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The
C O M P U T E R C R O S S R O A D '9 3
Party-invitation intro
Created in a few days of March 1993 by Iceman, Zodiak, Delsion and O'Hara.
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Writer: Zodiak
General Information:
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This intro was made to inform you about the next BIG computer happening:
The Computer Crossroad '93, the first in a series of parties to be held
by the very elite of Swedish demoproducers with the best facilities
possible in an ideal place: Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden
with connections to the rest of Europe by boat, airplane and whatsoever.
We are proud to be one of the two PC organizers and together with our
friends in The CodeBlasters we will try to make this party the best
in PC history. Of course how fun any party can be all depends on who
and how many come. So please consider going to this party !
The PC scene had its biggest gathering in Denmark at The Party 1992.
The main reason why everyone came seems to be that Aars was quite easy
to travel to. With the ferry/road/plane-connections to Gothenburg it
couldn't be much worse for most people travelling to Gothenburg than
travelling to Aars. If you live on the continent, check out the ferry
connections. There are so many ways of travelling to Gothenburg!
Some more and some much less expensive.
Intro Information:
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As already written, this intro was made just to inform you about the
party - nothing more, nothing less. It's not that much an astonishing
piece of code and it's really not that marvellous either. See it as
a replacement of an ordinary read.me textfile.
The intro requires 540 kilobytes of base memory and 300 kilobytes of
extended memory. To make it run properly we recommend you to load
HIMEM.SYS in your config.sys file and also load DOS high like this:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
dos=high, umb
Unfortunately this little intro requires a i80386 or better computer
to run. If we have had more time we could have made it run on a i80286
but we wanted to release the intro as fast as possible so just to make
life a bit easier for the coder we decided to require a 386.
Sorry if you got a 286 or less...but hey -you DID get this nifty ASCII-file!
Our new and improved musicsystem still supports most soundstandards
including the paralell-port soundplayers. But next time we'll go for
the SoundBlaster 16 and Gravis UltraSound boards in at least 8 channels.
The intro was designed by Zodiak/Iceman/O'Hara/Delsion with some
additional code by Hellraiser and the TCC logo by Mirage.
Our new musicsystem is coded by Robban.
Cascada:
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Yeah so we released another waste-intro. But there WILL be a demo.
Please quit sending me those sheets with questions galore and no IRC
included. Write down your address on a envelope and include an IRC and I
promise to answer. If you have questions about the party please refer to
the addresses at the bottom of the party-text. Cascada will organize the
PC part of the party but the other facilities will generally be taken care
of by Light/Horizon (see below). For invitation forms please use the contact
information in the bottom of the official invitation text.
Thank you.
For more information send a self-adressed envelope and an IRC to:
C A S C A D A
c/o Erik Stridell
Rotevgen 1
S-735 33 Surahammar
Or call our boards:
The Twilight Garden BBS +46 851050925
The Ultimate Hallucination BBS +46 854025353
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The DocWitcher docviewer was coded in 1993 by The Witchdoctor of the Syndicate.
The Witchdoctor has a Fanclub, and the address is:
Rolf Larsson
Tingsvgen 6
S-954 32 GAMMELSTAD
Sweden
Include $100 for 1 year membership, or simply write a nice letter.
Especially wanted: Anyone who'd like to write articles for a disc
magazine. Release at Computer Crossroad. Demo crews could send
a line or 2 about themselves, together with their latest demo...
Write to me for more info...
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Here follows the official invitiation text to TCC:
The Computer Crossroad '93 official invitation text
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You are welcome to The Computer Crossroad, which is the first of a new
generation of demo parties arranged by the top groups on the Amiga, PC, Atari
and C64 scenes. With "a new generation" we mean that these parties are for
all computer brands, therefore the witty name "The Computer Crossroad".
This is the party for ALL hackers. We mention only the four brands
Amiga, PC, Atari and C64, because we believe that they are the most popular
computers in Europe. With "the first", we mean that there will be a party
here in Gothenburg even next year, and every year from now on.
There will be competitions for demo programmers, music composers and graphic
artists. These competitions will only be for the above mentioned computers.
Where and when?
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The party starts on Saturday 29th of May and ends on Monday the 31st, and
is located at the Swedish Exhibition Centre in Gothenburg, which is the
main exhibition centre in Sweden. The party place is right in the heart of
Gothenburg, right next to Liseberg, an amusement park with masses of
exciting rides, artists, restaurants and the largest arcade hall in the
world. All visitors have a free entrance fee to Liseberg. A few minutes
walk or a tram ride away you find Kungsportsavenyn with pubs, restaurants,
cinemas and discoteques.
Competitions
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General rules for all competitions:
- The competitors must be present at the party.
- Only one contribution from each group/composer/artist.
- All contributions must be 100% finished.
- We will copy and spread all contributions except for the PC demos.
- All entries must be delivered IN TIME at the information counter near the
entrance.
- All disks must be marked with a name and an address, so we can contact
the competitors, this because one of the sponsors may want to have a word
with the competitors about using their masterpiece.
- Different from other parties, the deadlines are actually DEADLINES. Since
this party is a rather big event, the schedule is tight and we cannot
afford pushing any deadlines, so please be ready in time...
