
          For the third time it is our pleasure to invite you to ..



                  
                        
                                  
                             
           
                             
                                  
                            
                            
                                  
                                            
                                            
                                
                                -- BUGFIXED! --

                     
                     The PC Demoscene Festival of The Year

            Organized by Anthology, Diffusion, Distortion & SWAMP

                    Version 0.1b released 14th of May 1997


            Index:    Introduction
                      Entrance
                      Sponsors
                      Party Features
                      Competitions
                      Prices To Win
                      Network Information
                      Addresses And How To Contact Us
                      Roading Information
                      Registration



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   INTRODUCTION: 
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             Welcome yet another time to Summer Encounter,
            the demoscene computer arts festival in Denmark.

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

    This year, as the previous years, it is our goal to bring to you
    a different experience, no noisy games, just 4 days of the very
    best of realtime computer art on the PC.

    Again we are definately not focusing on sponsor-gifts and high
    competition prices, but on the real demoscene atmosphere that we
    hope to bring you all for a couple of days.

    Summer Encounter '97 will be held in our usual sportshall in the
    middle of Jutland, Denmark - in a town called Harridslev, just
    outside of Randers.


    The party is held during:


                  THURSDAY 24TH OF JULY AT 13:00 O'CLOCK

                                    to

                   SUNDAY 27TH OF JULY AT 13:00 O'CLOCK


    Summer Encounter is a computer *festival* which means that it's not
    just an ordinary computer party! We have musical events, computer art
    display, weird sports competitions and much more.

    To give Summer Encounter the *real* festival feeling, please:


                               BRING A TENT!
                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    We want you all to bring a tent and make a tent city for the quiet
    and cool summer nights!  After all, the fresh air and the quiet
    surroundings outdoor gives you the best sleep :-)




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   ENTRANCE: 
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    As usual we will keep the entrance fee as low as possible, which
    means that this year it will cost you 150 DKr.

    Daily Visitors are welcome, but 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.
    One-Day visitors are DAY visitors, you will have to leave in
    the evening, no later than 21.00 CET.

    You'll get aprox. 1m x 1m of table space, and you won't get more
    just because you register 20 extra fake persons.




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   SPONSORS: 
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    Summer Encounter 1997 could not exist without the help and sponsoring
    of several companies and people.

    At the moment we do not know the entire final list of sponsors. We
    will release an update later on, when the list has been completed
    and all negotiations have ended.


    We would like to thank Mira Internet, who has already provided us
    with a web-site, and who are looking into setting up a 256 kbit
    frame relay connection to the party-place!

    THANK YOU!

    Please visit http://www.mira.dk/ and http://www.summer.dk/




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   PARTY FEATURES: 
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                    --  Overall Party Features!  --

   72 hours of hot'n'dirty activity.

   Girls have free entrance!

   The place holds more than 350 people with computers, and we have
    tables and chairs for everyone, including enough power!

   6 major competitions, 2 fast competitions, many crazy competitions
    as Disk Throwing and Mouse Throwing. Lots of outdoor competitions as
    Team Soccer and Monitor Cross-Country.

   Huge Ethernet party-network, 100% access to all, with a huge and
    fast Novell & Unix/NT Server with full TCP/IP support, including
    a connection to the Internet!

   All info during the party will be placed on the party web-server and
    isplayed on the bigscreen outside the competitions.

   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. We want to add that this cafeteria is the first
    to keep the promise of cheap food, last two years was the cheapest
    at any party EVER!

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


                      --  Crazy Activities!  --

   Team Basket and Crazy Soccer tournaments for everyone to participate in.

   If the weather permits it, we will have a huge BAR-B-Q for everyone.

   Many outdoor competitions like basket and football!

   Lots of crazy competitions like mouse-throwing, monitor-run and more!

   Special competitions as the coolest group t-shirt, best looking PC etc!

 

                   --  Sound & Video Equipment!  --

   LaserDisc & Video-room showing cult movies 24 hours a day.
 
