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Invitation to Mekka Symposium 1997
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  | Diskmagazine AGA Chipset required |  EthicBig-rat - Madstop - Nero | a3/97 |
Symposium'97 / Mekka'97
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MEKKA '97
SYMPOSIUM '97
The Official Invitation
Invitation: Version 2.1
Release date: 02.03.97
+------ Easter 1997 ------+
Polka Brothers * Phantasm
Lego * Smash Designs
Amable * Avena
Teklords
+----------+
+ Contents +
+----------+
1. Introduction
2. General Information (Date, Location, Bustrip, Price)
3. Features
4. Competitions
5. Network
6. Timetable
7. Organizers / Contacts
8. History
9. Disclaimer
+---------------+
+ 1. Introduction +
+---------------+
Nearly one year ago two great parties took place:
-> Mekka'96 (29th to 31st of march):
Mekka was held the first time in 1996 and was a great
success. Over 300 attenders from different countries
joined the event. Before Mekka, there was no real
party for the german pc demo scene in our country.
-> Symposium'96 (5th to 8th of april):
Symposium took place the 9th time and about 650
attenders from all over Europe came to be part of
this special event. The multi-platform party got
a good reputation cause it is a scene party organized
by scene people.
At eastern 1997 these both parties will be combined -
not competing like last year - to provide you even more
fun, entertainment and partyfeeling.
It does not matter what kind of computers you like - we
will support all platform and most of them will be
represented by well known and famous demo groups for
sure.
- PC - Amiga - C64 - Atari Falcon - Acorn RISC PCs -
This time Symposium/Mekka'97 will be an event not to
miss - and remember:
If you don't come... it's your fault!
+------------------------+
+ 2. General Information +
+------------------------+
Date:
-----
Join us at Easter 1997
-> Friday 28th to Monday 31st of March 1997.
The doors will be opened for you on
-> Friday at 12:00 CET and closed on Monday at the
same time (12:00).
Location:
---------
The party will take place at
-> "Heidmarkhalle Fallingbostel" between Hamburg and
Hannover
(approximatly 100km to the south of Hamburg)
with enough space for all of you (sure!).
By car:
-------
You can reach the partyplace via the highway
"Autobahn A7", exit "Fallingbostel". You will find
signs directing you from this exit to the party.
By train:
---------
You will have to get to station "Fallingbostel" with
the "Deutsche Bundesbahn". We will setup a
bus-shuttle service to the party. YOU MUST contact:
-> Michael Krause - Mannesallee 24 -
21107 Hamburg, GERMANY
rawstyle@blackbox.dame.de,
ii7349@fh-wedel.de (Raw Style/Lego)
in advance to make sure that our bus is at the
train-station when you are arriving.
Bustrip:
--------
Of course you can come by bus too. At the moment we
have information about at least four bustrips coming
from
-> Switzerland and collection attenders from south
germany too. If you want to join this bustrip or
you need additional information about this
bustrip you can contact Furball:
"furball@space.ch"
-> Germany: This trip is organized by PSIONIC/T.C.F.
and will start in Gaertingen/Stuttgart. The bus
has space for about 40 persons including their
hardware equipment. Please contact psionic if you
need more information or want to register to his
bustrip:
"psionic@osg.bb.bawue.de"
-> Sweden: This trip is organized by Excel/Balance
and Newt/Abyss. If enough people come together
there might even be more than one bus.
All this is not absolutely sure yet, but if you
are interested, you can send Excel a mail:
"excelblc@freenet.hut.fi"
-> Hungary / Austria / Czech Republic: This bustrip
will start in Budapest and maybe make
intermediate stops in Austria and the Czech
Republic. This trip is organized by
Tomcat/Controlled Dreams and will cost around
100 DM (from Budapest). You can contact
"Polgar Tamas, 1139 Budapest, Kartacs utca 7"
by phone (english spoken of course)
"(+36-1) 140-0598" or via email:
"tomcat2@ursus.bke.hu"
If you have information about any other bustrips or
you want to organize one please contact:
-> Malte Kanebley - Im Dorfe 3 -
21629 Neu Wulmstorf, GERMANY
amable@aol.com (Hardball/amable),
voice: +49-4168-8611
Table Reservation:
------------------
In the last weeks we got a great response on our
invitationtext we released only a few days ago. We
decided to let you reserve your table even if you do
not want to pay in advance. Please send your
reservation to
-> Malte Kanebley - Im Dorfe 3 -
21629 Neu Wulmstorf, GERMANY
amable@aol.com (Hardball/amable)
Your registration should include the following
information for each person you want to reserve
a table:
-> Realname
-> Handle/Group (if you don't have one...leave it out)
-> Platform (PC, Amiga, C64, Atari, Acorn, etc.)
