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Official release of Assembly 95
Party pre invitation file:
ASSEMBLY `95
Helsinki, Finland, 10th - 13th Aug
pre-invitation info file
(released 5.4.95)
*** OPENING WORDS ***
You are now reading the pre-
invitation info file for ASSEMBLY-
95. The information presented in
this text file might not be final,
so please try to look for a new
version(s) of this text file. You
can propably find them where you
found this info file, but can
always find the latest ASSEMBLY '95
related files at the BBSes and FTP
sites mentioned in the "contact
information" paragraph later on in
this text file.
*** WHERE AND WHEN ***
ASSEMBLY '95 will be held in Fin-
land's largest conference centrum,
namely the Helsinki Fair Centre.The
Fair Centre is located in central
Helsinki, about two kilometers from
the previous party place.
The party will start at 10:00 am on
the 10th of August (Thursday) and
end 18:00 pm on the 13th of August
(Sunday).
The party place is very easy to
find,if you take any train from the
Central Railway station and get off
on the next stop you will be able
to see the building complex.
*** INDEX ***
1. How to get to the partyplace
2. Competitions
2.1. Voting system
2.2. PC competition rules (demos,
intros)
2.3. Amiga competition rules
(demos, intros)
2.4. Graphics competition rules
(graphics, raytrace,
animation)
2.5. Music competition rules
(4 and 32 channel tunes)
2.6. C-64 competition rules (demos
, music, gfx)
3. Prizes
4. Party features
5. ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM
6. ASSEMBLY '95 tickets
6.1. Buying tickets
6.2. Where can I buy tickets
6.3. Why should I buy a ticket in
advance
7. Preliminary schedule
8. Disclaimer
9. Contact information
* 1. HOW TO GET TO THE PARTYPLACE *
You will either arrive by plane, by
boat, by bus, by train or by car.If
you are lucky enough to come by car
, you should be able to find the
party place very easily (see the
maps). This year there will be
enough parking space for everybody
because there are no European Track
& Field championships taking place
and the Helsinki Fair Centre hosts
one of the biggest parking lots in
the whole Helsinki! If you come by
plane and have lots of stuff with
you, we would recommend to take a
taxi, otherwise you should come by
bus (cheaper). And if you come by
boat (to Helsinki seaport) and have
lots of luggage, take the taxi, or
take a tram or walk to the Central
Railway station and take any local
train from there.
Local area bus tickets in Finland
vary from around $2 to $6 US. The
taxi is of course more expensive.
For example to take a normal taxi
from the airport to the party place
will cost one person around $30 -
$40 US. But if you take the Airport
Taxi, it will be a lot cheaper
(half the price).
*** 2. COMPETITIONS ***
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.
Atleast one of the competiting team
has to be present at the partyplace
and in the case of a solo compe-
tition the competitor has to be
present.
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).
A jury composed of known scene
people (maybe even you!) will
select an amount of 15 entries in
each competition to the finals (to
be shown on the big screen to the
audience). There will be different
people in the PC and Amiga jurys.
In the graphics competition, the
ray-tracing and also in the 4kb
intro competition on PC, the
competition version of the entry
must not display the author's name
or group 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 competitions, we will not
show the author's name while we
play the song in the competition.
In the graphics, music, raytracing,
animation and 4kb intro compe-
titions we will show the name of
the song/picture, but only if it
will not give hints on who has made
it.
"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 (although there can be a
setup screen).
ll demos, intros (4kb, 40kb and
64kb), pictures, songs and anima-
tions (i.e. everything) will be
spread at the party place by the
organizers.
The filenames of the productions
have to comply to the ISO-9660
standard. This means _roughly_ that
the only characters allowed in file
names are "A-Z" and "0-9". The
maximum length of file name is 8+3
characters (msdos standard).
The productions MUST NOT save any
files (for example configuration
files) on the hard disk or the disk
In the music, graphics, raytracing
and 4kb intro competitions only one
of the authors (if there are more
than one) can be the official
author of the competing piece of
art. For example, if two coders
work on the same 4kb intro, only
one of them can receive the prize
and his name in the party results.
After all, these three competitions
are meant to be solo competitions.
The author/authors have to have all
the copyrights to their production.
If you have any questions about the
rules, kindly contact ASSEMBLY
Organizing.
* 2.1. THE VOTING SYSTEM: *
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. We are going to have
separate Amiga and PC compatible
voting disks.
