_______ ______________ _______ .___. \____ ¬\_ .--\____ ¬\____ ¬\_\__ __/_| _|_____ | | _/__| | | _/ | __|_¦ \__ \ \__ ¬\_ _| __ \__ \ _| __ _| | \__ | | \ | ____/ \ | _/ \ \ | \_ · | : || . ·_| __/_. \__| | . \ \__| | __| · ·| | \_ | | |___| | ·| |___|---' |___ |--|___|___ | · `--|___| `---'$Ð! |___| gravity'97 invitation ------------------------- Greetings! Anadune is proud to invite everyone to the second edition of the GRAVITY party. This time we shall meet on the last weekend of the summer holidays, meaning the 30th/31st of August 1997. An official opening of the party will be conducted at 10:00AM sharp. Of course everyone who will arrive earlier will be invited inside. Just as the last time, the place where the party will be conducted is the "GWARDIA" hall in Opole (2 Kowalska St.). The building is located at a distance of about 300m from the train station (see chapter 6 for details on the location), Here is a list of organisers of competitions for each of the supported platforms: Amiga - Anadune PC - Amnesty Atari 8b - Shadows Falcon - Shadows C-64 - Agony Design Forward you will find the following chapters: 1. PARTY 2. CRAZY COMPOS 3. COMPETITIONS 4. PRIZES 5. RULES a. HOW TO SUBMIT A PRODUCTION ? b. VOTING c. HOW TO RESERVE A TABLE ? 6. HOW TO REACH THE PARTY ? 7. ADDITIONAL RULES 8. CONCLUSIONS That's it concerning the introdcution, let us now get down to business... 1. PARTY - just as before - a BIG big-screen (8m cross-section) and a smaller one as a backup, - 1700 seats, the more people come to the party the bigger the prizes will be, - concert-hall-style sound, - internet connection, - rave party, strobes, mist generators, etc., - a quiet sleeping-room for party-animals tired of animated wacky dancing... :) - party t-shirts, - manga room, - vote-counting presented on the big screen (99% probability that this will be achieved), - live interviews (motion-camera and internet) presented on the big screen, - selected "use your illusion here..." spots, one of them might be quite a surprise... you'll be amazed, you'll see! :) - just as before - bar/buffet open 24h/day, 2. CRAZY COMPOS here are some of the proposals: - line compo, the most multi-platform compo ever, ment to select the most powerful scene group... - dyna compo, you know what... - bag compo, during which we will select the quickest swapper on the scene... - worms compo, you will need a sleeping bag and quite a bit of agility and endurance... - blood content level compo, Zig is disqualified by definition :) - banana compo, ment only for couples... and many others, proposed by Cedyn/Shadows, which means that we will have double the number of crazy compos. Definitely nobody will be bored... 3. COMPETITIONS Amiga & PC Compo machines - the productions must run smoothly on one of the following hardware configurations: CRX 200 Mhz, 32 Mb Ram, SVGA TSENG 6000, GUS 1 MB, Just on Warlock's machine...:) Amiga 1200, Blizzard IV 030, 50 Mhz, 8 Mb Fast, HD, The fact that your productions should be running on such machines is only a formal requirement. This means that, if for example a demo will not run correctly on an 040 or 060, we will try it on a standard Amiga with 030-50 MHz. demo competition - the demo should take no more than 10 minutes, - the demo should consume no more than 5 MB disk space, we will take into consideration exceptions to this rule, - "exitability" to DOS after the demo is over is absolutely required to take part in the competition, - demos with "borrowed" graphics, textures, music or code will not pass selection, independent of whose demo it will be, - all demomaker-productions will end up in the crazy demo competition, 64 kb intro competition - the intro should take no more than 5 minutes, - the intro cannot be larger than 64kB meaning 65536 bytes, - "exitability" to DOS after the intro is over is absolutely required to take part in the competition, - intros with "borrowed" graphics, textures, music or code will not pass selection, independent of whose intro it will be, 4 kb intro competition - the intro should take no more than 5 minutes, - the intro cannot be larger than 4kB meaning 4096 bytes, - "exitability" to DOS after the intro is over is absolutely required to take part in the competition, crazy demo compo (Amiga, PC and Falcon platforms all together) - the demo should take no more than 10 minutes, - the demo should consume no more than 10MB disk space, - demos exhibiting real sick humour might not pass the selection.. - it is possible that some of the more "untypical" productions entered in the demo competition will end up in this compo... vhs competition - we only take vhs cassettes, no other formats, - the demo should take no more than 10 minutes, - in order to enter the competition it is necessary to specify the place and time of production on the tape, graphics competition - the picture must be submitted in one of the following formats: IFF-ILBM, JPG or GIF, - the disk containing the picture should contain information on what hardware do you expect the graphics to be displayed (Amiga AGA or PC SVGA 24-bit), - the size of the picture must not exceed 640x512 (Amiga) or 640x480 (PC), larger work will be converted to the above formats if time allows, therefore we cannot guarantee that the quality of the picture will be maintained, - only one picture per person, - the picture cannot be a scan, redrawing or "borrowed", ray competition - the picture must be submitted in one of the following formats: IFF-ILBM, JPG or GIF, - the disk containing the picture should contain information on what hardware do you expect the graphics to be displayed (Amiga AGA or PC SVGA 24-bit), - the size of the picture must not exceed 640x512 (Amiga) or 640x480 (PC), larger work will be converted to the above formats if time allows, therefore we cannot guarantee that the quality of the picture will be maintained, - only one picture per person, - the picture cannot contain "borrowed" objects or textures, music competition (multi & 4 Ch.) - we will play a module for 5 minutes, no more, - only about 10-15 modules which will undergo earlier selection will be presented in public, - the module must be entered in a format which will allow it to be played on either Protracker or Fasttracker, Everyone interested in details on the competitions for the Atari and C64 platforms will find necessary information in the invitations prepared for these platforms. 