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@BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ ASSEMBLY '96 invitation info file v1.00 @END_FILE_ID.DIZ ______________________________________________________________________________ g, ,=wa ,=wa =gm==p =m jm==gm=g, gm gm =m= m ,pm_ ,p= 9& g # g # 0 I #L F# 0 # 7L !# F 7L $ # JF J A, 0, ` 0, ` 0 F# J # 0 0 7L 0 J P 1 7L @ I JF M&_ M&_ 0__j F7L F # 0__j" 7L # F 1 jL0&"&r &__# "#W "#W 0""9 F Q J # 0"""W 7L *W *x,#L0 `W j"""]r , 7 , 7 0 ' F +JF # 0 "K 7L 1 "~# 0 # 7 7L I J I J 0 F # # 0 ,K 7L L 1 JF *K @ a#b a#,0Mw/" 0Mw/" d#waad a& a#b,#wadf' dLaaaF w&b a#F Mw@ 16TH TO 18TH OF AUGUST IN THE HELSINKI FAIR CENTRE ---- -- ---- -- ------ -- --- -------- ---- ------ ______________________________________________________________________________ (version 1.00, released on the 2nd of May, 1996) === OPENING WORDS === You are now reading the invitation info file for ASSEMBLY'96. The information presented in this text file might not be final, so please try to look for a new version(s) of this text file. You can probably find them where you found this info file, but you can always find the latest ASSEMBLY '96 related files at the BBSes and FTP sites mentioned in the "contact information" chapter later in this text file. This info file is formatted for 80x50 text mode. === WHERE AND WHEN === ASSEMBLY '96 will be held in Finland's largest conference centrum, called as the Helsinki Fair Centre. The Fair Centre is located in central Helsinki. The street address of the fair centre is Rautatielaisenkatu 3. The party will start at 10:00 am on the 16th of August (Friday) and end 20:00 pm on the 18th of August (Sunday). The party place is very easy to find, if you take any train from the Central Railway station and get off on the next stop (Pasila) you will be able to see the building complex. ----------------------------------------------------------------INDEX-------- PAGE TITLE ---- ----- 2 How to get to the partyplace 3 Competitions 4 Voting system 4 Jury 5 PC competition rules (demos, 64k and 4k intros) 8 Amiga competition rules (demos, intros) 9 Graphics competition rules (graphics, raytrace, animation) 10 Music competition rules (4 and 32 channel tunes) 11 Wild Competition 12 C64 competition rules (demos, music, gfx) 14 Prizes 16 Party features 18 ASSEMBLY '96 CD-ROM 19 ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM available 20 ASSEMBLY '96 tickets 20 Buying tickets 20 Where can I buy tickets 20 Why should I buy a ticket in advance 21 Preliminary schedule 22 Disclaimer 23 Contact information - 1 - ------------------------------------------HOW TO GET TO THE PARTYPLACE------- You will either arrive by plane, by boat, by bus, by train or by car. If you are lucky enough to come by car, you should be able to find the party place very easily. If you come by plane and have lots of stuff with you, we would recommend to take a taxi, otherwise you should come by bus (cheaper). And if you come by boat (to Helsinki sea port) and have lots of luggage, take the taxi, or take a tram or walk to the Central Railway station and take any local train from there. Local area bus tickets in Finland vary from around $2 to $4 US. The taxi is of course more expensive. For example to take a normal taxi from the airport to the party place will cost one person around $30 - $40 US. But if you take the Airport Taxi, it will be a lot cheaper (about half the price). If you take a local train from the Central railway station, get off at the first stop (Pasila) and you can see the Helsinki Fair Centre from there. - 2 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- The organizers reserve the right to make any changes to the competition rules, and to disqualify any entry if it is not suitable to attend the competitions for some reason. Atleast one of the authors of a competiting product has to be present at the party place in order to attend the competitions and to receive possible prizes. In solo competitions (music, graphics, 4KB) the author has to be present. A jury composed of known scene people (maybe even you!) will select an amount of 15 entries in each competition to the finals (to be shown on the big screen to the audience). There will be different people in the PC and Amiga jurys. In the graphics competition, the raytracing and also in the 4KB intro competition on PC, the competition version of the entry must not display the author's name or group in any way. This is to prevent the author's name from affecting the vote. After the announcement of the results, the versions which are spread can include the author's signature. In the music competitions, we will not show the author's name while we play the song in the competition. We will show the size of the tune, the number of channels used and the tracker used on the screen. In the graphics, music, raytracing, animation and 4KB intro competitions we will show the name of the song/picture, but only if it will not give hints on who has made it. "Maximum running length" below is only the amount of time we will show a particular piece of art on the big screen. The demos/intros will have to run