   4x4 meters high quality big screen, for movies and competitions.

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


                   --  Music concerts and shows!  --

   A professional rave, where there will be sold beer and softdrinks!
    (You have to be 18 to get served alcohol in Denmark!)

   Stage shows with demoscene musicians!

   Our Coca-Cola stage show!

   Outdoor concerts and music events!




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   COMPETITIONS: 
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OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS:
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    The Official 6 Main Competitions are:

            Demo Competition
            Intro Competition
            Music competition
            Pixel Graphics Competition
            3D Modelling Graphics Competition

            WILD! Demo Competition

    The Official 2 Fast Competitions are:

            Fast Intro
            Fast Music



COMPETITION COMPUTER:
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        Intel Pentium 166 MHz w/16 Mb RAM
        ET6000-based PCI Graphics Adapter
        SoundBlaster AWE32, 2 Mb RAM
        Gravis Ultrasound MAX, 1 Mb RAM
        Gravis Ultrasound PnP Pro, 2,5 Mb RAM



OVERALL RULES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   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
    jury selected from the visitors will make a selection.

    The current limit is:

            Demo Competition        15 Entries
            Intro Competition       20 Entries
            Music Competition       20 Entries
            Pixel Graphics          20 Entries
            3D Modelling Graphics   20 Entries
            WILD! Competition       15 Entries

    Everyone present at the party qualifies for jury-duty.

   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.
   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.
   The demo must be able to run with HIMEM.SYS.
   We, the organizers, will weed out all lame contributions, so be warned!
    (In case of a jury-selection, the jury will weed them out!)


INTRO:
~~~~~~
   Only .EXE & .COM under MS-DOS 6.22 + data files and other stuff.
   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 and VESA 2.0 supported.
   The intro must be able to run with HIMEM.SYS.
   We, the organizers, will weed out all lame contributions, so be warned!
    (In case of a jury-selection, the jury will weed them out!)


MUSIC:
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   We will accept IT, 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  : 3 Minuttes
   Maximum data size       : 1 Mb (1.048.576 bytes)
    (including pattern and samples).
   We will use a GUS MAX with 1Mb. (If there is a good enough player
    out for the GUS PnP, we will use that instead, to have full 44.1Khz
    stereo output on all 32 channels!)

    For the playing of IT we will use ImpulseTracker 2.11
    For the playing of XM we will use Fast Tracker 2.06
    For the playing of S3M we will use Scream Tracker 3.21


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


3D MODELLING GRAPHICS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   The maximum allowed resolution is 640x480.
   Max 24 bit colors.
   You are allowed to deliver a picture of higher resolution, which will
    be spread instead of the low-resolution picture.
   Formats must be either JPEG, TARGA, TIFF or BMP.
   All 3D graphics is allowed.
   You will have to deliver your 3D model as well as the picture, to
    ensure that the organizers can re-produce your picture, to show that
    it has not been stolen.
   If you clearly state so, we will not spread the 3D model.


WILD! DEMO:
~~~~~~~~~~~
   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  : 5 Minuttes
   Any kind of sound is allowed.
   Please deliver your work on harddisk or CD-ROM. (no floppies!)
   The entry MUST be made on a computer, so no Heavy Metal Videos, homemade
    videos and other non-computer related productions like that.


FAST COMPETITIONS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Competitions will be:

         Fast Intro
         Fast Music

    Fast Competition Rules will be announced at the start of the
    competition.




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   PRICES TO WIN:
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    Because of last years problems with the exact pricings and other
    parties experiences with fixed price-money, we have decided to
    put out fixed percentages of the price-money.


    With 200 visitors the price-money is 5.000 DKK + sponsored gifts.
    With 350 visitors the price-money is 16.250 DKK + sponsored gifts.
    We are currently negotiating with a main sponsor who might be
    willing to sponsor an amount which might look somewhat the same
    as what Summer Encounter is putting into the price-money.

