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..... ..... ****** ********' *** '*** *** ** ' *** * *** ** ** . ****** *** ** ** . ****** *** ****** ** . * ** ** *** ** . *** ****** ** ** ** . *** ****** *** *** ** ' *** * *** '***** ** '.....***.....' This is a first revision official invitation to The Gathering 1996 This revision replaces the preliminary info (rev 1.00) from 17/12-95 ------- Introduction ---------------------------------------------------- Crusaders Productions ARE BACK!!! AND THROUGH THE KANDU ORGANIZATION THEY ARE QUITE DETERMINED TO MAKE THE GATHERING 1996 INTO SOMETHING DIFFERENT ALTOGETHER. We have heard your complaints about bad choice of locations, loss of power, poor networking, expensive entry fees, prizes that were not paid until many months after the party and so forth... AND WE CORRECTED THEM ALL (well, most of them anyway). By using professional companies instead of doing everything ourselves, everything you need for a great party will be there. IN TIME, IN PLACE and IN A WORKING ORDER Together with our connections in some of the largest companies around, we're going to make the THE GATHERING 1996 more fun, more non-stop action, more unrelentless computer action than any other party! Just of windy balloon full of hot air loaded with a pile of horsemanure or a real fact? Keep your weary eyes open and read on... ------- hot spots ------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION "VIKINGSKIPET" in Hamar, north of Oslo, Norway. The main hall from the '94 Olympics in Norway. (If you don't know what the Olympics are, you are just the guy we want at TG, and believe us, the hall is big!!!) They even held an INDOORS cross-country skiing event in this hall. 12.000 square meters of pure pleasure (the same size as 3 soccer fields or 3000 tabletennis tables.) The total area of the hall is 26 000 square meters and 350 000 cubic meters. (350 million liters). Stairsfree entrances (excellent for rolling those carts filled to the brink with equipment). 3000+ seats, tables and SEPARATE poweroutlets available. Every person gets a seat, every person gets a tablespace and every person gets his own grounded poweroutlet. (1 power outlet per person, bring your own grounded multiple power outlets to have more than one item connected at a time). 10 seperate LARGE wardrobes with 4-10 showers per wardrobe. Of course no money will be charged for this basic facility. Don't panic, bring your own towel! Sauna is optionally available. Coin-operated laundry to get those clothes refreshened. Catering will be provided. In our next info, prices and a day-to-day menu will be included. Junkfood and not-so-junk food will be served at your leisure. Silicone and methane lifeforms make special arrangments. Sleeping area is inside the hall. You will be allowed to sleep next to your beloved computers, and also separate facilities will be available for those who require less noisy environment to sleep in. Also, for those who need something less 'campy', there's a motell next-door with 56 rooms totalling 224 beds. Be warned that these rooms are often filled to the rim with other tourists. Swimminghall, tennishall and so on are available in the Hamar area, but at this time, opening hours at Easter is not available. PARKING Big parking facilities available immediately outside the hall at no extra charge. Will take any kind of possible vehicle you can arrive in. Extraterrastials call ahead for separate reservations. Limousine service available. No car queues at ANY time to the main road, or blocking of fire lanes to the main road. Failure to do so will result in summerily towing, no warnings will be given! There's plenty of parking space, so there's no need for a queue anyhow. DATE Easter'96 System Boot : Tuesday 2 April 1996 00:01 System Shutdown : Saturday 6 April 1996 16:00 For those of you who arrive early, you will not be let in before 0:01. Official openening and the time which every feature will be available is 12:00. PRICE More than 110 hours of party for 200 NOK! (About US$ 30). This requires you to pay in advance. If you wish to pay at the entrance, the fee will be 250,- NOK (About US$ 37). As usual, girls and non-Europeans are let in for *FREE*. ET's also have free entrance, but have to provide their own phones. Prices MIGHT change for the lower, but no promises yet. NETWORK 