4. PRIZES The prizes below are valid if the number of sold tickets will reach 900. The real prizes will therefore be adjusted up or down dependent on the number of party guests. _________________________________________ | | : Amiga & PC 1. 2. 3. ; .-----------------------------------------. | demo * : 1000 zl 200 zl 100 zl | | | | 64 k * : 300 zl 100 zl 50 zl | | | | 4 k * : 100 zl 50 zl 25 zl | | | | gfx : 300 zl 100 zl 50 zl | | | | ray : 300 zl 100 zl 50 zl | | | | Mch : 300 zl 100 zl 50 zl | | | | 4ch : 300 zl 100 zl 50 zl | | | | crazy : non-cash prizes only | | | | vhs : non-cash prizes only | : : ----------------------------------------- * - separately for the PC & Amiga, _________________________________________ | | : Atari & C64 1. 2. 3. ; .-----------------------------------------. | demo : 100 zl 50 zl 25 zl | | | | intro : 50 zl 25 zl 15 zl | | | | gfx : 50 zl 25 zl 15 zl | | | | msx : 50 zl 25 zl 15 zl | : : ----------------------------------------- 5. RULES a. HOW TO SUBMIT A PRODUCTION ? Your work will be accepted directly in the selection room. In order to have your work accepted for competition you must supply information on the author of the work, name of the competition and the title of your production in the same catalogue as your work on the disk, or directly written on the disk. We will allow the possibility of copying larger productions derectly from HD. In order to do this you must come to the selection room with your HD and ask. All productions must be delivered to the organisers before the selected hour. Due to the large number of competitions we cannot guarantee that work that will be entered late will take part in the competition at all. If there will be problems getting a demo or an intro to run the author will be called into the selection room. If similar problems will occur during the competition itself, the author will be asked to deliver their HD to the control room and to run the demo himself/herself. There will be no such chance after the competition is over. b. VOTING In order to submit a valid vote, you must: - have a vote-sheet...;) - enter the start number of the production in the correct space on the vote-sheet, - enter at least ONE start number of a production (we have decided on voting by numbers and not by names, due to the possibility of online vote-counting) - submit your vote-sheet before the selected hour, Just as in th past, one vote must be submitted by ONE person. "Stacks" of vote-sheets will end up in the trashcan. c. HOW TO RESERVE A TABLE ? (free of charge) In order to reserve a table to put your machine on, all you need to do is send your data to the following address: gravity@polbox.com Reservation that will not be confirmed as received and accepted is considered invalid! All you need to do is submit your alias, group, type of computer and your internet address. Remember to bring long cables to hook up your machines! Organisers cannot guarantee a table unless it will be reserved before the party. 6. HOW TO REACH THE PARTY ? Opole is located in a straight way between two biggest polish cities like Wroclaw and Katowice so we hope you will have no problems to get to the party place. The "GWARDIA" hall is only 300m away from the main train station (Opole Glowne, PKP) in Opole. Therefore in order to get to the party, you should: - when in the main hall of the train station, walk to the exit leading to platforms 3,4 and 5. - turn to the right and walking along the platform 4 reach the bridge - when on the bridge turn right and walk along the Reymont street reaching the student-hotel (internat) located at the turn of the main road, - before the student-hotel turn left (along the main road) - at the nearest forklike-crossing choose the street leading to the right, - walk for about 100m and on the right you should see a large building. This will be the sports hall "GWARDIA", our party-place. Train: Budapest Keleti "Bem" 16.30 - 04.00 Opole Berlin Licht. 21.25 - 04.01 - Dresden 22.31 - 04.28 - Frankfurt/M 23.23 - 12.07 - Berlin Licht. IC 09.13 - 14.23 - The maps of Opole city contained in this INV you can just as well find on the Gravity WWW page, where they are available both in colour and black-and-white (for easy printing). 7. ADDITIONAL RULES Anadune will not submit a demo on GRAVITY. As the tradition says, all girls enter the party free of charge. Smoking is permitted only in clearly selected spaces! It is forbidden to take alcohol and drugs inside. All commercial operations are forbidden unless agreed with the organisers. 8. CONCLUSIONS All new information concerning GRV'97 will be available on the GRAVITY'97 WWW page (http://www.polbox.com/g/gravity). The entry fee will definitely not exceed 30 zl. Credits txt: KAZik, Tonid (translation) That's about it..... See you on GRAVITY'97 !!! YOU'RE VERY WELCOME ! http://www.polbox.com/g/gravity e-mail: gravity@polbox.com Warlock/Amnesty - e-mail: bednarz@fema.krakow.pl kofciu@fema.krakow.pl Action/Anadune - e-mail: action@invarnet.inwar.com.pl Andy/Anadune - FidoNET: 2:484/8.25 e-mail: andy@p25.f8.n484.z2.fidonet.org e-mail: andy13@hotmail.com