You will be able to giv e your
opinion on The Five Best in all
competitions, 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 an amount of 15 entries in
each competition to the finals (to
be shown on the big screen to the
audience). There will be different
people in the PC and Amiga jurys.
* 2.2. PC COMPETITION RULES: *
The competition machine we will use
- i486DX2/66 with 4 MB of RAM
- MS-DOS 6.20
- VLB SVGA-board with TSENG
ET4000/W32
- 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card
or original Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
Software configuration in the com-
puter will include MS-DOS 6.20,with
HIMEM and EMM386. The configuration
will not be changed during the
competition.
All e ntries have to work with the
base address set to 220 and IRQ set
to 7 on the GUS and Sound Blaster
(Pro). This will cut down the usual
hassle with sound card settings.
Naturally the sound should also
work with all other sound card IRQ,
DMA and baseport settings.
If you want to use the MIDI patches
that come with the UltraSound, you
will have to bring them with you in
order for us to measure their size
in kilobytes.
The main reason why SVGA modes with
higher resolution than 640x480
aren't allowed is because the
maximum resolution supported by the
video/data projectors we have is
640x480. And even if the projectors
could show higher resolutions, the
picture quality of different high
resolution graphics modes would not
look that much different from one
another (a video projector is NOT
the same as a monitor).
You should note that the picture
produces by a video projector is
not as good as a monitor picture.
The video projector does not show
pale colors well and in some cases
can even lose them completely. Also
the contrast can be different.These
are common problems with all video
projectors and simply can't be
corrected. Please try to understand
these restrictions.
Note that you can now enter more
than one demo or 64kb intro to the
competitions, if you so desire.
DEMO
* Maximum size in executable form
is 4096 kb
* Maximum showing time is 8 minutes
, the demo itself can be longer
* 100% VGA register level
compatible graphics modes and
SVGA mode 640*480 are accepted
* Pure animation files are not
accepted
* Also executables only including
an animation and an animation
player will not be accepted,
this is not an animation compe-
tition
* Gravis Ultrasound (512kb) and SB
PRO/SB 16 support required
* The name of the files have to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* The demo MUST NOT save anything
on the hard disk
INTRO
* Maximum size in executable form
is 64 kb (65536 bytes)
* Maximum showing time is 5 minutes
* 100% VGA register level
compatible graphics modes and
SVGA mode 640*480 are accepted
* Pure animation files are not
accepted
* Gravis Ultrasound (512kb) and SB
PRO/SB 16 support required
* The names of the files have to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* The intro MUST NOT save anything
on the hard disk
4KB-INTRO
* Maximum size in executable form
is 4096 bytes
* Maximum running length is 3 mins
* NO MUSIC or other sound is
allowed (this is because this a
coders' competition, not
musicians')
* Only 100% VGA register level
compatible graphics modes are
accepted (no SVGA/VESA)
* Only one intro by one coder
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* The intro MUST NOT save anything
on the hard disk
* 2.3. AMIGA COMPETITION RULES: *
The competition machine is a A4000
with 2 megs chip + 4 megs fast. All
competition entries must work in
Amiga 1200 with 2 megs chip.
DEMO
* Maximum size is 4 megabytes
* Must by harddisk installable
* Maximum running length is 8 mins
* The names of the files have to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* The demo MUST NOT save anything
on the disk
INTRO
* Maximum size in executable form
is 40 kb
* Maximum running length is 5 mins
* The names of the files have to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* The intro MUST NOT save anything
on the disk
* 2.4. THE GRAPHICS COMPETITIONS: *
GRAPHICS
* The maximum resolution allowed is
640x480
* Maximum amount of simultaneous
onscreen colors is 256
* The palette is the standard 16,7
million color true color palette
* Pictures drawn with Amiga will be
shown with Amiga Brilliance (no
executables!)
* PC pictures will have to be in
standard LBM, PCX, TGA or GIF
format
* Pictures drawn with PC will be
shown with CSHOW (or some other
good picture viewer)
* Scanned, ripped and raytraced
pictures will be disqualified
* In addition, you must submit a
version of the final picture
which doesn't have your signature
on it (which will be shown on the
big screen)
* Only one picture by one graphics
artist
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
RAYTRACING
* The maximum resolution allowed is
640x480
* Mmaximum amount of simultaneous
onscreen colors is 16.7 million
* Pictures will be shown on PC with
true color card (no executables!)
