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                      Helsinki, Finland, 5th - 7th August

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³   ACCESSION ù FUTURE CREW ù THE MOVEMENT ù SONIC PC ù CARILLON & CYBERIAD   ³
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   Sponsored by:
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³    ADVANCED GRAVIS  ù  ID SOFTWARE  ù  EPIC MEGAGAMES  ù  SSI  ù  TEAM17    ³
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³   TOPTRONICS  ù DATA SERVICE  ù  TERTON  ù  PC SUPERSTORE  ù  TERRAMARQUE   ³
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                 - - - - - - - OPENING WORDS - - - - - - -

        Again the time for the biggest summer demo party is closing fast!
  If great competitions, drinking a LOT of Coke, spending sleepless nights,
  making great deals with some computer companies, meeting all your friends
  on the scene and having a great time is what you're after, you just can't
  miss Asm'94!

        This time the party will be held in the very center of Helsinki, the
  capital of Finland, from the 5th to the 7th of August. There will be
  competitions for Amiga and PC, and thanks to our many sponsors, the prizes
  will be amazing!

        This textfile is just a kind of a preliminary information package for
  the people on the scene. We will release another invitation intro later in
  which the final information about all the rules, etc. will be included.

        Anyway, just keep on reading to see what we have to offer!




                 - - - - - - - COMPETITIONS - - - - - - -

        As this text file is just the preliminary info, there might be some
  changes to the final competition rules. The organizers reserve the right
  to make any changes to the competition rules, and to disqualify any
  entry if it is not suitable to attend the competitions for some reason.

        All competitors have to be present at the party place in order to
  attend the competitions and to receive the possible prizes (or at least
  one of the authors of a competing piece of art).

        In the graphics competition on both Amiga and PC, and also in the
  4kb intro competition on PC, the competition version of the entry must
  not display the author's name in any way. This is to prevent the author's
  name from affecting the vote. After the announcement of the results, the
  versions which are spread can include the author's signature. In the music
  competition on both Amiga and PC, we will not show the author's name while
  we play the song in the competition.

        "Maximum running length" below is only the amount of time we will
  show a particular piece of art on the big screen.

        The demos/intros will have to run without ANY user interaction
  once started.



        THE VOTING SYSTEM:

        We will use a disk voting system. Once you enter the party place, you
        will be given the voting disk, which will include the voting program.
        It's not certain yet if the disks will be dual-format (both Amiga&PC
        compatible) or if we are going to have separate Amiga and PC
        compatible voting disks.

        You will be able to give your opinion on The Five Best in all compe-
        titions, both on the Amiga and PC.

        But before you can give your opinion, a jury composed of known
        scene people (maybe even you!) will select a certain (yet unknown)
        amount of entries in each competition to the finals (to be shown
        on the big screen).

        We will give more details about the voting system in the next invi-
        tation intro.



        PC COMPETITION RULES:

        The competition machine we will use:
                        - i486DX2/66 with 4 MB of RAM
                        - MS-DOS 6.20
                        - Tseng Labs ET-4000/w32 Local Bus VGA card
                        - 1 MB Gravis UltraSound sound card or
                          original Sound Blaster Pro 2.0

        If your demo supports some other sound card, bring it with you.

        If your demo/intro requires a memory manager, it would be suitable
        if it worked under either MS-DOS 6.20's HIMEM alone, HIMEM+EMM386
        or under QEMM v7.03. Otherwise bring all necessary memory managers
        and a boot disk with you (the demo/intro will still be loaded from
        hard disk).

        All intros (64kb & 4kb), pictures and songs will be spread at the
        party place after the announcement of the results. In the demo
        competition we will give exactly ONE MONTH of time for the demo
        groups to finish and release their demos, otherwise we will release
        the competition version of the demo.


                 DEMO   - Maximum size in executable form is 4096 kb
                        - Maximum running length is 15 minutes
                        - Only 100% VGA register level compatible
                          graphics modes are accepted (no SVGA)
                        - Pure animation files are not accepted

                INTRO   - Maximum size in executable form is 64 kb
                        - Maximum running length is 7 minutes
                        - Only 100% VGA register level compatible
                          graphics modes are accepted (no SVGA)
                        - Pure animation files are not accepted

            4KB-INTRO   - Maximum size in executable form is 4096 bytes
                        - Maximum running length is 3 minutes
                        - NO MUSIC or other sound is allowed
                        - Only 100% VGA register level compatible
                          graphics modes are accepted (no SVGA)
                        - Only one intro by one coder

                MUSIC   - Maximum amount of channels is 32
                        - Maximum size of the song is 1024 kb
                        - Maximum running length is 3 minutes
                        - Bring your own player, if the format is
                          not compatible with existing players
                        - If the song is a MIDI song, bring the
                          samples and everything that is needed
                          to play the song with you
                        - Only one song by one musician

             GRAPHICS   - The graphics modes supported are:
                                ù 320x200, 256 colors
                                ù 320x240, 256 colors
                                ù 320x400, 256 colors
                                ù 360x480, 256 colors
                                ù 640x350, 16 colors
                                ù 640x480, 16 colors
                                + all other 100% 256kb VGA
                                  compatible modes
                        - The palette is the standard VGA palette
                          with 262144 colors
                        - If the picture can not be shown using
                          VPIC or CSHOW, bring your own viewer
                          (the picture can be an executable file)
                        - Scanned, ripped and raytraced pictures
                          will be disqualified
                        - Only one picture by one graphics artist



        AMIGA COMPETITION RULES:

        The competition machine is a A1200 with 2 megs chip + 2 megs
        fast.

