Sardonyx . Goto 10 . C-Lous . Yodel ------------------------- ICING '96 Stenkullen, Sweden 24-27 May 1996 -------------------------- www.one.se/icing/ icing@one.se Leave your troubles behind and visit the most atmospheric computer festival of the year. Dream away, have a few laughs, make some friends: join the Icing way of living during some bright days in the beauteous month of May. . w h e n At 20.00 the 24th of May, the doors to Icing '96 open. 64 hours and a great deal of fun later, at 12.00 the 27th of May the party closes down. The opening ceremony takes place at midnight the first party night. . p r e m i s e s Icing '96 is held in V„ttlehallen, an icehockey arena in Stenkullen, Sweden, about 30 kilometres from the metropolis of G”teborg. About 2000 squaremetres of effective floor space serves as the main party hall. A separate, ravepartyless building, sized as an ordinary Swedish physical education hall is available for those who want to take a nap. . h o w t o g e t t h e r e CAR. If you're travelling by car, take the E20 towards Stockholm or G”teborg, depending on where you start. When you reach Kastenhofsmotet, leave the highway and follow the signs saying "Stenkullen". Having arrived at the center of Stenkullen, turn left into the street called Gr†bov„gen. After about 300 metres you have V„ttlehallen, the party place, on your right hand. TRAIN, BOAT, PLANE. When travelling using any of these vehicles you should get to G”teborg as a start. If you are one of those rich chaps or maybe a bit lazy, the right thing for you to do is to call for a cab and make the driver follow the description above. The other alternative is to locate Centralstation, the main ( and only) railway station of G”teborg and catch the local train towards Lerum. Get off at Stenkullen, the first stop after Lerum. Proceed straight forward on foot about 250 meters and you face V„ttlehallen, the party place. Signs in the surrounding of the party place will guide you; you cannot virtually fail to find Icing '96. If you still do, just ask some nice-looking fellow to explain the way to the icehall "V„ttlehallen". . e n t r a n c e f e e The nominal fee for visiting Icing '96 is 200 SEK. Swedes may pay in advance and thus get 30 SEK off the price, making it only 170 SEK. This service is - due to practical reasons - not available to foreigners. However, if you bring your passport or other documents that verify your originating from outside Sweden, you only have to pay 170 SEK all the same. Girls of all nationalities are of course let in for free. SWEDES. F”r att betala in i f”rv„g, g† till n„rmaste postkontor och skaffa en postgiroblankett. Ange postgironummer 6148528-0 och David Malcus som betalningsmottagare. Gl”m inte att fylla i namn och adress i d„rf”r avsedda rutor. I meddelanderutan skriver du handle / grupp om s†dan(a) existerar och att det r”r sig om Icing '96. SISTA INBETALNIGSDATUM: 96-05-17. TR™JOR. Specialdesignade Icing- tr”jor kommer att finnas till f”rs„ljning - dock i begr„nsad upplaga. Tr”jorna kostar 100SEK. Vill du vara s„ker p† att f† ett exemplar med dig hem betalar du in denna summa i samband med f”rbetalningen. SISTA INBETALNINGSDATUM F™R TR™JOR: 96-05-03. . f o o d a n d f a c i l i t i e s CAFETERIA. A cafeteria that stays open around the clock serves the visitors with Coca-Cola(TM), sandwiches, hotdogs and other necessities. PIZZAS. A pizzeria delivers the most delicious pizzas - right in time and with fair prices. HYGIENE. As Icing '96 takes places in an icehockey arena there is plenty of showers available, making it possible for everyone to freshen themselves up once in a while. And it is highly recommended to utilize this possibility as everyone's not smelling like a horse adds up to a nicer atmosphere. . c o m p e t i t o n s GENERAL. Everyone who wants to compete in any competition has to be present at Icing '96. The organizers reserve the exclusive right to spread everything delivered to the competitions, decide which contributions may participate in case of too many competi- tors and disqualify any contribution that contains racistic or pornographic implications or in other ways is offensive. All contributions in the demo and intro competitions on both plat- forms will be taped to video, which means that everything must run (or at least work) in 50Hz. Detailed information about this is located