INFORMATION FILE V2.0 released the 29th mai 1998
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98
WiRED 98 - DONT MISS THE LAST ONE!
17-18-19 July, Wasmes Mons - Belgium
PC, AMIGA C64 SUMMER PARTY
organised by:
IMPHOBIA, MELTING POT, PULPE
W.O.W., ROLE
00. TABLE OF CONTENT
01. Opening words
02. Where and when
03. The organising staff
04. What will it cost?
05. Competitions
06. Voting system
07. Prize money
08. Some of the party features
09. Catering
10. Official party t-shirts
11. Party network
12. Schedules
13. Disclaimer
14. How to get there?
15. Contact adresses
16. Sponsors
17. Closing words
01. OPENING WORDS
This year again, the Wired team invites you to experience another Wired
event. This fifth edition of the Wired party will also be the last one,
but surely not the least one. Be sure not to miss this great event!
As last year, competitions will be held for the PC, Amiga and C64
platforms.
On request, 3DFX demos competition, and Windows contributions will be
organised this year also, read more about it further.
WiRED is a special event. Not another of those commercial event that likes
to call themselves parties. The WiRED is a real scene event with a real
scene spirit, all this combined with the advantages of a quality organising.
02. WHERE AND WHEN ?
The Wired98 will be held on the 17th, 18th and 19th of July 1998 in
Wasmes near the city of Mons, Belgium at the Salle Polyvalente de
Colfontaine same place as the two latest editions. The party place will
open on Friday 17 around 11h and will close on Sunday 19 at around 17h.
Place: Salle Polyvalente de Colfontaine
Avenue Schweitzer
Wasmes 15KM from MONS
Belgium.
Check the section How to get there later on this infofile for more info.
03. THE ORGANISING STAFF IS
Van Audenhove FJ Darkness/Imphobia
Van Miegroet Damien Damien/Imphobia
Loef Pascal PL/Imphobia
Lamaire Benjamin BenJ/Imphobia
Baligant Remy Katana/Pulpe
Lecroart Vianney Ace/Melting Pot
Baert Sebastien Karm/Melting Pot
Lamaire Jeremy James/Melting Pot
In addition to those, many people are helping us out from time to time and
will be organising WiRED together with us during party-time.
Its important to note that we are all scene members. This makes us able to
understand problems you may encounter while attending YOUR Party. Yeah,
WiRED is YOUR Party ! This is why we ask you to feel free to contact us if
there is something you want to tell/ask us. We will be extremely glad to
answer your questions and receive your criticism about the choices we
have made in the party rules. We highly recommend you to contact us if you
have any ideas and/or proposition which could improve Wired in any way.
04. WHAT WILL IT COST ?
The entrance fee is 900 Bfr 25.
This includes three days of party with tables, electricity, etc..
As usual ALL of the money from the entrance fee after we remove our costs
will be used as competitions prizes.
Tradition says that girls should enter for free at a party and we wouldnt
break the tradition, would we? So girls dont have to pay any entrance fee.
Now dont forget to bring your girlfriend and sister to wired, ok?
Note that we do only accept payement in Belgian Francs Bfr., so make sure
to exchange some money into belgian currency before arriving at the party
place.
05. COMPETITIONS
* GENERAL RULES FOR ALL COMPETITIONS
- Competitions are held for PC, Amiga C64 platforms.
- The following competitions will be held: PC Dos/Windows/Linux Demos,
PC Direct 3D Demos, Amiga Demos, C64 Demos, PC 64k intros, Amiga 64k
intros, PC 4k intros, Music PC+Amiga, C64 Music, Hand-Drawn Graphics
PC+Amiga, C64 Graphics, Raytrace Graphics PC+Amiga, PC 100k games,
Ansi, and Wild demo competitions.
- Every group is free to contribute with as many Demos, Raytraces, 64kb
intros, games, wild demos as they want to. At least one member of the
group must be present at the party.
As for the solo competition gfx, music, 4kb intro, ansi, only one
entry per artist/musician/coder will be accepted in each competition.
Artist OR a group member of the artist must be present at the party.
- Entries must never have been released before.
- All entries must be delivred in time for the deadline at the information
desk. This is very important if we want to have enough time to process
every contribution.
- All contribution disks must be marked with the following information:
* Which Competition,
* Title of the contribution
* Competitor Name/Group
* Boot Config when needed.
- The competition machine will be rebooted between each demo and intro.
- Contribution disks wont be returned.
- The organisers have the rights to cancel a competition if there isnt
enough competitors to make a competition out of it.
- For PC demos intros, you can freely use all modes supported by VESA 2.0.
This includes all standart vga modes, all VESA 1.2 2.0 modes which
includes Linear Frame Buffer modes.
Of course its a plus if your productions still support normal vga
modes.
- If your demo, intro or 100k game requires any interaction, we want
ONE people of the competing group in the Control Room.
- We know by our experience of demo coders that the competition demos are
often not bugfixed for all hardwares and sometimes run through batchfile.
Therefore, you will be allowed to test your demos TWO TIMES on the compe-
tition computer before we show them to the audience. But please dont
come just before the deadline...