1500++ Ethernet connections with high speed internal and Internet party network from day 0 at NO EXTRA CHARGE!! The NETWORKS available at the party is: Novell Netware, for fileservices, network gaming (thru the IPX/SPX protocols) and internal chat-lines. Internet for IRC and Telnet sessions. WWW and FTP will be limited due to limitations on system resources. (1500 WWW's is quite demanding). TCP/IP protocols only. For further instructions on how & when, read in later revisions, or contact us. 98% COAX connections, bring your HUB's for TP-connections. You just need a PC with an Ethernet-card, or buy one from us for 250 NOK (US$ 35) (16bits NE2000 cards for ISA-bus only). This is non-profit way for us get YOU onto the network if you don't already have a Ethernet card. You get to keep the card after the party. No rentals or credit plans available. Major body parts acceptable as a shortterm deposit. For the Amiga, special deals with our dealers will be made available. As this feature is not yet properly laid out, contact us for information. POWER Seperate poweroutlet per person, 20 persons per breaker switch. 3000 Amps available instantly, and our special TECH task force will be monitoring the powergrid at all hours. The hall itself is providing this as a courtesy service, so it's not us spending the week putting the power up. It's in place the week BEFORE the party. COMPOS PC, Amiga, C64, demo, intro, music, gfx and wild competitions will be held, plus a few surprises... See separate paragraph for more info. VIDEO Hot new movies and all the old goodies will be shown at regular intervals, 24 hours a day, all week. A special auditorium with 200 quality seats and superb audiovisual equipment provides the quality experience for all of you moviebuffs. If it's good enough for Olympic hot-shots it's certainly good enough for you. SLEEPING Special arrangements with the local fire department allow sleeping inside the hall. (No more sleeping outside in a tent, we're computer freaks and not Grizzly Adam's fans.) You'll be allowed to sleep next to your dear computers. FIRE REGULATIONS See parking and general rules. In case of fire, warnings will be issued over the PA-system and by our guards, there's no need for a panic, as the hall is built to evacuate 19 000 people within 60 seconds. Warnings by alarm systems will be given MANUALLY and will be verified by our guards, so please report any incidents to your nearest guard immediately. The fire dept. is located at the side of the hall, and they will support us to avoid unnecessary firedrills or situations. MEDICAL REGULATIONS Be aware of your own limitations and contact one of our guards if you need assistance. Also be aware of your buddies. Astmatic and diabetic attacks have been observed earlier and will hopefully not occur at Hamar. CONTACT For more detailed ad updated information, you may: Surf the World Wide Web: see our web pages at http://www.crb.oslo.no>http://www.crb.oslo.no http://www.ifi.uio.no/~uwek/Crusaders/TG/>http://www.ifi.uio.no/~uwek/ Crusaders/TG/</a>. You will find links at these web-pages: HTTP://www.ifi.uio.no/~uwek/>HTTP://www.ifi.uio.no/~uwek/ HTTP://www.iu.hioslo.no/~michelt>http://www.iu.hioslo.no/~michelt/ Browse USENET: check out comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos check out alt.sys.amiga.demos check out alt.comp.demoparties.gathering Chat on IRC: any available channel concerning The Scene. Search out: #coders, #amigascene or similar Call a BBS: CRUSADERS BBS +47-22 10 46 46 28.8KBps +47-22 10 08 93 28.8KBps Conference name: TG96 call Infolink BBS at # +47-22 57 16 00 or 04 Conference name: Gathering96 call Countzero BBS at # +47-55 12 29 62 Conference name: Gathering96 call Spacebar BBS at # +47-64 93 34 99 Phone or Email contact Vegard Skjefstad voice: # +47 90119966 24hrs email: vegards@infolink.no or Trond Michelsen voice: # +47 92637891 24hrs email: michelt@iu.hioslo.no or Espen Lyngaas email: espen@team17.com Write to: Crusaders Productions Stasjonsvn. 