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Invitation to Icing 1996
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Sardonyx . Goto 10 . C-Lous . Yodel
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ICING '96
Stenkullen, Sweden
24-27 May 1996
(Just another party?)
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www.one.se/icing/ icing@one.se
Leave your troubles behind and visit the most at-
mospheric computer festival of the year. Dream
away, have a few laughs, make some friends:
join the Icing way of living during some bright
days in the beauteous month of May.
. w h e n
At 20.00 the 24th of May, the doors to Icing '96
open. 64 hours and a great deal of fun later, at
12.00 the 27th of May the party closes down. The
opening ceremony takes place at midnight the first
party night.
. p r e m i s e s
Icing '96 is held in Vättlehallen, an icehockey
arena in Stenkullen, Sweden, about 30 kilometres
from the metropolis of Göteborg. About 2000
squaremetres of effective floor space serves as
the main party hall. A separate, ravepartyless
building, sized as an ordinary Swedish physical
education hall is available for those who want to
take a nap.
. h o w t o g e t t h e r e
CAR. If you're travelling by car, take the E20
towards Stockholm or Göteborg, depending on where
you start. When you reach Kastenhofsmotet, leave
highway and follow the signs saying 'Stenkullen'.
Having arrived at the center of Stenkullen, turn
left into the street called Gråbovägen.After about
300 metres you have Vättlehallen, the party place,
directly on your right hand.
TRAIN, BOAT, PLANE. When travelling using any of
these vehicles you should get to Göteborg as a
start. If you are one of those rich chaps or maybe
a bit lazy, the right thing for you to do is to
call for a cab and make the driver follow the de-
scription above.The other alternative is to locate
Centralstation, the main(and only) railway station
of Göteborg and catch the local train towards
Lerum. Get off at Stenkullen, the first stop after
Lerum. Proceed straight forward on foot about 250
meters and you face Vättlehallen, the party place.
Signs in the surrounding of the party place will
guide you; you cannot virtually fail to find the
Icing '96. If you still do, just ask some nice-
looking fellow to explain the way to the icehall
'Vättlehallen'.
. e n t r a n c e f e e
The nominal fee for visiting Icing '96 is 200SEK.
For paying in advance(no foreigners!) reach us via
mail or Internet!
The entrance fee for girls is as usual free.
. f o o d a n d f a c i l i t i e s
CAFETERIA. A cafeteria that stays open around the
clock serves the visitors with Coca-Cola(TM),
sandwiches, hotdogs and other necessities.
PIZZAS. A pizzeria delivers the most delicious
pizzas - right in time and to fair prices.
HYGIENE. As Icing '96 takes places in an icehockey
arena there is plenty of showers available, making
it possible for everyone to freshen themselves up
once in a while. And it is highly recommended to
utilize this possibility as everyone's not smel-
ling like a horse adds up to a nicer atmosphere.
. c o m p e t i t o n s
GENERAL. Everyone who wants to compete in any com-
petition has to be present at Icing '96. The or-
ganizers reserve the exclusive right to spread
everything delivered to the competitions, decide
which contributions may participate in case of too
many competitors and disqualify any contribution
that contains racistic or pornographic implica-
tions or in other ways is offensive. All contribu-
tions in the demo and intro competitions on both
platforms will be taped to video, which means that
everything must run (or at least work) in 50Hz. If
you're uncertain of how to implement this on the
PC, have a look at the Icing '96 WWW pages or get
your hands on the PC invitation intro for detailed
information.
PRIZE MONEY. The main purposes of releasing some-
thing within the borders of the scene is to
achieve honour and pride, isn't it?But then again,
a total sum of about 25000SEK will be given away
as prize money. This sum is, however, a function
of the number of visitors and, to some extent, the
the quality of the contributions.
JURY PRIZE. In the cathegories Amiga demo, Amiga
64k, PC demo, PC 64k,graphics and music, a special
prize based on the opinion of a jury will be given
away. This prize is more or less symbolic - e.g. a
way to justify the one who draws the best picture
and not the biggest tits. Though, 10 percent of
the total prize money is intended for this use.
AMIGA DEMO. Amiga demos must run on a standard
A1200 from HD and there has to be a possibility to
quit out to the operating system. The competition
machine is an A1200/030/50MHz. Maximum demo size:
5Mb. Maximum demo length: 10 minutes. Deadline:
14.00, Sunday 26 May.
AMIGA 64K. See Amiga demo for machine specifica-
tions. Intros should be delivered on a bootable
disk. Deadline: 11.00, Sunday 11.00.
PC DEMO. Try to get the PC-Inv. for more info.
PC 64K. Try to get the PC-Inv. for more info.
NOSTALGIC. The most experimental competition and
an attempt to unify the Amiga and PC platforms.
A500 versus 286 PC. The competition machines are
an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 or 2.0 and 512k chip
memory + 512k 'fast' memory, and a 286/10MHz/1Mb
with a Tseng 4000 ISA graphics card and a Gravis
Ultrasound Max 1Mb music card. The graphics card
does not takes a few kilobytes of base memory.
The Amiga demos must work on an A500 with 1Mb chip
and should work with Kickstart 1.2. Deadline: 8.00
Sunday 26 May.
