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                        Organized by SWAMP & Diffusion



INTRODUCTION:


        Summer Encounter is the danish demoscene party of 1996.

    Summer Encounter is a purely non-commercial party, organized for
    the gathering of all demoscene freaks, primarily from Denmark and
    the surrounding countries.

    The prices might not be incredible high, but atleast no company
    is making any profit from it either. We wont try to hide that
    this is not a huge and incredible party, but we are certain
    that we are going to have more fun than any other party! :)

    Summer Encounter '96 will be held in a sportshall in the middle
    of Jutland, Denmark - just outside Randers.

    The party is hold during:

                Wednesday 31th of July at 13:00 o'clock
                                   to
                   Sunday 28th of July at 13:00 o'clock




ENTRANCE:


    We have tried to keep the entrance fee as low as possible, but we
    have a very tight budget. We'll have to charge you 100 DKr if you
    pay in advance (at least 10 days) and 130 DKr at the entrance.
    Daily Visitors are welcome and they will have to pay 30 DKr/day
    and 100 DKr in deposit, which will be returned when they leave.

    One-Day visitors are not allowed to participate in the main
    competitions. One-Day visitors will not get a seat-reservation.

    You'll get aprox. 1200 mm x 1000 mm of table space and all the
    floor space you want.

    The RAVE party costs 10 Dkr at the entrance, to cover the rent
    for the place and equipment.




FEATURES:


   72 hours of hot'n'dirty activity.

   The place holds aprox. 300-350 people, and we have tables and chairs
    for everyone.

   5 major competitions, 3 fast competitions, many surprise compos as
    Disk Throwing and Mouse Throwing. Lots of outdoor competitions as
    Team Soccer and Monitor Cross-Country.

   Girls have free entrance, transvestites pays double! :)

   If the weather permits it, we will have a huge BAR-B-Q for everyone.
    You will be able to buy your meat'n'food in the nearby supermarket.

   Huge Ethernet party-network, 100% access to all, with a huge and
    fast Novell Server and TCP/IP support.

   We hired a professional electrician, but he was electricuted.
    I sure hope he finished the job. (He did!)

   LaserDisc & Video-room showing cult movies 24 hours a day.
    The hottest in action, thrillers, porno and whatever pleases you.

   All info during the party will be placed on the party server and
    displayed on the bigscreen outside the competitions.

   2500 x 2000 mm high quality big screen, for movies and competitions.
    If possible, we will get an even bigger screen.

   Great Hi-Fi equipment for the hall, so we're sure you can hear the
    demos and music.

   Cafeteria at the party place, open as often as possible. He will be
    selling real food, not just junk-food. You are allowed to bring our
    own food and Coke.

   Should you need a bath we have aprox. 25 showers and separate
    rooms for both the boys and the girls. (why?)

   RAVE-PARTY in a club less than 500 meters from the party place.
    They will charge you 10 DKr, and alcohol can be served at the place.
    Local RAVE freaks will be joining the party too. (girls!)




RULES AT THE PARTY PLACE:


   Alcohol and drugs are forbidden. No one needs that crap anyway :)

   Naturally, you will have to pay for everything you break or damage.

   If you fuck something up, we'll fuck you and your equipment up
    too! So be careful, the force is with us, ha haaaa >:-).

   We will not accept anybody selling food, drinks, disks or
    other things, except if you have arranged it with us.

   Please use the black plastic bags around the party place, so
    we don't have to spend a week of cleaning.

   We take no responsibility for illegal swapping of software, VCR
    or other bad bad things, We know that you would never do anything
    illegal, anyway....

   No racist signs or acting, but dumping on Amiga and other arcade
    machines is ok :)

   Please don't bring fireworks or other kinds of stupid stuff
    like that! (or we will set you on fire outside:)




NETWORK INFORMATION:


    The party network server will consist of a Pentium/90 with at least
    64MB ram and about 4-6 GB harddisk space. The server will be like a
    harddisk to you and we take no responsibility for what you might put
    there (Non-PD, fish-porn and so on:).

