The Assembly'94
The Invitation!

   Again  the  time  for  the  biggest
summer demo party is closing fast!  If
great  competitions, drinking a lot of
Coke,   spending   sleepless   nights,
making  great deals with some computer
companies, meeting all your friends on
the  scene  and having a great time is
what you're after, you just can't miss
Asm'94!

   This time the party will be held in
the   very  center  of  Helsinki,  the
capital  of  Finland,  from the 5th to
the  7th  of  August.   There  will be
competitions  for  Amiga  and  PC, and
thanks   to  our  many  sponsors,  ²the
prizes will be amazing!¹

  This is just a kind of a preliminary
information  package for the people on
the  scene.   We  will release another
invitation  intro  later  in which the
final information about all the rules,
etc.  will be included.

   Anyway, just keep on reading to see
what we have to offer!

Asm'94 Party Features

Here  is  a brief list of all features offered at the Assembly'94:

- Around 10000-15000W of music power, enough power for everyone
- 2/3 big screens (4-7 meters wide) for perfect visual quality
- Multi-player game networks like NetDOOM etc.
- Dolby Surround Laser Disc movies in a special room when Amiga isn't enough
- Space for sleeping + showers for loads of people
- 24H food service with excellent food
- 24H security personnel keeping things & people in order
- Central TV-system for showing the party schedule, etc.
- Party T-Shirts for you to spend money on.
- Cool raytraced movies will be shown on the big screen
- Sponsoring companies selling all kinds of hardware and software
- Electricity for all, so bring your machine with you
- Lots of all kinds of shops near the partyplace where everything
     is offered for you, the party attendant.
- Only less than 1 kilometre to the main center of Helsinki
- All in all, everything you might want, you'll get it at the Assembly'94

The 42 Staff believes that Asm94 will be a huge success so we're
proud to present for you: Monty Pythons' "Finland"

"Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be,
eating breakfast or dinner
or just watching TV"

Competitions at Asm'94

   As    this   file   is   just   the
preliminary  info, there might be some
changes   to   the  final  competition
rules.   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.
   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 artwork)
   In the graphics competition on both
Amiga  and  PC,  and  also  in the 4kb
intro    competition    on   PC,   the
competition  version of the entry must
not  display  the author's name 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
competition  on  both Amiga and PC, we
will  not show the author's name while
we play the song in the competition.
   "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.

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.  It's
not  certain  yet if the disks will be
dual-format (both Amiga&PC compatible)
or  if  we  are going to have separate
Amiga and PC compatible voting disks.
   You  will  be  able  to  give  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  a certain (yet unknown) amount
of  entries in each competition to the
finals   (to   be  shown  on  the  big
screen).

   We will give more details about the
voting  system  in the next invitation
intro.å
PC competitions

The  competition  machine  we will use
has the following features:
 i486DX2/66MHz/4MB RAM
 MS-DOS 6.20
 Tseng Labs ET-4000/w32 LBus VGA card
 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card 
 or:original Sound Blaster Pro 2.0

   If  your  demo  supports some other
sound  card,  bring  it  with you.  If
your   demo/intro  requires  a  memory
manager,  it  would  be suitable if it
worked   under  either  MS-DOS  6.20's
HIMEM  alone,  HIMEM+EMM386  or  under
QEMM   v7.03.    Otherwise  bring  all
necessary  memory  managers and a boot
disk  with  you  (the  demo/intro will
still be loaded from hard disk).

   All  intros  (64kb & 4kb), pictures
and  songs will be spread at the party
place  after  the  announcement of the
results.   In  the demo competition we
will  give  exactly  ONE MONTH of time
for  the  demo  groups  to  finish and
release their demos, otherwise we will
release the competition version of the
demo.
Demo
- Max. size in executable form is 4MB
- Max. running length is 15 minutes
- Only 100% VGA compatible graphics
  modes are accepted (no SVGA)
- Animation files are not accepted


Intro
- Max. size in executable form is 64KB
- Maximum running length is 7 minutes
- Only 100% VGA compatible graphics
  modes are accepted (no SVGA)
- Animation files are not accepted

4KB-Intro
- Max.size in executable form is 4KB
- Max. running length is 3 minutes
- Nn music or other sound is allowed
- Only 100% VGA compatible graphics
  are accepted (no SVGA)
- Only one intro by one coder

