                             ABORT '97 PARTY


                  Abort '97 Party Offical Invitation Text   
                        Held in Ljubljana/Slovenia
 	 	           On 3rd December 1997
                                
      
  ABORT97                                 
                                    
                                            
                                            
                                               
                                              
                                       
                                        K4  
    

                 Organised by Klub K4 & Septic Productions
                    Contact address: Abort97@hotmail.com
                     Text version: 2.00 (7th November)
                        
IMPORTANT: THE PARTY HAS BEEN MOVED TO 3RD DECEMBER!!!!

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INDEX: 

0. BUGS FROM PREVIOUS VERSION OF TEXT
1. OPENING WORDS
2. WHERE and WHEN?
3. MAIN ORGANISERS & SPONSORS
4. ENTRANCE FEES & RESERVATIONS
5. COMPETITIONS
6. VOTING SYSTEM
7. PRIZES
8. OFFICAL PARTY T-SHIRTS
9. HOW TO GET TO THE PARTY PLACE
10. CONTACT INFO & FUTURE UPDATES

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0.BUGS FROM PREVIOUS VERSION OF TEXT
The party has been moved to wednesday, 3rd DECEMBER.
Bar will close at 22:00, sorry...

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1.OPENING WORDS
Long time ago in a small country called Slovenia: 
First there was nothing. Then there were warez groups. And even later there 
was SEPTIC!
We were the first group in Slovenia that wanted to make some good music, 
graphics and even code demos and of course in the first place we wanted to 
HAVE FUN. Septic was founded in the summer of 1996 and we are getting better 
and better since then. Now some other groups have popped up too on the 
Slovenian demo scene (Impulse Connection, Interlaced Bytes, Wildcards, X-seed)
Wait, did i just say Slovenian DEMO scene?... oops, No real demos were yet 
released by any of these groups. But we are going to change that!

So... Lets make the a DEMO PARTY! Lets make Abort '97!

And what is a demo party?
A demo party is an event (party), when computer (art) enthusiasts come 
together, INTERACT, exchange IDEAS & knowledge, have a lot of FUN and COMPETE!

Everyone and every group shows what he/she/it has done. Shows its demo, 
music and graphics and watch other people's artwork!
You don't need to make any artwork that would compete with others, but it would
be very nice of you if you did it!

We hope Abort will become an annual event, but this will only be possible if 
you show up at the party & participate in the competitions!

This is a NON-COMMERCIAL event, all the income after paying bills will be spent
on prizes!

STAY TUNNED FOR MORE DETAILED VERSION OF THIS INVITATION!

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2. WHERE and WHEN?

The Abort '97 will be held on the 3rd December in Ljubljana/Slovenia 
in a famous cybercafe: K4 club at "Kersnikova street 4".
The party place will open on Wednesday the 3rd at 18:00 and will close at 
4:00am next day!
It will be opened before 18:00, but guess there wont be any people there yet.

Address: K4 club
         Kersnikova street 4
         Ljubljana
         Slovenia

Check the section 9. for more information on how to get there!

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3. MAIN ORGANISERS & SPONSORS

         The main organisers, sorted in alphabetical order:
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         Real Name:             alias/group           
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         Mare Frelih            Prosecutor/Septic     
         Slavko Glamocanin      Logik/Septic          
         Jernej Koprivnikar     Jerch/Septic           
         Luka Novak             D.J. Nova
         Miklavz Pirnat         D.J. Trypno               
         Andraz Tori            MinMax/Septic
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         Sponsors:
         
         STUDIO KAN - Nova d.o.o.
         KOS Computers - Kos d.o.o.
         

         We hope we will get some more, so we can give some nice prizes!
         
         If you have any good ideas about the party, tell us, we will gladly
         listen to them & if they are good, use them!
         Remember, this is YOUR party too!

         Contact E-mail address is Abort97@hotmail.com or you can find us 
         a lot on IRC on irc-net in channel #scene.si!

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4. ENTRANCE FEES & RESERVATIONS

A small entrance fee will be charged. Money will be used to pay bills & prizes!
Currently we the enterance fee is planned to be 600SIT (4 USD), but we could 
change it without warning in advance!
You'll get your table, electricity & paper voting form for it!
You have to bring SAFE cables for the electricity with you.
There will be a bar too, but it will only work to 22:00!

Because there is a limmited space avabile, you HAVE TO report you are coming
to Abort97@hotmail.com, if you don't, it may happen, you won't get the table to
put your computer and other equipment on!

COMPETITORS, bring your computer with you and report you are coming and you'll  
get FREE ENTRANCE!

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5. COMPETITIONS

There will be some standard competitions and some special ones (surprise!).
Because there is almost no interest in Amiga, Commodore & other compos, 
we will only held PC compos. If you have done your artwork on any other 
platform, you'll have to bring all necessary hardware with you if you want to 
show it to other people. If there will be enough interest in any other 
competition that is not described below, we will make additional compos! 

Every member and every group can participate with as many entries as they 
want, but please keep the quality on a decent level!

Entries must not be shown on any other party/competition before.

Anything recieved after deadline, won't be competing, but it will be
shown. There will be a deadline countdown!

If there won't be enough entryes for the competition, they will be showed
/played, but they won't compete!

If there will be too many entryes in competition, organisers will make
a pre-selection to lower the number of entries to reasonable amout. We will 
do it the best way we can but nobody is perfect. 