You will receive a confirmation as soon as possible.
! But please don't panic, there really is enough space
for everybody !
Online Table Reservation:
-------------------------
You can also register online at
-> The "Digital Nightmare BBS" (Login Name=Mekka,
Password=Mekka):
X75 V110
| |
NUMBER SPEED | | TYPE ONLiNE
+49-5121- 39236 | 16.8 | O O | ZyX16.8 V32.b | 00-24 CET
+49-5121-157635 | 19.2 | X X | ZyX19.2 V32.b | 00-24 CET
+49-5121-157636 | 64.0 | X X | iSDN ONLY | 00-24 CET
+49-5121-157107 | 36.2 | X O | USR V.everything | 08-24 CET
+49-5121-157108 | 28.8 | X X | V.34 V.FC | 00-24 CET
+49-5121-157109 |128.0 | X X | iSDN ONLY | 00-24 CET
Price:
------
The entrance fee amounts 40 DM / person (about 25
US-Dollars). We are not able to change foreign
currencies.
The organisation is !NON-COMMERCIAL! As usual the
entrance-fee will be distributed among the winners
of the competitions.
Pay in advance (possible until 10.03.97):
-----------------------------------------
If you decide to pay in advance you can save
5 DM / person. Please transfer the entrance-fee
(35 DM / person) to the following bank-account:
-> Name of the Bank : Kreissparkasse Harburg
Bank-Nr (BLZ) : 207 500 00
Account-Nr (Kto) : 211 00 888
Name : "Malte Kanebley"
You will have to choose a password to protect your
money. Please attach this line [german:
"Verwendungszweck"] to your money order:
-> "97"-HANDLE-PASSWORD-REALNAME
Additionally you have to send an email or snail-mail
to
-> Malte Kanebley - Im Dorfe 3 -
21629 Neu Wulmstorf, GERMANY
amable@aol.com (Hardball/amable),
voice: +49-4168-8611.
This is important because we need this to verify
your money reached us properly. You will get a
confirmation and an entrance-ticket. Of course, we
will reserve a table for you.
+-------------+
+ 3. Features +
+-------------+
-> Everyone talks about *Internet* and so do we. We will
have a Internet cafe installed for you with lots of
terminals for IRC (17) and Web (5) access.
-> Visit our IRC channel #sym97 to get the latest news
and information.
-> An ethernet network running with a big fileserver
and party chat connected to the IRC. Our equipment
will hopefully provide a fast and save party network
all 72 hours. See chapter 5 for more details.
-> Network: we are selling network equipment like NE2000
network cards or ethernet cables and connectors for a
fair price.
-> We will present all compos on a big screen of 6 * 4
squaremeters and a powerfull Dolby Surround music
system.
-> 100% public voting on all compos for everybody at the
partyplace.
-> There will be a quiet place for you to sleep if you
decide not to do this in front of your computer or
under the table ;)
-> Food: We will sell drinks (Coke,Water) and cold
snacks like (Snickers, Chips, etc.) for a cheap
price. We can not provide warm food (sorry) and the
shops in the city have only opened on Saturday from
09:00am to 04:00pm (that's only 7 hours during the
hole party!) but you will find McDonald's and some
nice restaurants in the city. Of course you can bring
your own food with you.
-> Every night there will be a mind blasting laser show.
-> Live performances on the stage by Noisedrift,
Ronny/Teklords and the FX Performer and
Noodles/Phantasm.
-> Flake/TRSI, the author of the well known Amiga
anti-virus program VirusWorkshop will hold a small
conference giving details on the latest virus
techniques which are becoming more evil and
destructive than ever before.
-> The German BeBox Users Group (DeBUG) will also meet
with us. We try to make room for a presentation in
the Be Demo Tour series which took place also on The
Party VI last X-Mas.
-> Many other features of which we are not able or not
willing to tell you yet.
Now that we're organizing this party, you might think
that all you can do is visiting it. This is wrong: We
give you the one and only chance to produce yourself.
If you want to give a lecture on something or if you
have another idea of enriching the event, you're very
welcome to do so. We would like you to contact someone
of us as soon as possible, though.
+-----------------+
+ 4. Competitions +
+-----------------+
First of all we must send a big THANX to our sponsors
that support this event with hardware-, software- and
cashprizes (alphabetical order):
-> Amiga Plus Magazin
-> Creative Labs
-> I.S.M./beTON
-> Kuester Datensysteme
-> Mecomp GmbH
-> Oberland Computer
General competition rules:
--------------------------
-> The Rules may change until the party starts.
-> At least one of the competitors must be present.
-> We must have all entries until deadline.