56 N-2010 Stroemmen Norway< Include complete name and address to receive the OFFICIAL PARTY INVITATION LEAFLET in the mail early in March. For preregistration and travel arrangments (bus-trip organizers, contact us well ahead), call the bulletin boards or drop us a email. See at the end of this info for contact adresses for bus-trips. ------ Competitions ---------------------------------------------------- Competitions As this is only a early invitation, many of the details have been "nailed down". However, this is an ongoing process. Keep posted for more detailed info, so keep in touch. General rules All entries will be presented in the best true form available. The music modules will be put onto DAT and presented from this media. We'll strive to get the highest quality available. The demos and intros will be put onto video (not your ordinarily VHS type though) to allow a smooth running if it's technically possible to do so for the product. To allow us to do this, please follow the written rules: See separate demands for each contest. All entries will be put on one (or more) CDROM(s). Contributions will be awarded royalty from this based upon contribution. All entries MUST be delivered with a FILE_ID.DIZ file describing the production in a detailed way. The file must follow the description below: File_id.diz 45 chars x 8 lines, no colour-ansi's. Type : Title : Version : Author : Competition-type/place : Short description : Eks. 1" FRACTAL DIZZINEZZ A DEMO BY *GROUPNAME* " 2" CODE BY *CODER* - GFX BY: *GRAPHICIAN* " 3" MUSIC BY *MUSICIAN* + OPTIONAL OTHER CREDZ " 4" RELEASED AT: GATHERING 96 2-6 APRIL " 5" " 6" + OTHER OPTIONAL CRAP! " 7" " 8" " USER STANDARD TEXT ONLY!! NO ASCII/ANSI DRAWINGS!! For those of you with an artistic streak, put your efforts into the README.TXT-file. PC contributions general rules 486 DX2-66 or above (Pentium support recommended) 8Mb RAM VGA-register compatible and/or SVGA by VESA 2.0 support or similar Max 10 minutes shown Must run under DOS or Win 95 supporting the following setup: XMS *and* EMS support loaded (HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE) Localized support (that is, normal country-specific codepages etc. supported through normal DOS-commands) CDROM support loaded (using MSCDEX) FILE-ID.DIZ as stated above Maximum 590K conventional memory requirement Standalone executable with or without data files Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter) Exits demo by pressing ESC-key at any time Exits demo at end automatically Must run from harddisk Must run from CD-ROM 2Mb temporary swap-file allowed (this *MUST* be deleted upon exit and written to the root of your C-drive). This file must *NOT* affect any files already present in this directory. Sound rules apply ONLY when the production has sound. PC contributions general testing All demos will be *TESTED* on the following machine: 486DX2-66 8Mb RAM ET-4000 1Mb VGA-card Gravis Ultrasound MAX 1Mb or SB AWE 32 2Mb MS-DOS 7.0 and Windows 95 installed (as MS-DOS 7.0 is included with Windows 95) HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE loaded All demos will be *PRESENTED* run on the following machine: Pentium 90 Diamond Stealth 64 2Mb VRAM card 16Mb RAM Gravis Ultrasound MAX 1Mb or SB AWE 32 2Mb The contributor *MUST* state which card he wishes to run his production with. MS-DOS 7.0 and Windows 95 installed (as MS-DOS 7.0 is included with Windows 95) HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE loaded PC-Demo Max 5 Mbytes (5242880 bytes) total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE_ID.DIZ-file). Gravis Ultrasound *MUST* be supported (and heavily recommended by dozens of coders!) :-D Soundblaster or above *MUST* be supported Silent mode *MUST* be supported (-nosound parameter or menu-choice). The production will be shown with the soundcard of choice by the contributor. (GUS or AWE). Sound rules apply ONLY when the production has sound. PC 4K INTRO Max 4096 bytes total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE_ID.DIZ-file). Gravis Ultrasound or Soundblaster and above supported at your own leisure. Silent mode *MUST* be supported (-nosound parameter or menu-choice). Sound rules apply ONLY when the production has sound. PC 64K INTRO Max 65536 bytes total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE_ID.DIZ-file). Gravis Ultrasound *MUST* be supported (and heavily recommended by dozens of coders!) :-D Soundblaster or above *MUST* be supported Silent mode *MUST* be supported (-nosound parameter or menu-choice). It is OK that the compo-version only supports GUS, but a release version (which can be slightly larger than 64kB) with SB-support has to be delivered together with the compo-version. Max 10 minutes shown Amiga contributions general rules: Amiga 1200/4000 2Mb Chip 4Mb Fast 68020 processor or above Standalone executable with or without data files Max 10 minutes shown Harddisk installable/runnable. Loopable only by choice (-loop parameter) Exits demo at end Exits demo by mouseclick Amiga contributions general testing: All demos will be *TESTED* on the following machine: A1200 2Mb Chip 4Mb Fast-RAM All demos will be *PRESENTED* on the following machine: A1200 with 68030/50MHz accelerator. 