D E M O L I T I O N I I JOENSUU, 22-24 Nov 1996 Version : Info file rev. 3 Updated part : how to find (r2) Competition Amiga Graphics compo rules Disclaimer : All those typos in bad english aren't made on purpose. Still, I'm using english in this jolly text because it seems to be standard in scene. I'm 100% sure that foreigners won't come anyway but here we go. Date & Place : Demolition will be again held in the Joensuun Kauppaoppilaitos. It is the same place than last time, it can hold about 250 people with some computer and hifi equipment. Date will be friday 22-11-96 and doors will open at 2000. Entrance fee : 100 Fim, girls and foreigners free. Boozing : Yes, we know, boozing is the (best?) part of the parties but we surely can't allow as free politics as last time. We won't confiscate your booze unless you drink it inside. We know that all of you don't have a car so you can have your booze fi. in your bag. Note! All confiscated booze will be most likely consumed by organizers! Let's just hope for perfect weather for having fun. Duncan/Damones promised to take care of boozing organization. Don't know what it means but I guess that at least guided bar tour. Be sure that you will be thrown out if we will catch you smoking inside. Projector : Video projector will be the same than last time. Amiga will be connected via tv-modulator and PC will use direct RGB input. Do note that you shouldn't use tricky screen modes since projector doesn't show 50hz modes (pc case of course). If you want to use it make it optional. You may test your product before competition. Also PA will be most likely the same as last time. Competitions : Again, we will have combined compos with Amiga and PC. Those will be naturally demo, intro, music and graphics one. There will be also fast compos and those are combined as well. Preliminary schedule : Pe 2300 music and graphics deadline 0100 graphics competition 0130 music competition La 2000 demo and intro deadline 0000 intro competition 0100 demo competition Su 0400 voting deadline 0600 results and reruns. Final schedule with much more events you will see at the party place. Machines : Amiga will be the 060/50Mhz PC will be Pentium 120Mhz, Matrox Millenium and 1MB Gus standard. We will use MS-DOS 7.0 (Win95 dos prompt only) for showing demos and intros. We will show demos with clean boot, which in this case means himem.sys and Scitech Display Doctor so it should be safe to use svga resolutions and colors. I guess that all coders know this already but do not assume that having scitech installed means that you have possibility use 24bit modes. Some cards have their truecolor mode done with 32bits, like Matrox Millenium. More precisely, don't assume any modes, check them before using. If you use svga graphics we strongly recommend you to test your production before compo in compo machine. Democompo : These are the general rules for demo competition. - Maximum file size is four megabytes. Demo may be also pure animation file with sound but I guess you can't do much in four megabytes. - If demo is just an animation it has to be in executable form. - Demo must work with eight megabytes of ram but it may take advantage of more memory. - It must not write anything to harddisk nor any other media. - PC demos must work also without soundcard. - Please note projector limits mentioned before. PC max resulution is 640x480 and Amiga max resulution is 640x512. Introcompo : These are the general rules for intro competition. - Same rules as in demo competition but maximum file size for compo version is 80 kilobytes. - Release version can be larger and it must work without sound. Graphics : Maximum resolution will be 640x512 with 256 colors. Amiga pictures will be shown with Amiga and PC pictures will be shown with Compushow unless you want to use other viewer. Please bring also the viewer with you. Do note that this is not a scanning competition. We do our best in disqualifying scanned pictures but as you might know it is very hard. That is why we demand three phases of you picture. One from the sketch, one from the middle and final picture of course. Final picture MUST NOT have signature. You can deliver different picture with your signature. Even if this won't make scanmen life impossible it will make it at least little bit harder! Music : Maximum of 32 channels are accepted. File size maximum is one megabyte (1048576 bytes). All contributions must be delivered on PC formatted disk and we will play modules with Cubic player. If you aren't satisfied with Cubic Players sound we also have the newest versions of FT2 and Capamod. Feel free to bring your own player. ST3 seems to have some problems in a machine we are going to use as a compo machine. Jury : There will be a different juries for all the competitions. All juries compose of two organizers and three randomly chosen Demolition visitors. Naturally jury can disqualify any product if it is racistic, shitty, previously released or violating any copyrights. In music competition it is Jurys opininion. Everyone can't be happy or do you wan't to listen all those tunes? I don't think so. Organizers will decide whether they call juries up. Jury will be called at least in music competition. Prizes : Well, Imagine situation if we had 10000 fim for prizes. I just won't say you any figures since it isn't sure if there will be but .. it's up to you! All the money left over after expenses will be given as prices. Organizers aren't going to be paid. Fast compos and sport :) events will have also good prizes. MUSIC GFX INTRO DEMO ---------------------------- 1. 9% 9% 12% 20% 2. 6% 6% 8% 13% 3. 3% 3% 4% 7% ---------------------------- 18% 18% 24% 40% !! NOTE, ALL THE DAMAGES CAUSED FOR THE PLACE WILL !! !! REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE WILL PAY AS PRIZES !! !! PRIZES ARE PAID AFTERWARDS ANYWAY !! Spreading : All the productions will be released at the party place. All the products will be uploaded to Manowar, Triplex BBS and to somewhere in internet. Do note that we can't guarantee that productions will be available next day. Do note that we don't take any responsibility about spreading your product. If you want to be sure that your product goes around the world spread it by yourself. Other : We will show some nice movies and old demonstrations on big screen. If you have any movies you would like to see in big screen bring it with you. We have time for from two to four movies. Cafe : Unlike last time there will be at least a little cafe selling coffee, lemonade and maybe even something to eat :) How to find : If you come by bus or train just watch the map included in invitation intro package. There is also maps in stations and stations aren't that far away from Kauppaoppilaitos unless you have much equipment. Then I would recommend you to take a taxi, it won't cost much. Don't walk over the river if you want to party place from stations. If you come by car it is quite easy to find it even without map. If you come from north to Joensuu (Kuopio, Jyv„skyl„, Kajaani) then just follow signs for Lappeenranta. When you drive over a river (rather large, can't miss it) just wait for next traffic lights and turn to right. Then just drive a little bit more and follow the signs of Ammatti Instituutti (formerly known as kauppaoppilaitos ;) If you come again to traffic lights then it is time to make u-turn. If you come from south to Joensuu (Anything via Lappeenranta) just turn left in the first lights in Joensuu and then follow the signs of Ammatti Instituutti. If you come again to traffic lights then it is time to make u-turn. Contact info : If you want to contact Demolition organizers you should mail to following addressess. mpiirone@lut.fi (Zen-Ti-Nel / NV) jhheinon@niksula.hut.fi (Wihannes / NV) You can call to Manowar BBS, dial to 013-745300 or 013-745301. Also, you can call with voice. Dial to 040-5849020 / Mikko or 013-745123 / Make. And remember to check out our homepage: http://www.hut.fi/~jhheinon/demolition.html