* Pictures have to be in JPG or
TARGA format
* In addition, you must submit a
version of the final picture
which doesn't have your signature
on it (which will be shown on the
big screen)
* Only one picture by one graphics
artist
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
ANIMATION
* The maximum size of the animation
is 2000 of 320x200 frames us on a
hard drive, DAT or in any other
easily transferrable media.
* Maximum amount of simultaneous
onscreen colors is 16.7 million
* The maximum resolution is 320x200
* The animation will be shown on
Pentium PC with true color card,
the player will be done by
Virtual Dreams
* The frames have to be in JPG
format and delivered us in hard
drive, DAT or in any other easily
transferrable media, (no DISKS!)
possible other mediarestrictions
be notified later. If you don't
bring your production on a hard
disk, bring along a drive that
can read your media!
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* 2.5. THE MUSIC COMPETITIONS: *
4CHANNEL
* Maximum size is 880kb (* one
Amiga disk)
* Maximum amount of channels is 4
* Maximum running length is 3 mins
* All songs will be played with the
Amiga ProTracker v2.x (MOD)
* Entries must be in MOD-format
(no executables)
* Only one song by one musician
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
MULTICHANNEL
* Maximum amount of channels is 32
* Maximum size of the song is 1024
kb in a playable format
(including all samples, pattern
data, etc.)
* Maximum running length is 3 mins
* the format has to be some of the
following: S3M, MOD, XM, MTM
and ULT
* If the song is a MIDI song, bring
the samples and everything that
is needed to play the song with
you (except the sound card)
* All songs will be played with PC
compatible players using a 1MB
Gravis UltraSound
* Only one song by one musician
* The name of the file has to
comply to the ISO-9660 standard
(i.e. NO special characters are
allowed).
* 2.6. COMMODORE 64 COMPETITIONS: *
GENERAL RULES:
* Only one contribution from each
group/artist is accepted
* Contributions must be 100%
finished before the deadline,
because we will copy and spread
all of them
* The deadlines are actually
DEADLINES, and they're not too
flexible -> deliver your
contributions in time
C64 DEMO RULES:
* The demo will be run on a
standard C64, a 1541 drive and
an Action Replay MK6 cartridge
* If the demo requires ANY user
interaction, we want a person
from the contributing group to
run the demo. This includes
pressing space between parts...
* Each demo will be shown for a
maximum of 15 minutes
* In the disk label/cover must read
the following:
*The name of the demo
*The group that's contributing it
*The handle of it's main coder
*User interaction required?
*Approximate running lenght in
minutes
* At least one person must be
present from the contributing
group
C64 GRAPHICS:
* The picture must be an executable
file
* ALL graphic formats are accepted
* Only the picture must be seen on
the screen, no scrolls or other
moving things are allowed. Music
is acceptable, but during the
competition no-one will hear it,
because we'll turn audio
equipment off
* The artist must be present at the
party
C64 MUSIC:
* The tune must be an executable
file
* Each tune will be played for max.
3 minutes. This doesn't mean
you'd have to cut the tune at
3:00 sharp, though!
* The artist must be present at the
party
The official C-64 competition
organizers are:
Deadbeat /The Sharks
and
Hazor / Beyond Force.
SPECIAL COMPETITIONS:
We will have all traditional
ASSEMBLY special competitions and
some new ones. The competitions
include for example soccer, disk
throwing, modem throwing and lazer
tag war compo.
*** 3. THE PRIZES ***
As said before, the prizes will be
the best yet, both in the Amiga and
PC competitions. The total value of
all the prizes in US dollars will
be over US $50,000 (not including
software).
The actual prizes may be software,
hardware or pure cash. This depends
on our sponsors. The following list
includes only the preliminary list
of the prizes (the final lists will
be published at the party place).
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
4.7 roughly finnish marks).
We will try to give cash prizes in
the PC and Amiga demo competitions.
The prizes in the other compe-
titions may be more or less various
hardware and software.
All the cash prizes will be paid in
Finnish currency.
continue ->
COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES
(not including software):
DEMO INTRO 4KB-INTRO(PC)
#: ----- ----- -------------
1. $4400 $1900 $600
2. $2900 $1400 $500
3. $2100 $1000 $350
4. $1350 $500 $250
5. $750 $250 $150
6-15. $100 $100 $50
The hardware and software we will
get from our sponsors as prizes.