You'll have the opportunity to test your entry TWO TIMES on compo computer. 
If there will be too much interest in this, we don't know if it will be 
actualy possible. But don't come just before deadline! 

The organisers have right to remove any entry from the competition, if they 
think it is not suitable.


The party PC that will run everything:
Processor:     Pentium 133/166 or 200
Video card:    Stealth 64 2Mb DRAM or one of ATI cards
RAM:           32Mb 
Sound card:    SoundBlaster AWE 32 (64 if we can get it)
Projector:     ?? The maximum supported resolutions are 640x480x16M & 
               800x600x256! Higher resolutions will probably result in an ugly 
               picture!

The configuration is not finalised yet, it will be in the next version of this
invitation text!

Avabile system configurations will be:
DOS: Clean boot
DOS: Qemm / HiMem / HiMem & Emm386 loaded
It will be possible to run Win95 demos too.
All configurations will have VBE 2.0 drivers loaded!
(UniVBE drivers) 
Players used the for music compos: latest version of Cubic Player and 
IT if needed!



 * PC DEMO COMPETITION
    -maximum size 4194304 bytes 
    -it should run trough a batch file called STARTIT.BAT
    -pure animation files not accepted
    -maximum base memory requirement is 550Kb
    -maximum memory requirement is 16Mb
    -if it crashes, it is NOT showed again, but can still compete
    -don't forget to specify boot configuration you want
    -maximum 15 minutes

 * PC 64Kb INTRO COMPETITION
    -all that was said for demo compo +
    -maximum size 65536 bytes
    -maximum 5 minutes
    -chances for this compo to take place are not so good, if there won't be 
     enough entries, it will be merged with the PC DEMO COMPO
    

 * PC 4096 & 256 BYTES COMPETITIONS
    -we expect these two competitions won't take place due to lack of interest,
     but if they will, well.. We'll be very happy!
    -size limit (as the name says)
    -NO MUSIC

  
  * MULTICHANNEL COMPETITION
    -any format that is supported under latest Cubic Player by pascal
     except MPEG & WAV
    -if you want your music played with IT, you must specify it explicitly 
    -maximum 4 minutes playing time, after that it will be faded out

  * 4 CHANNEL COMPETITION
    -Only original (4-ch) MOD format is accepted (played with Cubic Player)    
    -maximum 4 channels
    -maximum 4 minutes playing time, after that it will be faded out
   
  * It is possible that both music competitions will be merged
  
  * HAND DRAWN GRAPHICS COMPETITION
    -max. 640x480x16M 
    -viewer will be .... ? 
    -accepted formats: PCX, LBM, GIF, BMP
    -NO NAME of competitor or group should be writen in the compo version,
     the release version, can of course include it, you can add it as 
     release.zip
    -You must add 3 significative steps of making the picture
    -Picture MUST be PIXEL HAND DRAWN, raytrace, scans or anything else
     are NOT ALLOWED
    -picture musn't be used anytime before in any compo, except on Abort '97
  
  * RAYTRACE GRAPHICS COMPETITION
    -all rules like for the hand drawn compo except it has to be made in one of
     raytracing programs
    -3 steps of constructing must be added! (not different types of shading!)

  * It is possible that both graphic competitions will be merged!

  * ANSI COMPETITION
    -max 80x200 ANSI
    -it has to be made for 80x25 or 80x50 mode
    -will be shown with latest ANSIDRAW 
    -no animation

  * ASCII COMPETITION
    -max 80x200 ASCII
    -it has to be made for 80x25 or 80x50 mode

  * It is possible that both text art oriented competitions will be merged!

  * WILD COMPETITION 
    -anything allowed 
    -bring ALL NECESSARY equipment with you (VCRs, Lightshows... :)

  * SURPRISE COMPOS
    -be prepared for everything :)

Please include information about every product in product.nfo file!

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6. VOTING SYSTEM

When entering, everyone will recieve a paper voting form.
There will be all needed instructions written on it.

All compos will be voted with public voting. There will be no other type of
voting! 

You'll have to return the filled paper form before the voting dead line!

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7. PRIZES

We don't know if there will be any money for prizes left, and if we will 
get more sponsors, so we can't promisse anything!
But if there will be prizes, they will be given to the winners at the end 
of the party.
We expect to give out simbolic prizes only..
Anyway...
Scene's not for money & other prizes!
IT'S FOR FUN, FAME AND GLORY

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8. OFFICAL PARTY T-SHIRTS

There will be a limited number of T-shirts avabile. 
They'll have nice party/septic logos on them.
Because we don't know how many we will sell, you have to reserve some 
for you and your friends to get them for sure, write to Abort97@hotmail.com. 

They will be sold at the price of 1000SIT (7 USD)!
The price is not fixed, we don't know exactly how much they'll cost!

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9. HOW TO GET TO THE PARTY PLACE

Scanned pictures of Ljubljana/Center (K4, main train station, main bus station,
main roads) can be found on this URL:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/5166/demo_party.html

Party place is only about 600m away from main train/bus station.
If your are arriving to that station, we can send someone there and he'll
guide you to the party place (contact us on Abort97@hotmail.com for this
option)


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10. CONTACT INFO & FUTURE UPDATES

E-mail: Abort97@hotmail.com
WWW:    http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/5166/demo_party.html
BBS:    Digital Force

          STAY TUNNED FOR MORE DETAILED VERSION OF THIS INVITATION



                             MIND OVER MATTER
                            THE ART OVER MIND,
                        AND FREEDOM OVER EVERYTHING