        Note! All competition entries must be autobootable!

                 DEMO   - Maximum size is 4 disks
                        - May work only from hard disk, so you
                          must leave it in on disks that contain
                          a hard disk installer for the demo
                        - Maximum running length is 10 minutes

                INTRO   - Maximum size in executable form is 40 kb
                        - Maximum running length is 5 minutes

                MUSIC   - Maximum size is one disk
                        - Maximum running length is 3 minutes
                        - Only one song by one musician

             GRAPHICS   - The picture may be in any AGA resolution
                        - Scanned, ripped and raytraced pictures
                          will be disqualified
                        - Only one picture by one graphics artist



        SPECIAL COMPETITIONS:

        We will have all traditional Assembly special competitions and
        some new ones. The competitions include for example soccer,
        disk-throwing (Asm-record: 96m), modem-throwing, etc.




                 - - - - - - - THE PRIZES - - - - - - -

        As said before, the prizes will be the best yet, both in the
  Amiga and PC competitions. Here we have included the preliminary list
  of the prizes we will have. If there are any changes after the release
  of this information file, they should only be to the better.

        The actual prizes may be software, hardware or pure cash. This
  depends on our sponsors and how many people pay the entrance fee. The
  following list includes only the US dollar values of each prize. Also
  keep in mind that the money exchange rates also affect this list (at
  the time of the writing of this text file one US dollar was 5,5 finnish
  marks).

        We will include the more detailed prize lists in the second
  invitation intro, due to be released sometime before the summer.

        All the cash prizes will be paid in finnish currency.


        PC COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES:


            DEMO:       INTRO:         4KB-INTRO:    MUSIC:     GRAPHICS:
       #: ----------  ----------    #: ----------  ----------  ----------
       1.   $2700       $1400       1.    $600        $600        $600
       2.   $1600        $900       2.    $400        $400        $400
       3.    $950        $600       3.    $200        $200        $200
       4.    $700        $450
       5.    $500        $300

          TOTAL VALUE: around $13700 US



        AMIGA COMPETITION PRIZE VALUES:


             DEMO:       INTRO:      MUSIC:     GRAPHICS:
       #: -----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
       1.    $2700        $750        $370        $370
       2.    $1200        $450        $180        $180
       3.     $600        $200         $90         $90

          TOTAL VALUE: around $7200 US




                 - - - - - - PARTY FEATURES - - - - - - -

        Next is a list of all the basic features at our party:

                - Around 10000-15000 watts of music power
                - 2 or 3 big screens (4-7 meters wide)
                - Multi-player game networks, such as Net-DOOM
                - Dolby Surround Laser Disc movies
                - Space for sleeping + showers
                - 24H food service
                - 24H security personnel keeping things&people in order
                - Central TV-system for showing the party schedule, etc.
                - Party T-Shirts
                - Cool raytrace movies will be shown on the big screen
                - Sponsoring companies selling all kinds of hardware
                  and software
                - Electricity for all, so bring your machine with you
                - Lots of all kinds of shops near the partyplace
                - Only less than 1 kilometre to the main center of Helsinki




                 - - - - - GENERAL INFORMATION - - - - -

        The entrance fee will be around $26 US (140 FIM). Girls get a
  free entrance! The reason for the increase on the entrance fee is due
  to a new tax invented by our lovely government (so, this is NOT some
  rip-off thing!)

        We are expecting around 2000-2500 demo freaks from all over the
  world to attend.

        If you are arranging a BUSTRIP to our party, please, contact us
  for details on entrance fee discounts, exact location directions and
  possible other stuff.

        If you have ANY suggestions or ideas about anything written in this
  textfile, don't hesitate to contact us!


 >>> NO ALCOHOL DRINKING OR SOFTWARE PIRATISM ALLOWED AT THE PARTY PLACE! <<<




                 - - - HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US - - -

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

                Voice:      MeeGosh/TMM     +358-0-505 2441, wknds only (Amiga)
                            Pehu/ACC        +358-0-294 7906  (Amiga&PC)
                            Pehu/ACC        +358-49-554 701, cellular
                            Edge/Unexpected +358-0-378 247   (PC)

                Fax:        GORE/FC         +358-0-420 8620  (Amiga&PC)

                BBS:        StarPort (FC)   +358-0-455 4801  (PC)
                                                   455 4805
                                                   455 4807
                                                   455 4810
                                                   455 4812
                                                   455 4827
                                                   455 4829

                            Sonic PC WHQ    +358-0-804 3141  (PC)

                Email, the fastest & best way:

                            assembly94@cute.fi       all general questions!
                            jkavalef@alpha.hut.fi    MeeGosh/TMM    (Amiga)
                            mpontine@cc.helsinki.fi  Moku/ACC       (Amiga&PC)
                            aakko@cc.helsinki.fi     Pehu/ACC       (Amiga&PC)
                            jtheinon@cc.helsinki.fi  GORE&Jake/FC   (PC)
                            mmaki@cc.helsinki.fi     Henchman/FC    (PC)
                            jaz@cute.fi              Jaz/Sonic PC   (PC)

                Internet www-server, reachable by mosaic/lynx:

                            http://prime.mdata.fi (there choose assembly 94)

                Normal snail-mail, the slowest way:

                            Assembly'94
                            P.O. Box 54
                            02701 Kauniainen
                            FINLAND