-> We will have a preselection for the music compos.
Only 15 entries will be presented. The preselection
will be done by a jury of known scene people.
-> The entry must be released at the party - not at
any time before and not on other parties taking
place at the same time (we will exchange us with
the organizers of all other parties).
-> You must release a "final"-version of your
productions at the party.
-> You have to license us to put your production on
any digital media.
-> The entry must be one archive with description
(FILE_ID.DIZ). The name of the archive MUST be
compatible with ISO 9660: only the characters
"A"-"Z","0"-"9" and the underscore "_" are allowed!
System configuration:
---------------------
PC:
---
-> The production must support a GUS or SB and
-> your production MUST support NOSOUND too.
-> The program must NOT use the commandline to
select the soundcard.
(use a soundcard-selection-menu or use a
autodetect-function).
-> 1oo% VGA-Register compatible videomode MUST BE
SUPPORTED.
-> Additionally you can use VESA 2.0-videomodes,
too!
-> Chipset specific code (ET4000, S3, 3D-Chips etc.)
is not allowed.
-> Your can test your production up to 3 times on
our PC to fix the latest hardware-problems.
-> The Competition-PC will have following
configuration:
Prozessor : Pentium 166
RAM : 16 MByte (minimum)
L2-Cache : 512 KByte
Videocard : fast PCI-Videoboard with 2 MByte RAM
Soundboard : - Gravis Ultrasound with 1 MByte RAM
- Creative SoundBlaster AWE32
Operating System: DOS 6.2
Max. Base-Mem : 600 KByte (= 614400 Bytes)
Memory Configs. : HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE;
no FlatRealMode!
Amiga:
------
-> Processor: 68030 running at 50MHz, AGA.
68060 is optional.
-> RAM : 2 + 16 MByte
Atari:
------
-> Standard Falcon configuration
C64:
----
-> New SID
-> Action Replay MK6
-> 1541-II disk drive.
Acorn:
------
-> Bring your own ;)
Competitions:
-------------
Demo (PC, Amiga, Atari, Acorn, C64):
------------------------------------
-> Maximum size PC, Amiga, Atari, Acorn: 6 MByte
(= 6291456 Bytes).
-> Maximum size C64: standard 5,25" DD disk.
-> Must not require installation (Assigns, Libs,
Drivers, etc.).
-> Write access to the disk is NOT allowed.
-> For PC: It must be possible to interrupt the
Demo with ESC.
-> Only the first 15 min. of the Demo will be shown
on the screen.
Intro (PC, Amiga, Atari):
-------------------------
-> Maximum size PC: 64 KByte (= 65536 Bytes).
-> Maximum size Amiga: 40 KByte (= 40960 Bytes).
-> Maximum size Atari: 96 KByte (= 98304 Bytes).
-> Must not require installation (Assigns, Libs,
Drivers, etc.).
-> Write access to the disk is NOT allowed.
-> For PC: It must be possible to interrupt the
Intro with ESC.
-> Only the first 10 min. of the Intro will be shown
on the screen.
Intro 4KB (PC, Amiga, C64):
---------------------------
-> Maximum size: 4 KByte (= 4096 Bytes).
-> Sound (MIDI, AdLib, PC-Speaker or whatever you
want) is possible.
[Please include nessesary drivers]
-> Write access to the disk is NOT allowed.
-> Only the first 5 min. of the Intro will be shown
on the screen.
Game 32KB (platform indepentant):
----------------------------------
-> Maximum size: 32 KByte (= 32768 Bytes).
-> Just code a little, funny game, e.g. jump'n'run
or shoot`em`up or whatever you want (KLF: what
about magic carpet 32KB? ;).
-> The coder of the game will play it on the
big-screen.
-> Write access to the disk is allowed (hiscore,
playerinfo, etc.). If these files are *not
needed* to run the game they can increse size
by 8KB (so 40KB possible). We will delete these
files before running the game on the compo-pc.
Java 32KB (mostly platform indepentant :)
------------------------------------------
-> Maximum codesize: 32 KByte (= 32768 Bytes).
-> Only compiled client side Java code (.class
files). No Javascript.
-> Must be callable over the network and from the
local disk.
-> Must run on the latest Internet Explorer AND
Netscape Navigator.
-> We will run your applet on the compo PC under
Windows NT 4.0 and a desktop size of 640x480.
The browser will run with maximized window size.
-> Code whatever you want (Demo, Game, Paintprogram,
...).
-> Sound possible (MIDI, Wave, Calculated, ...).
-> Maybe controlled by keyboard or mouse. If the
program needs interaction by the coder will
play/use it on the big screen.
-> Up to 32 KB of extra files (HTML file with