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                           are proud to present



                    T H E   B I G   W O C   F E S T I V A L


   Let's invite you to an official Commodore, big design and Silents party.

       Planning to travel to Germany, (eau de) Cologne this November and
        to visit the one and only Amiga-Show 1993, World of Commodore;
                  being interested if there will be a party?
                      keep the secret: There will be one.




From 5th - 7th November 1993, held
parallel to the fair, there will be a
party-like festival, organized in
cooperation with Commodore Germany
GmbH by big design and The Silents.

Could you imagine which possibilities
these abilities will offer to all
invited guests?

      USUAL (BORING) FACILITIES

- Standard video-screen 1000×600
centimetres showing movies during non-
actions genlogged with party-
information.

- Standard sound-equipment with
several thousand watts (let's learn
from other parties' sound-abilities
and make it better).
- Standard-sized location in an own
hall consisting of two floors offering
room for more than 5000 people, their
computers and enough room for them and
their sleepingbags to sleep in silence
and darkness.

- Standard 24hrs food-supply.

- Standard competitions including
demo, music, graphic (see further
below).

- Support bulletin board system
running from now until the end of the
festival providing the fastest way to
get the big party releases.

   SPECIAL (UNUSUAL BIG) FACILITIES

- Scene-quiz-show - who's got the best
knowledge about scene today?

- radar^contrast^productions live in
concert, introducing you to a
fantastic industrial-trance-techno
gig.

- Video-competition.

- German TV-Stations will witness the
festival; if it's good enough, the
competitors of the video-act will be
shown on MTV Europe.

- Commodore VIPs like Dave Haynie, Jim
Sachs, Alwin Stumpf will be present
for your amusement.

             COMPETITIONS

STANDARD DEMO - Must run on A500/A2000
with 1 MB ChipRam or 1/2 MB ChipRam
and 1/2 MB FastRam (public voted)
and Kickstart 1.3 or higher (!)
- If the demo needs user interaction,
the producers must be present while
the demo runs.

- Maximum of one demo per coder.

- At least one person per group must
be present at the festival.

- Demo may run up to 30 minutes.


40K INTRO - the executable-file
mustn't be longer than 40k (= 40960
bytes); 40961 means: bad luck!

- Other rules like in standard demo
compo.
- Playtime up to 15 minutes.

TURBO DEMO - Must run on A3000 with 2
MB ChipRam and 2 MB FastRam (jury
voted).

- Must be Harddisk-loadable.

- May take full use of a 68030 (with
MMU!) and a 68882.

- Playtime up to 15 minutes.

AGA DEMO - Must run on A1200 2 MB
ChipRam and 1 MB FastRam (jury voted)

- Hardware-access is not allowed, only
OS-routines.

- Playtime up to 15 minutes.
C64 DEMO - Must run on standard C64
with one floppy drive. (public voted).

- May be up to 20 minutes long.


MUSIC - Music must be executable or
100% ProTracker V3.10 compatible
(executables or protracker will be
(public voted shown on screen) and be
harddisk-loadable after preselection).

- Music may use up to 1MB ChipRam.

- Music may run up to 4 minutes.

GRAPHICS - Must be loadable into
DPaint IV AGA. (public voted)

- Minimum 5 steps of your drawing-work
who clearly represent your painting-
Steps (won't be shown) must be handed
out.

- Scanned pictures are not allowed

VIDEO - Use VHS or S-VHS. (jury voted)

- Maximum 15 minutes.

- No special limitations.

TOOL OF THE YEAR - who makes the most
useful tool in 1993? (public voted)

- The tool must run on all Amigas with
Kickstart 2.0 or higher and 100%
conform to all Commodore Programming
and Style Guidelines.

- Send in your tool until 1st October
1993; DON'T SEND IN A DEMOVERSION,
ONLY FULL-VERSION !

- The organizers will compile one (or
more) disk(s) which will be available
from 5th October 1993.

- At the party all guests may vote the
tool of the year.
All demos, musics, etc. must be
unreleased and free of others
copyrights!

OTHERS - Real pinball competition (1.
price: the compo-pinball) (more fun
than feeling :) - Dynablasters
competition!

- surprise!

If you have any other productions like
A4000 Demos, Compact Disks, or any-
thing that will impress Commodore
bring it with you, it will be shown on
the big screen and honoured of course.
So just be creative!

             P R I C E S

- There will be a lot of prices,
unfortunately we can't tell you now
exactly, so we can only say what they
will be worth approximately; all
prices are subject to change, but WITH
notice, don't worry; call the BBS for
further info.

The worth (!) of the hardware-prices
for the most important contest are :
(in German Marks).

      S T A N D A R D   D E M O

1. 25000 DM (either an Amiga-
            Workstation or a car!)
2. 10000 DM
3.  5000 DM

           G R A P H I C S

1.  4000 DM
2.  2000 DM
3.   800 DM
              M U S I C

1.  4000 DM
2.  2000 DM
3.   800 DM

              V I D E O

1.  5000 DM
2.  2500 DM
3.  1000 DM

               T O O L

1.  5000 DM
2.  2500 DM
3.  1000 DM

Of course there will be some real cool
prices for all other compos, too!


RULES - NO GRAFFITI!  Everyone who
will be caught must pay for cleaning
up and will be thrown out; there will
be a HUGE graffiti-wall where you may
do your work of art.
- NO ALCOHOL!  Alcohol is strictly
forbidden; if we find some it will be
confiscated.

- Selling of hard- and software and
any kind of food is forbidden.

- Behave like civilized people;
troublemakers will be thrown out.

- There will be security-cameras all
over the place, so don't think we
won't get you.

- We will offer a reward of 50 DM for
everyone who will hand over or help to
get troublemakers.
As many many people are expected to
come (due to official announcement by
Commodore in several Amiga Magazines),
just save your place right now.  The
entry-fee is 30 DM, no foreign
currencies will be taken.

Register, get info, send your products
to:

             Roland Amon
          Hardenbergstr. 31
           90491 Nuernberg
               Germany
        Tel.: ++49-911-593035

                 or:





            Martin Donner
             Kiefernweg 1
            90559 Mimberg
               Germany

         Tel.: ++49-9183-8385
         FAX:  ++49-9183-4995

               or call:

          The big Micro Box
        BBS: ++49-911-5979701





You may send your productions to this
BBS, register yourself, get more
detailed information, e.g. the exact
competition-prices, or ask the sysop
about the sense of live.

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