@ WHERE AND WHEN Global Gathering '94 AMIGA & PC party Organized by The Studio & Technix. In the capital of Hungary. In a fine and peaceful environment. At the Bekasmegyer Community Center. (Budapest III. Csobanka ter 5.) Opening: 7. January 1994. 4.00PM Shutdown: 9. January 1994. 6.00PM [ENTER] @ HOW TO GET THERE Bekasmegyer is a suburbian part of Budapest. The partyzone can be reached pretty easily from any of the greater bus and railway stations. So you simply need to follow these instructions: If you come by train: - Take the red signed underground (M2) from the Eastern or the Southern station, to Square Batthiany, then use the green suburbian train (HEV) to get to Bekasmegyer (10 stops). - Go by tram number 4 or 6 towards Buda from the Western railway station and reach the head of Margit Bridge (3 stops). Then change to the suburbian train (HEV), and go to Bekasmegyer (9 stops). If you arrive by bus: - Catch tram number 1 at the Stadium, or at Arpad Bridge, then go to Buda. You can take HEV at the Buda head of Arpad Bridge, and it's only 6 stops towards the suburbs. - Use M2 underground from Square Deak to Square Batthiany, then follow the instructions above. And if you travel by car: - Reach the capital on any of the motorways, then you can find road number 11 easily, using the signs. When you got it, there's nothing else to do than coming along it, until you reach Bekasmegyer. Then you have to turn to the left at the crossroads, and get through the train lines. Turn to your right and after some 100 meters you'll see the partyplace. When you are at Bekasmegyer, you do not have to care any more about looking for the partyzone. You'll see many signs and arrows, pointing to your destination. The Budapest Traffic Company sells line tickets for 25Fts. They are useable on only one vehicle and only once. You can avoid buying the tickets, but you have to take the risk to be caught. It can cost a lot, but if you're clever enough, you will manage. You need to know, that tramlines are very rarely checked, so it's worth using them. The suburbian train is always checked. The conductor starts from the end of the train at the end-station, then goes forwards car by car every stop. You can easily escape, just be cautious! Underground lines are the most dangerous ones of all. The BTC sometimes checks the passengers at the exits, so you can hardly get out of the net. @ WHY TO COME You should come - - if you don't have other things to do from 7th to 9th of January. - if you'd like to meet some friends. - if you want to get a lot of new stuffs. - if you want to show your latest works to the whole scene. - if you feel like participate 3 days of raving madness. - if you don't wanna miss the best organized computer freaks meeting of the year. - if you want to win. - if you want to lose. - if you want to laugh. - if you want to cry. - if you want to... who cares, what it is! Just come to a PARTY at once! YOU'RE ALL INVITED... Expenses: The whole 3 days, including all the events, and programmes costs only 350 Forints. A place for your computer, and other equipment will take 100 more Forints for 3 days. In order to count on you and your team, do please sign your arrival at one of the addresses in the ACCESS part, or simply give us a call. You can also ask for invitation cards, if you drop a letter to one of the organizers. @ FACILITIES The partyplace consists of: - One big room for computers, and for the show. - A same sized front corridor for the rest of your machines, and equipment. - A non-stop movie-room. - An all day and night buffet with really cheap food and drink. - A special events room for the crazy competitions, and games. - Sleeping rooms for the tired ones. - And all the other things people may need during 3 days. Where to get food: There are two non-stop supermarkets near the house, and a McDonald's in 300 meters distance. But don't forget about our amazing buffet, which is organized especially for you. Where to sleep: When you feel you need to rest some hours, you can do it in one of the sleeping rooms. It's not a Hilton I must say, but it's perfect to relax after a long day. And if you are not satisfied with our service, you can decide to book a room in the hotel near the partyplace. How to get information: You may know every little detail (what to do, where to sleep, how to enter for a competition, etc.) by using the information computer in the hall of the partyzone. @ GLOBAL RULES Some things you'd better know about: - We won't sell any kind of alcoholic drink inside the house. So if you feel an unbelievable temptation to booze, then get your drink from the outside. But be careful! Drunken ones will not be allowed to stay! - Smoking is hardly restricted in the whole house, except for a signed place, where anyone can breath smoke if he wants. - Any person causing a damage in the house will be obliged