- If a demo requires any user interaction, we want ONE of the competitors
to run the demo in the control room.
- All contributions will be looked at by a committe of 10 people, and the
best ones will be shown/played on the big screen/sound equipment. This is
done because of the limited time we have to show/play all the
contributions. 5 hours per computer only for watching demos is quite
a lot...
- In the demo compos, the prize money will be shared by the three winning
demos, counted at a percentage of their votes. The more votes you get, the
more money you win.
Amiga demo - Prize money: 20000 SEK ($2800)
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- We will run the demo on a A500+ machine with 1M memory.
- The disk must start from the boot, even if it is a one-file demo.
- We will show the demo for 15 minutes absolute maximum.
- 10 demos will be selected by the committe.
Amiga graphics
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- The picture must be loadable from DeluxePaint 4.0.
- 30 pictures will be selected by the committe.
Amiga music
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- The tune must be an executable file.
- We will play the tune for max. 3 minutes.
- 20 tunes will be selected by the committe.
Atari demo - Prize money: 10000 SEK ($1400)
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- We will run the demo on a 1040STE with 1M memory.
- The disk must start from the boot, even if it is a one-file demo.
- 10 demos will be selected by the committe.
Atari graphics
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- The picture must be an executable file.
- All formats are allowed.
- Only the picture must be seen on the screen, no scrolls or other moving
things.
- 30 pictures will be selected by the committe.
Atari music (modules)
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- The tune must be an executable file.
- We will play the tune for max. 3 minutes.
- 20 tunes will be selected by the committe.
PC demo - Prize money: 10000SEK ($1400)
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- We will run the demo on a standard 486-33MHz with ET4000, Soundblaster Pro.
- The demo must be able to run from hard disk.
- 10 demos will be selected by the committe.
- We know from the earlier PC gatherings that the competition demos are
often not bugfixed and sometimes run through batchfiles. Therefor, the
PC demos will only be shown on the big screen, not spread like the others.
You will be allowed to test your demo on the machine connected to the
bigscreen (but not ON the bigscreen) before we show them to the audience.
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[ PC NOTE! ]
[ We are plannning PC gfx competition and perhaps other competitons also. ]
[ Information about these will be published in the Creativity Demo Net. ]
[ For the latest information please contact the party staff. ]
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C64 demo - Prize money: 5000SEK ($700)
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- We will run the demo on a standard C64 with the old VIC and SID chips and
the old 6526 timer chips, a 1541 drive, and an Action Replay MK6
cartridge.
- 10 demos will be selected by the committe.
C64 graphics
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- The picture must be an executable file.
- All formats are allowed.
- Only the picture must be seen on the screen, no scrolls or other moving
things.
- 30 pictures will be selected by the committe.
C64 music
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- The tune must be an executable file.
- We will play the tune for max. 3 minutes (phew!).
- 20 tunes will be selected by the committe.
We didn't mention the prizes in the music and graphics compos, because
these are donated by the sponsors, and are subject to change.
Please help us
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As the walls of the exhibition hall is rather naked, we would want all the
groups to decorate it with posters, banners, pictures and other stuff.
Note that we are NOT talking about painting the walls for us!!!
The best decoration wins a prize.
What is there?
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Normally, this is where we start bragging about the size of the hall, the size
of the video screen and how many dogs we can kill with the sound equipment.
We find the equipment sufficient for our needs, and we don't want to brag
about it. We take things like that for granted. There is room for at least
2500-3000 people, so don't worry.
How to get there
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As the party place is in the heart of Gothenburg, there is no need for a
detailed description. Just take the car, ferry, bus, train, plane or
whatever to Gothenburg and find the Swedish Exhibition Centre (Svenska
Massan). More detailed information on how to get there is in the folder,
which we will send to you when you contact us.
There are busses going from Stockholm - Gothenburg. Price 225 SEK round trip.
Contact Mattias af Jocknick (Goblin of Light), phone: +46(0)171-56402
How to contact us
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If you have any questions, and want us to send you the invitation folder,
there are many ways to get in contact with us.
Write a letter to: Ove Oldberg (Bappalander of Light)
Sveagatan 23
44132 Alingsas
Sweden
Or call him: +46 (0)322-14846 (The official info line)
You can also call: Jorgen Andersson (Joe of LCG)
+46(0)322-15335
Or send an email to: Linus Nielsen (Boogaloo of Horizon)
erenie@moere.ericsson.se
If you want the latest information about the party, these are the BBS:es to
call:
The Ultimate Hallucination Cascada +46(0)8-54025353 PC
Twilight Garden Cascada +46(0)8-51050925 PC
TCB Code Center The CodeBlasters +46(0)35-62332 PC
The Holy Grail Horizon +46(0)8-6121258 Amiga
Somewhere In Time Silents +46(0)40-423039 Amiga
Lynx BBS Lynx/Electra +46(0)8-6444957 Atari
The Future Zone Light +46(0)8-371300 C64
That was all for now, but we hope to see you all at the Crossroad.
Cascada The CodeBlasters
Silents Phenomena
Omega Electra
Light Horizon
°R[ back to the prod ]