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- *Introduction
- *Introduction
- *Introduction
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-
- We invite you to the Symposium '96, a demo scene party involving all the
- platforms which are important in the guild of the demomakers, namely Amiga,
- PC, C-64, Archimedes and the Atari ST/Falcon. Think twice before missing
- it!
-
- This event is held by three of the most experienced party-organizer teams
- in Germany: the people behind the 680XX-Convention (1993), the Black Box
- Symposium (1995) and the Fried Bits. For the Symposium '96, which we plan
- to become the best German party so far, these three teams fusioned for not
- standing in competition to each other but joining forces and making
- everything better than ever!
-
- We, the organizers, observed that the amount of poorly organized and too
- commercial parties increased during the last years, even outside of
- Germany. Our country has always been well known for low-standard parties,
- but 1995 has been the most disappointing year.
-
- We (and probably the rest of the scene, too) felt that it was time for a
- party where you could have fun again, a party that would be well organized,
- and NOT a party at which you feel that not you is what counts, but the
- money.
-
- We don't want to rent huge congress centres, we don't want to organize a
- party with hundreds of super-duper hyper interactive virtual multimedia
- features, we don't want to make money - we all just want a party where you
- are welcome to have a nice time; which is, after all, what a party is ought
- to be.
-
- Groups involved are: Polka Brothers, Lego, Phantasm (for Amiga), Cubic
- Team (for PC), Avena, Absence (for Atari) and Oxyron (for C-64).
-
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- *Where & When
- *Where & When
- *Where & When
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-
- The Symposium '96 will take place on Easter 1996, that is from 5th April
- (1200 CET) to 8th April (1200 CET) - four days of fun and experience. The
- entrace fee amounts to 35DM. We will not accept foreign currencies.
-
- The place is a nice convention center called "Veranstaltungszentrum Burg
- Seevetal", which is located in the very near south of Hamburg, Germany. It
- offers place for about 1000 people including computers, a really big screen
- and surround sound. You don't have to be afraid of 24h of loud music,
- though...
-
- You can reach it via everything. If you're going to come by train, you
- first have to reach Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (main station) and take the S3 or
- S31 (on Gleis 4, HVV price 4DM) to "Harburg", where we will pick you up
- with the Symposium shuttle service. Alternatively, you can use of the
- hourly public busses to "Seevetal".
-
- Coming by plane, you will use the bus shuttle service to the station
- "Ohlsdorf", wait for the U1, get out at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and, again,
- take the S3/S31 to reach "Harburg".
-
- If you arrive by ship, then you'll have to take the U3 at "Landungsbrⁿcken"
- to reach the Hauptbahnhof.
-
- If you come by spaceship, there is a big area on the other side of the
- Symposium convention center; please try to land it there (parking is of
- course free).
-
- For the case that you own a car, you have two possibilities to arrive: The
- A1 ("Autobahn 1") and the A7. Coming from the north or south via A7/B4,
- you have to leave at Abfahrt "Fleestedt". Then roll down the "Hittfelder
- Landstraße" (part of the B4) southwards and follow the sign
- "Veranstaltungszentrum". Coming from east or west via A1, take the Abfahrt
- "Hittfeld" and follow the signs.
-
-
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- *Competitions & Rules
- *Competitions & Rules
- *Competitions & Rules
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-
- These competitions will take place: Graphics, ProTracker Module, Music,
- Coding, Intro, Demo, Video, Wild.
-
- The prizes will entirely consist of sponsored hardware and software, as was
- the case at the former Symposiums. Since we had stuff valued about
- $15.000, you can expect us to have at least one thing which you might need!
-
- *** Very general remarks ***
-
- Contributions containing racist or pornographic material or otherwise
- violating existing laws (especially the Copyright!) will be sorted out by
- the organizers. In the case of too many contributions for one competition,
- we will sort out the clearly worse ones. Besides that, we have the right
- to refuse any contribution without giving reasons.
-
- *** General remarks ***
-
- Your contribution must not have been released before. Your contribution
- can be spread immediately after the competitions via BBSes, the Internet
- and, of course, on the Symposium itself. We may even put it on a
- compilation CD-ROM after the party. Every competition has a deadline. You
- may give us bugfixes or improved versions of your contribution even after
- that deadline! We will show the "pre-deadline" version, but spread the
- very latest one! It is absolutely impossible to take back your
- contribution or change the info file after the deadline. 1 KByte (KB) is
- 1024 Bytes. 1 MByte (MB) is 1024 KB, which is 1048576 Bytes.
-
- *** The contribution disks ***
-
- We accept DD and HD AmigaOS or MS-DOS formatted disks, as well as 5.25" C64
- disks. Don't format HD disks as DD. Don't put more than one contribution
- on one disk. The contribution disk(s) may only contain the necessary
- files, that is the main data, icon files, installers and explanatory texts.
- Your contribution must not be archived. Exception: Demo-Competition (hard
- disk demos) We will keep all disks and video cassettes. In case you find
- your disk more valuable than what it contains: You don't have to
- contribute... The only thing we give back is Wild Competition stuff.
-
- *** The information file ***
-
- With every contribution, you must supply an information file: It describes
- your production. You can get a copy of an empty form at the information
- desk. Trackmos and C64 entries need an additional disk. Don't rename the
- file. The info file contains space for a short block of text. This text
- will be displayed directly before your contribution in a non-proportional
- font. In the case of anonymous competitions, the text must not give a hint
- to who the author is.
