. __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ W H E N /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . starts Monday 31st March 3:00pm . finishes Wednesday 2nd of April 12:00pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ W H E R E /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . The venue is Macquarie Boys High School Hall, . located at the corner of James Ruse Drive and . Kissing Point Road, North Parramatta, Sydney, . Australia. . . The venue is 5 minutes drive or bus, or 20 minutes. walk from the center of Parramatta. . . Parramatta is Sydney's second largest City, with . all the facilities of any major city, such as . centralised convienient public transport, shops, . bars, clubs and the largest shopping mall in the . Southern Hemisphere, etc etc.. . . Main car access is from James Ruse Drive, heading . South just after the Kissing Point Road Overpass. . Parking is available, and free! . . Getting to the party by public transport is . simple, you can get to Parramatta station by Train. (from anywhere in Sydney/NSW/Australia), by Coach,. or by Bus. From there you can either: Catch a . taxi; get another train to Rydalmere or Dundas . Station (via Clyde stn.) from where it is a 5 . minute walk to the venue; or you can catch a Bus . which will take you straight Down Kissing Point . Road to the venue. . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ C O S T /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . The entry fee is $10 for registered attendees, or . $15 at the door. That covers the full 3 days and 2. nights. . . Registered attendants are those who pre-pay, . information on registering is at the end of this . document. Please consider registering, as it will . help us the organisers organise the events far . better for everyone. . . . . . . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ F A C I L I T I E S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . For your comfort and enjoyment the following . facilities will be available at the party: . . * 24 hours non-stop activities. . * Room for over 500 people, plus computers. . * A quiet sleeping section, toilets, etc. Remember. to bring pillows / sleeping bags / etc. . * Drinks and some food will be sold at the party, . and we may even have a nice BBQ on the Tuesday! . ;) . * All info about what's going on will be posted . around the venue. . * Powerful professional audio equipment and a . large high quality screen. . * A network for you to connect your computer too, . just bring your network card and cable. Also the. latest party info will be posted on the network,. and all compo entries will be made available on . the network after the competition results have . been announced. Not to mention the other . advantages of a Network card. :) . * Convienient transport from anywhere. . * Plenty of free parking spaces. . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ C O M P E T I T I O N S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . The following competitions will be held: . . PC Amiga Music Graphics . -------- --------- --------- ----------. Demo Demo 4 channel Graphics . 4Kb Code 40k Intro Multi Ch. Raytrace . ANSI/Ascii. . The prizes will be mostly cash, final details of . which will be released at the party. Also some . additional hardware prizes will be given for . certain competitions. . . . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ S P E C I F I C A T I O N S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . COMPETITION MACHINES... . . P C d e m o c o m p . . Comp machine: Pentium 120 Mhz, 16 Mb Ram, S3Trio . with option of UNIVBE 2.0, GUSPnP (Interwave) with. 2Mb RAM on-card, and a SoundBlaster16. MS-DOS 6.2 . with memory setup either a Himem only boot or . EMM386. . . A m i g a d e m o c o m p . . Comp machine: Amiga 1200, 030 40Mhz, 4 Mb Fastram.. . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ R U L E S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . All competition rules must be followed, if any . entries do not, the entrant(s) will be asked to . explain and correct the problem. If not the entry . will be excluded. . . As the organisers we want the competitions to be . fair and fun, but we need some tight rules to make. our lives and everyone's easier! . . Following are the general competition rules: . . * All contributions must be delivered to the . organisers before the deadline. . - Deadlines for the different competitions can . not be moved because of the many competitions.. - Deadlines for the various competitions will be. posted around the venue from the start of the . party. . . * All contributions must be delivered on 3.5" DD . or HD floppy disks and equipped with a party . label. The label must be filled out with . information about: . - in which competition the contribution . participates . - title of the production . - group and name/handle of the contributor . - machine and OS for running the production . Also for PC demo/code which mem config and . sound card to use . - number of disks total . - length in minutes . - how to run the contribution . . * The organisers reserve the right to exclude any . entry from the competition for whatever reason. . The entrant(s) will have a chance to appeal that. decision before the competition. . . * Sorry, the disks will not be returned, so you'd . better remember to make backups. . . * Every contribution can only participate in one . competition, and the rules for that competition . must be followed. . . * For the Multichannel Music comp, the tracks will. be played on the GUS PnP