=========================================================================== CRUX PRESENTS: BSE 1998 - Belgian Scene Event 1998 - Recognised by Amiga Inc. as an official Amiga party - - Recognises by the local Cultural Board as an official Cultural event - =========================================================================== * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * This is the final invitation text. This text completely replaces the pre-invitation text (released as bse98pre.txt). * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * NOTE * =========================================================================== 1) Introduction ---------------- You might have already heard about the Belgian Scene Event last year. If you did, you might also recall that the BSE 1997 was the first Amiga-only party in Belgium since 1992! And guess what folks, this year we're back with the BSE 1998 - Amiga only ofcourse! After the successful experiment last year (to see whether it is possible to organize an Amiga-event in god-forgotten Belgium) we have decided that Amiga IS capable of attracting enough people and giving them a good time! (For more information on BSE 1997, see the BSE 1997 chapter). Furthermore, Mr. Darreck Lisle of Amiga Inc. will probably also be present at the BSE party to answer any questions you might have. Ofcourse you can also have a nice chat with him ;). So that's why we are inviting all Amiga-lovers out there to come and join us at the BSE 1998 party, the cooooooooowlest Amiga-party in Belgium! =========================================================================== 2) Where --------- This year we have decided to organize the party in a very easy to reach location! (We admit that it was a bit difficult to find it last year ;). The BSE 1998 will be held in Diepenbeek, near Hasselt. It is a small town very close to all the surrounding countries of Belgium. Diepenbeek is situated at about 40 kilometers of the Netherlands, 60km of Germany and about 80 kilometers of France. The partyplace will be the 'Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus', which is directly next to the two major highways from Belgium. Maybe an idiot like Bill Gates would have some troubles finding it, so we are confident that you Amiga people will find it very easily! This is the adress: Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus Pastorijstraat 7 3590 Diepenbeek Belgium Read the 'How To Get There' part for more info on... how to get there! :) =========================================================================== 3) When -------- The BSE 1998 party will be held the 7th, 8th and 9th of August 1998. We already know this clashes with the Assembly 1998 event, but are you going to drive all the way up to Finland ? Not us :) Partydoors will open Friday 12:00 noon and will close Sunday at noon too. This means 48 hours of non-stop Amiga action, competitions, and entertainment! =========================================================================== 4) How to get there -------------------- By car : - - - - - This is a real easy one. All you have to do is make sure that you get on either the E313 or E314 (two major roads in Belgium). Depending on what country you're from (or pass), you will either get on the E313 (France) or E314 (Netherlands, Germany). If you are coming from the E313 get off at exit 30 (Diepenbeek), take direction Genk (LEFT when you are coming from Antwerp, RIGHT if you're coming from Luik/Liege/Luttich) when you exit the highway, at the 2nd trafic lights there should be a (modern architecture) church on your right and a big open place on your left. Turn right there and the partyplace is right in front of you. (There's a huge plaque saying "Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus" in front of it, so you really can't miss it). From the E314 get off at exit 31 and drive to Genk, go straight ahead all the time until you drive over the "Albertkanaal" (big pile of water you can't miss). Then at the second traffic lights take left. The church mentioned above should be on your left when arriving at the lights, the open place to your right. Ofcourse we will put up huge, visible everywhere. We made a deal with the local Police station so that they won't remove the signs. By Train : - - - - - - There are 2 stations where you can get off, both are on the same line (Knokke-Blankenberge / Luik-Maastricht), namely Hasselt and Genk. In Hasselt you can take a bus (see below). If you decide to go to Genk, you can use our Train-Shuttle (read below). If you are coming from Antwerpen or Luik/Liege there is a train riding between the 2 cities which also stops in Hasselt. Do NOT get off in Diepenbeek (the train stops there too), it will have you end up at the complete wrong side of Diepenbeek and you will have to walk A LOT to get to the party-place (if your sadistic enough to carry around 20kgs of computer equipment for 10km,then this might be the stop for you ;). By Bus : - - - - - From Hasselt trainstation, you can take the bus in the direction of the party-place. There is bus nr 36, direction Genk. It departs right in front of the Railway station's main building (there's a bus every hour). Get off at "Lutselus Kerk". Just before the stop you will pass a big open space and quite a big road and the party-place on your right, but you will have to ring VERY URGENTLY when you pass the party-place since the stop is right in front of it :). However : it is unlikely that this bus wil ride on sunday, so try to use our Train-shuttle between Genk station and the party place as much as possible. If you want more bus information, you can check the regional office of De Lijn. Here are the time tables for