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Abduction'97 - The Cow Strikes Back
An Updated Silly Little Infofile
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Index

1. Ab-intro-duction 1:26
2. The usual stuff 1:05
3. Competitions 6:54
4. The special features 1:17
5. The schedule 3:12
6. Wanted - your chance to be an organizer 0:44
7. Contact Abduction Organizing ry 2:59
8. Internet, mailing-list and Abduction Archives (AA) 4:04
9. Greets, thanks and final silly words 3:01

A lot of things have been added and changed since version 2.0. Forget it...
Updated and new sections have been clearly marked.

Read on.

1. Ab-intro-duction (UPDATED)

Hello again you wanna-be-abductees! Let's skip the usual bullshit and
go straight to the point...

Date & time: 6-8th of June, 1997. The doors will open at 10:00 on Fri-
day and close at 12:00 on Sunday. The detailed schedule
is at the end of this file.

Place: Oulun urheilutalo in Oulu, Finland. See the map of Oulu
(OULU.GIF). 18 is the partyplace, 11 is the railway sta-
tion and 13 is the bus station.

Entrance fee: 100FIM (~20USD). Girls, foreigners and senior citizens :)
get in for free!

Features: The typical things. You know... A lot of room, electrici-
ty, tables, showers, quiet sleeping halls, everything you
need.

A great PA system.

a 24h/day bar with reasonable prices.

Voting disks for both PC and Amiga. The counting of votes
happens again on the big screen in real-time. Just great.

A party network and access to the Internet. Cool.

A lot of competitions. Both ordinary and special ones.

And much much more. Perhaps even live music.

2. The usual stuff

- absolutely no alcohol, drugs, smoking, vandalism or piracy inside the
partyplace (sex is allowed, though)
- you are not allowed to sell hardware, software or food without getting
a permission from the main organizers
- you are legally responsible for your actions - you pay what you break
- the organizers have a right to remove a person from the partyplace and
not to let him (or her) in again if the person has broken any of these
rules or any Finnish or international laws
- the organizers are pretty almighty

3. Competitions (UPDATED)

We have made a decision to increase the number of competitions. The fol-
lowing competitions will be held: Amiga demo and intro, PC demo and int-
ro, music, graphics, raytracing and wild. This is the final decision.

We have to say that the overall quality of competitions wasn't that high
last year. Put a little more effort on your productions and you will re-
warded. That is a promise. Trust us. Trust Abduction Organizing.

The organizers will choose the jury members and the juries choose which
productions will be seen and heard in the finals. The number of shown/
played entries will be 15-20 (or less if the quality or quantity of pro-
ductions is low). And, please, don't run away when the jury members are
being selected (you did that last year when the music jury members were
chosen).

By entering any competition at Abduction'97 you give us a permit to pub-
lish your entry on CD-ROM. Top 3 in every category will receive royal-
ties if the CD-ROM project will become reality. For the very same reason
all filenames must be ISO-9660 standard compliant (only 8+3 characters
and no special characters). The very same rule applies also to producti-
ons made on Amiga.

In demo, intro and wild competitions at least one of the authors must be
present at the partyplace. In music, graphics and raytracing competiti-
ons all the authors must be present at the partyplace.

Of course the prizes are good. As always.

The competition machines are:

Intel Pentium 150MHz

- MS-DOS 7.0
- 16MB RAM
- GUS Max 1MB (SB Pro will be installed when (/if) needed)
- 2MB VRAM PCI (S3) video card

The competition machine has 580000 bytes of free conventional me-
mory and it has many configurations (you choose one when submit-
ting your entry).

