hand) before you can enter.



             WHEN YOU PAY

On each form there is a unique number.
This number will be used later.  When
you pay, the person receiving the fee
will check your handwriting to see if
it's humanly possible to read - or
not. So, no computers while you
register :-)

You will also be given a badge not
unlike the one used at The Party II
in Denmark.  This badge will show that
you have payed.


       WHILE YOU PARTY (PART 1)

While you run around having the best
time of your life, dozens of slaves
will be punching all your names into a
humongous database.  Each person
having a unique number.

There will be a big monitor constantly
running a slide show with information.
This will at all times show the number
of people who have registered.  Also,
hard copies of the names of the
registered persons will be available.


             TIME TO VOTE

When its time to vote, a special
voting form will be available.  This
form will have a field where you must
enter the same name you registered
with and the same number you have on
your sticker.  If the number doesn't
match the name, the vote will be
discarded.  After a while, the forms
are handed in and an even bigger bunch
of slaves will be counting the votes
using the same well-written and well-
tested software as used to count the
Eurochart votes.


          p a r t y   b b s

There will NOT be a party BBS at The
Gathering 1993!

The reasons have been explained many
times, but here they are again.

* We need ALL the people we can get to
help things run well with the party
itself.  We do not have any people
left over to be Sysop of such a
system.

* For us, The Gathering 1993 will be
even more expensive than The Gathering
1992, so the extra expenses of the
hardware required (modems, computers,
network, telephone lines etc.) are
simply more than we can afford.

* Even though the party BBS system at
The Gathering 1992 didn't work as well
as it should have, the reasons for
having a party BBS in the first place
is only to make party releases
available to people not at the party
as soon as possible.  Releases from
The Gathering 1993 will be installed
on THIS system instead.

* We cannot prevent any other groups
from setting up party BBS's but
remember that if such should be set
up, they will not be located at the
party place and would therefore not
have the desired effect.  Crusaders
and Deadline have NO RESPONSIBILITY
WHAT SO EVER of such systems!
  M A I N   C O M P E T I T I O N S

         GENERAL INFORMATION

Contestants for ANY of the main
competitions must contact the
Information Desk BEFORE the deadline
to receive a special envelope and a
special information sheet that is to
be filled out before entering the
product.  On this information sheet
you fill out a couple of fields
regarding the product.

* Products that have been entered in
other competitions can NOT be entered
in any of the main competitions

* Media (diskettes) that contain the
product will NOT be returned

* Once a product is entered, the
product may not be modified further

* Deadlines will be held as far as
possible, but we will of course accept
products a short while after since it
seems to be impossible for some to
finish something at the right time.
   

     BEST AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION

* Demo MUST run without problems on
Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 machines

* Demo MUST run without problems on
machines with 512K, 1 and 2Mb chipMEM

* ALL entered demos will be shown in
full length

* One person from the group that is
presenting the demo MUST be available
to control any interactive parts of
the demo (Pressing mouse, controlling
features with joystick and so on)

* The prize is an A4000 (unknown model)
value is 15,000 - 25,000 NOK.


      BEST GRAPHICS COMPETITION

* All pictures will be judged in ONE
category only

* Pictures from ANY machine can be
entered, but the picture MUST be
displayable on a Amiga ECS chipset
machine (PAL)

* Pictures MUST be entered on a single
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density
format diskette

* If more than a certain number of
pictures are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-
competing graphics artists will pick
out a portion of the pictures for a
final.

* The prize is an OpalVision graphics
adapter card.  Value 10,000 NOK. 


        BEST MUSIC COMPETITION

* All modules will be judged in ONE
category only

* Modules from ANY machine can be
entered, but the module MUST be
playable on an Amiga computer with NO
extra sound enhancing hardware

* Contestants can choose if the module
is to be played in mono or stereo

* Each module will be played for 3.0
minutes

* All entries for the music
competition must be entered on a
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density
diskette.  On the diskette there MUST
be nothing but the module itself and
an appropriate module player.  NO
EXECUTABLES!

