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▄▄▄ ██▀▀▀▀▀ ███████ █▀█▀███ ██▀▀███ █ ███ ██ ████ ██▀▀███ ██▀███ ██▀▀███ ▀▀▀████ ██▀▀███ █ █ ███ ██▄ █ █ ███ ██▀████ ██▄ ██▄████ ██▄ ██▄████ ██▄▄███ █ █ ███ ██▄▄███ █▄█▄███ ██ ████ ██▄▄███ ██ ███ ██▄▄███ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▀███ ██▀▀███ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ██ ██▀▀███ ██▀▀███ ██▀▀███ ███ ██ ███ ██▀████ ██▀▀███ ██ ██ ██▄▄███ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ██ ████ ██▄▄███ ██▄▄███ ██▄▄███ ██ ███ ██ ███ ██▄▄███ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ╓──────────────┤ The Summer Convention ├──────────────╖ ▄▌ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ║ ║ ███▄█ ███▄▄ ║ Roosendaal, Holland, 8 - 10 July. ║ ▀▀▀▀█ ▄▄▄▄█ ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ║ ║ The event for non-commercial ║ ║ C o m p u t e r A r t i s t s ║ ║ ║ ╙─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╜ : ! _:|:_ What happened? o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - Urged by it's fans, the freaks and their ideals the SIH team made it's comeback from the deepest hiding places known to Holland. Strenghted by a new member they succeeded in finding a location, time and even some prizemoney. For the unbelievers: Somewhere In Holland '95, the event for Non-Commercial Computer Artists is on it's way. : ! _:|:_ What's SIH? o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - You might just not be familiar with SIH. Therefore we hereby give you a small introduction to the event and computer arts. However, if you are familiar with SIH we advice you to continue reading at the next chapter as reading information you already know is extremely boring... About 10 years ago, when the first personal computers (Commodore 64, XT) became affordable for the public, people started practicing computer arts. On the Commodore 64 it was possible to draw up to 3 colours into one grid of 8x8 pixels. A "high" resolution of 160x200 pixels allowed "multi-color high resolution" graphics. A few years later, the Amiga folowed with not less than 4096 colors. The XT owners would have to wait a couple of years for the introduction of VGA and S-VGA. In the meantime, music also became available for the average wizz-kid and today, personal computers allow realtime-calculated raytracing animations, CD-quality sound and TV-like animations. The prize for all this: less than 1000 Dollars. While originally computer artists made simple looking animations, today no-one would be surprised to see a complete video clip or even a small movie. The time involved in making these productions is huge. Artists sometimes work for months to get their product finished. As they don't get paid for their work they have to do the work after they get home from work or school. When a production, normally called a demo(nstration), is finished it's spread all around the world using BBS's, the Internet or regular mail. The viewers of the demos vote for the different aspects of the production (music, graphics, programming) in various charts. The production team can then look up their results. If a production is received well by the public, the names of the creators will rise in the charts and so will their status in the artists-scene. As the artists live all around the world (even the members of one particular producing group) they hardly see eachother. That's why the Somewhere In Holland events are organised every year. People get the change to see eachother once again, meet some old friends and make new ones. Besides that, the attenders have the change to compete in several competitions, contribute to work shops and hear about the latest developments in computer technology. The events are normally called parties, clearly indicating the atmosphere. : ! _:|:_ Facilities... o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - The partyhall features room for over 1000 people easily. Besides that there is room for 500 people in the sleeping hall. 500 Kw takes care of your equipment and a special electrician makes sure it will keep taking care of it. Outside you will find plenty of room to park your car. Demos and videos are shown on a big screen, suspended in the air. Music is provided using a professional audio-installation. When you walk upstairs you will find yourself a nice restaurant, opened 24 hours a day. Things such as descent food, nice prizes and friendly people are verry common there... Still, if you can't find any(!)thing you can always get some advice