ART COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES
(not including software):
MUSIC 4/32CH GFX/RAYTRACE
#: ------------ -------------
1. $600 $600
2. $500 $500
3. $350 $350
4. $250 $250
5. $150 $150
6-15. $50 $50
ANIMATION
---------
1. $1900
2. $1400
3. $1000
4. $500
5. $250
6-15 $100
COMMODORE 64 COMPETITION PRIZES:
In the C-64 competitions we will
only give cash as follows:
DEMO: GRAPHICS: MUSIC:
#: ----------- ---------- -------
1. $200 $100 $100
2. $100 $50 $50
3. $50 $25 $25
*** 4. PARTY FEATURES ***
Next is a list of most important
features at our party:
* Audio and Video *
The main hall is is equipped with a
powerful sound system. The system
supports Dolby Surround and will be
a real kicker with 10 000 watts of
pure sound power.
The big screen in the main hall is
over 8 meters wide andsupports the
640x480 resolution! There are also
two additional video screens for
displaying information and messages
* Halls *
The party area is composed of two
interconnected halls. The main area
is 4500 square meters. There are
1800 computer places in the main
hall and about 50 ethernet sockets
are available.
The sleeping hall is on the second
floor and both of the halls are
sound proof so your sleeping
convience is assured. The sleeping
hall is a big as the main party
arena so there is plenty of room
for everybody.
Neither of the halls have windows
so the video screens will look
absolutely fabulous at the time.
* Services *
The party place is the biggest fair
centre in Finland. It will feature
24h food service (yes, we have
Coke!), 24h security personnel, 24h
professional electrician, 24 h
luggage preservation service and
cleaning personnel. Also 24h help
desk with friendly personnel will
be available to help you out with
any problems you might encounter.
Plenty of WCs and some showers will
be available. Cool party T-shirts
and posters (A1 size) will be sold
for low price.
Finlands largest roleplaying
convention will also take place at
the same time in the fair centre.
ASSEMBLY visitors will get 50%
discount from the entrance fee.
Finlands largest home computer fair
is also taking place at the same
time in the fair centre. ASSEMBLY
visitors will get in FREE to the
fair, namely PLAY 1995! Note that
he visitors at PLAY 1995 can't come
to the ASSEMBLY party area.
Two really great concerts will take
place during the weekend. On Friday
at spectacular ROCK CONCERT will
take place at a separate hall and
on Saturday a really big rave
(expected amount of visitors 2000)
will take place on a separate hall
* ASSEMBLY '95 NET Access *
We will offer limited access to the
internet at the party place. This
will most likely include IRC, MUD
and some other services, and may be
even some direct links to the net
thru the party LAN.
More information will follow in the
next information file.
All productions released during the
party will be uploaded to the FTP
server NIC.FUNET.FI, and also to
FTP.MPOLI.FI (directory /starport/
asm95/releases).
*** 5. ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM ***
All the participating pieces of art
from the competitions will be
assembled to a single ASSEMBLY '95
CD-ROM. This will be a unique
possibility for everyone to get
hundreds of megabytes data c
ontaining ALL demos, intros, pics,
mods, etc. published at ASM '95.
THERE'S NO OTHER EASY WAY TO
COLLECT THEM ALL.
We will pay royalties of the net
revenue of the CD-ROM disks to the
winners in the competitions except
for the C64 as follows in percents:
CODE COMPETITIONS both Amiga and PC
DEMO INTRO 4KB INTRO (PC)
1. 2.5% 0.7% 0.4%
2. 2.0% 0.5% 0.3%
3. 1.5% 0.4% 0.1%
ART COMPETITIONS
MUSIC GRAPHICS ANIMATION
4/32 CH RAYTRACE
1. 0.4% 0.4% 0.7%
2. 0.3% 0.3% 0.5%
3. 0.1% 0.1% 0.4%
All productions which are shown on
the big screen will receive a free
ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM.
If do a fix for production after
the party and you wish to include
it on the CD-ROM kindly send it to
any places listed in the contact
addresses. In case of problems,
please contact ASSEMBLY Organizing.
All winning entries have to include
a textfile which states that the
author will grant us the exclusive
rights for the CD-ROM distribution
of the competition entry. Otherwise
no royalty.
The royalties will be paid twice in
the period of one year after the
release of the CD-ROM disk in the
form of a cheque by mail. This
means the last royalties for the
ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM disk will be
paid around ASSEMBLY '96 time.
