Invitation - Do You Believe in Life After Christmas? Christmas time; a widely recognized holiday season dedicated to traditions and time spent with the family. The demo scene also has it's traditions, and christmas time is particular holy: Going to The Party. For the 8th time in a row, we're proud to hold our annual party in late December and feature more competitions, prizes, events, surprises, and activities than ever. Experience the real party feeling, meet friends, and see the master work of soon-to-be computer and digital arts professionals.Or stare at your monitor for 70 hours straight, live on Coke and peanuts, feel the true stress of meeting deadlines, and watch Amiga demos at 04:30 in the morning without knowing why. In any case, you'll have to ask yourself: - Do You Believe in Life After Christmas? The Party 1998 will be held in Messecenter Aars, like the previous years.To avoid any power failures, the entire powergrid has been redesigned, and the conference center is currently expanding, to meet our space demands.The Party 1998 will be held from Sunday 27 December at 08:00 CET to Tuesday 29 December at 15:00 CET. * Room for min. 3500 people! * A seperate sleeping area * Cafeteria and kiosk will be open 24h. * Extremely powerful PA equipment and a 10x8 meter main screen * Huge party network and fast internet link * Live internet broadcast * Spectacular laser show * LaserDisc Room! * Free access to bath & showers! * The Party 1998 T-Shirts will be sold * 55 hours non-stop activities * 16 main compos with great prizes * Traditional party-events like Body-Crashing and DiskOs * Fast Website Competition * Rave in the Sleeping Hall * Live concert on stage * Seminars and conferences * Computer game championship * Plus much more... 10Mbit Twisted Pair for the people from a monster backbone, KICK-ASS FTP servers and Internet for everyone. Main competitions and prizes. Prizes are real cash only, and will not consist of hardware. Amiga Demo 1. $2000 2. $1000 3. $500 4. $250 5. $100 PC Demo 1. $2000 2. $1000 3. $500 4. $250 5. $100 Win98 Demo 1. tba. 2. tba. 3. tba. 4. tba. 5. tba. WiLD! Classic 1. $2000 2. $1000 3. $500 4. $250 5. $100 Video Demo 1. $2000 2. $1000 3. $500 4. $250 5. $100 Java Demo 1. $2000 2. $1000 3. $500 4. $250 5. $100 Java Intro 1. $500 2. $300 3. $150 Amiga Intro 1. $500 2. $300 3. $150 PC Intro 1. $500 2. $300 3. $150 Pixel Gfx 1. $600 2. $400 3. $200 4. $100 Raytraced Gfx 1. $400 2. $200 3. $100 4. $50 4-Ch. Music 1. $600 2. $400 3. $200 4. $100 Multi Ch. 1. $600 2. $400 3. $200 4. $100 C64 Demo 1. $300 2. $200 3. $100 C64 Music 1. $200 2. $100 3. $50 C64 Gfx 1. $200 2. $100 3. $50 General Rules --> * If you want to take part in a competition you must be present at The Party during the presentation and prize ceremony. * If too many contributions are delivered for a competition a jury will select contributions for presentation. * Contributions can only participate in one competition. * We will copy and spread all contributions. * Contributions must be final, no bug-fixes will be accepted before or after presentation. * Contributions must be uploaded via network, or handed over in the information on floppies or CD's (ISO9660, 8+3 only) along with a paper sheet providing information about Title, Handle, Group, Compo, HW requirements and execution instructions. * Compo disks, CD's and video tapes will not be returned. * All entries for Amiga can be compressed with either LZX or LHA. * All entries for PC must be compressed with ZIP, and ready for distribution. * No self-extracting archives will be allowed. * No other archive-types will be allowed. * Contributions with racial content (incl. anti-racial), and other radical content will not be accepted. * Contributions must be virus free and Y2K compliant. * We will not accept anybody selling anything without our permission. * Alcohol and drugs are not allowed at the party place. If we find any it will be confiscated and not given back. * Intoxicated people will be thrown out or handed over to the police. * We will not accept weapons, spraycans or firework etc. * People who cause damages of any kind will of course have to pay for it. * We take no responsibility for illegal swapping, software, hardware, video etc. * Presale tickets from Arte/Billetnet available for DKK 300, and DKK 350 at the door. Additional DKK 50 for arrival before opening. * Party Place: [http://www.aarsmessecenter.dk/] Messecenter Aars Messevej 1 DK-9600 Aars Denmark Phone: +45 98 62 48 00 * The Party-Phone: For further information: (+45) 8630 1010 * World Wide Web: [http://www.theparty.dk/] http://www.theparty.dk * E-Mail: theparty@theparty.dk General Information | The Party Events | The Scene 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 FAQ | Rules | News | Invitation | Travel | Tickets < Converted by HTMLess v2.5 by Troglobyte/Darkness. Only Amiga... >