without ANY user interaction once started (although there can be a setup screen). The filenames of the productions have to comply with the ISO-9660 standard. This means that the only characters allowed in filenames are "A-Z" and "0-9". The maximum length of the filename is 8+3 characters as in MS-DOS standard. - 3 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- The productions MUST NOT save any files (for example configuration files) on the hard disk or the disk. In the music, graphics, raytracing and 4KB intro competitions only one of the authors (if there are more than one) can be the official author of the competing piece of art. For example, if two coders work on the same 4KB intro, only one of them can receive the prize and his name in the party results. After all, these three competitions are meant to be solo competitions. The authors have to have all copyrights to their production. If you have any questions about the rules, kindly contact ASSEMBLY Organizing. 2.1. THE VOTING SYSTEM: We will use a disk voting system. Once you enter the party place, you will be given the voting disk, which will include the voting program. We are going to have PC formatted DD disk with both Amiga and PC including both Amiga and PC voting program. You will be able to give your opinion on The Five Best in all compe- titions, both on the Amiga and PC. 2.2 JURY Before you can give your opinion, a jury composed of known scene people will qualify the products to the finals. The members of the jury give points from 1 to 10 for each product and the average of the points will be its final score. 15 best scoring products will qualify to finals. If there is more than one product that qualified as 15th the jury will commonly decide which one of them will qualify. - 4 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- 2.3. PC COMPETITION RULES: The competition machine we will use: - Pentium 100MHz with 8 MB of RAM - MS-DOS 7.0 - 2MB PCI SVGA-board with S3 - 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card or original Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 - 550KB free base memory Software configuration in the computer will include MS-DOS 7.0, with HIMEM and EMM386. The configuration will not be changed during the competition. One must be able to exit from PC-demos and intros at any time by pressing <ESC>. PC-demos and intros must check if there are enviromental variables for either GUS or Soundblaster. If the check finds both it chooses GUS. The formats of the enviromental variables are: GUS: GUS=220,1,1,11,7 (address,dma,dma,gus irq,sb irq) SB: BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T1 (a=address,i=irq,d=dma) If the environmental variables are found the entry will proceed immediately to start of the production without any setup screen. This will eliminate the hassle with setup screens on the big screen. In PC 64KB intro competition two versions of the intro can be submitted. The competing version which is under 65536 bytes long and supports either GUS or SB and the release version which supports both. Release version can be over 65536 bytes long. Competing 64KB intro cannot be in any case longer than 65536 bytes. Both release and competition version has to be submitted to the organizers before the deadline. - 5 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- The main reason why SVGA modes with higher resolution than 640x480 aren't allowed is because the maximum resolution supported by the video/data projectors we have is 640x480. And even if the projectors could show higher resolutions, the picture quality of different high resolution graphics modes would not look that much different from one another (a video projector is NOT the same as a monitor). You should note that the picture produced by a video projector is not as good as a monitor picture. The video projector does not show pale colors well and in some cases can even lose them completely. Also the contrast can be different. These are common problems with all video projectors and simply can't be corrected. Please try to understand these restrictions. Demos and intros must work with 256 colour only SVGA-board (eg. TRIDENT), but they can also use optionally hardware dependent screen modes (eg. 320*200*16.7M). Note that you can now enter more than one demo or 64KB intro to the competitions, if you so desire. DEMO - Maximum size in executable form is 4096 KB - Maximum showing time is 8 minutes, the demo itself can be longer - Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB - 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes and SVGA modes up to 640*480 are accepted - Pure animation files are not accepted - Also executables only including an animation and an animation player will not be accepted, this is not an animation competition - Gravis Ultrasound (1024KB) and SB PRO/SB 16 support required. Also the demo has to have a no sound option - The name of the files have to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The demo MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk - 6 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- INTRO - Maximum size in executable