at the Information. A team of willing people is there to help you find your way trough the party program, the hall or anything. In the end, there are First Aid facilities. People having a medical problem can consult the First Aid section. At the information you can get all info on them. : ! _:|:_ Competitions! ( - Only players can win - ) o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - Mmm, some interesting part. Well, the party features not less than 6 competitions. In despite of last years, the competitions for the Amiga aren't split into type of chipset anymore. The reason for this simply is that practically everyone has AGA by now. The 6 standard competitions are: - Amiga Demo Competition - PC Demo Competition - Amiga Intro Competition - PC Intro Competition - Graphics Competition - 4 Channel Music Competition Of course, the SIH'95 party features some cute competitions with nice prizes. Not less than 9000 Guilders are spread over the different categories. Prizes which can be won in the competitions will be payed in the Dutch currency, the Guilder. In the next table you can find how we have spread the prizemoney over the different competitions: 1st 2nd 3rd ---------------------------------------- Amiga Demo: FL. 1000,- FL. 750,- FL. 500,- PC Demo: FL. 1000,- FL. 750,- FL. 500,- Amiga 40Kb Intro: FL. 500,- FL. 375,- FL. 250,- PC 64Kb Intro: FL. 500,- FL. 375,- FL. 250,- Graphics: FL. 500,- FL. 375,- FL. 250,- 4 Channel Music: FL. 500,- FL. 375,- FL. 250,- Overall rules ------------- Each category must have at least 6 competitors. We will only show a maximum of 30 per competition. You must make sure you deliver your production in time. If the deadline has been passed, BAD LUCK. Bring your production to the SIH crew AT THE INFORMATION DESK. An entry must have been made by the competitor(s). NOTHING is allowed to be copied, ripped or stolen IN ANY WAY. At least one of the producers of an entry must be present at the party. Executables will be checked on exactly the same computers as we'll use in the competition. If they won't run on any of them, your production will be DISQUALIFIED. The organisation retains the right to refuse an entry or to check its origin. Nothing in the competition may already be released before our party. We retain the right to add rules, when we think that's necessary. Competitors must be present at the party. In a competition a person can compete with only ONE production. If we find out that a rule is broken we will probably DISQUALIFY the entry from the competition. In some rare cases we might even disqualify the person from all competitions. All entries can be send in using DD disks, either PC formatted, (720 Kb) or Amiga formatted (880 Kb). PC Demos/Intros and Graphics can be on HD disks, PC formatted (1.44 Mb). Disks containing entries will NOT be given in return. If you participate in a competition, it ALWAYS automatically means that we have your permission to spread your production in ANY WAY we like. Demo/Intro rules ---------------- A demo must start automatically after inserting the first disk OR it should be installable on harddisk. (Max. 4 Mb of harddiskspace!!) In this case you should include an installing program (called 'install.exe') or script (which should be called 'install.bat') Then, after executing the file 'startme.exe' or 'startme.bat' from the demo's ROOT directory the demo must start. A demo may never write anything in any form to disk devices (floppy, harddisk) while running. Computers we use for the competitions may have extra hardware like memory or turboboards. So make sure your demo can handle this. Effects in demos must be calculated and IN NO CASE be ordinary animations. Maximum play time for a demo is set to 10 minutes. And for an intro the maximum time is 5 minutes. A demo/intro should exit properly... It shouldn't reset the machine or loop! Amiga Competition rules ----------------------- The competition machine we will use: - Amiga 1200 with 2Mb Chip and 2Mb fast, MC68020 CPU - AGA chipset An Intro is limited in size, that means 40 Kb (40960 bytes) for Amiga Intros. PC Competition rules -------------------- The competition machine we will use: - Intel DX2/66Mhz with 4 MB RAM running MS-DOS 6.22 - Tseng Labs ET4000 Local Bus SVGA card with 1Mb DRAM - 1 MB Gravis UltraSound and SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 If your demo or intro requires a memory manager, it would be suitable if it worked under either MS-DOS 6.22's HIMEM alone, HIMEM+EMM386, or under QEMM v7.04. Other