2Mb Chip 4Mb Fast-RAM AMIGA DEMO Max 5 Mbytes (5242880 bytes) total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE-ID.DIZ). AMIGA 4K INTRO Max 4096 bytes total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE-ID.DIZ). AMIGA 40K INTRO Max 40960 bytes total disk-size required for all the files in the product (excluding the FILE-ID.DIZ). AMIGA *NOSTALGIA* DEMO The demo must work on an A500 w/Kickstart 1.2 and 512kB memory. The demos should be inspired by the demos from the period 1986-1990. C-64 DEMO C64 standard model 64K RAM (no wonder) 1541 or compatible FDD GRAPHICS Image will be shown for 60 seconds TIFF or IFF formats allowed Max 24 bit color depth (16.7 M colors) Max 1024x768 resolution allowed Any technique(s) allowed, must be stated Machine format unlimited, but adhere to graphics format No colourcycling effects allowed ANIMATION Max 15 minutes shown Contribution must be provided on a harddisk or (S)VHS-tape (Harddisk media will be returned) IFF (to the inclusion of all ANIM-x), FLI, FLC, MOV, AVI or MPG formats allowed Other formats to be supported by the contributors at time of entry into the competition As some differences in formats exists, we recommend that the contributor have a workable player/platform available Max 24 bit color depth (16.7 M colors) Max 800x600 resolution allowed Any technique(s) allowed, must be stated on competition entry form Contributions may be presented with a commercially available soundtrack chosen by the author(s) 4 CHANNEL MUSIC Max 4 minutes will be played Max 4 channels Entry must be delivered in MOD-format Please state WHICH tracker used, so the optimalization of playback will made as efficient as possible Entries will be played on a A1200 with 2Mb Chip, 4Mb Fast The contributions played for the voting will be recorded onto DAT and played from this media. Max size is 800kB (in playable format, exluding the FILE-ID.DIZ file) The final presentation before the public will be run from a DAT-recording. MULTICHANNEL MUSIC Max 4 minutes will be played Max 32 channels S3M, MOD, PAC, XM, IT and AMS formats allowed The modules will be played back using the latest version of the tracker it was composed with. All entries must state which tracker was used for composition. Max size of module is 1.44Mb (the size of one STANDARD HD-formatted DOS-disk) including the FILE-ID.DIZ file Entries will be played on a choice of Gravis Ultrasound Max or AWE32 according to the composers wish. The final presentation before the public will be run from a DAT-recording. WILD!! Max 15 minutes shown Bring your own hardware and *contact us* SCREENSAVE COMPO Windows or Windows 95 *.SCR format Amiga Garschne blanker or similar Macintosh After Dark-format Other formats by providing similar support This compo will be judge by a 100% female jury. MACHINE DESIGN External design (Colours, art, features or similar) Internal design (Colours, art, features or similar) USELESS UTILTY COMPO Well, the name is enuff!!! CODER-HAT COMPO Design Features Wearability Power-consumption GROUP T-SHIRT COMPO Slogan Design Wearability WET T-shirt allowed Other Compos Soccer-compo, Frogger-compo, C-Robot AI Compo (PC/Amiga/Unix/SGI/HP/SUN) Poetry/limerick computer compo Descent/Doom/Worms/Deadly Skies/Command & Conquer/Netgames competitions ------ Transport ------------------------------------------------------- How to get there: From Oslo: Drive E6 north (towards Trondheim) from Oslo for about 75 minutes, and follow the signs to "Vikingskipet Olympic Arena". The road sign reads: "Olympia-hallen" on a sign which is rectangular, has a white background and black print. If you miss it, make your driver wear thicker glasses! If you miss it twice, make your driver wear dark sunglasses and white cane. Trains for Hamar depart from Oslo Central station every hour, the hall is located