with the format's . player, ie .IT - Impulse Tracker, .XM - Fast . Tracker 2, etc. . . * For all entries, include a .txt file describing . the entry and group, as all entries will be . distributed after the results are out. . . * For the music comp's only the song name will be . displayed and used in voting. No musicians names. will be announced until results are out. So the . name of the song MUST NOT hint on the musicians . name. . . * Also with the gfx comp, you MUST NOT sign the . entry! Only the title will be displayed. . . The last two rules are for fairness of voting, . so that one artist's name / reputation cannot . affect his entries results in any way. . . Following are the specific competition rules: . . Demo Competitions (PC and Amiga) . . * A group can contribute with as many demos as . they want to. . * A maximum of 20 minutes will be shown of each . demo. . * Maximum size is 5Mb. . * The demo must not write anything to the hard . drive . * The demo must be exitable. . . Amiga 40 kb intro competition . . * The maximum intro size is 40Kb = 40960 bytes. . * A maximum of 10 minutes will be shown of each . intro. . * A group can contribute with as many intros as . they want to. . * The intro must be able to run on compo machine. . * The intro must run from boot on floppy disk. . * The intro must be exitable. . . PC 4 kb code competition . . * The maximum intro size is 4Kb = 4096 bytes. . * No music of any kind can be in the intro. . * A maximum of 5 minutes will be shown of each . intro. . * A group/persom can contribute with as many . intros as they want to. . * The intro must be able to run on compo machine . from hard disk. . * The intro must be exitable. . . Graphics competition . . * The picture must be delivered in IFF-ILBM . format. . * Each artist is allowed to contribute with one . picture. . * Don't contribute with scanned, stolen or redrawn. pictures. . * The artist's name must NOT appear on the image, . or in the title! . * Maximum resolution 640x480 256 colours. . . Raytrace competition . . * The picture must be delivered in JPEG, GIF or . TGA format. . * Each artist is allowed to contribute with one . picture. . * Don't contribute with scanned, stolen or redrawn. pictures. . * The artist's name must NOT appear on the image, . or in the title! . * Maximum resolution 640x480 24-bit colour. . . 4 channel music competition . . * No more than 5 minutes of each tune will be . played. . * Each musician is allowed to contribute with one . tune. . * The tune must be delivered in 4-Channel . Protracker .MOD format. . * The tune's title must NOT hint at the composer's. name! . * Maximum size is 720Kb uncompressed. . . Multi-channel music competition . . * No more than 5 minutes of each tune will be . played. . * Each musician is allowed to contribute with one . tune. . * The tune must be delivered in .IT, .S3M, .XM or . .MOD format. . * The tune's title must NOT hint at the composer's. name! . * Maximum size is 2Mb uncompressed. . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ D I S C L A I M E R /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . * The organizers take no responsibility for . illegal software spread or used at the party, . nor do we condone it. . . * We will not accept anybody selling food, disks, . services etc. without our permission. . . * People who cause any damage will of course have . to pay for it. . . * Anybody who makes a mess will have to clean it! . . * The organisers reserve the right to ask anybody . who may be causing trouble, if they persist . after being warned, to leave. . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ R E G I S T R A T I O N /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . To register for Scenery'97, fill in the following . details and send them with your money to the . following address: . . Scenery '97 . c/- Johnny Turbo / DA . PO Box 1838 . Macquarie Centre 2113 . . Registration Form: . . /------------------------------------------------\. | |. | Yes, we are coming to Scenery '97 |. | |. | Name / Handle .............................. |. | Group ...................................... |. | Contact (email / mail) ..................... |. | Number of persons coming .... |. | Number of computers .... |. | _Amiga _Pc |. | |. \------------------------------------------------/. . Please make sure you send this at least one week . before the party to avoid any problems! . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ C O N T A C T S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . Contact the organisers for any reason via the . following means; . . General questions: (venue, transport, etc) . . Email: scenery@post1.com . . Amiga Related questions: . . Who: Johnny Turbo / Digital Access . -John Bus . . Mail: Scenery '97 . c/- Johnny Turbo / DA . PO Box 1838 . Macquarie Centre 2113 . . BBS: Lucid Dreams BBS (02) 9888 9917 . - leave a msg to Johnny Turbo . . Email: turbo@wr.com.au . . PC Related questions: . . Who: Random / xtatic . -Martin Laukkanen . . Voice: (02) 9684 2478 . . BBS: Staesis BBS (02) 9683 2403 . - leave a msg to Random . . Email: random@zip.com.au . . For the latest info check the following web pages:. . Scenery'97 page: . . http://www.post1.com/~scenery . . (or if you like) . . http://www.techmedia.zip.com.au/scenery97.html . . xtatic page: . . http://www.post1.com/~xtatic . __/\__ __/\__ . \ OO / \ OO / . /_\/_\ C R E D I T S /_\/_\ . \/ \/ . . Here are the credits for this invite-tro ! . . Code - Storm/Cydonia . . Graphics - Infinity/Cydonia . . Music - Cool Col J/Digital Access .