
       Official infofile for abduction 95 sceneparties, dated 5.5.1995

STORY SO FAR
Once upon a time there were five brave men. They gathered their courage and
organized abduction 94-parties. No one was killed. The princess is still in
prison. And the five brave men are back with two of their newfound friends:
Ba  ba  ba  ba boooom! Abduction 95 is a fact. Abduction 95 is cool. Abduc-
tion 95 will rule and there's no dragons alive to stop us!

In FRIDAY (9th of june) at 0900 will the partydoors open with the most
authentic scene athmosphere there is since 1991. Party will be a tribute
to peace and friendship, not a obligatory place to be in order to win some
money. But since competitions offer best entertainment in these types of
happenings, there will be the usual compos for demos, intros, graphics and
music. This year also amiga is represented with in compos and in partyplace
itself. These parties are held in Rovaniemi, the nothern city of Finland. The
place is a school called Korkalovaara's High School, which can easily hold
over 800 people. There's a big hall which will be that main partyplace. Here
will the compos take place with big screen and powerful (appr. 1500 watts)
pa-system. For sleeping there will be separate rooms away from all the noice,
and also clean showers are one of the many facilities which we are offering
to you. Entrance fee will be 80 FIM ($16) but if you contact us in advance
the fee will be only 60 FIM ($12) (at least a week before Abd.). There's also
a transportation between train and bus-stations and the partyplace for a
small fee (gasoline, drivers time, etc)...


ABDUCTION 95 ORGANIZER'S HINTS FOR FIRST TIMERS AND THE REST:
 -Make banners, which say who you are, so that your friends will find you
 -DON'T take a microwave with you, we are taking care of the food
 -Take electricchords with you so that it's 100% guaranteed that you will get
  electricity                               ^^^^
 -Take all your friends with ya!
 -Take your computers with you, it's more fun with 'em
 -Don't drink too much booze, we will throw you out
 -Here's some useful items: sleeping bag, towel, toothbrush, pillow, coffeine
  tablets, earplugs...


SCHEDULE
Heck, why should we even try to make a schedule since no party to this date
has been able to stick to them. But the information about starting and closing
the abduction 95 and deadlines are quite solid already. 'ere we go:

Friday 9th of june
09:00 Abduction 95 partydoors will be opened
12:00 Registration for doom starts
20:00 Music and graphics deadline
22:00 Registration for doom ends

Saturday 10th of june
00:00 Graphics competition
02:00 Music competition
13:00 DOOM -competition starts
18:00 Intro and demo deadline for Pc and Amiga
22:00 DOOM -final
23:00 Pc 64kb intro competition

Sunday 11th of june
00:30 Amiga demo competition
02:00 Pc demo competition
05:00 Counting of the votes starts
08:00 Results will be released
14:00 Abduction 95 partydoors will be closed


GENERAL RULES
 -Organizers reserve the right to change the following rules
 -Also organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry if it's not sui-
  table to attend the competitions for any reason like bad taste or moral
 -Entries can not have been released before the party and can not be a modifi-
  cation of an released production
 -All competitors (or one from group of competitors) must be present at the par-
  typlace in order to compete and receive possible prizes.
 -A jury (elected from the audience) will vote for the ten/twenty best
  attendants for each compo
 -If party is cancelled for some strange reason, organizers are not obliged to
  pay back the entrance fee (earthquake, police raids...)
 -All productions will be spreaded at the party except demos which can have
  no more than 14 days time to be finished and spreaded or we'll release the
  partyversion
 -The competition machines will be
    * 486dx/66 with 8 mb of ram and a fast localbus vga card
      1mb gus max or soundblaster pro 2.0
    * Amiga 1200 with 2 mb chip & Blizzard 1220/4 28MHz 4mb fast


GRAPHICS COMPETITION RULES
 -Maximum resolution is 640x480
 -Maximum simultaneous colors amount is 256
 -Pictures must have pcx/gif/lbm/iff format
 -Ripped, raytraced or scanned pictures will be disqualified
 -Only one picture by one artist
 -Disk will have to include:
    * two earlier versions of the picture
    * competition version, which is unsigned
    * signed picture which will be spreaded

MUSIC COMPETITION RULES
 -Maximum file size is 1024 kb
 -Maximum channel amount is 32
 -Maximum running lenght is 4 minutes
 -Include your player if it is not DMP, IPLAY or FT2
 -No midi nor adlib
 -Only one song by one artist
 -All modules will be played through gravis ultrasound max on Pc or
  with Amiga (Protracker v2.x or any other [bring it with ya])

PC INTRO COMPETITION RULES
 -Maximum filesize in executable form is 65536 bytes (64k)
 -No svga modes
 -No pure animation files
 -Intro must run without any kind of interactivity except the setup-options
 -Intro must NOT save anything on the hard disk

AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION RULES
 -Maximum filesize in executable form is 4096kb
 -No hi-res modes
 -No pure animation files
 -Demo must be harddisk-installable or autobootable from disk
 -Demo must NOT save anything on the hard disk

PC DEMO COMPETITION RULES
 -Maximum filesize in executable form is 4096 kb
 -No svga modes
 -No pure animation files
 -Demo must run without any kind of interactivity except the setup-options
 -Demo must NOT save anything on the hard disk

PRICES
Since the rules of society (Abduction organizing r.y., mostly containing members
of Mindprobe and people who are helping us) which organizes these parties
prevent us to collect income, will all the money gathered from the entrance fees
and hardware sponsored by various companies shared in competition prices
(expenses deducted first, of course). Following values indicate the most
pessimistic estimate we managed to make, since the Pc demo main price (for
example) will probably rise somewhere near 7000 FIM. Following values are in
Finnish marks. 4.22 FIM = $1 (april 1995).

      pc demo       amiga demo    pc intro       graphics       music
1st   5000          3000          1000           1000           1000
2nd   3000          1500           500            500            500
3rd   1000           500           200            200            200


ABDUCTION '95 is sponsored by the following companies
Turva
Toimistopalvelu Pallari Oy
Lapin Office System Oy
Zoo-Lo-Disk
Telecom Finland Oy

CLOSE-UP
Now, be aware that there could be some minor changes in what you read here and
what you'll experience at Abduction 95. This is the basic nature of life.

If you want to contact Abduction organizers, try

via snailmail/voice/fax                                             via modem
Mainframe/Mindprobe                                Putrefaction of perfection
Ilkka Jauho                                                 +358 (9)60 366233
Urputie 17
96190 Rovaniemi                                                  via internet
Finland                                                  synapse@pcb.mpoli.fi
+358 (9)60 393902 (voice/fax)                          maurala@vipunen.hut.fi

ps: mutilation is a good thing.