the bus from Hasselt to the partyplace: These shedules are ONLY valid on FRIDAYS. If you plan to come over on Saturday, then you're strongly advised to use our Train Shuttle service. All bustickets cost about 80 BFR towards the Partyplace. Train Shuttle : - - - - - - - - - If you are coming by train and have some stuff with you that you dont like to take on a (bumpy) bus-ride, we offer a train-shuttle between the trainstation of Genk and the partyplace. If you want to use this shuttle- service we DO ask you to inform us in advance when you will we ariving at the trainstation!! When you inform us in advance, we will give you a cellular (GSM) phonenumber to call when you arrived at the trainstation or have missed your train so that we don't end up waiting for nothing in Genk. A small (symbolic) fee will be asked for the trip (the gas in fact). If you plan on using this service, please let us know. Thanks. By Plane : - - - - - - Fly into Zaventem /Brussels (code BRU) and there take a train (omnibus toward Brussels rides about every 15-20 minutes, the trainstation in the airport is not hard to find btw.). Look above for the train stuff or if you should continue by car get on the E40 in direction Luik-Liege and in Leuven get on the A2 (E313/E314) direction Aachen and then look on the maps you can find above. =========================================================================== 5) Facilities -------------- * The partyplace can accommodate over 300 people, has powerful PA equipment. We will also have a high-quality videobeamer (and it won't blow up ;) that will provide the online party-news, competitions, and entertainment for 48 hours. * 200 Amps (in total about 80000 Watt) of high-quality, clean and secure power. * Loads of people seemed to enjoy last year's bar, so we are going to have a fully equiped bar again this year where you will be able to buy Real Belgian Beers and real Belgian food! This all will be at very cheap prices, you will get 1 consumption for 40 BEF (= about 2 DM / 2 HFL / 1 USD / 6,5 FFR). Ofcourse we will also sell a wide variety of sandwiches, snacks. We know the food and drinks are a bit more expensive than first announced (well, 7 BEF) but this is because the drinks are more expensive in this partyplace then we first expected. It is still cheap though :) This proves once more that we are not interested in the money! Everything that rests after the expenses are paid of will go directly to the competitions! * There are dozens of places you can eat nearby, there are sandwichbars (a la MacDonalds), backeries, grocery stores so you won't have any problems getting those hot meals! * There is a quiet sleeping area reserved where you can do those bits of sleeping everyone needs now and then ;). Things we won't have: * A party-network: Who needs a network anyhow ? PC-gamers playing Quake II ultra-mmx-accelerated versions ? Young kids trading pornography ? We Amigians don't need any of that. If we want to trade we do it the real way: swapping disks, harddisks and parnet! Ofcourse you are free to setup a local parnet/sernet/... network of your own! * Nasty PC users consuming all the bloody power! =========================================================================== 6) Reservations ---------------- You can make your reservations by either sending an email to: bse98@gmx.net Just include your NAME/HANDLE/EMAIL and the number of seats you want to reserve. Ofcourse you can also reserve your seats online at the BSE 1998 homepage: http://uc2.unicall.be/crisp or http://bse.base.org Or if you don't have the internet, try: PO Box 25 3000 Leuven 3 We will not accept payments in advance. If you reserve your seats you will get them. The best seats will go first ofcourse. We strongly ask you to reserve your seats in advance so we have a good estimate of the people that will attend the BSE 1998. That way we can make sure there are enough seats for everyone and that everyone has a decent view! =========================================================================== 7) Competitions ---------------- a) Competitions: - - - - - - - - - These are the competitions we are going to organise: * Amiga Demo competition * Amiga 40kb competition * Amiga 4ch music competition * Amiga graphics competition * Amiga Fast Intro * Wild Compo If there are enough entries (more than 2) for one of the following competitions, then these will also be organised: * Amiga 4kb competition * Amiga PPC competition b) Competition rules - - - - - - - - - - - General competition rules: - The organisers have the right to disqualify an entry. Possible reasons are for example racism or pornographic contents. - All entries must be 060 compatible. The coder is allowed to turn of caches in the code. Amiga Demo competition: - Maximum filesize is 6 Megabytes (uncompressed). - No new files may be created on the harddisk. - The entry must be delivered on either Double Density or High Density disks. An installer script is allowed, but not required. - The demo is allowed to take advantage of the Cybervision3D that is installed in the main competition machine. You do have to inform us at the partyplace that you want to use it. Maximum resolution is 640x480 in 24bit. Amiga 40kb competition: - Maximum filesize is 40960 bytes. - The intro must be quittable by pressing the left mousebutton at any time. Amiga 4ch music compo: - Maximum 5 minutes will be played. If the module playing time is 5 minutes and 10 seconds then we will ofcourse also play the last 10 seconds ;) - Replaying will be done by Protracker 3.61 on an Amiga 4000. Amiga graphics compo - Only pixelized graphics in either IFF/GIF/PNG formats. Read: Renders will be disqualified. - Maximum size is the beloved 