"WiRED 96 - WE HAD A DREAM"

INFORMATION TEXT V1.0
written by Darkness/Imphobia

For the third times in a row,  Imphobia & Antares invites you again to ex-
perience another  great WiRED party.  After the success of last year Wired
event,  we have been working  hard  to make of Wired'96  the coolest scene
event ever and certainly an event that YOU scene people will never forget!

We want WiRED to be a real special event.  Not another of those commercial
events that one see to much those last times but a real scene event with a
real scene spirit,  all this combined with all the advantages of a quality
party organising.

[ 2. WHERE AND WHEN ? ]

Date :  Friday 1 to Sunday 3 November 1996
(Friday 1st of Nobember is a Work-Free day for everyone)

The party doors will open Friday around 10h00 and will close
Sunday 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.

[ 3. THE MAIN ORGANISER STAFF IS ]

Van Audenhove Jeff       (Darkness/Imphobia)
Van Miegroet Damien      (Damien/Imphobia)
Baligant François        (Access/Antares)
Baligant Remy            (Katana/Antares)
Holtappels Bert          (Victor/ex-Black Design)
Buytaerts Kris           (Sleeping Dog/The Natives)

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.

It's 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 critics about some of the choices we
have made in the party rules.

[ 4. WHAT WILL IT COST ? ]

As this year we have much more costs comparing to last years as we now have
to pay for the room, projector, big screen, etc..  the entrance fee  has to
be increased a bit, but as Wired is a non commercial party and  as we don't
want to act like  some  other party  organisers  who are asking  very  huge
entrance fee,  we therefore tried to keep it as low as possible considering
all the costs we have.

The entrance fee will be: 900 BEF (for 3 days with Table, Electricity, etc.)
If you are a girl : it's FREE!

As usual _ALL_ of the money from the entrance fee (after we remove our costs)
will be used as competitions prizes.

Note that we do only accept payement in Belgian Francs, so make sure to
change some money into belgian currency before arriving at the party place.

* GENERAL RULES FOR ALL 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.

- Competitions are held for PC platforms.

- Every group is free to contribute with as many Demos, Raytrace, 64kb
intro as they want to.
As for the solo competition (gfx, music, 4kb intro), only one entry per
graphic artist/musician/coder will be accepted in each competition.

- The competitors MUST be present at the party place in order to compete.
For group productions, at least one member of the team has to be present.

- 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,
* Competitor Name/Group
* Boot Config (when needed).

- Contribution disks won't be returned.

- The organiser have the rights to remove a competition if there isn't
enough competitors to make a competition out of it.

- For demos & intros, only 100% VGA Register level compatible graphics mode
and VESA 1.2.    If you use special VESA modes (like the one supported by
the latest UNIVBE) your demo must still run on standard VGA Card, it's up
to you to decide  if you will adapt the effect or  if your demo  can skip
the part  (of course it may be shown  on the big screen  with the graphic
mode you want).

- If your demo still requires any interaction, we want ONE people of the
competing in the Control Room.

- All entries  for the PC intros (4k and 64k),  Gfx and  Music competitions
will be spread by the organisers after the party.

- For the PC demo competition entries,  it's up to you to tell us if we can
release or not your product at the party place. You will have *ONE* month
after the Party to finish  and release your product,  else we will spread
the party version. (we won't make any exeptions).

* PC DEMO COMPETITION

- We will run the demo on a Pentium 120 Mhz

- Video card: Tseng Labs ET6000
and BIOS VESA 1.2 compliant

- Available modes: - all standard VGA modes
- 640x400, 640x480 in 256 colors
- 640x480 in 16.7M colors
- 640x350,640x400,640x480 in 64K & 32K colors

*WARNING* !  Our video projector is only able to handle resolutions up to
640x480 !  Using a too high resolution won't damage it but will produce a
garbled screen.

If you use special VESA modes (like those supported by the latest UNIVBE),
bring your own boot disk for drivers. BUT it must ALSO be able to run on
a standard VGA card. It's up to you to decide if you adapt the effect for
standard modes, skip some parts, or whatever ...

- NO TSENG LABS SPECIFIC HARDWARE FUNCTIONS!
- We will use MSDOS 6.3.
- Available Memory configuration :

- HIMEM Alone
- HIMEM+EMM386
- QEMM 7.5
- Clean Boot

You will have the choice between one of those configs, or bring your
own boot disk.

- Sound Cards available: - Gravis UltraSound Plug&Play 1Mb
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Awe32

- The demo must be able to run from HardDisk.
- Pure animation files are not accepted.
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- Maximim memory requirement: 8 Megs.
- File Size limit is 6144 Kb.

- 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  don't
come just before the deadline...

* PC 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 animations files are not accepted

* 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.
- Only 100% VGA Register level compatible graphic modes and VESA 1.2
- Maximum base memory requirement is 600Kb
- No sound ! (This is a coding competition)
- Animations files not accepted ;)

* MULTICHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION

- Maximum amount of channels: 32
- Allowed Formats: MOD,S3M,XM,AMS,DMF,ULT,MTM,669,IT
Any other formats are accepted if you bring your own player.
- Soundcard: Gravis Ultrasound 1Mb (Sound Blaster 16 on request)
Player:  XM -> FastTracker II
S3M -> Cubic Player
MOD -> Cubic Player
DMF -> Latest XPlay
AMS -> Extreme's Player
ULT, MTM, 669 -> Cubic Player
IT -> Impulse Tracker
- Maximum size : 1024 Mb
- No MIDI Stuff.
- We will play the tunes for 4 minutes absolute maximum (your module can
long laster, of course, but would be fade out after 4 minutes)
- We will not show the author's name while playing.
- A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceed a reasonable
number.
- The name or initials (or any other revelant things) may not be present in
the file name or in the song name. But you can write it in the samples
names, because they won't be shown on the big screen.

* GFX COMPETITION

- Max. 640x480 x 256 colors
- 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 can't have been used before in any productions or competitions.
(Except in demos/intros first shown at the Wired 96).
- Any picture can be disqualified by the organizers if it doesn't fit the
rules. A preselection will be made if the number of entries exceed a rea-
sonable number.

* RAYTRACE GRAPHICS COMPETITION

- Maximum resolutions: 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.
- You'll 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 don't need to be in high res or true-color mode.