    All you need is an Ethernet-card with a BNC connection and a length
    of BNC cable. We will pull cables from the server to all of the tables.

    You will get the software needed when you arrive at the party.
    Our net-software will by default be installed for the L: drive.

    Questions regarding the network can be addressed to:
                  Anders Eriksen, 2:238/143 (Shorty/SWAMP)




COMPETITIONS:



COMPETITION COMPUTER:
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    Pentium 90 med 16mb RAM, PCI graphics card.
        SoundBlaster AWE32, 2mb RAM
        Gravis Ultrasound MAX, 1mb RAM
        Gravis Ultrasound PnP, 2,5mb RAM



OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS:
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    The Official 5 Main Competitions are:

            Demo Competition
            Intro Competition
            Music competition
            Graphics competition
            WILD! Demo Competition

    The Official 3 Fast Competitions are:

            Fast Intro
            Fast Music
            Fast Graphics



OVERALL RULES:
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   All contributions must be delivered at the entrance before deadlines.
    You'll get those in a later invitation file or at the party.

   The competitors must be present at the party.

   You can only hand in one contribution per member of your group in
    each competition.

   If too many contributions are delivered for a competition, a
    competent jury will make a selection (competent, HA!)

   We copy and spread all contributions, shown or not, over the party
    network just after the voting deadline. If you do not include your
    own FILE_ID.DIZ, we will insert our own standard DIZ.

   You can deliver a bugfixed version for spreading, after the deadline,
    as long as it's delivered before the voting deadline. The version you
    delivered before the deadline, will be the one shown on the big screen.
    So make sure you contribute with (almost) finished demos.

   The contribution disks will not be returned, this is of course
    only a problem for those poor souls who do not have net access.



DEMO:
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   Only .EXE & .COM under MS-DOS 6.22 + data files and other stuff.
   Must be able to run on a 486DX2 66 MHz, 8MB RAM
   Maximum playing length  : 10 Minuttes
   Maximum data size       : 5 Mb (5.242.880 bytes)
   The demo must be able to run from harddisk (duh).
   The makers must supply the demo with an AUTOEXEC.BAT and
    CONFIG.SYS that runs the demo optimally right off the boot.
   Animations are NOT valid demo-entries!
   VGA register level compatible graphics mode and VESA 2.0 supported.
   We, the organizers, will weed out all lame contributions, so
    be warned!



INTRO:
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   Only .EXE & .COM under MS-DOS 6.22 + data files and other stuff.
   Must be able to run on a 486DX2 66 MHz, 8MB RAM
   Maximum playing length  : 5 Minuttes
   Maximum data size       : 64 Kb (65.536 bytes)
   The makers must supply the demo with an AUTOEXEC.BAT and
    CONFIG.SYS that runs the demo optimally right off the boot.
   Animations are NOT valid intro-entries!
   VGA register level compatible graphics mode supported.
   We, the organizers, will weed out all lame contributions, so
    be warned!



MUSIC:
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   We will accept XM, S3M and MOD formats without an additional
    player, but if you use another format, you HAVE to deliver a
    player for a 1 Mb Gravis UltraSound.
   Maximum playing length  : 5 Minuttes
   Maximum data size       : 1 Mb (1.048.576 bytes)
    (including pattern and samples). We will use a GUS MAX with 1MB.

    For the playing of MOD we will use the newest version of CapaMod
    For the playing of S3M we will use Scream Tracker 3.21
    For the playing of XM we will use Fast Tracker 2.06



GRAPHICS:
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   The maximum allowed resolution is 640x480
   Max 256 colors.
   Formats must be either GIF, LBM or PCX
   Only hand-drawn pictures, made on a computer, allowed.
    We will sort very carefully to weed out any rips, scans,
    raytraced and simular.

    We will be using CompuShow for showing the pictures.