640x512x8 PAL mode ;) - All images will be converted back to IFF with ADPro so we can easier view them on the Amiga! Amiga Fast Intro - Should be according to the rules that will be announced on the party. More info at the party itself ofcourse :) Wild compo: - Anything that doesn't fit into the other competitions. - No real rules here, just make sure you can connect your equipment to the video beamer. The video beamer has a standard CVBS (Composite video) plug. We can provide you with the necessary cables to convert from SCART and Amiga RGB Video to that CVBS plug. You can also use the VGA port of the beamer which supports resolutions of 640x480 (in 24bit). - VHS Videotapes are also allowed. Ofcourse there will be loads of fun compo's (including playstation, a quiz, ...) but we are not going to reveal more now :) c) Compo Machines - - - - - - - - - - You can select any of these machines to run your entry on. If you don't specify a computer, your entry will be run on machine 1! Machine 1 : A4000/060 at 50Mhz, with 68060 FPU PowerPC 604e at 200Mhz 34 Megs RAM Machine 2 : A4000/040 at 25Mhz, with 68040 FPU 16 Megs RAM Machine 3 : A1200/030 at 50Mhz, with 68882 50Mhz FPU. 16 Megs RAM Machine 4 : A1200/060 at 50Mhz, with 68060 FPU 16 Megs RAM d) Prizes: - - - - - - - After last year's fabulous prizes (cough, cough), we decided to give away money in combination with hardware/software for the main competitions. Amiga Demo competition: 1) 5000 Fr. 2) 2000 Fr. 3) 1000 Fr. Amiga 40Kb competition: 1) 2000 Fr. 2) 1000 Fr. 3) 500 Fr. Amiga 4ch competition: 1) 1000 Fr. 2) 800 Fr. 3) 500 Fr. Amiga graphics competition: 1) 1000 Fr. 2) 800 Fr. 3) 500 Fr. Wild Competition: 1) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) 2) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) 3) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) Fast-Intro: 1) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) 2) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) 3) Hardware/Software prize (TBA) Note: These numbers may change depending on how many visitors we have! So the more people you bring along, the more money you'll take home! (And yes, the prizemoney can also increase!) We are also negociating with several sponsors for additional hardware- prizes, and even whole computer systems (last year there was a complete A1200HD Magic Pack!) =========================================================================== 8) Party Rules ---------------- * You are on Belgian soil, so the Belgian laws apply inside & outside the party-hall. Some fragments of the Belgian Law: - Thou shall not copy illegal software. - Thou shall not smoke weed. - Thou shall not fraud with the public telephone system. * The party-organizers have the right to refuse anybody at anytime for any reason to connect their whole, or a piece of their equipment. * Intoxicated (read: drunk, stoned) people and troublemakers will be thrown out. * If you damage something, you will pay for it yourself. No money ? No problem, we'll call your parents. =========================================================================== 9) Useful informations ----------------------- * Entrance fee is will be 500 BEF (25 DM/ 25 HFL / 16 USD / 85 FFR). * The party organisers will be at the partyplace starting from Thursday (6th) evening. Please note that we can only guarantee that everything will be up and working Friday 7th at noon! So if you arrive too early, you might not immediatelly have power. * Mr. Darreck Lisle of Amiga Inc. (Events Co-ordinator) will probably also be present to answer any questions you have concerning the future of the Amiga. =========================================================================== 10) The BSE 1997 ---------------- As we already mentioned, last year's BSE was some sort of an experiment, to verify if enough people were interested in visiting Belgium. We were pleasantly suprised by the number of visitors: 32 visitors in total! Considering that it was the first edition, that was not that bad at all! (The average start of a party is 20 visitors, so we had about 60% more :). As for the organising last year: we actually organised the whole thing with a telephonebook & some friends in 3 hours and it turned out rather good :). This year we are spending 8 months to organize, so it can only get way better! Ofcourse some mistakes were made last year, and we also learned from them! Therefor the BSE 1998 will be completely different with: - more staff ('coz we really lacked that last year) - better equiped bar with more drinks/snacks - more entertainment (how about a 4hour videocassette of all those classic demos ?) - more fun competitions - and especially ... more Amiga people to talk to! =========================================================================== 11) Contact us! --------------- If you have any questions, remarks, suggestions, then feel free to contact us: E-Mail: ------- General information: - bse98@gmx.net Crisp / CRX : crisp@unicall.be - Main organizer / PR Manager / Technical Franky / CPU : mb10075@tvd.be - Main organizer / Party co-ordinator WWW: ---- http://bse.base.org http://uc2.unicall.be/crisp Voice: ------ Crisp : +32-11-333229 (after 18:00u weekdays, 24h weekends) Franky : +32-16-235962 (after 18:00u) Snailmail: ---------- POBox 25 3000 Leuven 3 =========================================================================== So if you don't want the Amiga 40kb intro competition to be announced on a bloody 233Mhz Pentium PisswCee running a buggy PC Scala, if you don't want organizers asking how they have to start an Amiga program, then be sure to visit the BSE 1998! :) =========================================================================== Crisp, Franky