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- Symposium '96
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- The Official Invitation
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- 1.> WHAT
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- This file wants to tell you that there will be a quite delicious
- computer demo festival this year, 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!
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- 2.> WHO
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- 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!
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- The groups involved are: Polka Brothers, Lego Club, Phantasm (for
- Amiga), Avena, Absence (for Atari) and Oxyron (for C-64).
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- 3.> WHY
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 4.> WHEN
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- Eastern 1996. Four days of fun and experience:
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- START 5th April, 1200 CET
- END 8th April, 1200 CET
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- The entrace fee will amount to 35DM. We will not accept foreign
- currencies.
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- 5.> WHERE
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- 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...
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- 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".
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- 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".
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- If you arrive by ship, then you'll have to take the U3 at
- "Landungsbrücken" to reach the Hauptbahnhof.
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- 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).
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- 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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- 6.> COMPETITIONS
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- Yes, a lot! Not only demo and intro competitions for all the computer
- systems and the usual module, multichannel and graphics compos are
- included. There will also be compos for video demos, a wild compo, a
- coding compo (4K-intro) etc. We will even hold an Acorn
- Archimedes/RISC-PC competition, if there will be enough entries present.
- Or a Silicon Graphics democompo, if more than one entry exists... No
- limits!
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- ** CONDITIONS FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES (brief overview)
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- PREFACE:
- ANONYMOUS means that the entries may not give a hint to who the
- author is. You may of course deliver a version with name tags,
- which will be the spread one.
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- Graphics: max. 640x512 24bit, 1.4MB. IFF(-24), PNG or JPEG.
- (ANONYMOUS!)
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- ProTracker Module: We will show 3 minutes, max. 1MB unpacked.
- (ANONYMOUS!)
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- Music: max. 1.4MB executable. We will show 3 minutes.
- (ANONYMOUS!)
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- Coding: No music, one effect, 4KB max., We will show 2 minutes.
- (ANONYMOUS!)
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- Intro: 40K Amiga, 64K PC, 96K Falcon. We will show 5 minutes.
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- Demo: 4MB, no Assigns or similar installation. We will show
- 15minutes max.
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- Video: VHS or S-VHS cassette in PAL format. 10 minutes max.
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- Wild: No rules! ;-)
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- ** CONFIGURATIONS
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- Amiga: must run on AGA, 020, 2+4MB. Will be shown on a 030/50MHz.
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- PC: must run on a '486 8MB. Will be shown on a P75.
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- Archimedes: RISC PC 600.
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- C64/Falcon: Standard configuration.
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- The prizes will entirely consist of sponsored stuff, as was the case at
- the former Symposiums. For more detailed info concerning them or
- the competition rules, see MORE INFO...
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- 7.> PLUS
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- A number of surprises like prominent guests from software houses and
- computer companies, Internet connection, quiz games, nude girls and much
- more attractions ;-)
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- 8.> MORE INFO
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- ** in upcoming invitation intros, at least for the Amiga system,
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- ** on our extensive World Wide Web page,
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- http://193.59.3.15/~rawstyle/Sym96/
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- ** directly from the organizers,
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- 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)
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- ** on the Black Box BBS,
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- +49 4105 84619 (v34)
- +49 4105 669011 (ISDN)
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- ** or snail-mail Gandalf at
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- Frank Schliefer - Am Musterplatz 27 - 21220 Seevetal, GERMANY
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- Sire * Raw Style
- Le Lego Club
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- SYMPOSIUM '96
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- The Official Invitation
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- Polka Brothers * Lego * Phantasm
- Avena * Absence
- Oxyron
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