Use RMB or Spacebar to toggle the text THE PARTY! Abduction#96 will be held in 7-9th of June, in Oulu, Finland.The party will start at 10:00 (Friday) and end at around 13:00 (Sunday). The partyplace itself is a big school called Pohjankartano . It#s located less than 800 meters away from the center of Oulu . Oulu is a nice , relatively big city in the northern Finland. You can get there easily by bus, train,aeroplane or your own car. There are a lot of nice fast food places, restaurants and motels all over the city. Public transportation works fine so that moving around the city is not a problem. GENERAL The entrance fee is 100 FIM (about 22 USD). Girls get in for free as usual. When you pay the entrance fee, you receive a voting disk (it#s PC format but at the partyplace there are PCs for public use). The voting system is very similar to the experimental system we used last year (you liked it!); the audience is able to see how the counting of votes proceeds, because the current situation scrolls on the bigscreen in real-time! At the partyplace there are bathrooms, electricity, sleeping places and tables for everybody . A 24h/day snackbar sells food and freshments The prices are low. There are a lot of good security guards, so that it#s very unlikely that nothing big and valuable gets stolen or damaged. There are two very high-quality video projectors and two big screens. The PA system is very powerful also. We highly encourage you to take all your computer equipment (microwave oven is not computer equipment!) , girlfriends and friends with you. Take your own electric cords with you (especially if you bring a lot of stuff), so that electricity is 100[ guaranteed. Bring banners, posters and T-shirts which say who you are. It makes the partyplace look better and other people will recognize you and your group. AT THE PARTYPLACE YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO... - break anything. If you cause damage, you PAY for it. - use (or possess) drugs, alcohol, weapons (not even waterpistols!). - smoke. Outside there is a special place for smokers. - sell hardware without organizers# permission. - sell or distribute "warez". We don#t forbid all the fun stuff just because we are arseholes, but because most of it is against Finnish law and our insurance company#s and sponsors# will. There are no exceptions. If you break the rules we may take your ticket aw- -ay and throw you out - even without warning you first ( if you really fuc!* up). SHEDULE Minor changes are possible (not likely, though) and you will be informed about them (see registration). Friday, 7th of June 10:00 Doors open 16:00 Fast music competition registration ends 17:00 Fast music competition 18:00 Fast graphics competition 19:30 Organizers choose people for the jury (music/graphics) 20:00 Deadline for music/graphics competitions Classic demos on the bigscreen Saturday, 8th of June 0:00 Music/graphics competitions The best fast music/graphics competition entries are shown/played 10:00 Magic The Gathering tournament begins Anagram competition begins (Time to test your production on the competition machine) 17:30 Organizers choose people for the jury (demo/intro) 18:00 Deadline for demo/intro compos 20:00 Magic The Gathering tournament ends Anagram competition ends Sunday, 9th of June 0:00 Demo/intro competitions PC intro Amiga demo PC demo (A short break for voting) Counting of votes Winners are announced 8:00 Re-run (top 3 of every category) 13:00 Doors close... Use RMB or Spacebar to toggle the text SPECIAL EVENTS Fast music/graphics competitions will be held on Friday afternoon. Fast music competition rules: In order to attend fast music competition, you have to submit us an empty and error- free disk (3,5" DD or HD, PC formatted) before the registration ends at 16:00. When the competition starts, you receive a disk with a small number of samples. The idea is to compose a song using ONLY those samples. You have 45 minutes time. All standard module formats (S3M,XM,MOD, etc.) are allowed. Fast graphics competition rules: You simply draw a picture. The subject will be given by us when the competition starts. You have 45 minutes time. The picture can be signed . All standard picture formats (LBM, GIF, PCX, TGA,etc.) are allowed. A jury will check all entries and decide who win. The best entries will be shown/ played after music/graphics competitions. A special prize will be given to that creep (or a bunch of creeps) whose clothing (or lack of it) manages to impress or shock the organizers most. So find something extremely stupid or funny to wear. On Saturday there will be a Magic the Gathering tournament. Those who have a ticket for Abduction#96 get in for free. Read MTG.TXT for more informa- tion about this tournament. Last year there was an anagram compet- ition. People liked it and therefore we arrange it again . The rules are very simple: On Saturday morning we give you a word or phrase (it probably has something to do with the party or demoscene) and you use your imagination. THE COMPETITION This year we tried something completely different and arranged a voting.You were able to vote for your favourite compet- ition machines using WWW forms or email. We expected that a lot of people would visit the homepage of Abduction#96 and vote. But ONLY less than 100 out of 1500 visitors voted. Shame on you, people! We have made our final decisions now. As you can see, we had to make a compro- mise. Read VOTING.TXT if you want to see some figures and explanations. Competition machines are: 486DX4/120 and A1200/060. 