Singapore Demo Competition

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Singapore Demo Competition

Organised By � The Scene Association
Sponsers
Xin Computers Pte Ltd � Compro Computers
Developers' Site BBS � Boon Properties Pte Ltd
2nd June 1996 (Sunday), Jupiter Room, Funan Centre, Singapore
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Official Infotext #2
19 April 1996
Contents

0) New
1) Introduction
2) Competition Information
3) General competition details
4) Demo competition details
5) Music competition details (MOD and MIDI)
6) Graphics competition details
7) Party, Organisers and Sponsers information/contact
8) Greets
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Ĵ0) New��
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This section is mainly for those who have the 1st infotext,
'TSC96-1.ZIP'. The main changes are all in this section, do read the
rest of the infotext.
First off, the organisers regret to announce that the animation
section have to be discarded due to technical problems. However, do consider
the graphics/art section instead. It was also decided to introduce a new
section aptly named 'transcribes' for the music catagory, this catagory
however, is an 'introductory' catagory, there will only be one prize for
this catagory.
Next, please take note that the starting time is 2 PM not 1 PM as
previously stated. The time-table is available in section 2) along with the
latest list of confirmed participants, if you have submitted your entry form
but fail to see your name, please contact any of the organisers asap.
There are also some changes in some places, please read it through.
The May issue of PC World Singapore will be featuring an article on
demos, and the demo scene, written by Yap Sieh Roy. Do check it out.
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Ĵ1) Introduction��
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After the successful completion of The Scene 1995, the organisers
have decided to organise another party next year. The Scene 1996 promises
to be a even bigger and better competition, with major sponsers, and cool
prizes ! This year round, we have introduced several changes, in the music
competition, we will be accepting MOD and MIDI entries, and there is also
a new catagory for music - transcribes. We have also added a graphics
catagory.
In the forthcoming infotexts, we will confirm the judging criteria,
the confirmed hardware, etc. Keep a lookout for it. Do expect some changes
to the voting percentages for judges and audience.
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Ĵ2) Competition Information ��
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Date : 2nd June 1996 (Sunday)
Time : Starting at 2 pm
Venue : Jupiter Room, Funan Centre
This competition is opened to the public, and all asian demo groups/
individuals are invited to participant, if you want to participate just send a
brief e-mail to '[email protected]', alternatively, if you do not have
net access, please read section 7) on more ways of contacting us. Please
include the following :

1) Your REAL name
2) Handle/Group
3) Age
4) E-mail address(internet)
5) Home address
6) Phone number
7) Country
8) Which catagory you are participating, and how many entries in each
catagory
a) Demo
b) Music (MOD or MIDI)
c) Graphics (format : JPG, PCX, etc)

We are expecting around 250 demo freaks around this region to attend.
Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 entries of each catagory, in addition
there will be some side programmes. The final results will be a decided by
public voting (50%) and a panel of judges (50%). Participants are forbidden
to vote.
If you are arriving from overseas, do contact the organisers regarding
the best way of transport.
There are no restriction on organisers and sponsers participating the
competition, however, those who participate will be banned from collection
and viewing of entries.
We will be announcing the actual cash prize allocation along with
the judging criteria in the next infotext. For each competition catagory,
the organisers have decided to implement a prize 'staggering'. This means,
if any catagory have 2 or less entries, the catagory will be announced as a
void catagory, no prizes will be awarded. If there's 3 entries, only the top
entry will received the prize, for 4 entries, then the 1st and 2nd placed
entries, all 3 prizes will be presented if there are 5 or more entries for
that catagory. The above will not apply to 'transcribes' of the music
catagory which will have only the top prize.
The machine (tentative) that will be used on the party day :
(For demo entries)
Pentium 100, with 8 megabytes ram, GUS, DOS 6.22
(For music entries)
Pentium 100, with 16 megabytes ram, GUS/SCC-1, Win 95
Here is the tentative time-table for the day (this is just a rough
estimate, we will be finalizing the actual timing asap) :

11:00 am A side room at the party place will be opened. This is for
groups/individuals to test run their entries and make any
last minute changes to your entry before the dateline.
There will be 3 PCs set up for testing purpose, all 3
configuration will be identical to the compo PC. In addition,
the actual compo PC will also be there. Participants will
have to bring their own compiler, tools, etc. as non will
be provided. Note that you cannot bring your own cards,
harddisks, etc. and plug them into the testing PC.
12:30 pm Dateline for all entries
1:00 pm Jupiter Room will be opened and the PCs will be shifted from
the side room to the main room
2:00 pm Start of The Scene 1996
2:10 pm Start of Music competition
3:00 pm Start of Graphics competition
3:30 pm Break/Event
4:15 pm Start of Demo competition
5:15 pm Break/Event
5:30 pm End of voting
6:00 pm Announce results/Prize presentation
6:30 pm End. See you at The Scene 1997

Here is the latest list of confirmed participants that we have, please
inform us asap if your entry is not reflected.