memory managers won't accepted. An Intro is limited in size, that means 64 Kb (65536 bytes) for PC Intros. Graphics rules -------------- A picture for the graphics competition can be any kind of picture. Fantasy, stills, or whatever you like is allowed to enter. Just be fair and draw and design the pictures yourself. Digitized or rendered pictures can't compete! PC pictures will be shown with the latest version of CSHOW, so the format can be PCX, GIF, LBM, JPG, WPG or CDR. The Amiga pictures will be shown with DPaint and thus only formats, supported by that program can compete. Maximum resolution is free of choice, but keep in mind that on our big screen it isn't possible to show more detail than 640*480! 4 Channel Music rules --------------------- The music must be in the Protracker compatible format (on PC often called .MOD format). Every system supports this format nowadays. It means that the music will have 4 voices and 8 bits sound. Surely, most computers will be able to play sound in 16 bits and more channels. But we think you are a true artist if you can do with less... We will play MAX 5 minutes of your module. If the module lasts for less than 5 minutes or restarts, we will stop it. For this reason you should let us know what the exact playlength is. If it lasts longer we will stop it after 5 minutes exactly. Maximum size is 800 Kb. : ! _:|:_ How to get there... o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - The hall is called 'Sportscentre De Leysdream' and is located in the south of Holland in a town called Roosendaal. Complete address: Sportscentre De Leysdream Commandolaan 10 4706 CL Roosendaal If you come by car, you will find it very easy to find it (is this double or what?). The hall is just a 5 minutes drive off the highway A58. Taking the exit "Roosendaal Oost" (Roosendaal East) will drive you just around the McDonald's (you can see the M from the highway). Besides you will most likely see boards next to the highway indicating De Leysdream from miles ahead... (well, miles???). Specific information can be found in the disk invitation to be released soon. Using the public traffic you will most likely arrive at Roosendaal Train Station. From there there are busses that drive directly to De Leysdream. Public bus number 32 will bring you at a 300 metres distance from the hall. At the entrance you will find a nice couple of people that will very friendly ask, but still urge you to pay the entrance fee of 50 Dutch Guilders. Maybe a bit expensive for a Dutch party but then again, 3 days, lotsa fun, nice prizes... What else would you wish for? : ! _:|:_ The facts o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - Just for the record here are the facts again... Name: Somewhere In Holland '95 Organisation: SIH Committee in coorporation with The Dutch Congres Buro. (Joris Crul, Thomas Speller, Pascal Smeets, Joost Brugman, John Vloemans, Piet van Linden). Location: Sports Centre De Leysdream Commandolaan 10 4706 CL Roosendaal The Netherlands Date: 8-9-10 July 1995 Entrance fee: 50 Dutch Guilders No foreign currencies will be accepted. : ! _:|:_ More information o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - - A paper flyer is available with information. Also you can find more info in the invitations on disk. They are available for Amiga and PC. You can find the latest info on practically every bigger BBS in Holland. Main site is: The Southern Tribe: +31-4160-30252 If you have special questions or want to be sure of the latest information, drop a note at one of these addresses: Snail-Mail SIH'95 Puttershoek 6 6581 CN Malden The Netherlands Modem BBS The Southern Tribe, +31(0)416030252 General Internet Address sih@dds.nl WWW Page http://dds.dds.nl/~sih/ http://huizen.dds.nl/~sih/ E-Mail ux006940@tfarn.nl (Dope/Spaceballs) elliott@xs4all.nl (Elliott/Reality) psmeets@xs4all.nl (B.Brain/Reality) The Address of the Hall Commandobaan 10 Roosendaal The Netherlands (of course!) : ! _:|:_ Reservations o\|/o ---------------------------------------------------------===O===--- - - If you want to make reservations it is quite useful to fill out this form. Reservation made by: (Full REAL Name) Handle: (NickName, if you use one) Group: (GroupName if you have one) Country: .............................. ContactAddress: ....................... ....................... ....................... ....................... Number of people: ... Number of computers: ... Amiga ... PC ... Other, namely ............. Do you want to reserve a table?(Yes/No)