form is 64 KB (65536 bytes) - Maximum showing time is 5 minutes - Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB - 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes and SVGA modes up to 640*480 are accepted - Pure animation files are not accepted - on the release version Gravis Ultrasound (1024KB) and SB PRO/SB 16 support required. This version can be over 65536 bytes long. Also a no sound option is required. - on the competition version either Gravis Ultrasound or SB PRO/SB 16 support required - The names of the files have to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The intro MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk 4KB-INTRO - Maximum size in executable form is 4096 bytes - Maximum running length is 3 minutes - Maximum base memory requirement is 550 KB - NO MUSIC or other sound is allowed (this is because this a coders' competition, not musicians') - Only 100% VGA register level compatible graphics modes are accepted (no SVGA/VESA) - Only one intro by one coder - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The intro MUST NOT save anything on the hard disk - 7 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- 2.4. AMIGA COMPETITION RULES: The competition machine is a A1200 with 2 megs chip + 4 megs fast with 68030 50MHz processor. One must be able to exit from Amiga demos and intros at any time by pressing left mousebutton. DEMO - Maximum size is 4 megabytes - Must by harddisk installable - Maximum running length is 8 minutes - The names of the files have to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters - The demo MUST NOT save anything on the disk INTRO - Maximum size in executable form is 64 KB - Maximum running length is 5 minutes - The names of the files have to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters - The intro MUST NOT save anything on the disk - 8 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- 2.5. THE GRAPHICS COMPETITIONS: GRAPHICS - The maximum resolution allowed is 640x480 - The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen colors is 256 - The palette is the standard 16,7 million color true color palette - Pictures drawn with Amiga will be shown with Amiga Brilliance (no executables!) - PC pictures will have to be in standard LBM, PCX, TGA or GIF format - Pictures drawn with PC will be shown with CSHOW (or some other good picture viewer) - Scanned, ripped and raytraced pictures will be disqualified - In addition, you must submit a version of the final picture which doesn't have your signature on it (which will be shown on the big screen) - Only one picture by one graphics artist - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters RAYTRACING - The maximum resolution allowed is 640x480 - The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen colors is 16.7 million - Pictures will be shown on PC with true color card (no executables!) - Pictures have to be in JPG or TARGA format - In addition, you must submit a version of the final picture which doesn't have your signature on it (which will be shown on the big screen) - Only one picture by one graphics artist - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters - 9 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- ANIMATION - The maximum running length is 3 minutes - The frame rate of the animation has to be 12.5 pics/sec - The animation itself must be in MPEG-1 format without any sound - The maximum amount of simultaneous onscreen colors is 16.7 million - The maximum resolution is 320x200 - Please use CMPEG 1.0 for creating MPEG-file for maximum compatibility. Use parameters: -v1 -d0 -m0 ipb.ctl [list] [mpeg.mpg] (you can download the file from our WWW-site or from any major FTP-site) - The animation will be played with ASSEMBLY Organizing MPEG player (you can download it from our WWW-site) - You can also supply an audio track for the animation. The audio track must have following characteristics: RAW (unsigned 8 bit, mono) format, playback rate 12288 - The animation must be delivered to us on hard drive or on CD-ROM - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters 2.6. THE MUSIC COMPETITIONS: We will not show the name of author on the screen, but we will show the size of the tune, the number of channels used and the tracker used on the screen while playing the tune. 4CHANNEL - Maximum size is 880 KB (= one Amiga disk) - Maximum amount of channels is 4 - Maximum running length is 3 minutes - 10 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- - All songs will be played with the Amiga ProTracker v2.x (MOD) - Entries must be in MOD-format (no executables, no renamed, no powerpacked) - Only one song by one musician - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters MULTICHANNEL - Maximum amount of channels is 32 - Maximum size of the song is 1024 KB in a playable format (including all samples, pattern data, etc.) - Maximum running length is 3 minutes - the format has to be some of the following: S3M, MOD, XM, MTM and ULT - All songs will be played with a PC compatible player using a 1MB Gravis UltraSound - Only one song by one musician - The name of the file has to comply to