The Gathering '95 Invitation by Spaceballs [web] & Scoop
(03/03-95)
T h e G a t h e r i n g 1 9 9 5
C o m p u t e r C o n f e r e n c e B u l l e t i n s
1 . . . General Info
2 . . . Registering System Info
3 . . . Party BBS Info
4 . . . Main competitions information
5 . . . Suggestions for other competitions
6 . . . Sound System Info
7 . . . Invited persons
8 . . . Contact us
Gathering'95 will be presented to you by : Spaceballs, Scoop and Safe Hex int.
Bulletin number: 1
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c o m p u t e r c o n f e r e n c e
g e n e r a l i n f o
Gathering 1995 is a follow-up to the very successful conferences
which have been held each eastern since 1992. This year, a organization
called 'Gathering' consisting of members from Spaceballs, Scoop
and Safe Hex Int. will be the arrangers.
The date for this conference will be
11th - 15th of April 1995
The location is Stavanger Idrettshall, which is located 3-4 km outside
Stavanger centrum, on the west-coast of Norway.
The general concept will be somewhat like the previous conferences,
but we expect more people, more computers, more software+hardware,
and just about more of everything. - Except : fire-drills!
Please don't bring your Microwave-oven.
Here is some useful information about the party-buildings:
M a i n H a l l :
"Idrettshallen"
Area: 6000 Square meters divided into:
4000 square meters - Main party area!
2000 square meters - Cafeteria, Cinema,
Stands, Toilets,
showers & warderobes
S l e e p i n g H a l l s :
"Tennishallen(e)"
There will be one or two seperate sleeping-halls. Both of them are right next
door to the main hall. The size of each hall is 4 fullsize tennis-courts.
C a t e r i n g :
The food and catering will probably be organized by the local McDonalds or
Dolly Dimple's. More accurate information will follow in later info-files.
We will also try to have "normal" food aswell, like milk and bread.
Please don't bring your Microwave-oven
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r e g i s t e r i n g s y s t e m
i n f o r m a t i o n
Before you arrive
In the invitation-leaflet, there will be a filled out postgiro-paper.
This should be filled out atleast a week BEFORE you arrive, so that
we can confirm your payment.
Please state CLEARLY your full name and handle on the postgiro.
We will also make maps in different picture-formats to make it easier for
car/bus drivers to locate the party-place. There will also be a road-map in
the information-leaflet.
When you arrive
At the entrance, there will be a information desk where you can pay the
entrance-fee, or/and get your personal vote-disk. This disk will contain
a small voting-program, for either Amiga or PC, and we advice you to fill
in your votes after each competition has ended.
You will also be given a badge not unlike the one used at The Party IV
in Denmark. This badge will show that you have payed.
You will be asked to enter a list of all equipment you bring into the hall.
This is for security reasons. Feel free to make this list in advance.
The doors will be opened 00:00 Monday night/Tuesday morning.
The entrance prices will be:
Full entrance fee.: 250 NOK if payed on entry
200 NOK if payed in advance
Visitors..........: 75 NOK for one day
Girls.............: FREE!
While you party (Part 1)
While you run around having the best time of your life, dozens of slaves
will be punching all your names into a humongous database. This is done
to keep track of the people. So that you can come to the information desk
later and search for a person and easily find out if he/she is available.
While you party (Part 2)
There will be a big monitor constantly running a slide show with
information. This will at all times show the number of people who have
registered. Also monitors will be placed around in the hall showing info
about the competitions etc.
Rules to obey while partying
* Alcohol, illegal drugs and/or intoxicated people will not
be allowed anywhere in the complex.
* All kinds of Weapons and fireworks are ofcourse not allowed.
* The organizers will not take responsibility for
illegal swapping or software-piracy, nor for
stolen properties.
* If you destroy anything in the complex, you will be the one held
echonimically responsible.