Demo - Constellation
- WaterLogic
- SDF
- Black Magic

Music - WaterLogic
- Jware
- Ng Pei Sin/ProLogic 303
- awaiting name

Gfx - WaterLogic
- Archangels
- Ng Pei Yang/Ng Pei Sin
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Ĵ3) General competition details��
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1) The entry must be your original work and has never been released/shown to
the public or taken part in another competition
2) Please note that ripping code/materials/music WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION
OF THE AUTHOR is NOT ALLOWED. If permission is granted, appropriate
credits must be shown. Failure to do so may result in disqualification
3) At least one member/representative of the demo group must be present at
the prize giving/result annoucement
4) When releasing your entry to the public, in your FILE_ID.DIZ you must
include the following:
The Scene 1996 Singapore Demo Competition
Held in Singapore
Date of the event (2nd June 1996)
The final result
5) Software piracy will not be tolerated in the demo party
6) All entries _MUST_REACH_ the organisers at least 1 week before the
competition starts. This is to prevent any last minute mishaps, however
participants can still submit if they have updated/revised their entries
on the competition day as long as they meet the closing time for
submittion, this will be annouced in future releases of the infotext
7) All entries must be fully completed and working to be qualified
8) Each group/person is allowed a maximium of 2 entries per catagory
9) All entries (except animation) must be released _AT_MOST_1_MONTH_ after
the competition, the participants must contact and submit a copy of the
release version to the main organiser (Yap Sieh Roy), look at section
'8) Party, Organisers and Sponsers information/contact' for contact
information
10) The organisers have the rights to publish and use all entries, in digital
format as well as for future promotional/commercial activities
11) The judges and organisers reserves the rights to withhold any prizes for
catagories deemed having not enough entries, and/or low quality entries
12) All rules and regulation can be changed at the organisers' will without
prior notice
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Ĵ4) Demo competition details��
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1) Your demo must not occupy bigger than 4 megabytes diskspace(compressed)
2) The maximium running length is 10 minutes
3) SVGA and other non-standard mode can be used but at the participants own
risk
4) To ensure compatibilty please use only the Gravis Ultrasound standard for
music playback
5) A limit of 8 megabyte is set for memory requirement of entries
6) All rules and regulation can be changed at the organisers' will without
prior notice
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Ĵ5) Music competition details (MOD and MIDI)��
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This applies to both 'original' and 'transcribes' entries, with exception
to rule 3) for 'transcribes'
1) The maximium running length of the music is 10 minutes
2) No direct recording of a piece of music, so as not to infringe the
copyright laws
3) The entry must be your original work, no transcribing or ripping allowed
4) The music entry must contain a title of the composition in the title
section of the entry, and the musician's name must not appear anywhere
in the music entry
5) VOC/WAV/AU/RAW and such formats will not be accepted

For MIDI :
1) All entries will be played on a Roland SCC-1 or compatible GS/GM
soundcard, the de facto standard for GM/GS MIDI playback. Only GM/GS MIDI
files will be accepted. All others will be rejected.
2) For best results, restrict polyphony to 24 voices to prevent note
cut-offs. The SCC-1 has a maximum polyphony of only 24 voices.

