Skyhigh 21 Assembly 96 party invitation

Assembly 96 party invitation




ASSEMBLY 96
ASSEMBLY 96

6th to 18th of August in the Helsinki Fair centre


=== Opening words ===

You are now reading the invitation info file for Assem
bly'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 infor-
mation" chapter later in this text file.

=== Where and when ===

Assembly '96 will be held in Finland's largest confe-
rence centrum, called as the Helsinki Fair centre. The
fair centre is located in central Helsinki. the street
address of the fair centre is Rautatiela Isenkatu 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 (sun-
day).
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 buil
ding complex.

=== 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, other-
wise 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 a-
round $2 to $4 us. The taxi is of course more expen-
sive. For example to take a normal taxi from the air-
port 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 firststop (Pasila) and you can
see the Helsinki fair centre from there.

=== Competitions ===

The organizers reserve the right to make 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 at-
tend the competitions and to receive possible prizes.
In solo competitions the author has to be present.

=== Wild competition ===

-The productions can be anything from computer ge-
nerated animations, demos on ancient or exotic com-
puters 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 casset-
te (european pal format). The cassette will not be
returned.

-No copyrighted material or material that violates
Finnish or international laws is allowed in the pro-
duction.

-Maximum 30 productions will be shown on the big
screen during the night between saturday and sun-
day.

=== Commodore 64 competitions: general rules: ===

-Only one contribution from each group/artist is ac-
cepted for each competition serie.

-Contributions must be 100% finished before the dead
line, because we will copy and spread all of them at
the party. This is just to avoid final versions being
released monthsor 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 ima-
gination 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 is not necessary to proceed is highly recom-
mended. If, however, your demo should require any
user interaction, we want a person from the contri-
buting 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 con-
tributing 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. Back-
ground music is acceptable (not recommendable,
though), but during the competition no-one will hear
it (audio equipment will be turned off).

-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.

=== Ruless for c64 music competition: ===

-The tune must be an executable file.

-Only your imagination's the limit; samples are ofcoz
accepted.

-Each tune will be played for max. 3 minutes (this
doesn't mean you'ld 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
DEADBEAT/THE SHARKS

MYSDEE/THE SHARKS
MYSDEE/THE SHARKS

HAZOR/BEYOND FORCE
HAZOR/BEYOND FORCE


=== Special competitions: ===

We will have all traditional assembly special compe-
titions. The competitions include for example soccer,
disk throwing and modem throwing.

=== 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 break
ing 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 in-
cludes only the preliminary list of the prizes (the
final lists will be published at the party place). Also
keep in mind that the money exchange rates also af-
fect 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.

=== Commodore 64 competition prizes: ===

In the C64 competitions we will give only cash as fol
lows:

#:    Demo:        Graphics:        Music:
--   -----        --------        -----
1 .    $400         $200            $200
2.    $150          $75             $75
3.    $50           $25                $25


=== Party features ===

Next is a list of most important features at our party:

* Audio and video *

The main hall is equipped with a powerful sound sys-
tem. 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 being remonted dis year).
The sound proofing isn't as good as last year, but
sleeping isn't mandatory in 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'll be 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 per-
sonnel. Also 24h help desk with friendly personnel
will be available to help you out with any problems u
might encounter. Plenty of toilets and some showers
will be available. Cool party T-shirts will be sold for
low price.

* 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 week
end 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.

=== Asm'96 Cd-rom ===

All the participating pieces of art from the competi-
tions 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.

=== Asm'96 tickets ===

* 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 u
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.

* Where can I buy my tickets *

You can buy your advance ticket from Assembly or-
ganizing. Groups that want to get the group discount
and computerplace reservations have to be bought in
advance from Assembly organizing. If your group buy
10 or more tickets at the same time you will receive
the 10% group discount from the ticket prizes. To or-
der 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.

* Why I should buy a ticket in advance? *

If you buy your ticket in advance you have the possi
bility to use group discount of 10%. You have the pos
sibility for group discount if you buy more than 10
tickets at a time. Also the table reservation is possi
ble 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 a special door in the first
day of Assembly '96 where you can get your computer
in most conviniently.

=== 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/prizegiving ceremony
- 1700 prize giving ceremony ends
- 2000 doors close - Assembly '96 s over

=== Disclaimer ===

We don't take any responsibility on the safety of the
equipment  people bring to the party place. We sug-
gest 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 Fin-
nish 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 piratism
allowed in the party place <

=== Contact information ===

You can reach us by many means according to the fol
lowing list:


voice:             assembly org.   +358-0-777 374
www:              http://www.assembly.org/assembly96
e-mail:           assembly_40assembly.org
irc:              #asm96

normal mail:   Assembly '96
Lakkisepantie 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


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Yep that's it. This invitation was released as a note
on the PC. I got it from Graham of Oxyron (Thanx !!!). I
shortened it a bit to scratch all the un-interessting
text. It was then wired to the C64 and edited once
more. What a fucking job!!! But hey that's life right!

Ok I am outta here....

BIZ KID