in the PC competitions section. PRIZE MONEY. The main purposes of releasing something within the borders of the scene is to achieve honour and pride, isn't it? But then again, a total sum of about 25000SEK will be given away as prize money. This sum is, however, a function of the number of visitors and, to some extent, the quality of the contributions. JURY PRIZE. In the cathegories Amiga demo, Amiga 64k, PC demo, PC 64k, graphics and music, a special prize based on the opinion of a jury will be given away. This prize is more or less symbolic - e.g. a way to justify the one who draws the best picture and not the biggest tits. Though, 10 percent of the total prize money is intended for this use. AMIGA DEMO. Amiga demos must run on a standard A1200 from HD and there has to be a possibility to quit to the operating system. The competition machine is an A1200/030/50MHz. Maximum demo size: 5Mb. Maximum length: 10 minutes. Deadline: 14.00, Sunday 26 May. AMIGA 64K. See Amiga demo for machine specifications. Intros should be delivered on a bootable disk. Deadline: 11.00, Sunday 11.00. PC COMPETITION RULES. PC Compo machine specification: Hardware: CPU.............: AMD 486DX4-120 (40mhz external) Graphics card...: Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (vesa local bus) Sound card......: Gravis Ultrasound Max 1mb 16-bit clone card (SB pro, WSS) Chipset and Bios: AMI WinBios Memory..........: 8mb DRAM, 70ns Hard drive......: Quantum Fireball 1280A, Conner CFA540A Hard drive cntl.: Cheap 16-bit Multi I/O (ISA) Benchmarks: CPU.............: Norton SysInfo 8 - 237.8 Landmark Speed 2 - 401mhz (FPU 1058mhz) Memory..........: Internal Cache - 243 mb / sec External Cache - 75 mb / sec Normal memory - 50 mb / sec Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 19275 chars / ms Mode 13 graphics: 8-bit dump - 9.5 mb / sec 16-bit dump - 19 mb / sec 32-bit dump - 37 mb / sec For comparison, the Cirrus 5426/28/29/30 VLB values are: Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 9102 chars / ms Mode 13 graphics: 8-bit dump - 6 mb / sec 16-bit dump - 12 mb / sec 32-bit dump - 12 mb / sec (no typo - they're 16 bit) Hard disk.......: 4.8mb / sec (!), 9 ms average seek The Memory timings were made with Sysinfo2 (by Nadir of Rage) which is included in this package. You can choose which memory manager you want to run your demo with. We have Qemm386 8.0, Himem and Emm386. If you don't say anything, we'll run with Qemm. Operating system: Windows 95 and 4dos 5.51 (We will not run the contributions with windows installed, but with the Windows 95 dos version.) The demo... ...should support Gravis Ultrasound. ...must support silence ...may support SoundBlaster ...must run with 550k conventional memory free (Himem.sys) ...must run with 600k conventional memory free (Qemm386) ...may use SVGA up to 800*600, but higher than 640*480 isn't recommended ...will be shown for 10 minutes ...must not take more diskspace than 5mb ...may use tempfiles on drive C ...must EXIT if esc is pushed ...should run from CD-rom ALL contributions will be taped to video (S-VHS). This means that they must run (or at least work) in 50hz. If you use a supplied 50hz mode (LIKTWK19.ZIP), you can be sure it will look perfect on the bigscreen. If you don't, we'll run it with a driver (GA.COM) which changes all modes to 50hz, and that *MAY* screw things up. The best choice is to use one of the 50hz modes included, and you will also earn lots of raster- time by doing so. Problems? Questions? Ask Liket. Both the driver and the modes are supplied, so you can always check it out. If you have a REALLY good reason, we can *probably* run it realtime, but since this is a big hassle, and a big risk of failure, we'd prefer not to. The PC demo deadline is 14.00, Sunday 26 May. PC 64K. See PC demo for machine specifications. Deadline: 11.00, Sunday 26 May. NOSTALGIA. The most experimental competition and an attempt to unify the Amiga and PC platforms. A500 versus 286 PC. The systems are SUPPOSED to perform quite equally, if coded with optimized assembly language. PC system specification: Hardware: CPU.............: Intel 286-10 Graphics card...: Tseng 4000 ISA Sound card......: Gravis Ultrasound Max 1mb Chipset and Bios: Victor Memory..........: 1mb Hard drive......: Nec D5146H (30mb RLL) Hard drive cntl.: RLL Benchmarks: CPU.............: Landmark