Time to vote
Just boot your votedisk, and fill in your answers. Then hand in the disk at
the information-desk. Here we'll register your votes into a enormous database
which will count and display the results afterwards.
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p a r t y b b s
There will ofcourse be a party BBS at The Gathering 1995.
This year Big Blue BBS will stand for the show. They will set up about
20 Pentiums machines, giving us a total of 100-250 nodes and a
24h 128kb ISDN-line connected to the global InterNet. There will also
be plenty of network connection boxes placed around in the main hall.
If we manage to get one in time, there will be a Manhattan Computer
with 16 Pentium CPU's to serve the BBS.
* We cannot prevent any other groups from setting up party BBSes
but remember that if such should be set up, they will not be
located at the party place and would therefor not have the
desired effect. Also, Spaceballs and Scoop wishes to have
NO RESPONSABILITY WHAT SO EVER of such systems!
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m a i n c o m p e t i t i o n s i n f o r m a t i o n
- General Information -
- Best Amiga Demo -
- Best Amiga 64kb intro -
- Best Amiga 4kb intro -
- Best PC Demo -
- Best PC 64kb intro -
- Best PC 4kb intro -
- Best Graphics -
- Best 4 channel music -
- Best Multi/MIDI music -
- Best Wild Demostration -
- Competition prices -
General Information
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Contestants for ANY of the main competitions must contact the
Information Desk BEFORE the deadline to receive a special envelope
and a special information sheet that is to be filled out before
entering the product. On this information sheet you fill out a
couple of fields regarding the product.
* Products that have been entered in other competitions can NOT
be entered in any of the main competitions
* Media (diskettes) that contain the product will NOT be returned
* Once a product is entered, the product may not be modified further
* Deadlines will be held as far as possible, but we will of course
accept products a short while after since it seems to be impossible
for some to finish something at the right time :-)
'Best Amiga Demo' Competition Information
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* ALL demos in the final will be shown in full length
* The demoes will be runned on a standard A4000/040
* We strongly advise to make the demo HD-Installable, and with
a system-friendly exit to DOS anywhere in the demo
Trackmos are not preferred!
* We strongly advise people to make the demo compatible with atleast
a standard A1200 without Fast-RAM or any extensions
* The demo might be on more than one disk
* One person from the group that is presenting the demo *MUST*
be available to control any interactive parts of the demo
(Pressing mouse, controlling features with joystick and so on)
* If more than a certain number of demoes are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing group-members
will pick out a portion of the demoes for a final
'Best Amiga 64kb intro' Competition Information
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* ALL introes in the final will be shown in full length
* The introes will be runned on a standard A4000/040
* We strongly advise to make a system-friendly exit to DOS _anywhere_
in the intro
* We strongly advise people to make the intro compatible with atleast
a standard A1200 without Fast-RAM or any extensions
* One person from the group that is presenting the intro *MUST*
be available to control any interactive parts of the intro
(Pressing mouse, controlling features with joystick and so on)
* If more than a certain number of introes are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing group-members
will pick out a portion of the introes for a final
'Best Amiga 4kb intro' Competition Information
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* As in the 64kb intro competition, only max filesize is 4096 bytes.
'Best PC Demo' Competition Information
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* The computer for the competition will be:
- Pentium 100 Mhz
- Stealth 64 bit graphics card
- Soundblaster PRO/16
- Gravis Ultrasound MAX 1 MB.
- Roland SCC-1 / MT-32
* We strongly advise to make the demo HD-Installable, and with
a system-friendly exit to DOS anywhere in the demo.
Or at least a clean exit to DOS after the demo ends.
* One person from the group that is presenting the demo *MUST*
be available to control any interactive parts of the demo
(Pressing mouse, controlling features with joystick and so on)
* ALL demos in the final will be shown in full length
* If more than a certain number of demoes are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing group-members
will pick out a portion of the demoes for a final
* Max filesize for the democompetition is 5 Megabytes.
* Only one contribution per coder in a group.
