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Party Invitations The Party 5 is over and new parties are being arran- ged all over Europe. Normally Skyhigh bring the invi- tations,(if there are any, that is!!), and guess what: I have had the luck to lay my sweatty hand on 2 (two) invitations for computer parties in the spring. The 1st was brought as a small preview in the previous issue of this magazine. I am naturally talking about the SYMPOSIUM '96 in Germany. The second invitation is from Norway, where you are invited to TG96 or maybe better known as; The Gathering 1996. I haven't recieved any information about the Tribute so far, but I presume that the organizers of this event will send me the material as soon as it is given free for the masses (or rather a little before). This was one for you Per - he he! As soon as I know some- thing you will be the first ones to know. Well, why don't we just jump right into it. -------------------------------------------- S Y M P O S I U M '96 S Y M P O S I U M '96 WHAT? ----- This invitation, which was taken from a flyer spread on the Party 5, wants to tell you that there will be a very delicious computer demo festival in 1996, invol- ving all the platforms which are important in the guild of demomakers namely: Amiga, PC, C64, Archimedes and Atari ST/Falcon, which you should consider twice at least if you can afford to miss it... WHO!! ---- This event is held by three of the most experienced party organizers in Germany, the people behind the 680XX Convention, The Black Box Symposium 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 making everything together and better than ever! The groups involved are : Polka Brothers, Lego Club, Phantasm (for Amiga), Avena, Absence (for Atari) and OXYRON (for C64) WHEN? ----- Eastern 1996, from April 5th (12.00 CET) to April 8th (12.00 CET) That covers 4 days of fun and experience! WHERE!? ------ Facilities consists of a nice convention center called "Burg Seevetal" and is located in the very near of Hamburg, germany. You can reach it via everything. If you're going to come by train, you have to reach Hamburg Hauptbahn- hof (main station) and take the S3 or S31 to Harburg, where we will pick you up by the Symposium shuttle service. Coming by plane, use the bus shuttle service to the station Ohlsdorf, wait for the U1, get to Ham- burg Hauptbahnhof and, again, take the S3/S31 to reach Harburg. If you arrive by ship, then you'll have to take the U3 at Landungsbruecken to reach the Hauptbahnhof. If you come by spaceship, there is a big area on the other side of the Symposium conven- tion center; please try to land it there. In the case you own a car you shoul take a look at the map. (Hmm this will be quite difficult to do here, but I'll try to write a few hints down. (Eventhough the card is very cryptic to me!). Well I give it a try: BAB A 1 = Abfahrt Hittfeld, direction : Veranstaltungszentrum. BAB A 7 = Abfahrt Fleestedt, direction Hittfelder Landstrasse/ Veranstaltungszentrum.. - did that give any sence!! Nah I thought so - bk!!) COMPOS? ------- Yes, a lot! Not only demo- and intro-competitions for all the different computer systems and the usual module-, multichannel- and Gfx-compos are included. There will also be compos for video demos, a wild compo, a coding compo (4k-intro), and so on. 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! The prices will entirely consist of sponsored stuff, just like at the former Symposiums. For more detailed info concerning them, or about conditions for the competition entries, see CONTACT.. PLUS ---- a number of surprises like the prominent guests from software houses and computer companies, quiz games, nude girls (YES!!! - he he, bk!) and much more attrac- tions. CONTACT ------- the Symposium '96 organizer team, if you wanna know more. WWW-PAGE: WWW-PAGE: http://134.28.37.10/-frank/bbx-sym96/bbx96.html ORGANIZERS E-MAIL: ORGANIZERS E-MAIL: gandalf*blackbox.shnet.org rawstyle*online.fire.dbn.dinet.com CrashPb*aol.com chaos (ii9621*fh-wedel.de) SNAIL MAIL: SNAIL MAIL: Frank Schliefer, Am musterplatz 27, D-21220 Seevetal BBS BBS +49(0)4105/84619 - +49(0)4105/8494 +49(0)4105/669012 - +49(0)4105/669011 (isdn) -------------------------------------------- After this, the first one, I will jump directly to the next one in line. -------------------------------------------- T H E G A T H E R I N G 1996 T H E G A T H E R I N G 1996 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 you complaints about bad choice of locations, loss of power, poor networking, expensive entry fees, prizes that weren't paid until many months after party and so forth... AND WE CORRECTED THEM ALL (well, most of them any- way). By using professional companies instead of do- ing everything ourselves, everything you need for a great party will be there. IN TIME, IN PLACE and IN A WORKABLE ORDER. Together with some of the largest companies around we're going to make THE GATHERING 1996 more fun, more nonstop action, more no-holds barred computer action than any other party! Just a pie in the sky? Read on... LOCATION: -------- "VIKINGESKIPET" 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!!) 12.000 square meters of pure pleasure (the same size as 3 soccer fields or 3000 tabletennis tables). 