Speed 2 - 11mhz Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 3800 chars / ms Hard disk.......: 300kb / sec, 30 ms average seek The graphics card does NOT support Vesa, so if you want vesa support we need to load UniVBE which uses a few k's of base memory. The demo... ...should support Gravis Ultrasound. ...may use SVGA up to 800*600, but higher than 640*480 isn't recommended ...will only be shown for 10 minutes ...must not take more diskspace than 1mb ...may use tempfiles on drive C ...must EXIT TO DOS if esc is pushed ALL contributions will be taped to video (S-VHS). This means that they must run (or at least work) in 50hz. See the regular PC DEMO compo rules above. We will use Himem.Sys or clean boot. Amiga system specification: Computer........: Commodore Amiga 500 CPU.............: Motorola 68000, 7.14mhz Graphics card...: Fat Agnus Sound card......: Paula Chipset and Bios: Kickstart 1.3 Memory..........: 512kb onboard CHIP, 512k slowmem (fake-fast) The demo... ...will only be shown for 10 minutes ...may only take one disc (880kb DD) ...should run on an Amiga 1200 GRAPHICS. Pictures have to be delivered as .IFF/.LBM or .GIF files in maximum 256 colours and 640x512 pixels resolution. Pictures that is obviously copied or scanned will NOT be subject for disqualification, but when showing the picture on big screen it will be stated that it is copied or scanned and, if possible, from which picture. Deadline: 18.00, Saturday 25 May. 4 CHANNEL MUSIC. 4 channel music contributions have to be delivered in ProTracker format and must not be bigger then 720k. Competition tracker: ProTracker 3.11. Maximum playing time: 3 minutes. Deadline: 13.00, Saturday 25 May. MULTI CHANNEL MUSIC. Multi channel music contributions have to be delivered as .XM, .S3M or .MOD files and will be played in their respective trackers. Maximum playing time: 3 minutes. Deadline: 13.00, Saturday 25 May. . s p e c i a l e v e n t s Watch out for an extraordinary opening ceremony, an inspired toastmaster, scene Jeopardy, live music, movies, nostalgic moments, flowers and pocals to the winners and a big, big bunch of crazy surprise competitions; hey, it has already started: have a look at the Icing '96 WWW-pages (www.one.se/icing/) and find some very first surprise competitions. . t - s h i r t s Exclusively DuffE designed Icing t-shirts - without flying cakes - is available for the price of 100 SEK. Though, as the edition is limited, you'd better hurry to buy one when you arrive at the party. SWEDES. Vill du vara s„ker p† att f† ett exemplar med dig hem betalar du in 100 SEK i f”rv„g, i samband med f”rbetalningen. Se vidare ovan i stycket g„llande inbetalning av intr„desavgift. . r e g u l a t i o n s OF COURSE. General Swedish law is applicable at the party place, so forget about bringing those bombs and pistols, striking down old defenseless ladies and stealing sweets from kids at Icing'96. ALCOHOL. Evil preparations and more common drugs such as alcohol is, naturally, not allowed at Icing '96. SMOKING. You have to stay away from those cancer-sticks inside the Icing '96 premises. RAVES. It is strictly prohibited to hold rave parties in the sleeping hall. Real troublemakers will be handed over to the police. COMMERCIALISM. No one may sell software, hardware, food etc. without permission from the organizers. PROPAGANDA. Political propaganda is not acceptable at Icing '96. RESPONSIBILITY. The Icing'96 organizers do not take any responsi- bility for illegal swapping of commercial software or VHS, damaged hardware or theft. If you bring your equipment, make sure not to leave it unattended. . f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n Having read this text through you should know most things you need to when planning your trip to Icing '96 successfully. Still, if you cannot sleep in the nights or go pondering all day upon something regarding the party: E-Mail: icing@one.se WWW: http://www.one.se/icing/ BBS: +46 (0)31-885248 (Digital Highway) +46 (0)31-990078 (Pure Climax, only 23.00-7.00) Login "icing" and password "icing" are valid on either BBSes. Voice: +46 (0)31-7020940 (Jesper "DuffE" Skoog) Even if you fell that you know everything about Icing '96 there is to know, visit the Icing '96 WWW-pages where you'll find updated and last- minute information, detailed party schedule and, not to forget, funny competitions.