'Best PC 64kb intro' Competition Information
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* The computer for the competition will be:
- Pentium 100 Mhz
- Stealth 64bit graphics card
- Soundblaster PRO/16
- Gravis Ultrasound MAX 1 MB.
- Roland SCC-1 / MT-32
* ALL introes in the final will be shown in full length
* We strongly advise to make a system-friendly exit to DOS _anywhere_
in the intro.
* One person from the group that is presenting the intro *MUST*
be available to control any interactive parts of the intro
(Pressing mouse, controlling features with joystick and so on)
* If more than a certain number of introes are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing group-members
will pick out a portion of the introes for a final
* Max size of the intro is 64 kb (65535 bytes)
* Again, only on intro per coder in a group.
'Best PC 4kb intro' Competition Information
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* As in the 64kb intro competition, only max filesize is 4096 bytes.
All the hardware for the PC competitions have been delivered by a
PC group called 'BITKILLERS'.
'Best Graphics' Competition Information
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* All pitures will be judged in ONE category only
* Pictures from ANY machine can be entered, and will be displayed
on a A4000 or a PC. Please add a apropriate picture shower if the
picture are drawned in a non-standard format. (ILMB/IFF, GIF, JPEG)
* Pictures *MUST* be entered on a single 3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS
DOUBLE Density format diskette
* If more than a certain number of pictures are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing graphics artists
will pick out a portion of the pictures for a final
* Only one contributin per author.
'Best Music 4-channel' Competition Information
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* All modules will be judged in ONE category only
* Modules from ANY machine can be entered, but the module *MUST*
be playable on an Amiga computer with NO extra sound enhancing
hardware
* Each module will be played for 5.0 minutes
* All entries for the music competition must be entered on a
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density diskette. On the diskette
there *MUST* be nothing but the module itself and an apropriate
module player. NO EXECUTABLES!
* If more than a certain number of modules are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing musicians will
pick out a portion of the music for a final.
* Only one contribution per musician.
'Best Music Multichannel/MIDI' Competition Information
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* It is possible to compete with own synths and MIDI-setup. All we provides
with is the speaker-system and a 16 channel mixer. Also a professional
sound-technician will be available if help is needed. This is a totally
free competition, and you may compete with whatever equipment you desire.
We demand that a preview of the song has been recorded on cassette, so
that the jury can hear a preview of it before we let you rig up your
equipment.
* The computer for the competition will be:
- Pentium 100 Mhz
- Stealth 64 bit graphics card
- Soundblaster PRO/16
- Gravis Ultrasound MAX 512Kb
- Roland SCC-1 / MT-32
- Or a standard A1200 with Midi-interface. If you want to use a
12 bit/16 bit sampler (with multichannel songs) to the Amiga,
this is also possible but you'll have to support us with the hardware.
* Each song will be played for 5.0 minutes, or even longer for pure
MIDI-equipt songs.
* All entries for the music competition must be entered on a
3.5" AmigaDOS or MS-DOS Double Density diskette. On the diskette
there *MUST* be nothing but the song itself and an apropriate
module/MIDI player. NO EXECUTABLES! - If you want to rig up your own
MIDI-setup, you can ofcourse controll all the playing of the tune
together with our soundtechnician.
* If more than a certain number of songs are entered for the
competition, a jury consisting of non-competing musicians will
pick out a portion of the music for a final.
* Only one contribution per musician.
'Best Wild Demostration' Competition Information
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* This is a total free competition. You may enter the competition with
everything from a VIC-20 to a Silicon Graphic machine. You can use synths
for a nice music-output, and any graphic-card to achieve the best
graphical output for your demostration.
* You have to bring with your own hardware, machine and equipment. We take
no responsabilty for any damage to your equipment during the party.
* ALL demostration will be shown in full length
Competition prices:
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The prices have been adjusted, and will probably be even more adjusted.