For MOD
1) Your music piece must not occupy bigger than 1 megabyte diskspace
(compressed). All the samples must fit inside the 1 megabyte memory
constrain of the Gravis Ultrasound card
2) We will be using Cubic Player (tentative) for replaying, if you would
like to use your own player, please submit along with your entry, and
whenever possible, Gravis Ultrasound card will be the sound card used
3) No digital effects filter can be used, e.g. Hall effect from Cubic
Player

6) All rules and regulation can be changed at the organisers' will without
prior notice
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Ĵ6) Graphics competition details��
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1) The artwork must be 100% original, no generated artwork allowed
2) The maximium resolution that will be accepted is 640x480x16.7m colors
3) Acceptable formats include : TGA, JPG, LBM, TIF, PCX
4) Submit your artwork in their native format e.g. GIF, do not compile it to
an executable file e.g. EXE, COM.
5) The artist's name must not appear anywhere in the artwork
6) All rules and regulation can be changed at the organisers' will without
prior notice
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Ĵ7) Party, Organisers and Sponsers information/contact��
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1) Party information
Internet mail - [email protected]
World Wide Web - www.singnet.sg/~ckiang/tsc96.html
Enquiries for DEMO competition - Yap Sieh Roy
Enquiries for MOD/MIDI competition - Ng Cheng Kiang
Enquiries for GRAPHICS competition - Yap Sieh Roy
Oversea participants/visitors who are making a trip over here, please
contact us, we can help to arrange your transport/accomodation

2) Organisers
The Scene Association are :
Yap Sieh Roy (FxKidd) [email protected]
Ng Cheng Kiang [email protected]
Vincent Wei [email protected]
Ng Pei Sin (ProLogic 303) [email protected]
Kor Kian Wei (KoL/SDF) [email protected]
Ho Ming Woei (Zane) [email protected]
Clarance Song [email protected]
Gerald Tan (Tangent/SDF) [email protected]

Xin Computers Pte Ltd
E-mail : [email protected]
[email protected]
WWW : www.xin.com.sg
www.paraweb.com/xin
Tel : +65-336-3177
Fax : +65-336-4144
Add : 109, North Bridge Road,
#05-21, Funan Centre,
Singapore 0617
Singapore

We can also be contacted at :
Devlink echomail - The Scene Conference
Fidonet echomail - Mod
Datanet echomail - Programming, Sound Blaster
BBS - Developers' Site BBS +65-561-0237
Info Gateway BBS +65-466-3326
Multimedia GS BBS +65-252-1220
Mailing address - The Scene Association c/o Xin Computers Pte Ltd
109, North Bridge Road,
#05-21, Funan Centre,
Singapore 0617
Singapore

3) Sponsers
Xin Computers Pte Ltd and Compro Computers can be contacted as follows :
Xin Computers Ptd Ltd
109, North Bridge Road,
#05-21, Funan Centre,
Singapore 0617
Singapore
Tel : +65-336-3177
Fax : +65-336-4144

Developers' Site BBS can be contacted as follows :
Developers' Site BBS datel : +65-561-0237

Boon Properties Pte Ltd can be contacted as follows :
544-A Serangoon Road (Off Sturdee Road)
Singapore 0821
Singapore
Tel : +65-299-3533
Fax : +65-299-2520

4) Credits
Organised by : The Scene Association
Sponsered by : Xin Computers Pte Ltd
Compro Computers
Developers' Site BBS
Boon Properties Pte Ltd
Co-ordinator : Yap Sieh Roy
Sponsers contacted by : Yap Sieh Roy, Ng Pei Sin, Rex Guo
Infotext co-ordinator : Yap Sieh Roy
Publicity/Internet/Entries
co-ordinator : Ng Cheng Kiang, Ng Pei Sin
Poster co-ordinator : Kor Kian Wei
Logistic assistance : Peter Lim (Xin Computers Pte Ltd)

We are looking for more sponsers, and oversea co-ordinators, please do
contact us as soon as possible
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Ĵ8) Greets��
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FxKidd would like to greet the following people :
The 3 other 'core' organisers - Cheng Kiang, Kian Wei, Pei Sin (u guys
have been great help !!), Peter of Xin Computers (Thanks !!), the rest
of the comms,Eric Scorpio,Rex Deathstar/WaterLogic,Valk/Mode XiX (plz
codez somethingz ! ;-)),BeachBoy/Mode XiX,Njo/Constellation,GUI,Seng Wue,
Pandemonium,Morbid,Black Magic,Teck Shiong,Nicholas,Teck Chee,Nicky Bay,
Hidenori,All Renegade members,Dan Wright,Mr Khan,#coders

Ng Pei Sin would like to greet the following people :
Everybody !!

Regards,
Yap Sieh Roy (FxKidd)
(Organiser, The Scene 1996 Singapore Demo Competition)
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