a small walk away from the station. Bus transports will be scheduled, contact us for booking information. Look at the end of this info for contact persons concerning bus-trips. If you arrive by plane or boat in Norway, follow the above directions from Oslo or call us for further instructions. From Trondheim or northern Norway: Drive E6 South (towards Oslo) and follow the signs again. From Sweden or Finland: Drive until you hit E6 in Norway and turn either South or North depending on your location. Ask the nearest gas station. As several hundred thousand people made it during the Olympics, and nearly every person in Norway know where Hamar/Vikingskipet is, ASK!!! Map will be available at a later date at WEB-site and in the written invitation. ------ Rules ---------------------------------------------------------- General rules that really should be obvious... Fireregulations allow us sleep inside the hall (in fact, the fire dept. is at the side of the hall, so they'll watch over us). HOWEVER, parking regulations provides the following: No car queues at ANY time to the main road, or blocking of fire lanes to the main road. Failure to do so will result in summerily towing, no warnings will be given!! There's plenty of parking space, so there's no need for a queue anyhow. Political, racist and religious activities will not be tolerated. The organizers reserve EXCLUSIVE right to determine what will be tolerated or not. Commercial activity or trading will not be allowed without prior written permission from the organizers. (And a proper bribe of course). Alcohol, drugs, firearms, projectile weapons, fireworks and nuclear devices not intended for transportation are not allowed inside or immediately outside the hall. No flammable unnecessary material allowed. This includes gas-containers or similar. We will not be held responsible for damaged or stolen property. Software piracy, hacking and illegal swapping will not be tolerated. Hacking the network is probably fun, but so is living the rest of your life without any testicles!! Remember!! Norwegians eat Rudolf's testicles for X-mas. ------ Technical Stuff ------------------------------------------------- All electrical equipment must be properly put together following normal electrical regulations. Equipment not following this easy rule will not be allowed to hook up to the power grid. Microwave ovens, grills, toasters, refridgerators, electric chairs and other equipment that may cause electrical noise, power surges or electrocutive experiences will not be allowed inside the party hall. The party network will be based upon a 100 Mbit backbone. However, we will only be able to connect you to it via standard 10 Mbit COAX BNC connections at each table. IPX/SPX and IP protocols are the only protocols supported. ANY AND ALL physical network connections are to be made by TECHNET crew personell. The only thing you should do yourself is installling your own networkclient at your workstation. The Tech Crew will be provide assistance for those who need it to get you onto the network. Tampering with the network or power system will not be accepted!! Time and technical restrictions makes this a FRIENDSHIP rule. ------ Alternative Easter ----------------------------------------------- Why not combine THE GATHERING with your normal Easter holiday? About two hours of driving from Hamar, you find HAFJELL and KVITFJELL, the arenas that hosted the alpine diciplines during the 1994 Winter Olympics. These are two of Scandinavia's most modern alpine centers today, well suited for those family members who don't want to spend the entire week indoor. As well is Hamar a tourist site in itself. Olympics arenas and scenic nature is just part of what makes Hamar interesting. For those of you above 18, Hamar also provides a semi-interesting nightlife. Remember that drunken bastards will not be let into the hall, so behave yourself a bit. -------- KANDU -------------------------------------------------------- KANDU (Kreativ Aktiv Norsk Data Ungdom) would translate into "Creative Active Norwegian Computer Youth" was formed by Crusaders, Cryptoburners, ATC and a few other groups in order to show people outside the scene what we are capable of, a vital step in the process of getting economical support for a project of this magnitude. End Of Transmission - Shady/Crusaders END ---