- *WARNING* ! Our video projector is only able to handle resolutions up
to 640x480x16M or 800x600x256! Using a too high resolution wont damage
it but will produce a lower quality output.
- All the contributions will be released at the party server after the
competitions.
- The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the competitions
rules and to disqualify any entry which is not suitable to take part
into the competition for any reasons.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS95/LINUX DEMO COMPETITION
- We will run the demo on a Pentium 200 MMX
- 2D Video card: Tseng Labs ET6000
NO TSENG LABS SPECIFIC HARDWARE FUNCTIONS!
- Sound Cards available: - Gravis UltraSound 1Mb PnP
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16
- The demo must be able to run from HardDisk.
- Pure animation files are not accepted.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- Maximum memory requirement: 32 Megs.
- File Size limit is 16 Megs.
- For Dos demos, we will use MSDOS 6.3.
Available Memory configuration :
- HIMEM Alone
- HIMEM+EMM386
- QEMM
- Clean Boot
- For Windows demo we will have DirectDraw from DirectX 5
- For Linux demo
We will use a recent stable linux kernel including propper sound
support. The final info files will tell you which kernel version.
You are free to choose between SVGalib or X
X will be running in 640x480xany-bpp unless instructions in your
own info state that you are using 800x600 resolutions!
You will have to specify which resolution the server should be
launched with before running your demo. No window manager will be
running.
SVGalib will probably be 1.2.10 or a more recent version if
that comes available in the meantime.
XFree86 will be version 3.2.
The proper libraries and .h files will be installed.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS/LINUX 3D CARD DEMO COMPETITION
- Same hardware as for the pc demo competition
- 3DFX Card 4 megs video ram.
- Possible Libraries:
DOS : Glide, last version
LINUX: Glide, last version
WIN95: - Win32 Glide
- Direct3D from DirectX
- OpenGl accelerated version for 3DFX
Feel free to email us if you have any comment about this config.
* AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION
- Hardware config:
*Amiga 1200-68060/50MHzblizzard or Amiga 4000-68040/25MHz
*both with 16Mb of fast memory
*PAL VGA modes allowed
- The demo must be an executeable file data files allowed
- Size limit is 5Mb on harddisk
- The demo must exit by pressing any mouse button at any time
- Running lenght limit is 10 minutes.
- The demo must run from harddisk
- The demo should have a clean quiting.
- No CUSTOM installation allowed!
* C64 DEMO COMPETITION
- The competition machine will be equipped with
- New SID
- Action Replay MK6
- a 1541-II disk drive.
- Precalculated animations are not accepted
- File size limit: standard 5,25 DD disk.
- Maximum running time is 15 min.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS/LINUX 64KB INTRO COMPETITION
- The intros must run on the same machine than the demos.
- Same video modes than for demos.
- File Size limit is 64Kb.
- Maximum running time is 8 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Ko
- Pure animation files are not accepted
* AMIGA 64KB INTRO COMPETITION
- Same harware config as for the Amiga demos.
- The intro must be a SINGLE executeable file
- Size limit is 65536 bytes on harddisk
- The intro must exit by pressing any mouse button at any time
- Running lenght limit is 5 minutes.
- The intro must run from harddisk.
- The intro should have a clean quiting.
* PC 4KB INTRO COMPETITION
- The 4Kb intros must run on the same machine than the demos.
- File Size limit is 4096 Bytes.
- Maximum running time is 3 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- No sound ! This is a coding competition
- Animation files not accepted
* MULTICHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Any tracked format supported by latest Cubic Player allowed.
- Maximum uncompressed file size: 1024 Kb
- Maximum playing time: 4 minutes longer songs will be faded out after 4
- Maximum amount of channels: 32
- One and only replay card: Gravis UltraSound 1Mb Classic
- One and only player used: latest Cubic Player by N. Beisert on PC.
The time well spare with this rule will help us to pay more attention
to everyone
- A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceeds a reasonable
number.
* C64 MUSIC COMPETITION
- All formats allowed, executable file.
- The C64 screen will not be shown during the compo.
* HAND-DRAWN GFX COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Maximum resolution: 640x480x16M
- Accepted Format: PCX, GIF, LBM, BMP All formats supported by SEA All in
8bit, any 24bit file will be automaticly disqualified
- We will use SEA with UNIVBE 5.3 vesa driver loaded to display the pictures.
- The name of the competitors must not be present on the picture.
The release version can of course have your signature.
- You should include on the disk both versions: Signed not Signed in two
different archives with the compo version named Nosigned.zip.
- The competitors must deliver 3 significative steps compo version not
included of their picture to the organisers.
- Pictures needs to be pixel hand-drawn, therefore raytrace, scans or
anything else are *NOT* allowed.
- Pictures cant have been used before in any productions or competitions.
Except in demos/intros first shown at the Wired 98.
- Any picture can be disqualified by the organizers if it doesnt fit the
rules. A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceed a
reasonable number.
* RAYTRACE GRAPHICS COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Maximum resolution: 640x480x16M
- Allowed format: TGA, JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, LBM Pc format all formats
supported by SEA.
- All pictures are shown with SEA and UNIVBE 5.3 loaded.
- Youll need to bring three significative steps not Wire, Flat, Phong and
Textured Phong/Raytrace versions of the same picture of your picture,
these pictures obviously dont need to be in high res or true-color mode.