*** 6. ASSEMBLY '95 TICKETS ***
* 6.1 Buying tickets *
There are two kind of tickets for
ASSEMBLY '95. Normal 200,- ticket
and 240,- ticket which includes
computerplace reservation. You can
buy the 200,- ticket either at the
door at the happening or you can
buy it in advance. Reservation
tickets are only sold in advance.
* 6.2 Where can I buy my tickets *
In Finland you can buy a ticket and
reserve your computer place from
your local LIPPUPALVELU or by
calling them at:
9700-4700 (4,95 mk/min+ppm).
Groups that want to get the group
discount and foreigners must buy
their tickets and computerplace
reservations directly from ASSEMBLY
Organizing. Foreigners can pay
directly to the account of ASSEMBLY
Organizing. Make sure, when you pay
directly to the account that
ASSEMBLY Organizing doesn't get any
additional costs and the amount of
money covers the costs of the
ordered ticket. Also make sure that
we get the information who has sent
the money and where we can send the
tickets. To groups in Finland we
will send the tickets as COD (cash
on delivery).
* 6.3 Why I should buy a ticket in
advance?
If you buy your ticket in advance
you have the possibility to use
group discount of 10%. You have the
possibility for group discount if
you buy more than 10 tickets at a
time. Also the table reservation is
possible only by buying reservation
ticket. You don't have to reserve
table for yourself, but the best
places near the videoprojector
screen go to the reservers. The
earlier you reserve your place the
better place you get. Also we will
organize special door in the first
day of ASSEMBLY '95 where you can
get your computer in most
conviniently.
*** 7. PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE ***
This schedule is only preliminary
and the times listed will most
likely be changed and a lot more
events wil l be added, but you can
get a general feeling from it. The
party place is open 24 hours a day.
RopeCon is also open 24h/day.
10th of August 1995 (THURSDAY)
- 1000 ASSEMBLY doors open
- 1000 PLAY 1995 opens
- 2000 PLAY 1995 closes for the
day
- special competitions etc
- raytrace movies on the big
screen etc
11th of August 1995 (FRIDAY)
- 1000 PLAY 1995 opens
- 1000 RopeCon starts
- 1400 C64 competition deadline
- 2000 C64 competitions
- 2000 PLAY 1995 closes for the
day
- 2200 Possible rock concert
(at a separate hall)
- 2300 Deadline for all
competitions
12th of August 1995 (SATURDAY)
- 1000 PLAY 1995 opens
- 1200 4 channel competition
- 1400 Graphics competition
- 1600 32 channel competition
- 1800 Raytrace competition
- 2000 PLAY 1995 closes for the
day
- 2000 4kb intro competition
- 2200 Animation competition
- 2200 PLA-NET RAVE opens
(at a separate hall)
13th of August 1995 (SUNDAY)
- 0200 Rerun of Saturdays
competitions
- 0400 PLA-NET RAVE closes
- 0500 Rerun ends
- 1000 PLAY 1995 opens
- 1000 Amiga intro competition
- 1200 PC intro competition
- 1400 Amiga demo competition
- 1600 PC demo competition
- 1800 Prize giving ceremony
- 2000 Doors close - ASSEMBLY '95
is over
*** 8. DISCLAIMER ***
We don't take any responsibility on
the equipment people bring to the
party place. We suggest you take an
insurance for your equipment from
some insurance company. And
remember, you can store your
equipment by using the luggage
preservation service which will be
available at the party place.
If you have ANY suggestions or
ideas about anything written in
this text file, don't hesitate to
contact us!
NO ALCOHOL DRINKING OR SOFTWARE
PIRATISM ALLOWED AT THE PARTY PLACE
*** 9. CONTACT INFORMATION ***
You can reach us by many means
according to the following list:
Voice:
ASSEMBLY Org. +358-0-777 3721
FAX:
+358-0-757 3115
BBS:
StarPort (FC)
+358-0-615 00028 (4 lines) (PC)
+358-0-615 00020 (5 lines) (PC)
conference #58
From Internet:
"telnet -8 mpoli.fi -l pcboard"
ftp.mpoli.fi /starport/asm95
WWW:
http://www.icon.fi/assembly95/
E-mail:
assembly@icon.fi
Normal mail:
ASSEMBLY'95
Lakkisepantie 13
00620 Helsinki
FINLAND
Bank account for international
money transfers:
ASSEMBLY Organizing
106330-204756
Kansallis Osake Pankki, Kerava
FINLAND
Please include your address with
the payment, where you want the
tickets to be sent. Also make sure
that there are no additional
expenses for the receiver of the
payment.