the ISO-9660 standard (i.e. NO special characters are allowed). - The maximum length of the file name is 8+3 characters 2.7. WILD COMPETITION - The productions can be anything from computer generated animations, demos on ancient or exotic computers to plain video art. The only requirement is that the productions are cool. - Maximum showing time is 15 minutes, the production itself can be longer - The production has to be delivered on a VHS cassette (european PAL format). The cassette will not be returned. - No copyrighted material or material that violates Finnish or international laws is allowed in the production. - Maximum 30 productions will be shown on the big screen during the night between Saturday and Sunday. - 11 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- 2.8. COMMODORE 64 COMPETITIONS: GENERAL RULES: - Only one contribution from each group/artist is accepted for each competition serie. - Contributions must be 100% finished before the deadline, because we will copy and spread all of them at the party. This is just to avoid final versions being released months or possibly even years after the party. - The deadlines aren't too flexible so please deliver your contributions in time (in other words: Early enough) to avoid hassle. - Your contribution disks won't be returned (Doing so would cause an enormous hassle, just use your imagination and guess why!). RULES FOR C64 DEMO COMPETITION: - The demo will be run on a standard C64 with original 1541 drive and an Action Replay MK6 cartridge. - Each demo will be shown for a maximum of 15 minutes. - Coding your demos in such a manner that pressing space isn't necessary to proceed is highly recommended. If, however, your demo should require any user interaction, we want a person from the contributing group to run the demo. After all, there's no way we could possibly know which effects the coder would like to be shown a bit longer than the others... - At least one person must be present from the contributing group (If it's not a group-release (Which is extremely unlikely), then the coder must be present him/herself). RULES FOR C64 GRAPHICS COMPETITION: - The picture must be an executable file. - ALL graphic formats are accepted. - Only the picture must be seen on the screen; no scrollers or other moving things are allowed. Background music's acceptable (Not recommendable, though), but during the competition no-one will hear it (Audio equipment will be turned off). - 12 - -------------------------------------------------------COMPETITIONS---------- - Please try to give your picture some (sensible) name to avoid too many "un-named" pictures competing. - The artist must be present at the party. RULES FOR C64 MUSIC COMPETITION: - The tune must be an executable file. - Only your imagination's the limit; samples are of course accepted. - Each tune will be played for max. 3 minutes (This doesn't mean you'd have to cut the tune at 3:00 sharp, though! Even if your tune won't be played for more than three minutes at the party, people will play it longer at home). - Please try to give your tune some (sensible) name to avoid too many "un-named" tunes competing. - The artist must be present at the party. The official C64 competition organizers are: Deadbeat/The Sharks, Mysdee/The Sharks & Hazor/Beyond Force SPECIAL COMPETITIONS: We will have all traditional ASSEMBLY special competitions. The competitions include for example soccer, disk throwing and modem throwing. - 13 - -------------------------------------------------------PRIZES---------------- The total value of all the prizes in US dollars will be over US $35.000 (not including software). All damages to the Fair centre, other surroundings and other damages caused by party visitors will be REDUCED from the prizes before any prizes are paid. This is because of previous trouble with people breaking up places, furniture and spraying the walls and thus causing damage of many thousand dollars. The actual prizes may be software, hardware or pure cash. This depends on our sponsors. The following list includes only the pre- liminary list of the prizes (the final lists will be published at the party place). Also keep in mind that the money exchange rates also affect this list (at the time of the writing of this text file one US dollar was 4.85 finnish marks). We will try to give cash prizes in the PC and Amiga demo compe- titions. The prizes in the other competitions may be more or less various hardware and software. All the cash prizes will be paid in Finnish currency. PC COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES (not including software): PC DEMO: 64KB INTRO: 4KB INTRO: #: -------- ----------- ---------- 1. $4100 $1600 $450 2. $2000 $800 $350 3. $1400 $500 $250 4. $700 $300 $150 5. $300 $200 $100 - 14 - -------------------------------------------------------PRIZES---------------- AMIGA COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES (not including software): AMIGA DEMO: 64KB INTRO: #: ----------- ----------- 1. $4100 $1600 2. $1400 $500 3. $700 $300 ART COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES (not including software): MUSIC 4/32 CH: