Saturne is once again very proud to invite you to the 1996 edition of the Easter French event, this year lasting from the 26 to the 28 April 1996.

WHERE, WHEN?


Like both of our first parties, this year's edition will be taking place at the Cultural Centre of Chelles. This hall, situated in the East suburb of Paris, is quite new and disposes of all the features for a good party; Phones, WCs and FREE showers in the very proximity...

A high school situated near the party place (about 100 m away) will be turned into our sleeping room.

A bar will be open all three days long, during the party with cheap eats n drinks for everybody. A big and free parking place is at the disposal of everyone.

Please notice these dates : 26-27-28 of April 1996. The show will begin on Friday the 26th at 10:00 am, whilst the closing ceremony is expected at Sunday the 28th at around 2:00 pm. Unfortunately, we won't be able to welcome any people coming before this friday morning.

The entrance fee is fixed to 120FF for all 3 days and for everybody, even for those paying in advance. Girls will get a free entrance, and only French currencies will be accepted.

The video equipment to be used is a Barco 5000, 6 m by 4.5 m giant screen. The sound equipment consist of professional sound speakers powered at 10.000 Watts.

As always, smoking, alcohol and drugs are strictly forbidden inside the party place.

COMPETITIONS: Amiga contestants have the choice between 2 compo machines; an A1200 with an mc68020 processor running at 28Mhz, with 4Mb of Fast Ram, or an A1200 with an mc68030 processor running at 50Mhz, with 4Mb of Fast Ram. The used configuration will be printed out during the projection of the demo/intro.

Demo


Maximum size is 4 DD disks or 4 Mb on Hard Drive. Maximum projection time is 15 minutes, and only one demo per coder is allowed to participate.

Intro


Maximum size is 65536 bytes (64 Kilobytes). No libraries or external files are allowed. It would be appreciated if the intro could be easily exitable. Only one intro per coder is allowed to participate.

Wild Competition


Every computer entry is accepted: Atari ST, Falcon, C64, Archimedes, Silicon Graphics, OrdiBaby, pocket calculators... and even VHS or S-VHS video tapes! Just bring your production (and computer) with you! Maximum projection time is 15 minutes.

Music


There will be ONLY ONE competition for all competing modules, and only 2 file formats are authorized: Amiga ProTracker using 4 voices and PC FastTracker using from 4 to 32 voices. All modules will be played under FastTracker II on PC. Maximum listening time is 3 minutes. A pre-selection of about 20 modules will have to be made. Only one module per musician is allowed to participate.

Graphics


Maximum resolution allowed is 640 by 512 pixels using 256 colours. Only 2 file formats will be authorized: IFF and GIF. Only one picture per graphician is allowed to participate. We will try to display the pictures also on monitors during the competition, and ALL pictures will be shown, since there'll be NO pre selection.

... And of course, there could be some other "surprise" competitions, like disk-flying and other realtime contests. The only rule is that all participants must be present at the party.

PRIZES


At the end of each competition, we will print out a list with all seen or listened productions, to aid the party audience in voting in the best possible way. For each competition, you will have to choose your favourite 3 productions. All 3 firsts of each competition, will win a prize.

As always, 50% of entrance fees will compose the prizes for the 7 competitions. At the Saturne Party 2, we allocated the following;

720 entrances at 100FF = 36.000FF for prizes. 1st in Amiga Demo Compo = 10.000FF, 1st in Amiga Intro Compo = 4.000FF and 1st in Music or Graphics Compo = 2.000FF. All prices will be given in FF cash. If we will get some sponsors, then hardware prizes could possibly be added to the cash amount. The party place is situated at:
Centre Culturel de Chelles
place des Martyrs de Chateaubriand
77500 Chelles, France!

The party place is 16kms East from Paris. By car: Highways A1 or A4 -> A104 -> Nationale N34. By train : East Station (Paris) -> Chelles-Gournay Station Then you simply have to follow the signs...

Stephane "Ether" Vasseur
+33.1 60.04.05.52 (answering machine)

Guillaume "Tetsuo" Bellido
+33.1 60.01.97.77

Vincent "Vodka" Oneto
12 rue Gauguin
91600 Savigny sur Orge
tel: +33.1 69.05.37.11

Table reservations, explicitly indicating the number of persons and the computer type, can be made at the following;

email: e4068@iut-orsay.fr
http://www.iut-orsay.fr/~e4068/