WILD! DEMO:
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   Max resolution 640 x 480 if the contribution is shown from VGA.
   Contributions can be delivered as VIDEO, ANIMATION, DEMO - anything!
   If you cannot use the competition computer, you must deliver your
    own computer.
   There is no size limit.
   Maximum playing length  : 10 Minuttes
   Any kind of sound is allowed.
   Please deliver your computer work on harddisk. (no floppies!)



FAST COMPETITIONS:
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    Competitions will be:

         Fast Intro
         Fast Music
         Fast Graphics

    Surprise Competition Rules will be announced during the party.



CRAZY COMPETITIONS:
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    Plenty of crazy compos such as:

           Disk Throwing Contest
                We HAVE to beat the official Assembly record(!)

           Harddisk Throwing Contest
                You may bring your own harddisk, we only have
                a few for the competitions. Seagate wasn't that
                interested in sponsoring the event :)

           Real Time Monitor Relay Cross Country Run
                We have got a few old defect monitors, so that
                you can use one of them - if you are too chicken
                to use your own! :)

           Body Crashing Contest
                Trash your body with all the disgusting food that
                you can get your hands on!

           1 L Coca-Cola Drinking Contest
                Let's beat those 47 secs from The Party!

           Belching Competition
                Right after the Coca-Cola drinking contest :)

           Mouse Throwing Contest
                Grab a mouse by its tail and throw it away :-)
                No we're not using real mice :)

           OS/2 Warp CD throwing contest.
                Take that IBM!

           Team Soccer contest.
                Every group teams up for a quick soccer match,
                based on the rules made by the organizers! (haha!)




PRICES:



    This year we have pushed the envelope on our budget, which has
    resulted in bigger and better prices.

    We have aprox. 15.000 Dkr in cash, as well as aprox. 10.000 Dkr
    in hard- and software!


         DEMO      INTRO     MUSIC     GRAPHICS  WILD!    
    ------------------------------------------------------
    1st  6.000 Dkr 1.500 Dkr 1.500 Dkr 1.500 Dkr 4.000 Dkr
    2nd  3.000 Dkr   750 Dkr   750 Dkr   750 Dkr 2.000 Dkr
    3rd  1.500 Dkr   500 Dkr   500 Dkr   500 Dkr 1.000 Dkr
    ------------------------------------------------------


    All prices are estimates based on 250 people visiting the party.
    If there is less people than expected, the prices will be lowered.
    If there is more people than expected, the prices will be raised.
    Any major damage made by the visitors, will be paid from the prices.


    Prices for our Fast and CrAzY competitions will be surprises from
    our sponsors. It will be hard- and software.




ADDRESSES AND HOW TO CONTACT US:



    PARTY PLACE:                Korshoejhallen
    ------------                Skolevaenget 3, Harridslev
                                8900 Randers
                                Denmark


    MAIL REGISTRATION:          Summer Encounter
    ------------------          Vester Vaenge Alle 5
                                9000 Aalborg
                                Denmark


    NET REGISTRATION:           Fidonet : 2:238/44      19k2 ZYX
    -----------------                   : 2:238/143     33k6 USR
                                        : 2:238/174     28k8 V34
                                        : 2:238/1044    64k0 ISDN
                                DGI     : 68:450/1      28k8 V34
                                        : 68:450/2      64k0 ISDN
                                        : 68:450/3      19k2 ZYX
                                        : 68:450/18     33k6 USR
                                GSN     : 864:45/1      28k8 V34
                                MUFON   : 88:7106/7     28k8 V34
                                Internet: rvc@vision.auc.dk


    MODEM REGISTRATION:         Downstairs
    -------------------             Line #1     +45 96-340661   28k8 V34
                                    Line #2     +45 98-340662   64k0 ISDN
                                    Line #3     +45 98-188132   19k2 ZYX

                                Mental Disease
                                    Line #1     +45 97-222430   33k6 USR


    VOICE REGISTRATION:         Rene Christensen
    -------------------                         +45 96-340660   1000-2200 CET


    WORLD WIDE WEB:             http://www.vision.auc.dk/diffusion/SE96/
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                        DRINK COKE, MAX WILL KILL YA!