GFX/RAYTRACE: ANIMATION: WILD: #: -------------- ------------- ---------- ----- 1. $450 $450 $1600 $450 2. $350 $350 $800 $250 3. $250 $250 $500 $100 4. $150 $150 $300 5. $100 $100 $200 COMMODORE 64 COMPETITION PRIZES: In the C64 competitions we will give only cash as follows: DEMO: GRAPHICS: MUSIC: #: ----- --------- ------ 1. $400 $200 $200 2. $150 $75 $75 3. $50 $25 $25 - 15 - -------------------------------------------------------PARTY FEATURES-------- Next is a list of most important features at our party: * Audio and Video * The main hall is is equipped with a powerful sound system. The system supports stereo output and will be a real kicker with 10.000 watts of pure sound power. The big screen in the main hall is over 8 meters wide and supports the 640x480 resolution! * Halls * The party area is composed of two halls. The halls are separated by a heavy curtain. The main area is 4500 square meters (equals 1500 computer places). The sleeping hall is on the first floor this year (the sleeping hall used last year is being repaired this year). The sound proofing isn't as good as last year, but sleeping isn't mandatory at parties =). Sleeping area is almost as big as last year. Remember to bring your own sleeping bags. Neither of the halls have windows so the video screens will look absolutely fabulous at the competitions and it will dark enough to sleep. * Services * The party place is the biggest fair centre in Finland. It will feature 24h food service (yes, we have Coke!), 24h security personnel, 24h professional electrician, 24h luggage preservation service and cleaning personnel. Also 24h help desk with friendly personnel will be available to help you out with any problems you might encounter. Plenty of toilets and some showers will be available. Cool party T-shirts will be sold for low price. - 16 - -------------------------------------------------------PARTY FEATURES-------- * Parking fee * Unfortunately the ASSEMBLY '96 visitors have to pay for their weekend parking. The cost is not much thou, it is 40 FIM for weekend parking. You will have a weekend parking ticket and a special Assembly parking area at your use. * Network information * The network information will be released later on when the details of the party network will be clear. The PartyNet will feature full Internet access and a party server with all releases on line. - 17 - -------------------------------------------------------ASM'96 CD-ROM--------- All the participating pieces of art from the competitions will be assembled to a single ASSEMBLY '96 CD-ROM. This will be a unique possibility for everyone to get hundreds of megabytes data containing ALL demos, intros, pics, mods, etc. published at ASM '96. THERE'S NO OTHER EASY WAY TO COLLECT THEM ALL. We will pay royalties of the net revenue of the CD-ROM disks to the winners (which sign the exclusive CD-ROM distribution agreement) in the competitions (except for the Amiga and C64) as follows (in percents): CODE COMPETITIONS DEMO: INTRO: 4KB INTRO: #: ----- ------ ---------- 1. 2.5% 0.7% 0.4% 2. 2.0% 0.5% 0.3% 3. 1.5% 0.4% 0.1% ART COMPETITIONS MUSIC 4/32 CH: GRAPHICS/RAYTRACE: ANIMATION: #: -------------- ------------------ ---------- 1. 0.4% 0.4% 0.7% 2. 0.3% 0.3% 0.5% 3. 0.1% 0.1% 0.4% If you do a fix for the production after the party and you wish to include it on the CD-ROM kindly send it to any places listed in the contact addresses. In case of problems, please contact ASSEMBLY Organizing. All productions which wish to have possibility of receiving royalties have to include a statement that the author(s) retain all copyrights. See the RIGHTS.TXT for an adequate copyright license. We suggest that you include the copyright license into the software (into the demo's/intro's end screen, to the pattern names of music tune for example) to ensure that it is not removed. - 18 - -------------------------------------------------------ASM'96 CD-ROM--------- The biggest reason for requiring exclusive distribution contracts for winning productions is to ensure that nobody else will sell the production on a CD-ROM. What has happened before is that companies just put your productions on a CD-ROM and pay no royalties what so ever to the author. This way they can sell the CD-ROM cheaper. Because ASSEMBLY Organizing is dedicated to work with the scene we want to stop this. The only way to do is to have adequate copyright licenses (see the RIGHTS.TXT and INFO.TXT) and exclusive distribution agreements. The royalties will be paid twice in the period of one year after the release of the CD-ROM disk in the form of a cheque by mail. This means the last royalties for the ASSEMBLY '96 CD-ROM disk will be paid around ASSEMBLY '97 time. * ASSEMBLY '95 CD-ROM (eRAVE 1) is out * The complete collection of ALL ASSEMBLY '95 releases is now available. With over 100 great demos, more than 350 different music tunes and much much more it is the coolest ever production by ASSEMBLY Organizing. And the CD-ROM is the extremely easy to use: just active our custom built GUI and warp into the world of demos! The thrilling ASSEMBLY '95 compilation is cheap! The price for a single item is only 