3000+ seats, tables & SEPERATE poweroutlets avai- lable. Every person gets a seat, every person gets a tablespace and every person gets his own grounded poweroutlet. (1 outlet per person, bring your own grounded multiple power outlets to have more than item connected at a time!). More than 20 seperate wardrobes with 4-10 showers per wardrobe. Don't panic, bring your own towel. Catering will be provided. Junkfood and not-so-junk food will be served at your leisure. Silicone and me- thane lifeforms make special arrangements. PARKING: ------- Big parking facilities available immidiately outside the the hall at no extra charge. Will take any kind of possible vehicle you can arrive in. Extraterrastials call ahead for seperate reservations. Limousine ser- vice available. DATE: ---- Easter'96 Sytem Boot: Tuesday 2 April 1996 00:01 am System Shutdown: Saturday 6 April 1996 11:59 am PRICE: ----- More than 130 hours of party for maximum 200 NOK (About US$ 20) As usual, girls and non-Europeans are let in for *FREE*. ET's also have free entrance but have to bring 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!! 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 to 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 shortterm deposit! POWER: ----- Seperate poweroutlet per person, 20 persons per breaker switch. 3000 Amps available instantly, and our TECH task force will be monitoring the powergrid at all hours. The hall itself is providing this as a cortesy service, so it's not us pending the week put- ting the power up. It's in place the week BEFORE the party. COMPOS: ------ PC demo, Amiga demo, PC 4K intro, Amiga 40K intro, graphics, animation, 4 channel music, multi channel music, WILD!, C64, screensaver compo, machine design, useless utility compo, coder hat compo, group t-shirt compo, 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. VIDEO: ----- Hot new movies and all the old goodies will be shown at regular intervals, 24 hours a day, all week. A spe- cial auditorium with 200 quality seats and superb audiovisual equipment provides quality experience for all of you moviebuffs. It's good enough for Olym- pic 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 out- side in a tent; we're computer freaks, not the Grizzly Adam's fans!) CONTACT: ------- For more detailed arrangements and updated infor- mation you may: - see our web pages at http://www.comming.soon - call CRUSADERS BBS at #+47-22 10 46 46 #+47-22 10 08 93 - Call Infolink BBS at #+47-22 57 16 00 or 04 conference name: Gathering96 - Contact Vegard Skjefstad voice at: #+47-90 11 99 66 or Geir Allstedt voice #+47-90 08 64 88 - Ctx: john.enger*sentralledelsen.posten.telemax.no Write to: CRUSADERS PRODUCTIONS CRUSADERS PRODUCTIONS Stasjonsvn. 56 N-2010 Stroemmen Norway HOW TO GET THERE: --------------- From Oslo: - Drive E6 north (towards Trondheim) from Oslo for about 75 minutes, and follow the signs to "Vikinge- skipet Olympic Arena". If you miss it, make sure your driver wear larger glasses! If you miss it twice, make sure your driver wear dark sunglasses and a white cane. - Trains from Hamar depart from Oslo Central station every hour, the hall is located bout 500 meters from the station. - Bus transports will be scheduled, contact us for booking information. - If you arrive by plane or boat in Norway, follow the above mentioned directions from Oslo, or call us for further informations. From Trondheim or northern Norway: - Drive E6 south (towards Oslo) and follo 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 nearets gas station. As several hundred thousand people made it during the Olympics, and nearly every person in Norway know where Hama/Vikingeskipet is, ASK!!!! RULES: ----- General rules that really should be obvious... 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, fire- works and nuclear devices not intended for trans- portation are not allowed inside or immediately out- side the hall. We will not be hel 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 testicles!!!! Remember!! Norwegians eat Rudolf's testicles for X-mas. Technical stuff All electrical equipment must be properly put to- gether following normal electrical regulations. Equip ment not following this easy rule will not be allowed to hook up to the power grid. Microwaves, ovens, grills, toaters, refridgerators, electric chairs and other equipment that may cause electrical noise, power surges or electricutive ex- periences will not be allowed inside the party hall! The party network will be based upon a 100 Mbit back bone. 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 proto- cols supported. ANY AND ALL network connections are to be made by TECHNET crew personell. The only thing you should do yourself is installing your own networkclient at your workstation. The Tech Crew will provide assistance for those of you who need it to get onto the network. Tampering with the network or power system will not be accepted!!! Time and technical restrictions makes this a FRIENDSHIP rule!! Last but not least. Remember, this is only a preliminary invitation file, and all information stated above may be subject to change without notice. If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to contact us at sta- ted elsewhere in this document. -------------------------------------------- Yep that's it for now. Only bad thing I can say about these two events is, that they are running of stable on almost the exact same time. A shame really. Now they are kinda competitors. But hey, you can't win'em all - can you!!! I hope we will meet at one of the parties. I will see to, that I get the money for a trip. So I guess all there is to it is to say, c'ya!! BIZ KID