We have given the high amount of 20.000,- NOK in the 1.price of the demo-
competiton on both PC and Amiga. We will also try to adjust the Wild Compo
prices, maybe up to the same amount as in the Demo-competition!
All the prices are in norwegian kroner, which is about:
100,00 NOK = 9.00 and 1.00 = 11,00 NOK.
100,00 NOK = $15.00 and $1.00 = 6,50 NOK.
1. Price 2. Price 3. Price
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Amiga - Demo : 20.000,- 7.500,- 2.500,-
PC - Demo : 20.000,- 7.500,- 2.500,-
Amiga - 64kb : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
PC - 64kb : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
Amiga - 4kb : 1.000,- 500,- 250,-
PC - 4kb : 1.000,- 500,- 250,-
Module - 4 Channel : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
Music - Midi/Multi : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
Graphics : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
Animation : 2.500,- 1.000,- 500,-
Wild Competition : 7.500,- 3.500,- 1.500,-
All the hardware for the PC competitions have been delivered by a
PC group called 'BITKILLERS'.
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s u g g e s t i o n s f o r c o m p e t i t i o n s
Since there has been so many suggestions for competitions,
the thing we've settled for is that YOU arrange the competition
yourself!
We'll help you as best we can with the equipment and space. Also,
if there's a 'final' in your competition, you can run it over
the big screen and possibly over the sound system.
Get together with a couple of friends and arrange your VERY
OWN competition!
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s o u n d s y s t e m i n f o r m a t i o n
Some of you who attended The Gathering 1994 party complained that
the sound was quite bass'n'noisy.
This time we will let a local disco set up all the audio-equipment,
and professional sound-technicians will ensure a perfect sound to everyone
in the hall during the main competitions and so on. Also musicians will
test and adjust the sound before and while the party is being held.
The sound will be played through a 25.000 watt soundsystem for optimum
quality and pleasure.
The sound system will NOT play background music, but we might use a day to
get the best sound for everyone in the hall.
If you want music while you work, we suggest that you bring your own
portable stereo that won't ruin the sleep for 2000 people.
The sound system will be used for messages during the party. Such
messages can be handed over to the Information Desk, should you
have something to say to everyone.
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i n v i t e d p e r s o n s
Just wanted to let you know some of the people we expect to arrive
at the Gathering 1995. You MUST understand that most of these have
only been invited so far, so it is not certain that they will have
the time to come and visit us.
* Software Houses
- Funcom Production
* Computer Magazines
- Data Tid
- Tekno
* Media, TV
- TV2 : "Nyhetene"
- Cable Network News (CNN)
- Beyond 2000 Inc
- Music Television (MTV)
* Media, Radio
- P3
* Media, Newspapers
- Rogalands avis
- Stavanger Aftenblad
- VG
* Companies
- Aktiv Data A/S
- FunCom Productions A/S
- Datavarehuset A/S
- TeleNor Rogaland A/S
- Big Blue Systems A/S
- Netto Norge A/S
- Masters A/S
- HIFI-Klubben A/S
- The Coca Cola Company
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C o n t a c t u s
1) Scoop BBS: 51-748535 & 51-748572
Use the G95 command to order YOUR leaflet!
2) Noiseless BBS: 51-417240 (After 23:00 PM -> 07:00 AM)
3) e-mail: magnar@hsr.no (Lizard/Spaceballs)
magnus-w@hsr.no (Magnus/Scoop)
4) snail-mail: Kurt Hansen
Langyvn 13
4026 Stavanger
Norway
(Mark the envelope "Gathering 95")
WATCH OUT FOR INVITATION-DEMOS ON PC & AMIGA!
Leaflets will be out in February
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Payment can be payed in advance to the following:
PostGiro-slips will also be included in the leaflet
(to be released in February)
Postgiro-account..: 0826 0912829
Address...........: GATHERING-95 v/Kurt Hansen
Langyvn. 13
4026 Stavanger
Please make sure your full name and address is on the giro.
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