to pay. So please do not put messages on the walls, 'cause it costs a lot. @ EVENTS Several party events: - 3 days non-stop movie room for the bored and lazy ones. (See MOVIES) - AD&D caves for the most dangerous maniacs. - Presentations of non-competition stuffs, including music disks, slide shows, diskmags, and any other things you want to show to the audience. - All-time entertainment with lots of fun and joy. Crazy team competitions, strange attractions, and so on. (See FULL CRAZE) - And all the usual things... @ CONTEST As you could guess, there'll be all the usual demo, intro, graphic and music competitions at the party, in the middle of an amazing Saturday night. The competition topics may depend on the number of the entering works, and an opinion-poll. That means, if - for instance - quite much people would like a ray-tracing contest, there can be, but it will reduce the amount of charge, you can win on other topics. So here comes a short list of the planned styles of challanges, but it is object to change, depending on the things metioned above. Basic competition topics are :- Demos on both PC-s and Amigas. Amiga demos must run on any types of A500-s with any memory configurations with at least 1 megabytes, or on a standard configured A1200. PC demos have to work on a 386DX with a standard 1meg SVGA graphic card, and 3 megabytes of memory. The demo can use any kind of sound card, that is connectable to this machine, but in this case, the card must be included. Intros on Amigas. The intros must run on a standard A500 with 512KB CHIP-RAM only, and also on a standard A1200. The maximum length of the file can be 64KBytes. They might be packed with any crunchers available. The promgram have to fully return to the operation system, with any configurations. Graphics on both PC-s and Amigas. The graphics should be in IFF/ILBM, GIF, or PCX format, using a free chosen resolution and pixel aspect, but the number of colours are limited to be a maximum of 256. The drawing MUST be totally hand-made (mouse made), and MUSTN'T contain scanned or digitized elements. Musics on both PC-s and Amigas. The musics can be created by your favourite editor without any restrictions, but the player routine must be added to the module. There's only one limitation about the number of channels, that it shouldn't be greater than four (=4 and no more). Please include your special sound cards, if you use some. The presented works will not be qualified by a jury, but only the AUDIENCE. There's no entrance-fee for any productions, but the disks containing them will be held. Any special hardware lend to show some works will be returned to its owner, expect for these disks. The topics listed above are only directions, not final decisions. They can be changed by the wishes of the public. The charges of the prizes given out are depending on these conditions. The maximal amount of money for one winner production is:- Demo 20000 Fts Intro 10000 Fts Graphics 6000 Fts Musics 6000 Fts Deadline for all the competitions: Saturday 8.00PM @ FULL CRAZE Let me tell you some words about the unlimited madness, in which you will participate when you come to the party. We are trying to organize this meeting in order to do something really funny which people will remember for a long time. That's why the gathering will be full of fun and games, all for you freaks, who would like to spend some hours enjoying your lives together. The CRAZE is not else than a huge pile of entertainment. So here comes a short list just to make you feel like coming here and being here all the 3 days. Some tricks to pass time on Friday and Saturday mornings, evenings and afternoons: - Team competitions, The QUIZ about scene, life, universe and all. - The Big Rush. A low mind race in several interesting topics. Some examples: - the widest smile - scrolltext competition - coders on art - how to eat mice - collecting funny things - only human - And of course many other surprises, you've never seen before... COME AND SEE! STAY AND HAVE FUN! @ MOVIES The nearly-detailed programme of movies: Animations: COMPUTER VISIONS COMPUTER AMINATIONS COMPUTER FANTASIES VIDEODEMOS Cartoons: SARKANY ES PAPUCS BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD STARCHASER MAUSWANDERER Pure fun: MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS JON A MEDVE CSAPD LE CSACSI ROXANNE WHY ME? ARTHUR Action: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK STARTREK 1 STARTREK 4 Others if time remains: SHORT CIRCUIT 2 MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN KELLY'S HEROES NAVIGATOR STREET HAWK RUTHLESS PEOPLE @ ACCESS Global information from: Genie - Kertai Gabor Budapest Eszak u. 39. 1038 Cabo - Kalazdi Balazs Budapest Lukacs Gy. u. 11 1039 Place reservation and info: Active - Faluhelyi Balazs Budapest Szilke u. 4. 1039 Tel+fax: 167-27-91 All three in Hungary. @