* C64 GRAPHICS COMPETITION
- All formats/modes allowed.
- Must be an executable file.
* PC 100k GAME COMPETITION
- The game must run on the same machine than the demos.
- Same video modes than for the demos.
- File size limit is 100kb for the competition version,
but you can always make a bigger release version.
- Maximum running/gaming time is 5 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600ko
- Pure animation files are not accepted
* JAVA DEMO COMPETITION.
A Java demo competition will be organised on request if enough
people show interest to that competition.
If you want to present a Java demo at Wired98, please send an email
to darkness@ping.be to show your interest and discuss the competition
rules.
* WILD COMPETITION
- Anything is allowed. Use your imagination!
- Contribution can be on video or on ANY hardware you wish.
- If you need any hardware, you MUST bring your hardware with you.
- We can play PAL, SECAM VHS tapes.
- Any machine with a VGA, PAL, SECAM, or RGB output can be connected
to the big screen but note that the resolution limits are the
same than for the PC demo compo - higher resolutions could cause
a quite poor picture quality.
- Video tapes wont be returned so make a copy of it if you so wish.
* SURPRISE COMPETITIONS
As usual some surprise competitions will be held.
This year again, our weaked brains have thought about many great surprise
compos. But it would be stupid to tell you about them now, wouldnt it?
* ANSI COMPETITION
The ansi compo is being organised by Zarkof/PrimusTelepathySe7enAegis
email: zarkof@ccim.be
- Maximum size: 80x200
Ansi can be viewed either in 80x25 or 80x50 mode.
Ansi will be viewed in ANSI and VGA mode.
It will scroll at a speed of a 14.4K modem.
- NO ANIMATION!
06. VOTING SYSTEM
Everyone will get a personnal voting disk at the entrance which will allow
safe computer voting.
We will make our best to release all contributions on the party server after
each competitions, in order to give the voters a chance to view the
productions on their computer before voting.
All the compos will be judged by a public voting 100.
07. PRIZES MONEY
We, the organisers wont make any money out of the party. Unless some other
so called parties which are based on the money, we are organising the WiRED
party because we want to make a quality non commercial party and want to
keep a real scene spirit in it. All the money left from the entrances fees,
after we remove our costs, will be used for the competitions prizes. As we
cant say exactly how many people will attend the party we cant make an
estimation but considering the success of last years Wired party and as many
people said they will attend this year, one can guess its gonna be much.
The prizes will be payed in CASH, but additional hardware prizes might also
be ADDED to the prizes.
ALL PRIZES will be given during the PRIZE CEREMONY at the end of the party.
08. SOME OF THE PARTY FEATURES
- Really HUGE party area with place for 1000+ attenders.
- Large parking area with place for everyone.
- Ultra High quality video projector.
- HUGE Big Screen.
- Impressive Audio System.
- Party Network
- Internet Access
- Really awesome color party T-Shirt sold at a VERY cheap prize.
- Free showers.
- Separate sleeping room outside the party hall
- Clean toilet.
- Many great surprise competitions.
- Disk-throwing Coca-Cola drinking competitions.
- Electricity for everyone.
- Extremely cheap food support
- We will enjoy the presence of at least one TV channel.
- All Prizes will be given AT the party place during the PRIZE CEREMONY.
- A real fun non-commercial scene spirit!
- All this and a lot more...
If you want to show something particular on the big screen Video, Demo,
Wild demo or Game preview for example, feel free to bring it with you.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU YOU TO DO SO. The big screen is there to be used!
09. CATERING
You can easily find whatever suits your need at Wired, you wont have
like at some other parties to bring food from home if you dont want
to be bankrupt at the end of the party :
Sandwishes and soft drinks will be sold at the party place 24h/24h for
cheap prizes less than 1 US for sandwishes, softs
We also have an arrangement with a local friture which will sell fries,
hamburger and other junk food next to the party place during the whole
event 24h/24h at neat prizes.
Croissants and cafe will also be available at the morning.
10. WIRED 98 OFFICIAL PARTY T-SHIRTS
In most of the respectable demo parties, some Party T-Shirts are sold to the
visitors, but most of the time those T-Shirts are undesigned, only black and
white and are sold at a very huge prize considering what theyre worth.
As last year, due to the success of the Wired T-Shirts those last three
years, we decided not only to propose you one T-shirt but atleast TWO
DIFFERENT PARTY T-SHIRTS that will be available at the party place.
The WiRED 98 T-Shirts will feature:
- HIGH quality graphics in FULL COLORS:
One T-Shirt will be designed by Alex Melon.
Another T-Shirt will be designed by another great scene artist.
- A3 size for graphics 40cm*30cm
- High Quality T-Shirts Fruit of the Loom
- Very CHEAP selling prize: 300 Bfr less than 10 US
cheaper than at any other parties
11. PARTY NETWORK
As usual, a party network, connected to the internet will be set up during
the party.
Network specification:
Like last year, we will offer TCP/IP connectivity to the party network.