25 US dollars! ASSEMBLY Organizing is dedicated to the scene - ASSEMBLY Organizing is the only demo CD-ROM manufacturer that gives royalties to the best productions on the CD-ROM. Up to 20% of the net revenue of the CD-ROM is handed back to the scene as royalties! To order your copy please use some of the following methods: WWW: http://www.assembly.org/cdroms/cdroms.html Finnish ASSEMBLY Organizing voice: (90) 777 3741 orders: Läkkisepäntie 13 fax: (90) 757 3115 00620 Helsinki email: assembly@assembly.org Other Romware GmbH voice: +49-4191-9984-0 orders: Gottlieb-Daimler Strasse 12 fax: +49-4191-9984-11 D-24568 Kaltenkirchen email: 100421.1772@compuserve.com Germany, Europe - 19 - -------------------------------------------------------ASM'96 TICKETS-------- * 6.1 Buying tickets * There are two kind of tickets for ASSEMBLY '96. Normal 240,- ($50USD) ticket and 260,- ($54USD) ticket which includes computerplace reservation. You can buy the 240,- ticket either at the door at the happening or you can buy it in advance. Reservation tickets are only sold in advance. The sales of the reservation tickets will be closed at 8th of August, 1996. * 6.2 Where can I buy my tickets * You can buy your advance ticket from ASSEMBLY Organizing. Groups that want to get the group discount and computerplace reservations have to be bought in advance from ASSEMBLY Organizing. If your group buys 10 or more tickets at the same time you will receive the 10% group discount from the ticket prizes. To order a ticket you have to pay directly to the account of ASSEMBLY Organizing (see contact info). Make sure, when you pay directly to the account that ASSEMBLY Organizing doesn't get any additional costs and the amount of money covers the costs of the ordered ticket. Also make sure that we get the information who has sent the money and where we can send the tickets. After making the payment, please make an official order at our WWW-site (http://www.assembly.org/asm96/ ordertix.html). Groups in Finland can order their tickets directly from our WWW-site (http://www.assembly.org/asm96/ordertix.html). The tickets will be shipped as COD ("postiennakko"). Please allow 20 FIM for postage costs. * 6.3 Why I should buy a ticket in advance? * If you buy your ticket in advance you have the possibility to use group discount of 10%. You have the possibility for group discount if you buy more than 10 tickets at a time. Also the table reservation is possible only by buying reservation ticket. You don't have to reserve table for yourself, but the best places near the videoprojector screen go to the reservers. The earlier you reserve your place the better place you get. We will organize special door in the first day of ASSEMBLY '96 where you can get your computer in most conviniently. - 20 - ------------------------------------------------------SCHEDULE--------------- Partyplace will be open 24 hours / day. 16th of August 1996 (FRIDAY) - 1000 ASSEMBLY doors open - 1900 C64 competition deadline - 2100 C64 competitions - 2300 Deadline for all competitions 17th of August 1996 (SATURDAY) - 1300 4 channel competition - 1400 Graphics competition - 1430 32 channel competition - 1530 Raytrace competition - 1600 PC 4KB intro - 1700 AMIGA 64KB intro - 1830 PC 64KB INTRO 18th of August 1996 (SUNDAY) - 0900 AMIGA DEMO competition - 1130 Animation competition - 1230 PC DEMO competition - 1500 Vote counting - 1600 Announcement of winners and prize giving ceremony - 1700 Prize giving ceremony ends - 2000 Doors close - ASSEMBLY '96 is over - 21 - ------------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER------------- We don't take any responsibility on the safety of the equipment people bring to the party place. We suggest you take an insurance for your equipment from some insurance company. And remember, you can store your equipment by using the luggage preservation service which will be available at the party place. If you have ANY suggestions or ideas about anything written in this text file, don't hesitate to contact us! While you are visiting Finland you have to follow Finnish laws. If you break laws at the Fair Centre we will call the police to take care of you. You will also have to answer for anything you break at the party place. All damages to the fair centre, other surroundings and other damages will be reduced from the total prize money. > NO ALCOHOL/DRUGS/SMOKING NOR SOFTWARE PIRACY ALLOWED IN THE PARTY PLACE < - 22 - --------------------------------------------------CONTACT INFORMATION-------- You can reach us by many means according to the following list: Voice: ASSEMBLY Org. +358-0-777 3741 WWW: http://www.assembly.org/assembly96 E-mail: assembly@assembly.org IRC: #asm96 Normal mail: ASSEMBLY '96 Läkkisepäntie 13 00620 Helsinki FINLAND Bank account for international money transfers: ASSEMBLY Organizing 208918-28217 Merita Helsinki-WTC FINLAND SWIFT CODE: MRITFIHH Please include your address with the payment, where you want the tickets to be sent. Also make sure that there are no additional expenses for the receiver of the payment. - 23 - ----------------------------------------------------------------EOF----------