    Our budgets break-even point is at 200 visitors and 5.000 DKK.
    50% of the entrance fee for all visitors above 200 will be used
    for prices, the last 50% will be used to the extra expenses of
    extra people, as well as saving an amount for next your so we
    won't have to borrow money.


                DEMO  INTRO  MUSIC   GFX   3D GFX  WILD 
           ---------------------------------------------
           1st  15 %    7 %    6 %    6 %     6 %  10 % 
           2nd   9 %    5 %    4 %    4 %     4 %   6 % 
           3rd   6 %    2 %    2 %    2 %     2 %   4 % 
           ---------------------------------------------


    Just as an example, we have this imaginary calculation.

           With 350 visitors and 30.000 DKK in sponsored
           gifts, the prices will be:


                DEMO  INTRO  MUSIC   GFX   3D GFX  WILD 
           ---------------------------------------------
           1st  6938  3.238  2.775  2.775   2.775  4625 
           2nd  4162  2.312  1.850  1.850   1.850  3238 
           3rd  2775    925    925    925     925  1850 
           ---------------------------------------------

                                               Total: 46.250 DKK


    Any major damage made by the visitors, will be paid from the prices.
    Any major unforseen expenses will be cutted from the prices.

    Prices for our Fast and CrAzY competitions will be surprises from
    our sponsors. Please remember that Summer Encounter is a non-profit
    party, and as such, no one is making any money on it.

    Please be aware that we have no real intension of getting higher
    price-money than 50.000 DKK, we believe that will ruin the meaning
    of a non-commercial computer arts festival. Naturally we will not
    say no to 100.000 DKK for prices :-)




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   NETWORK INFORMATION: 
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    We will have a party network available, with BNC cables on all
    tables, including t-connectors for everyone. You do not have to
    bring any cables yourself.

    For your pleasure we have the following servers:

        Novell Netware 4.x available as a file storage facility.
        Windows NT 4.0 Server running as a web- and ftp-server.

    We will naturally have backup servers running, if anything should
    happen to our primary servers.

    We will be running on a 100 MBit backbone, with 10Mbit BNC
    segments to every table. Every segment will have a maximum
    of 25 computers, to make the network more stabile.

    A World Wide Web server will be running with the newest information
    available, like statistics, pictures from the events at the party and
    much more. Everyone will be able to attend Summer Encounter, either
    at the party place itself, or via the Internet. (www.summer.dk)

    We will be able to offer you VERY cheap NE2000 compatible netcards
    at the party-place, so if you don't have a netcard yet, you will get
    the possibility.

    Any cabling or technical installations MUST be done by our netcrew,
    or your network access *will* be removed!



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   ADDRESSES AND HOW TO CONTACT US: 
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    PARTY PLACE:                Korshoejhallen
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~                Skolevaenget 3, Harridslev
                                8900 Randers
                                Denmark


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


    E-MAIL REGISTRATION:        Fidonet : 2:238/174     28.8 V34
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        DGI     : 68:450/1      28.8 V34


    INTERNET REGISTRATION:      World Wide Web:     http://www.summer.dk/
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~      Registrations:      reg@summer.dk
                                Information:        info@summer.dk


    MODEM REGISTRATION:         Downstairs
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~             
                                    Line #1     +45 96-340661   28.8 V34
                                    Line #2     +45 98-340662   64.0 ISDN
                                    Line #3     +45 98-188132   19.2 ZYX


    PHONE REGISTRATION:         Rene Christensen (Zteel/Diffusion)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~         
                                Voice               +45 96-340660
                                Fax                 +45 96-340663




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   HOW TO FIND US: 
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    Harridslev is located on the north of the city Randers.

    Randers is in the middle of Jytland, on the east coast, aprox.
    50 Km north of the big city Aarhus.

    (You will be able to find it on any decent roadmap, without problems)

    So we'll just give you directions from there. If you have trouble
    getting here, you can use the blue X-busses or go by train.