In order to successfully connect, you need:
- a TCP/IP stack ipv4
- a network card with UTP RJ45 connector 10base2 10megabit/sec
Party Network Features:
- DHCP IP DNS assignation. for those without a DHCP client, you can
request an IP at the Network Info Desk
- Local FTP, WWW, IRC Quake server
Keep in mind that the success of the Party Network depends on you and
how much hardware you bring with you at the party place. So please, bring
as much HUBs, Network cards or cables as possible!
We are currently trying to make sure we can offer an Internet access for
any people connected to the party network.
If you have any questions about the net, contact either
aXs access@wpartners.com or Sleeping Dog kb@nli.be.
12. PARTY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 17.07.1998
11:00 Party doors open
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00 Deadline Ansi competition
20:00
21:00
22:00 Ansi competition starts
22:30 Deadline music C64 music competitions.
23:00 Deadline PC 100k Game Competition
24:00 Deadline Gfx Competitions Hand-drawn, Raytrace C64 gfx
SATURDAY 18.07.1998
01:00
02:00 PC 100k Game competition starts
03:00
04:00 Gfx hand-drawn raytrace competitions starts
05:00 C64 gfx competition starts
06:00 Deadline PC 4kb competition
07:00 Deadline PC Amiga 64kb intro competition
08:00 C64 Music Competition starts
09:00 Multichannel Music Competition starts
10:00
11:00 Deadline Wild demos C64 Demo Competition
12:00 PC 4kb Competition starts
13:00
14:00 Deadline demos competitions Dos, Amiga, Linux, Win/3dfx
15:00 PC 64kb intro competition starts
16:00 Amiga 64kb Competition starts
17:00
18:00 C64 demos competition starts
19:00
20:00 Amiga demos competition starts
21:00
22:00 PC demos competition starts
23:00
24:00
SUNDAY 19.07.1998
01:00 PC 3D Cards demos competitions starts
02:00
03:00
04:00 Wild Competition starts
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00
09:00 Deadline for voting
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00 Prize Ceremony
15:00
16:00
17:00 Party doors Close
This schedule is always subject to change in future infofile, so
be sure to check again when new infofiles are released.
13. DISCLAIMER
- We dont take any responsibility on the safety of the equipment you bring
to the party place. if you want you can always get an insurrance
- We are not responsible for any accidents which may arrive during the party.
It would be a good idea to have a personal insurrance.
- No alcohol, Drugs, nor software piracy is allowed in the party place.
We dont think you need that stuff to have real fun :
- Trouble makers and people who cant behaive properly will be thrown out
of the party place. Real trouble makers will be held by the police.
- Naturally, you will have to pay for anything you destroy or damage.
- We will not accept anybody selling food, drinks, disks or other things.
- Please use the trashcans around the rooms so we dont have to spend three
whole days to clean up your mess.
- NO RACIST signs will be allowed at the party.
- Please brought your own SAFE wires with you !
NO SAFE WIRES NO ELECTRICITY!
- If you have ANY suggestions or ideas about anything written in this text
file, dont hesitate to contact us!
14. HOW TO GET THERE ?
If you are comming by car:
On the E42 E17 Highway, get off at the exit 25 St-Ghislain.
From the Highway exit, follow the map included with this
infofile mapcar.gif
If you are comming by train:
Get off at the station of MONS same station as for last year Wired.
Take the BUS number 1 on your right when you get out of the station
Get off the bus at the stop Hornu-Wasmes ask the driver.
Then follow the map included with this infofile mapbus.gif
Also if youre comming by train, please read the file cheaptrn.txt
included with this infofile to learn about some ways to travel cheaper
by train inside Belgium.
If you are comming by plane:
Get off at Zaventhem airport. From there you can take a train
shuttle to Bruxelles Midi. From there take the train to MONS.
Check If you are comming by train above for details.
15. CONTACT ADRESSES
E-mail: Darkness/Imphobia : darkness@ping.be
Damien/Imphobia : dvanmiegroet@hotmail.com
WWW: Check the official Wired98 www page at:
http://nl.scene.org/wired98 NEW URL!
SnailMail: Wired 98
c/o Van Audenhove FJ
118, Av. Du Roi Soldat
1070 Bruxelles
Belgium
FTP: All forthcoming WiREd announcement files will also be available at
ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos/incoming/party/
If you want to be informed about forthcoming Wired info, you can subscribe
to the Wired mailing-list:
Send an email to wired-request@wpartners.com
and write as SUBJECT of the message: subscribe
17. SPONSORS
The following companies are sponsoring Wired.
We would like to thanks them for their support.
- ATI http://www.atitech.ca
- PC Partners http://www.pc-partners.com
We would also like to thanks people at The Cybertheatre
www.nirvanet.com/cybertheatre for the interest they showed to Wired.
More sponsors are in discussion.. Dont hesitate to contact us if you
want to sponsorise Wired in any way!
18. CLOSING WORDS
For updates of this information file and for forthcoming invitations
intros, check the Wired WWW site regulary at:
nl.scene.org/wired98 new url!
Note that the url of the Wired site has changed! Be sure to bookmark it.
Also check out the Wired98 PC invitation intro by Haujobb, available
at the wired webside.
Well, we all hope to see you there! Its gonna be great!
W i R E D 9 8 - D O N T M I S S T H E L A S T O N E !