486DX4/120 - specs - DOS 6.2 - 8 Megabytes of RAM - Fast videocard (PCI or VLB, at least 1 Mb) - Gravis Ultrasound Max (1 Mb) /SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 - Several configurations (clean, HIMEM, HIMEM+EMM386) - 580 kilobytes of free basememory A1200/060 - specs - OS 3.1 - 2 Megabytes of CHIP RAM + 16 Megabytes of FAST RAM - Blizzard 1260 - 68060/50MHz NOTE: Since we are using a brand new A1200 from Amiga Technologies, note this: one of the hardware features, the DSKRDY line, which was present on all previous drives used in the A1200,is not supported by the mechanism used in new machines. So, programmers take note: do NOT try to use calls to DSKRDY anymore. In order to attend a music or graphics competition, the author(s) of contribution must be present at the partyplace. What comes to the demo and intro competitions, at least one member of the group must be present at the partyplace. In every competition a jury will decide which contributions make their way to the finals. The minimum number of entries shown/played in the finals is fifteen(15). All productions that compete must be ready for distribution. We will up- load all productions into popular demo sites/boards as the party is over. Therefore we hope that you submit us your production with proper info- texts and a FILE_ID.DIZ. By entering any competition you give us a permission to include your production on Abduction#96 CD-ROM (if CD-ROM will ever be made, who knows). Royalties will be paid to the authors of best productions (top 3?). All the profit - if any - will be used to make Abduction#97 even cooler party. You don#t have to support both Gravis Ultrasound and Soundblaster, but it is highly recommended. Real coders don#t have problems with that. We will announce the prizes as soon as we know how many abductees and productions (in each category) there will be. Anyway, the prizes will be excellent (we#re expecting 500+ abductees). Organizers reserve a right to make changes in competition rules if necessary. Organizers also reserve a right to disqualify a contribution if it is either previously released or contains material that may upset other people (e.g. racism). PC demo competition rules: - the maximum size of demo in executable form is 4096 kilobytes - VESA 2.0 modes (up to 640x480x16,7M) are allowed, but 100[ VGA register compatible videomode(s) must be supported - pure animation files are not allowed - demo must not save anything on the HD - demo must work without any kind of inter- -action (except setup) - only the first 15 minutes of the demo will be shown - one must be able to quit demo by pressing ESC - demo must work without sound / a sound card, too Amiga demo competition rules: - the maximum size of demo in executable form is 4096 kilobytes - demo must not save anything on the disk - pure animation files are not allowed - demo must be hard disk installable - demo must work without any kind of inter- action (except setup) - only the first 10 minutes of the demo will be shown - one must be able to quit demo by click- ing the mouse PC intro competition rules: - the maximum size of intro in an exe- cutable form is 64 kilobytes - VESA 2.0 modes (up to 640x480x16,7M) are allowed, but 100[ VGA register compatible videomode(s) must be supported - pure animation files are not allowed - intro must work without sound / a sound card, too - intro must work without any kind of inter- -action (except setup) - one must be able to quit intro by pressing ESC - only the first 10 minutes of the intro will be shown Graphics competition rules: - maximum resolution is 640x480, 256 colors out of 16,7 Million - pictures must be in standard LBM, PCX, TGA or GIF format - scanned, raytraced or ripped pictures are NOT allowed! - submit two versions of the picture (one WITH your signature, one WITHOUT it) - only one picture from one artist - picture drawn with Amiga pictures will be shown using Amiga; and pictures drawn with PC will be shown using PC Music competition rules: - both 4-channel and multichannel modules compete in this category - all standard formats are allowed (such as S3M, XM and MOD) - the maximum number of channels is 32 - only the first 4 minutes of the song will be played - only one song from one artist - Amiga modules will be played using Amiga (ProTracker v2.x); PC modules will be played using PC equipped with Gravis Ultrasound Max (1 Mb) - no MIDI songs - maximum size of the module is 1024kb Use RMB or Spacebar to toggle the text ANY QUESTION??? All questions and comments about Amiga demo competition can be directed to the Amiga organizer, Karpow/Scoopex: Mail: Seppo Seppala Korpikylantie 245 61980 Pantane Finland Phone: +358-(9)63-2324183/Seppo Email: karpow@kauhajoki.fi PPARTYLAN At the partyplace you can hook you machine into the PartyLAN. The server is Novell NetWare based and its HDD (4 Gigabytes) is full of demo-related material and extra stuff for network games (no illegal material at all). We try to arrange a lot of cables (thin Ethernet) and connectors (BNC), but bring your own cables, connectors and network drivers - just to make sure that you can get connected. REGISTRATION If there are any late changes concerning the party, we inform all registred people about them (using Email). Use the WWW form (preferred) on the homepage of Abduction#96 to register. You can also send some Email to Makrus:(makrus@iki.fi) if you can#t access WWW. Homepage (Netscape Enhanced): Http://www.hut.fi/~maurala/abduction.html ABDUCTION ORGANIZING RY Abduction Organizing ry is a society which consists of people who are involved in this project. The Finnish law forbids the society and its members to gain any profit; all the money and Hardware we manage to raise will be given away as competition prices (of course we pay the rent, insurance fee and possible damages first). Mail: c/o Ilkka Jauho Urputie 17 96190 Rovaniemi Finland Phone (home): +358-(9)60-393902/Ilkka +358-(9)60-393954/Ari Phone (cellular): +358-(9)40-5404704/Ilkka +358-(9)40-5530503/Ari +358-(9)40-5502719/Markus Fax: +358-(9)60-393902 Email: makrus@iki.fi synapse@triplex.fipnet.fi Send some Email to makrus@iki.fi if you want to get an answer fast. And if you call us, try cellulars first because we are not too often at home. SPONSORS ABDUCTION#96 is sponsored by: POMI Center Laatumikro Oy (main sponsor) Telecom Finland Ltd Novell Finland Ltd Without their support there would be no Abduction#96. Support them! DISCLAIMER Organizers reserve a right to change the rules if it is found necessary. We are NOT responsible for your stuff, but we have a lot of good security though. If the happening gets cancelled by a fire, riot, earthquake or similar, we don#t have to pay your entrance fee back. How to get abducted??? Ninja/SCOOPEX: Jean-Pierre SAVARI Bt C, Cite Georges-Clemenceau 91750 CHEVANNES FRANCE Made/BOMB: 98, rue des Orteaux 75020 PARIS FRANCE Oxbow/SCOOPEX: Music Concept B.P 42 02880 CROUY FRANCE Enjoy CYBERIA !!! Vote for us !