    At the moment we are trying to setup a party bus, going from Randers
    to the party place on the first day, and back on the last. We will
    setup signs at Randers bus- and railroad-station and announce it
    publicly as soon as we know.



BUS:
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    If you get to Randers by bus, you will arrive at Randers bus
    terminal. Here you can catch bus number 238 and then you have
    to get of in Harridslev. Ask the driver to announce when he
    arrives there. We will actually try and ask the bus company if
    they can drive by the party place during SE96. If not, you'll
    have to walk aprox. 400m to the party place.
    We have included a map of Harridslev (MAP2.GIF), so you can
    see which direction you're supposed to walk. We'll setup some
    party signs too, so don't worry.



CAR:
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    People who will be joining us by car will have to take a look at
    MAP1.GIF first, this is a road-map of the Randers area. It shows
    how you get from Randers to Harridslev. When at Harridslev, look
    at MAP2.GIF for further directions.



TRAIN:
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    When you arrive at Randers train station, you will have to walk
    aprox. 500m to the bridge. This is to the rigth when leaving the
    train station's main entrance. From the bridge, you walk aprox.
    100m to the left, where you will find the bus terminal.
    Please look at MAP2.GIF



FERRY:
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    If you come by ferry to Grenaa or Ebeltoft you will be arriving on
    the main road 16/21 when you enter the town. It is quite easy when
    you get off the ferry - you just follow the signs to Randers. From
    Randers you follow the maps and the same roading directions as for
    travelling by car.
    


MAPS:
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    This is a fast set of directions to go with the map files.

    MAP1.GIF        A map of Randers showing how to get from Randers
                    to Harridslev. The pink box in the right upper
                    corner is Harridslev
    MAP2A.GIF       A closeup of Haridslev, without any names, but with
                    the exact roadings, everything included.
                    Print this one out and use for reference.
    MAP2B.GIF       Drawing of the roads in Harridslev with roadnames.
                    Print this one out and use for reference.




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   REGISTRATION: 
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        ** REMEMBER TO READ THE REGISTRATION RULES FURTHER DOWN

    To register for Summer Encounter 1997, please fill out the below
    registration-form.

    Please send it to us via fax, modem, e-mail or web.

    If you pay in advance with cheque you must make it out to
    "Michael Dahl" and send it to the mail address.

    You can also pay by giro. The giro number is: #060-4224, the owner
    is "Michael Dahl". Please write the following on it: "SE97 reg".

    Should you have any questions, you are most welcome to contact us.

    Your registration is for ONE person only. You will have to fill out
    a registration-form for every person you want to register for SE97.

    This is because we have an automated registration system, and when
    you enter the festival you will receive a personal badge, that you
    must wear in a visible place at all times.


      ------------ SUMMER ENCOUNTER 1996 REGISTRATION ------------
                                                                  
       Your handle ..........:                                :.. 
            group ...........:                                :.. 
            full name .......:                                :.. 
            address .........:                                :.. 
            zipcode & city ..:                                :.. 
            country .........:                                :.. 
            e-mail address ..:                                :.. 
       Payment before .......: No / Yes - Giro or Cheque?     :.. 
                                                                  
      ------------------------------------------------------------


    Because of the limited 350 seats, we have decided to use the
    following rules:

        1) Everyone who registers and pays in advance are asured
           a seat. They will be able to get their badge from a
           pre-paid registration counter.

        2) Everyone who registers, but does not pay in advance,
           will be asured a seat, but will have to stand in line
           to get the badge like everyone else.

        3) If you have not registered nor paid in advance you will
           *not* be asured a seat. We will let people in untill we
           reach a maximum of 350 visitors, or untill the hall has
           been filled. (there might be more places left, we cannot
           tell yet)

        4) Any registrations which has not been picked up before:

                        TUESDAY AT 17.00 O'CLOCK

           Will be null and void! This means that you have lost
           your registration and will have to stand in line like
           everyone else, and that you are not asured a seat. All
           pre-paid registrations will NOT be lost, your seat will
           be reserved for you.


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