				DURANGO PARTY 2

		  	       19-22 April 2001

		           Sportscenter of Landako

		          Durango (Bizkaia) - Spain

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PLACE & DATES
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Durango Party II will be made in the Sportcenter ofLandako, in Durango, Spain. Itīs placed at half an hour from Bilbao. There is a train station for people who want to come from Bilbao or San Sebastian. The sportcenter has all necesary services for a good stanza along the three days, for the PCs as well as for people who come.

The Party will begin on 2001 April 19th in the afternoon, and the opening will be at 12:00. On April 22nd, in the afternoon, will be the end of the Party.

People will be able to use all the instalations, wc, showers, sleeping zone and others.

The organization will try the higienic conditions will be the best possible, counting with the participation of the assistants, using paper-cases and others.

There will be sound system and videoproyection for use in the presentation of works and oher activities.

There will be chairs and tables for all the assistants, and one electric plug per assistant.

The place will be open along the three days, and the assistants will be able to enter or exit when they wanna do it, as well in the afternoon or in the night, always showing their identification.

There are also hotels next to the Sportcenter of Landako.


WHAT YOU NEED
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For the Durango Party you must carry your PC, Amiga, Mac, MSX... You should carry also aditional taps for electric power, because youīll only have one for you. 

Is not obligatory to carry computer, but recommended only.

Yyou should carry also Ethernet card with RJ45 connector.

External speakers are for your personal use, so only you should listen your music, games,... You should bring headphones not to disturb others.

Carry also your sleeping bag, cleanliness items and others.

Note: Organization will not lend any material such as monitors, mouses, and others.. 


COMPETITIONS
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Rules 
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- Proyections should go on the competitionīs computer to may take part.They canīt record any file on HD and should be able to stop them pressing ESC. They can use a 3D graphics card. If these rules arenīt accomplished the proyection will be disqualified.

- The operating system used will be Windows 98 or MS-DOS 7.0 (turning on Ms Dos mode from Windows).

- It may have the file_id.diz file with the production, with the authorīs personal data and the program on which is done (in case of music or graphics). In other case the demo will be disqualified.

- At least one production member may be present at the party.

- If there is any suspect that any production (entire or a part) is ripped or is propiety of other author that is not the participant, will be disqualified inmediatly.


Demo 
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- Productionīs maximum size is 8 Mb (uncompressed).

- Only ten minutes will be proyect, but demo can have more duration.

- DEMOS WITH COMERCIAL SONGS OR MUSIC IN MP3 FORMAT WILL BE NOT ADMITED. But the mp3 can be the demoīs musical format, always when the song is original. The jury can disqualify the demo only for the music, if necessary.


Intro 64k 
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- Productionīs maximun size is 64 kb, 55536 bytes (uncompressed).

- Only five minutes will be proyect, but intro can have more duration.

- It canīt use external programs (DOS4GW and others).

- It may be only one executable.


Intro 4k 
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- Productionīs maximun size is 4kb, 4096 bytes (uncompressed).

- Only five minutes will be proyect, bun intro can have more duration.

- It may be only one executable.

- It canīt use external programs (DOS4GW and others).


2D Graphics 
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- Maximum resolution is 800x600x24 colour bits.

- Acepted formats are GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TIFF y TGA.

- With the final job, the author may adjunt final image previous steps (at least 10).

- There wonīt be admited, under no concept, divided draws, or we suspect they are from a SCANNER or they are DIGITALIZED, nor '"REPIXELED" works or PHOTOMOUNTED.


3D Graphics 
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- Maximum resolution is 800x600x24 colour bits.

- Acepted formats are GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TIFF, TGA and JPEG.

- With the final job, the author may adjunt final image previous steps (at least 10).

-There wonīt be admited, under no concept, divided draws, or we suspect they are from a SCANNER or they are DIGITALIZED, nor '"REPIXELED" works or PHOTOMOUNTED.


Modules 4 channels 
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- Maximum number of channels is four.

- Acepted formats are MOD, XM, IT y S3M.

- Songīs duration is authorīs decision, buy only three minuts will be reproduced.

- Comercial songīs versions will be not acepted.


Multichannel 
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- Maximum number of channels is 32..

- Acepted formats are MOD, XM, IT y S3M.

- Songīs duration is authorīs decision, buy only three minuts will be reproduced.

- Comercial songīs versions will be not acepted.


High Quality Music 
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- Only mp3 format.

- Will be played on WinAmpīs version present on the computer.

- Comercial songīs versions will be not acepted.


Wild Compo 
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- In this category you can present any thing you want (videos, psx demos and others).

- There is no determined theme, but procure the productions have some relation with scene or computers...

- The content is not under any rule, only will be disqualified works wich content could be offensive.


Fast 
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- Not determined yet, but for sure will be fast music, beethoven, fast gfx 2d, fast gfx 3d, diskette throw and cd throw.

- These competitions will be notified live, with the necessary time for people to inscribe on them.

- Not only musicians or graphic makerscan take part in each competition. The enjoy is that anybody take part on them and have fun.


Games 
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- For these competitions will be available one server for the participants to connect. Not determined yet. Probably Quake 3, Quake 2, Starcraft, Half-life, Unreal Tournament.


Votes 
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-It will be the same than last year. We will choose a jury from the participants (one per production). Remember that you canīt vote your own production, and if there is a draw, a jury of three persons will decide.

- Remember we are here because is a hobby, not for competition. Vote the best!



Compo Machine
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The computer for the competition is:

- AMD K7 - Athlon 700 Mhz

- 256 Mb RAM

- GeForce 256 SDR with32 Mb.

- SBPCI 128 y GUS Classic con 1 Mb.


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          Computering Cultural Association from Durango

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