GRAPHICS. Pictures have to be delivered as .IFF/
.LBM or .GIF files in maximum 256 colours and 640x
512 pixels resolution. Pictures that is obviously
copied or scanned will NOT be subject for disqua-
qualification, but when showing the picture on big
screen it will be stated that it is copied or
scanned and, if possible, from which picture.
Deadline: 18.00, Saturday 25 May.
4 CHANNEL MUSIC. 4 channel music contributions
have to be delivered in ProTracker format and must
not be bigger then 720k. Competition tracker:
ProTracker 3.11. Maximum playing time: 3 minutes.
Deadline: 13.00, Saturday 25 May.
MULTI CHANNEL MUSIC. Multi channel music contribu-
tions have to be delivered as .XM, .S3M or .MOD
files and will be played in their respective trac-
kers. Maximum playing time: 3 minutes. Deadline:
13.00, Saturday 25 May.
. s p e c i a l e v e n t s
Watch out for an extraordinary opening ceremony,
an inspired toastmaster, scene Jeopardy, live mu-
sic, movies, nostalgic moments, flowers and pocals
to the winners and a big, big bunch of crazy sur-
prise competitions; hey, it has already started:
have a look at the Icing '96 WWW-pages and find
some very first surprise competitions.
. t - s h i r t s
Exclusively DuffE designed Icing t-shirts - with-
flying cakes - is available. Price is 100SEK.
Though, as the edition is limited, you'd better
hurry to buy one when you arrive at the party.
. r u l e s
OF COURSE. General Swedish law is applicable at
the party place, so forget about bringing those
bombs and pistols, striking down old defenseless
ladies and stealing sweets from kids at Icing '96.
ALCOHOL. Evil preparations and more common drugs
such as alcohol is, naturally, not allowed at
Icing '96.
SMOKING. You have to stay away from those cancer-
sticks inside the Icing '96 premises.
RAVES. It is strictly prohibited to hold rave par-
ties in the sleeping hall. Real troublemakers will
be handed over to the police.
COMMERCIALISM. No one may sell software, hardware,
food etc. without permission from the organizers.
PROPAGANDA. Political propaganda is not acceptable
at Icing '96.
RESPONSIBILITY. The Icing '96 organizers do not
take any responsibility for illegal swapping of
commercial software or VHS, damaged hardware or
theft. If you bring your equipment, make sure not
to leave it unattended.
. f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n
Having read this text through you should know most
things you need to when planning your trip to
Icing '96 successfully. Still, if you cannot sleep
in the nights or go pondering all day upon some-
thing regarding the party:
E-Mail: icing@one.se
WWW: http://www.one.se/icing/
BBS: +46 (0)31-885248 (Digital Highway)
+46 (0)31-990078 (Pure Climax)
Login 'icing' and password 'icing' are
valid on either BBSes.
Voice: +46 (0)31-7020940 (Jesper 'DuffE' Skoog)
(ZYMOSIS - INU-SOFT - PORO - JORMAS)
ARE ORGANIZING PARTYS FOR YOU!
Project Name:
Somewhere In August
(Final name not decided, send your suggest to
organizers)
Competitions:
· AMIGA DEMO
- Demo MUST be hd-installable and must NOT require
assign to run it.
- Max. lenght 4096kb.
- Compo machine is going to be Amiga boosted with
68060!
· AMIGA 4okb(?) INTRO
- Max. lenght is usual 4okb or 64kb not decided
yet!
- Compo machine is going to be Amiga boosted with
68060!
· c64 DEMO
- C64 and 1541 diskdrive or similar.
· GRAPHICS
- Will be shown with Amiga or any machine you
bring along.
- Max resolution is 640*512
- IFF, GIF and JPEG allowed.
- NO RAYTRACED PICTURES TO THIS COMPO!
· MUSIC
- PT / XM / S3M ...
- Played with Amiga or PC we dunno yet.. Maybe XM
and S3Ms with PC and so on.
· WILD
- As name says, limit is on your side! But this
should not be VHS or only animation file.
- CONTACT ORGANIZERS BEFORE IF YOU ARE GOING TO
ATTENT.
· VIDEO!
- VHS / BETA films, we prefer something computer
generated.
· SURPRISE COMPOS
- Who knows
NOTE!: There is no(!) PC competitions and there
seems to be lack of interest to organize
them(at least at the moment).
Reason: There is nothing on party scene on august,
so we thought that maybe we should fix
this situation arranging partys featuring
real 80s feeling.
Features:
· raves organized by local rave organizers called
NIITTY!
· da jorma5 live!
· good audio equipment
· relaxed athmosphere
· we are going to fight for so called A-OIKEUDET!
(that will cause a part of hall is over 18 only!)
· a lot of surprises - features what you haven't
EVER seen on any partys!
· all girls and foreigners are free to come in!m
· more to come!
When: August 1996
[no exact dates known yet, planned to be
on first weekend!]
Where:
Jyväskylä, In Central Finland [no exact party
place decided yet]
How Much:
Estimated entrance fee is about 4o-6o Fim
Contact Organizers:
WWW: http://www.voima.jkl.fi/zymosis/
*NOT AVAILABLE AT DA MOMENT*
EMAIL: zymosis@niitty.3l337.com
BBS: - jUjU - dA mAGIC bOARD at +358-41-3782685
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