-
- *** Technical rules for executables ***
-
- Your production must run without interaction. The only type of interaction
- may be disk changes. Every production must consist of one file, startable
- directly from disk. It must return correctly to the working environment,
- too. This is of course not valid for Demos. For PC executables you can
- choose between two configurations: One without anything and one with
- memory manager, mouse driver, sound driver and VESA graphics driver. PC
- executables may only output VGA graphics and use the VESA BIOS extensions.
- If you want your production to be visible on the big screen, please take
- care of these rules: Maximum resolution is 800x600 at 72Hz or just plain
- PAL.
-
- *** Configurations ***
-
- Amiga executables: Must run on an A1200/020 with 4MB of fast memory, but
- will be shown on an A1200/030 50MHz.
-
- PC executables: Must run on a 486 with 8MB, but will be shown on a P75.
- You can choose between Soundblaster 16bit and GUS 1MB.
-
- For C64 executables you can choose between old and new SID chip.
-
- Archimedes: Acorn Risc PC 600.
-
- Atari Falcon: Standard configuration.
-
- *** Graphics Competition ***
-
- "Who designs the best picture and realizes it on the computer?"
-
- This competition is anonymous. The picture must not contain a hint to who
- the author is. A second version (with handle tag) may be on the disk,
- which will be the spread version. Raytracing is allowed. C64 users may
- use scrolling. Maximum resolution is 640x512. You can use Overscan
- (736x566), but we can't guarantee visibility of the display corners. Color
- depth is not limited. The only allowed formats are IFF(-24), PNG and JPEG.
- It's also allowed to give us C64 executables. The file must not be longer
- than 1.4MB. Executables must be one file.
-
- *** ProTracker Module Competition ***
-
- "Who composes the best music using the limited ProTracker format?"
-
- This competition is anonymous. Of course you can fill the sample names
- with your handle, since they won't be shown; but take care of the info
- text! We won't play the module for more than 3 minutes. Don't crunch the
- module. It must not be longer than 1MB. We will play the module on an
- Amiga using ProTracker 2.2a.
-
- *** Music Competition ***
-
- "Who composes the best music and realizes it on the computer?"
-
- This competition is anonymous. We won't play the music for more than 3
- minutes. The file must not be longer than 1.4MB. Your contribution must
- be an executable or a file playable by Cubic Player 1.6.
-
- *** Coding Competition ***
-
- "Who creates the technically most stunning effect?"
-
- This competition is anonymous. We won't show your code for more than 2
- minutes. No Music Only one effect (or Multiscreen) Length is 4KB max.
-
- *** Intro Competition ***
-
- "Which group succeeds in combining music, graphics and code to the most
- impressive work, while being very limited in memory usage?"
-
- Length is limited to 40KB Amiga, 64KB PC and 96KB Falcon. We won't show
- the intro for more than 5 minutes. Falcon intros must not use the PSG
- sound chip directly.
-
- *** Demo Competition ***
-
- "Which group succeeds in combining music, graphics and code to the most
- impressive work?"
-
- Amiga Trackmos must not be longer than 4 DD disks. C64 Demos must not be
- longer than one double-sided disk. Hard disk demos must not be longer than
- 4MB. Installation must not require Assigns, environment variables or even
- files copied to completely different locations on the hard disk. Just
- depack the archives into one directory and start the demo. Most PC demos
- want the user to state what sound card he has and in which slot it is.
- Though this can be avoided, we don't forbid it. We won't show the demo for
- more than 15 minutes (C64 demos 7 minutes).
-
- *** Video Competition ***
-
- "Who creates the best work using Video equipment?"
-
- You must provide a VHS or S-VHS cassette in PAL format. We won't show the
- video for more than 10 minutes. If you have made an animation, this is the
- right place for you.
-
- *** Wild Competition ***
-
- "Who does the coolest things with his hardware?"
-
- You must describe the hardware you used. If your work tends to be just a
- Video, we will put your contribution into the Video competition. Code
- should be an important aspect of your contribution unless most work was
- developing special hardware. Your work will be shown for 10 minutes max.
-
- *** Most compatible Amiga demo ***
-
- A jury will have a look at all the good Amiga demos and will select the
- most compatible one. No "Degraders" will be used...
-
- *** Voting ***
-
- The competitions' winners will be voted by the audience. The special price
- for the most compatible Amiga demo will be given by a jury.
-
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- *Addresses & Info
- *Addresses & Info
- *Addresses & Info
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-
- Address of the party place:
-
- Burg Seevetal
- Am Goehlenbach 11
- 21218 Seevetal
- GERMANY
-
- Address of the main organizer:
-
- Frank Schliefer
- Am Musterplatz 27
- 21220 Seevetal
- GERMANY
-
- Symposium '96 World Wide Web Page:
-
- http://193.59.3.15/~rawstyle/Sym96/
-
- Organizers with e-mail address:
-
- gandalf@blackbox.shnet.org (Gandalf/Phantasm)
- rawstyle@online.fire.dbn.dinet.com (Raw Style/Lego)
- chaos@blackbox.shnet.org (Chaos)
- crashpolka@aol.com (Crash/Polka Brothers)
- decca@people-x.people.de (Decca/Lego)
- takeoff@blackbox.shnet.org (Takeoff/Phantasm)
- doj@tecs.de (DOJ/Cubic Team)
-
- The Black Box BBS:
-
- +49 4105 84619 (v34)
- +49 4105 84914 (ZyXel + FAX)
- +49 4105 669012 (USR)
- +49 4105 669011 (ISDN)
-
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- *Map
- *Map
- *Map
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- see sym96map.gif
-