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IBM OS/2 Warp(*) Demo Competition
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* OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are registered Trademarks of IBM Corporation
Future Crew & Accession in connection with IBM Finland are proud to invite
you to participate in a new competition: the IBM OS/2 Warp Demo competition.
WHAT IS OS/2 WARP ?
OS/2 Warp is IBM's new version of its award winning operating system, highly
advanced environment based on system object model (SOM) and 32-bit
architecture.
Warp was the codename for the product before official announcement invented
from Star Trek (TM of Universal Studios) movies and their spaceship
travelling speed.
Now you can be the one to make a demo for the new IBM OS/2 Warp. Besides
winning nice prizes your group could become very well known in the business
world; and you know what that means - commercial demos! So don't pass this
unique chance to make your breakthru!
One of the great new features OS/2 Warp gives you as a demo coder /
graphician / etc is it's DIVE (Direct Video Interface). DIVE is a way to
create games and even demos to run under OS/2 Warp's Presentation Manager.
WHY IBM?
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Why would so huge company as IBM take interest in the demoscene? Simply
because they have understood the value your products (demos!) have. IBM
might put your demo running to their machines at CeBIT or Comdex next
year, think about that possibility of getting more fame!
We are introducing this competition because we feel that this gives you
as a demogroup an opportunity to become known also outside the demo scene.
Can your group get any better recommendation than that you have made a
demo for IBM? If you win in this compo, you should have no problems in
getting work with commercial demos.
The facts
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The Warp demo competition is not exactly a normal demo competition. In this
compo you have theme (OS/2 Warp) for your demo - that is, to win you have
to advertise OS/2 Warp in your demo. This does NOT mean that your demo
can't be a normal demo. Don't do it like the traditional demo that is
attached just to have an understanding of the OS/2 Warp product how it
looks like.
Your aim is to create a demo that is entertaining, flashy, creative
fast and also highlight the benefits of OS/2 Warp for 'normal' PC users.
Although this might sound something you haven't done before, it is not.
Advertising in a demo is what you do at the moment - you just advertise your
own group? So instead of putting "XYZ Crew" everywhere in your demo, you
should have some info about OS/2 Warp and IBM or something similar flying
around, or wobbling in some fancy effect. If you can also point out why
OS/2 Warp is a superior graphical user interface on Intel platform, it is
just great! However do not insult any competitive products.
But don't let these guidelines stop you from doing a great *demo*?
What we want is that you make a demo (just like you have been doing before)!
New tricks and code are not a must. You can glue from your own older demos
parts and make just a new look to them with OS/2 Warp.
Assembly Organizing Inc. reserves the exclusive right to publish
the productions mailed to this competition on a CD-ROM media.
The productions will most likely be published on the Asm'95 CD-ROM.
The authors of the winning productions will receive a portion
of the net income of the CD-ROM from Assembly Organizing Inc
according to the following table:
place percentage
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1st place 5%
2nd place 2.5%
3rd place 1.5%
4th place 1%
5th place 0.5%
Although the percentages can look low, the total revenue for the winning
demo can be as much as 8000 US dollars (calculations based on the estimate
of 10 000 CDs sold).
Closing words
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This text file is the final version. Please, before starting to make a demo,
contact the organizers of this competition and ask for the latest news about
this competition. You can find the contact info below.
Contact information
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Assembly Organizing StarPort - The Future Crew WHQ
Address: Läkkisepäntie 13 +358-0-615 000 28
00620 Helsinki, Finland internet: mpoli.fi (telnet/rlogin)
Voice: +358-0-777 3721 ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi
Fax: +358-0-757 3115 www://http.mpoli.fi
Email: Pekka.Aakko@Helsinki.FI Email: abyss@unix.mpoli.fi
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Rules of the IBM OS/2 Warp(*) demo competition
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Trademarks:
- OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are Trademarks of IBM Corporation (*)
- IBM and Future Crew & Accession accept all non-IBM Trademarks mentioned
in this note (TM)
Organizers:
Future Crew & Accession (FC & ACC), Finland
Oy International Business Machines Ab, FINLAND (IBM)
These are the only official and final rules:
1. Make a demo of your own (animations not accepted)
2. Running time between 1-4 minutes
3. Maximum filesize 4Mb
4. Gravis UltraSound(TM) and Sound Blaster(TM) support is required
(if you support other cards, it will be a bonus)
5. You can use any (S)VGA (with 512kb VMEM) mode you like, as long
it is COMPATIBLE. So, if you use some fancy mode, make sure it
works on at least 5 different cards (Cirrus, Paradise, Tseng,
Trident, Video 7, Western Digital (all TMs) are examples of cards
you should test your demo on). All graphics code must be 100% VGA
register level compatible, and should you use svga, work under the
VESA standards and the UniVesa driver.
6. One has to be able to exit from the demo by pressing ESC during any part
of the demo.
7. The demo has to run on 550 kb free conventional memory and under
4Mb of extended memory in DOS (Note: Expectation is that the
demo is made on DOS. However OS/2 is the other extra platform of choice
but not required by any means to participate.)
8. The demo has to be compatible with QEMM, 386MAX, EMM or any
similar memory manager (TMs)
9. Competition closes the 28th of February 1995 (28.02.95). The
participating demos must be delivered to the following
address by close of day, ONLY in one these three ways:
a) uploaded to StarPort (contact info shown above)
b) mailed to Assembly Organizing Inc, address shown above
c) sent by email (uuencoded or MIME) to abyss@unix.mpoli.fi
10. The individuals of a group participating in this competition
guarantee that they have all rights to every part of code,
graphics, sound or other effects or material used in the demo
to be able to grant IBM full rights for free distribution and
usage of the demos in IBM's marketing.
11. IBM will reserve world-wide rights to use all participating
demos in this competition for an unlimited time period in its
marketing activities like publicly display and freely distribute
the demos and to copy them without any limitations.
12. The author(s) will retain copyrights to his/their demo and
are solely responsible that the necessary ownership information
is implemented in the democode and visible. The author(s) are
also responsible to highlight any other trademark ownership
in their demo even if partly referred to such third party.
13. The use of IBM OS2 Warp logo is moderated: whenever word "warp" is
shown on the screen, it must state "OS/2" somewhere, as Warp
is a trademark of Universal Studios. Thus, everytime you
use the word "Warp" you must put "OS/2" somewhere to the screen also.
14. Filenames you use in the demo must follow ISO-9660 format. Ie, NO
special characters are allowed (like !,",#,╧,%,&...), only l