* If more than a certain number of
modules are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-
competing musicians will pick out a
portion of the pictures for a final

* The prize is a Vector 68030, 25mhz
accelerator w/math co-processor, MMU, 
4mb RAM.  Value 10,000 NOK.
            AMIGA EXTRAS

All 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in all
Amiga competitions will also recieve
a full years subscription to "Amiga
Forum".

If the winnere of the Amiga music or
graphics competition are owners are
A500 owners, the prize will be
equipment to the value of 10,000 NOK.


       BEST PC DEMO COMPETITION

* Demo *MUST* run on a 486 33MHz IBM
compatible computer with 16Mb RAM,
ET4000 1Mb display adapter and a
SoundBlaster/16 sound card

* One person from the group that is
presenting the demo MUST be available
to control any interactive parts of
the demo (Pressing mouse, controlling
features with joystick and so on)

* ALL entered demos will be shown in
full length

* The prize is 486, 50mhz, 4mb Ram, 
130mb Hard drive, SVGA adapter and
SVGA monitor with a Gravis Ultrasound
music adaptor.  Value 18,000 NOK.


    S u g g e s t i o n s   f o r
       c o m p e t i t i o n s

Since there has been so many
suggestions for competitions,
the thing we've settled for is that
YOU arrange the competition
yourself!

We'll help you as best we can with the
equipment and space.  Also, if there's
a "final" in your competition, you can
run it over the big screen and
possibly over the sound system.
Get together with a couple of friends
and arrange your VERY OWN competition!


       S o u n d   s y s t e m

Some of you who attended The Gathering
1992 party complained that the sound
was sometimes more than a human could
cope with.

This time we will instead of having
two extremely powerful speaker systems
in one end of the hall, have up to
eight extremely powerful speaker
systems located in each corner and at
the longer sides.
No, just kidding :-) The speakers will
of course be smaller and just enough
to give a perfect sound to everyone in
the hall during the main competitions
and so on.  The sound system will NOT
play background music like it did last
year!

If you want music while you work, we
suggest that you bring your portable
stereo that won't ruin the sleep for
2000 people.

The sound system will be used for
messages during the party.  Such
messages can be handed over to the
Information Desk, should you have
something to say to everyone.




    E X P E C T E D   G U E S T S

Just wanted to let you know some of
the people we expect to arrive at The
Gathering 1993.  You MUST understand
that most of these have only been
invited so far, so it is not certain
that they will have the time to come
and visit us.

Software Houses, Computer Magazines,
Media, Radio, Media, Newspapers - List
coming up.

              Media, TV

    - NRK1:  "Norge Rundt" and "U"
    - NRK2
    - TV Norge
    - TV3, Norway
    - SuperChannel
    - ITN (Runs news for SuperChannel
      amongst other things)
    - Cable Network News (CNN)
    - Beyond 2000 Inc
    - Music Television (MTV)


 All information is subject to change.


           C O N T A C T 

If you need any information or if you
have any questions reguarding any
aspects of the Gathering 1993, call one
of the following numbers immediatly.  
We speak Norwegian, English and some
German.

Mike of the Crusaders can be reached
on: +47-6-842853 (Ask for Trond)
 
Dr. Outtasight of the Crusaders can be
reached on the following numbers;
+47-6-833754, +47-22-470708, 
+47-31-41160

If you have Internet access; 
edb880023@mv.bi.no

If you have a modem, you can call the
Crusaders BBS;
+47-6-833980 (3009-2400)
+47-6-833981 (4800-14400, V.42)
+47-6-833982 (2400-12000, V.42)










24 hour PhonePak on; +47-22-30-48-80

All numbers can be called 24 hours a
day.


Put together from the party pre-release
textfile and from information sent by
Switchblade of the Crusaders, thanx
dude!

end.












24 hour PhonePak on; +47-22-30-48-80

All numbers can be called 24 hours a
day.


Put together from the party pre-release
textfile and from information sent by
Switchblade of the Crusaders, thanx
dude!