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WiRED 98 - DONT MISS THE LAST ONE!
17-18-19 July, Wasmes Mons - Belgium
PC, AMIGA C64 SUMMER PARTY
organised by:
IMPHOBIA, MELTING POT, PULPE
W.O.W., ROLE
00. TABLE OF CONTENT
01. Opening words
02. Where and when
03. The organising staff
04. What will it cost?
05. Competitions
06. Voting system
07. Prize money
08. Some of the party features
09. Catering
10. Official party t-shirts
11. Party network
12. Schedules
13. Disclaimer
14. How to get there?
15. Contact adresses
16. Sponsors
17. Closing words
01. OPENING WORDS
This year again, the Wired team invites you to experience another Wired
event. This fifth edition of the Wired party will also be the last one,
but surely not the least one. Be sure not to miss this great event!
As last year, competitions will be held for the PC, Amiga and C64
platforms.
On request, 3DFX demos competition, and Windows contributions will be
organised this year also, read more about it further.
WiRED is a special event. Not another of those commercial event that likes
to call themselves parties. The WiRED is a real scene event with a real
scene spirit, all this combined with the advantages of a quality organising.
02. WHERE AND WHEN ?
The Wired98 will be held on the 17th, 18th and 19th of July 1998 in
Wasmes near the city of Mons, Belgium at the Salle Polyvalente de
Colfontaine same place as the two latest editions. The party place will
open on Friday 17 around 11h and will close on Sunday 19 at around 17h.
Place: Salle Polyvalente de Colfontaine
Avenue Schweitzer
Wasmes 15KM from MONS
Belgium.
Check the section How to get there later on this infofile for more info.
03. THE ORGANISING STAFF IS
Van Audenhove FJ Darkness/Imphobia
Van Miegroet Damien Damien/Imphobia
Loef Pascal PL/Imphobia
Lamaire Benjamin BenJ/Imphobia
Baligant Remy Katana/Pulpe
Lecroart Vianney Ace/Melting Pot
Baert Sebastien Karm/Melting Pot
Lamaire Jeremy James/Melting Pot
In addition to those, many people are helping us out from time to time and
will be organising WiRED together with us during party-time.
Its important to note that we are all scene members. This makes us able to
understand problems you may encounter while attending YOUR Party. Yeah,
WiRED is YOUR Party ! This is why we ask you to feel free to contact us if
there is something you want to tell/ask us. We will be extremely glad to
answer your questions and receive your criticism about the choices we
have made in the party rules. We highly recommend you to contact us if you
have any ideas and/or proposition which could improve Wired in any way.
04. WHAT WILL IT COST ?
The entrance fee is 900 Bfr 25.
This includes three days of party with tables, electricity, etc..
As usual ALL of the money from the entrance fee after we remove our costs
will be used as competitions prizes.
Tradition says that girls should enter for free at a party and we wouldnt
break the tradition, would we? So girls dont have to pay any entrance fee.
Now dont forget to bring your girlfriend and sister to wired, ok?
Note that we do only accept payement in Belgian Francs Bfr., so make sure
to exchange some money into belgian currency before arriving at the party
place.
05. COMPETITIONS
* GENERAL RULES FOR ALL COMPETITIONS
- Competitions are held for PC, Amiga C64 platforms.
- The following competitions will be held: PC Dos/Windows/Linux Demos,
PC Direct 3D Demos, Amiga Demos, C64 Demos, PC 64k intros, Amiga 64k
intros, PC 4k intros, Music PC+Amiga, C64 Music, Hand-Drawn Graphics
PC+Amiga, C64 Graphics, Raytrace Graphics PC+Amiga, PC 100k games,
Ansi, and Wild demo competitions.
- Every group is free to contribute with as many Demos, Raytraces, 64kb
intros, games, wild demos as they want to. At least one member of the
group must be present at the party.
As for the solo competition gfx, music, 4kb intro, ansi, only one
entry per artist/musician/coder will be accepted in each competition.
Artist OR a group member of the artist must be present at the party.
- Entries must never have been released before.
- All entries must be delivred in time for the deadline at the information
desk. This is very important if we want to have enough time to process
every contribution.
- All contribution disks must be marked with the following information:
* Which Competition,
* Title of the contribution
* Competitor Name/Group
* Boot Config when needed.
- The competition machine will be rebooted between each demo and intro.
- Contribution disks wont be returned.
- The organisers have the rights to cancel a competition if there isnt
enough competitors to make a competition out of it.
- For PC demos intros, you can freely use all modes supported by VESA 2.0.
This includes all standart vga modes, all VESA 1.2 2.0 modes which
includes Linear Frame Buffer modes.
Of course its a plus if your productions still support normal vga
modes.
- If your demo, intro or 100k game requires any interaction, we want
ONE people of the competing group in the Control Room.
- We know by our experience of demo coders that the competition demos are
often not bugfixed for all hardwares and sometimes run through batchfile.
Therefore, you will be allowed to test your demos TWO TIMES on the compe-
tition computer before we show them to the audience. But please dont
come just before the deadline...
- *WARNING* ! Our video projector is only able to handle resolutions up
to 640x480x16M or 800x600x256! Using a too high resolution wont damage
it but will produce a lower quality output.