Music
- Maximum amount of channels is 32
- Maximum size of the song is 1024KB
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- Bring your own player,if the format
  is not compatible with existing
  players
- If the song is a MIDI song, bring
  the samples and everything that is
  needed to play the song with you
- Only one song by one musician

Graphics
- The graphics modes supported are:
  320x200, 256 colors
  320x240, 256 colors
  320x400, 256 colors
  360x480, 256 colors
  640x350, 16 colors
  640x480, 16 colors
  all other 256kb VGA compatible modes
- The palette is the standard VGA
  palette with 262144 colors
- If the picture can not be shown
  using VPIC or CSHOW, bring your own
  viewer (the picture can be an
  executable file)
- Scanned, ripped and raytraced
  pictures will be ²disqualified¹
- Only one picture by one artist
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/    YOU want to give the public     /
/   YOUR opinion about the party?    /
/          Write a REPORT!           /
/                                    /
/          Do it this way:           /
/  Gather all information available  /
/ Talk to the organizers and be sure /
/ to get the results and to copy all /
/        competition entries.        /
/  Write a report seeing the party   /
/     as objective as possible!      /
1------------------------------------2
Amiga Competitions

Demo
- Maximum size is 4 disks
- May work only from hard disk, so you
  must put it in on disks that contain
  a hard disk installer for the demo
- Maximum running length is 10 minutes
- Must be autobootable
- Run on A1200/2CHIP+2FAST
Intro
- Maximum size in executable form is
  40 kilobytes (40960 bytes).
- Maximum running length is 5 minutes
- Must be autobootable
- Run on A1200/2CHIP+2FAST
Music
- Maximum size is one disk (DS/DD)
- Maximum running length is 3 minutes
- Only one song by one musician
Graphics
- The picture may be in any AGA res.
- Scanned, ripped and raytraced
  pictures will be disqualified
- Only one picture by one artist

Other Competitions:
   We   will   have   all  traditional
Assembly special competitions and some
new  ones.   The  competitions include
for   example  soccer,  disk-throwing,
modem-throwing, etc.

Asm'94: The Prizes

   As  said before, the prizes will be
the best yet, both in the Amiga and PC
competitions.   Here  we have included
the  preliminary list of the prizes we
will  have.   If there are any changes
after  the release of this information
file,  they  should  only  be  to  the
better.

   The  actual prizes may be software,
hardware  or  pure cash.  This depends
on  our  sponsors  and how many people
pay  the  entrance fee.  The following
list   includes  only  the  US  dollar
values  of  each  prize.  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 5,5 finnish marks).

   We  will  include the more detailed
prize  lists  in the second invitation
intro,  due  to  be  released sometime
before   the  summer.   All  the  cash
prizes   will   be   paid  in  finnish
currency.
+------------------------------------+
/          The Assembly'94:          /
/         "42" Will be there         /
/             Will you ?             /
+------------------------------------+
Amiga Competitions
All values in US Dollars
#:  Demo   Intro  Sfx/Gfx
1.   2700   750    370
2.   1200   450    180
3.   600    200    90

PC Competitions
All values still in US Dollars
#:  Demo   Intro   Sfx/Gfx/4K-intro
1.  2700   1400    600
2.  1600   900     400
3.  950    600     200
4.  700    450     ---
5.  500    300     ---

How to reach the Assembly'94 organizers

Snail-mail
                                    Asm94
                                  PO Box 54
                              02701 Kauniainen
                                   Finland

Voice Telephone
                       +358-0-505-2441 (Weekends only)
                       +358-0-294-7906 (Amiga & PC)
                       +358-49-554-701 (Cellular Phone)
                       +358-0-378-247  (PC Only)
Telefax
+358-0-420-8620 (Amiga & PC)

Modem
Starport BBS (PC)
+358-0-455-4801
+358-0-455-4805
+358-0-455-4807
+358-0-455-4810
+358-0-455-4812
+358-0-455-4827
+358-0-455-4829

Sonic PC WHQ (PC)
+358-0-804-3141  

E-Mail
assembly94#cute.fi

Internet WWW-Server
HTTP://prime.mdata.fi (Assembly94)