- All the contributions will be released at the party server after the
competitions.
- The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the competitions
rules and to disqualify any entry which is not suitable to take part
into the competition for any reasons.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS95/LINUX DEMO COMPETITION
- We will run the demo on a Pentium 200 MMX
- 2D Video card: Tseng Labs ET6000
NO TSENG LABS SPECIFIC HARDWARE FUNCTIONS!
- Sound Cards available: - Gravis UltraSound 1Mb PnP
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16
- The demo must be able to run from HardDisk.
- Pure animation files are not accepted.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- Maximum memory requirement: 32 Megs.
- File Size limit is 16 Megs.
- For Dos demos, we will use MSDOS 6.3.
Available Memory configuration :
- HIMEM Alone
- HIMEM+EMM386
- QEMM
- Clean Boot
- For Windows demo we will have DirectDraw from DirectX 5
- For Linux demo
We will use a recent stable linux kernel including propper sound
support. The final info files will tell you which kernel version.
You are free to choose between SVGalib or X
X will be running in 640x480xany-bpp unless instructions in your
own info state that you are using 800x600 resolutions!
You will have to specify which resolution the server should be
launched with before running your demo. No window manager will be
running.
SVGalib will probably be 1.2.10 or a more recent version if
that comes available in the meantime.
XFree86 will be version 3.2.
The proper libraries and .h files will be installed.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS/LINUX 3D CARD DEMO COMPETITION
- Same hardware as for the pc demo competition
- 3DFX Card 4 megs video ram.
- Possible Libraries:
DOS : Glide, last version
LINUX: Glide, last version
WIN95: - Win32 Glide
- Direct3D from DirectX
- OpenGl accelerated version for 3DFX
Feel free to email us if you have any comment about this config.
* AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION
- Hardware config:
*Amiga 1200-68060/50MHzblizzard or Amiga 4000-68040/25MHz
*both with 16Mb of fast memory
*PAL VGA modes allowed
- The demo must be an executeable file data files allowed
- Size limit is 5Mb on harddisk
- The demo must exit by pressing any mouse button at any time
- Running lenght limit is 10 minutes.
- The demo must run from harddisk
- The demo should have a clean quiting.
- No CUSTOM installation allowed!
* C64 DEMO COMPETITION
- The competition machine will be equipped with
- New SID
- Action Replay MK6
- a 1541-II disk drive.
- Precalculated animations are not accepted
- File size limit: standard 5,25 DD disk.
- Maximum running time is 15 min.
* PC MULTI OS DOS/WINDOWS/LINUX 64KB INTRO COMPETITION
- The intros must run on the same machine than the demos.
- Same video modes than for demos.
- File Size limit is 64Kb.
- Maximum running time is 8 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Ko
- Pure animation files are not accepted
* AMIGA 64KB INTRO COMPETITION
- Same harware config as for the Amiga demos.
- The intro must be a SINGLE executeable file
- Size limit is 65536 bytes on harddisk
- The intro must exit by pressing any mouse button at any time
- Running lenght limit is 5 minutes.
- The intro must run from harddisk.
- The intro should have a clean quiting.
* PC 4KB INTRO COMPETITION
- The 4Kb intros must run on the same machine than the demos.
- File Size limit is 4096 Bytes.
- Maximum running time is 3 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- No sound ! This is a coding competition
- Animation files not accepted
* MULTICHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Any tracked format supported by latest Cubic Player allowed.
- Maximum uncompressed file size: 1024 Kb
- Maximum playing time: 4 minutes longer songs will be faded out after 4
- Maximum amount of channels: 32
- One and only replay card: Gravis UltraSound 1Mb Classic
- One and only player used: latest Cubic Player by N. Beisert on PC.
The time well spare with this rule will help us to pay more attention
to everyone
- A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceeds a reasonable
number.
* C64 MUSIC COMPETITION
- All formats allowed, executable file.
- The C64 screen will not be shown during the compo.
* HAND-DRAWN GFX COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Maximum resolution: 640x480x16M
- Accepted Format: PCX, GIF, LBM, BMP All formats supported by SEA All in
8bit, any 24bit file will be automaticly disqualified
- We will use SEA with UNIVBE 5.3 vesa driver loaded to display the pictures.
- The name of the competitors must not be present on the picture.
The release version can of course have your signature.
- You should include on the disk both versions: Signed not Signed in two
different archives with the compo version named Nosigned.zip.
- The competitors must deliver 3 significative steps compo version not
included of their picture to the organisers.
- Pictures needs to be pixel hand-drawn, therefore raytrace, scans or
anything else are *NOT* allowed.
- Pictures cant have been used before in any productions or competitions.
Except in demos/intros first shown at the Wired 98.
- Any picture can be disqualified by the organizers if it doesnt fit the
rules. A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceed a
reasonable number.
* RAYTRACE GRAPHICS COMPETITION PC Amiga
- Maximum resolution: 640x480x16M
- Allowed format: TGA, JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, LBM Pc format all formats
supported by SEA.
- All pictures are shown with SEA and UNIVBE 5.3 loaded.
- Youll need to bring three significative steps not Wire, Flat, Phong and
Textured Phong/Raytrace versions of the same picture of your picture,
these pictures obviously dont need to be in high res or true-color mode.
* C64 GRAPHICS COMPETITION
- All formats/modes allowed.
- Must be an executable file.
* PC 100k GAME COMPETITION
- The game must run on the same machine than the demos.
- Same video modes than for the demos.
- File size limit is 100kb for the competition version,
but you can always make a bigger release version.
- Maximum running/gaming time is 5 minutes.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600ko
- Pure animation files are not accepted
* JAVA DEMO COMPETITION.
A Java demo competition will be organised on request if enough
people show interest to that competition.
If you want to present a Java demo at Wired98, please send an email
to darkness@ping.be to show your interest and discuss the competition
rules.
* WILD COMPETITION
- Anything is allowed. Use your imagination!
- Contribution can be on video or on ANY hardware you wish.
- If you need any hardware, you MUST bring your hardware with you.
- We can play PAL, SECAM VHS tapes.
- Any machine with a VGA, PAL, SECAM, or RGB output can be connected
to the big screen but note that the resolution limits are the
same than for the PC demo compo - higher resolutions could cause
a quite poor picture quality.
- Video tapes wont be returned so make a copy of it if you so wish.
* SURPRISE COMPETITIONS
As usual some surprise competitions will be held.
This year again, our weaked brains have thought about many great surprise
compos. But it would be stupid to tell you about them now, wouldnt it?
* ANSI COMPETITION
The ansi compo is being organised by Zarkof/PrimusTelepathySe7enAegis
email: zarkof@ccim.be
- Maximum size: 80x200
Ansi can be viewed either in 80x25 or 80x50 mode.
Ansi will be viewed in ANSI and VGA mode.
It will scroll at a speed of a 14.4K modem.
- NO ANIMATION!
06. VOTING SYSTEM
Everyone will get a personnal voting disk at the entrance which will allow
safe computer voting.
We will make our best to release all contributions on the party server after
each competitions, in order to give the voters a chance to view the
productions on their computer before voting.
All the compos will be judged by a public voting 100.
07. PRIZES MONEY
We, the organisers wont make any money out of the party. Unless some other
so called parties which are based on the money, we are organising the WiRED
party because we want to make a quality non commercial party and want to
keep a real scene spirit in it. All the money left from the entrances fees,
after we remove our costs, will be used for the competitions prizes. As we
cant say exactly how many people will attend the party we cant make an
estimation but considering the success of last years Wired party and as many
people said they will attend this year, one can guess its gonna be much.
The prizes will be payed in CASH, but additional hardware prizes might also
be ADDED to the prizes.
ALL PRIZES will be given during the PRIZE CEREMONY at the end of the party.
08. SOME OF THE PARTY FEATURES
- Really HUGE party area with place for 1000+ attenders.
- Large parking area with place for everyone.
- Ultra High quality video projector.
- HUGE Big Screen.
- Impressive Audio System.
- Party Network
- Internet Access
- Really awesome color party T-Shirt sold at a VERY cheap prize.
- Free showers.
- Separate sleeping room outside the party hall
- Clean toilet.
- Many great surprise competitions.
- Disk-throwing Coca-Cola drinking competitions.
- Electricity for everyone.
- Extremely cheap food support
- We will enjoy the presence of at least one TV channel.
- All Prizes will be given AT the party place during the PRIZE CEREMONY.
- A real fun non-commercial scene spirit!
- All this and a lot more...
If you want to show something particular on the big screen Video, Demo,
Wild demo or Game preview for example, feel free to bring it with you.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU YOU TO DO SO. The big screen is there to be used!
09. CATERING
You can easily find whatever suits your need at Wired, you wont have
like at some other parties to bring food from home if you dont want
to be bankrupt at the end of the party :
Sandwishes and soft drinks will be sold at the party place 24h/24h for
cheap prizes less than 1 US for sandwishes, softs
We also have an arrangement with a local friture which will sell fries,
hamburger and other junk food next to the party place during the whole
event 24h/24h at neat prizes.
Croissants and cafe will also be available at the morning.
10. WIRED 98 OFFICIAL PARTY T-SHIRTS
In most of the respectable demo parties, some Party T-Shirts are sold to the
visitors, but most of the time those T-Shirts are undesigned, only black and
white and are sold at a very huge prize considering what theyre worth.
As last year, due to the success of the Wired T-Shirts those last three
years, we decided not only to propose you one T-shirt but atleast TWO
DIFFERENT PARTY T-SHIRTS that will be available at the party place.
The WiRED 98 T-Shirts will feature:
- HIGH quality graphics in FULL COLORS:
One T-Shirt will be designed by Alex Melon.
Another T-Shirt will be designed by another great scene artist.
- A3 size for graphics 40cm*30cm
- High Quality T-Shirts Fruit of the Loom
- Very CHEAP selling prize: 300 Bfr less than 10 US
cheaper than at any other parties
11. PARTY NETWORK
As usual, a party network, connected to the internet will be set up during
the party.
Network specification:
Like last year, we will offer TCP/IP connectivity to the party network.
In order to successfully connect, you need:
- a TCP/IP stack ipv4
- a network card with UTP RJ45 connector 10base2 10megabit/sec
Party Network Features:
- DHCP IP DNS assignation. for those without a DHCP client, you can
request an IP at the Network Info Desk
- Local FTP, WWW, IRC Quake server
Keep in mind that the success of the Party Network depends on you and
how much hardware you bring with you at the party place. So please, bring
as much HUBs, Network cards or cables as possible!
We are currently trying to make sure we can offer an Internet access for
any people connected to the party network.
If you have any questions about the net, contact either
aXs access@wpartners.com or Sleeping Dog kb@nli.be.
12. PARTY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 17.07.1998
11:00 Party doors open
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00 Deadline Ansi competition
20:00
21:00
22:00 Ansi competition starts
22:30 Deadline music C64 music competitions.
23:00 Deadline PC 100k Game Competition
24:00 Deadline Gfx Competitions Hand-drawn, Raytrace C64 gfx
SATURDAY 18.07.1998
01:00
02:00 PC 100k Game competition starts
03:00
04:00 Gfx hand-drawn raytrace competitions starts
05:00 C64 gfx competition starts
06:00 Deadline PC 4kb competition
07:00 Deadline PC Amiga 64kb intro competition
08:00 C64 Music Competition starts
09:00 Multichannel Music Competition starts
10:00
11:00 Deadline Wild demos C64 Demo Competition
12:00 PC 4kb Competition starts
13:00
14:00 Deadline demos competitions Dos, Amiga, Linux, Win/3dfx
15:00 PC 64kb intro competition starts
16:00 Amiga 64kb Competition starts
17:00
18:00 C64 demos competition starts
19:00
20:00 Amiga demos competition starts
21:00
22:00 PC demos competition starts
23:00
24:00
SUNDAY 19.07.1998
01:00 PC 3D Cards demos competitions starts
02:00
03:00
04:00 Wild Competition starts
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00
09:00 Deadline for voting
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00 Prize Ceremony
15:00
16:00
17:00 Party doors Close
This schedule is always subject to change in future infofile, so
be sure to check again when new infofiles are released.
13. DISCLAIMER
- We dont take any responsibility on the safety of the equipment you bring
to the party place. if you want you can always get an insurrance
- We are not responsible for any accidents which may arrive during the party.
It would be a good idea to have a personal insurrance.
- No alcohol, Drugs, nor software piracy is allowed in the party place.
We dont think you need that stuff to have real fun :
- Trouble makers and people who cant behaive properly will be thrown out
of the party place. Real trouble makers will be held by the police.
- Naturally, you will have to pay for anything you destroy or damage.
- We will not accept anybody selling food, drinks, disks or other things.
- Please use the trashcans around the rooms so we dont have to spend three
whole days to clean up your mess.
- NO RACIST signs will be allowed at the party.
- Please brought your own SAFE wires with you !
NO SAFE WIRES NO ELECTRICITY!
- If you have ANY suggestions or ideas about anything written in this text
file, dont hesitate to contact us!
14. HOW TO GET THERE ?
If you are comming by car:
On the E42 E17 Highway, get off at the exit 25 St-Ghislain.
From the Highway exit, follow the map included with this
infofile mapcar.gif
If you are comming by train:
Get off at the station of MONS same station as for last year Wired.
Take the BUS number 1 on your right when you get out of the station
Get off the bus at the stop Hornu-Wasmes ask the driver.
Then follow the map included with this infofile mapbus.gif
Also if youre comming by train, please read the file cheaptrn.txt
included with this infofile to learn about some ways to travel cheaper
by train inside Belgium.
If you are comming by plane:
Get off at Zaventhem airport. From there you can take a train
shuttle to Bruxelles Midi. From there take the train to MONS.
Check If you are comming by train above for details.
15. CONTACT ADRESSES
E-mail: Darkness/Imphobia : darkness@ping.be
Damien/Imphobia : dvanmiegroet@hotmail.com
WWW: Check the official Wired98 www page at:
http://nl.scene.org/wired98 NEW URL!
SnailMail: Wired 98
c/o Van Audenhove FJ
118, Av. Du Roi Soldat
1070 Bruxelles
Belgium
FTP: All forthcoming WiREd announcement files will also be available at
ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos/incoming/party/
If you want to be informed about forthcoming Wired info, you can subscribe
to the Wired mailing-list:
Send an email to wired-request@wpartners.com
and write as SUBJECT of the message: subscribe
17. SPONSORS
The following companies are sponsoring Wired.
We would like to thanks them for their support.
- ATI http://www.atitech.ca
- PC Partners http://www.pc-partners.com
We would also like to thanks people at The Cybertheatre
www.nirvanet.com/cybertheatre for the interest they showed to Wired.
More sponsors are in discussion.. Dont hesitate to contact us if you
want to sponsorise Wired in any way!
18. CLOSING WORDS
For updates of this information file and for forthcoming invitations
intros, check the Wired WWW site regulary at:
nl.scene.org/wired98 new url!
Note that the url of the Wired site has changed! Be sure to bookmark it.
Also check out the Wired98 PC invitation intro by Haujobb, available
at the wired webside.
Well, we all hope to see you there! Its gonna be great!
W i R E D 9 8 - D O N T M I S S T H E L A S T O N E !
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