A1200/060

- Blizzard 1260 - 68060/50MHz
- AmigaOS 3.1
- 2MB chip RAM + 16 MB fast RAM

And here are the rules:

PC demo

- the maximum size of demo in an executable form is 4096 kilobytes
- VESA 2.0 modes are allowed, but 100% VGA register compatible vi-
deo mode(s) must be supported
- pure animations are not allowed
- demo must not save anything on the hard disk
- demo must run without any kind of interaction (except for setup)
- demo must work without sound / a sound card, too
- one must be able to quit demo by pressing ESC
- only the first 10 minutes of the demo will be shown

PC intro

- see the PC demo competition rules (the only difference is the
size limit which is 64 kilobytes (65536 bytes) in PC intro com-
petition)

Amiga demo

- the maximum size of demo in an executable form is 4096 kilobytes
- demo must not save anything on the hard disk
- pure animations are not allowed
- demo must be harddisk-installable
- demo must run without any kind of interaction (except for setup)
- only the first 10 minutes of the demo will be shown
- one must be able to quit demo by clicking the mouse

Amiga intro

- see the Amiga demo competition rules (the only difference is the
size limit which is 64 kilobytes (65536 bytes) in Amiga intro
competition)

Graphics

Note: the maximum number of colors was increased to 16.7 million.

- the maximum resolution is 640x480, 16.7 million colors
- any format supported by the most often used viewers will do
- scanned, ripped or raytraced pictures are not allowed (neither
are those which contain registered trademarks or logos
- submit two versions of the picture (one with your signature, one
without it)
- only one picture from one artist
- pictures will be shown on either Amiga or PC depending on the
computer they were made on

Music

- both multichannel and 4-channel songs will compete in this cate-
gory
- 50% of the songs played in the finals will be 4-channel modules
- all standard formats are allowed (such as S3M, XM, IT and MOD)
- the maximum size of the song is 1024 kilobytes
- the maximum number of channels is 32
- no MIDI songs
- only one song from one artist
- all modules will be played either on PC equipped with GUS (1 MB)
or on Amiga depending on the computer they were made on
- only the first 4 minutes of the song will be played

Raytracing

- the maximum resolution is 640x480, 16.7 million colors
- any format supported by the most often used viewers will do
- submit two versions of the picture (one with your signature, one
without it)
- only one picture from one artist
- pictures will be shown on PC equipped with a true color video
card
- pictures which contain registered trademarks or logos are not
allowed

Wild

- productions don't have to be video clips and they don't have to
be submitted on VHS cassettes
- we supply only the VCR (PAL) and PA system for you - you have to
bring everything else you may need (computers, synthesizers and
so on). However we have a lot of things at the partyplace and we
may be able to help you if you ask us IN TIME
- your production must not contain copyrighted or illegal material
(as said before, both international and Finnish laws do apply at
the partyplace)
- your video cassettes will be returned
- only one production from one group or person

Minor changes are possible and we are entitled to make them (if found
absolutely necessary or so).

4. Special features (UPDATED)

Information about the special competitions will probably be released on
our homepage (http://dot.tcm.hut.fi/abduction/) as soon as we know more
about them. On the other hand, you don't actually need the information
until you are at the partyplace - you like surprises, don't you? Well,
at least Sony Playstation and anagram competitions will be held.

A special prize will be given to the person (or a group of persons) with
the coolest outfit.

The Leningrad Cowboys And The Alexandrov Red Army Chorus And Dance En-
semble will throw TWO gigs in Oulu (on Friday the 6th and Saturday the
7th)! No competitions will be held during the concert (at least on Fri-
day; that's a promise), so go there and have some fun! Oulun lippupalve-
lu sells 20000 tickets to both concerts - give the a call (08-3147200).
The cheapest tickets cost 160 FIM.

5. The schedule (NEW)

One of the most difficult things (for an organizer) is the schedule -
both creating it and following it. Here is the planned schedule and its
key events:

Friday, 6th of June

10:00 The doors will open. Abduction'97 will begin.

17:00 The deadline for music competition. The early time is due
to the huge number of music competition entries at Abduc-
tion'96.

Also, the doors will open at Oulun pesapallostadion where
the Leningrad Cowboys concert will be held.

20:00 The deadline for graphics and raytracing competitions.

Saturday, 7th of June

00:00 The first competitions will be held: music, graphics and
raytracing (not necessarily in that order, though).

Time for a tour in local nightclubs, perhaps.

14:00 Special competitions will be held.

A possibility to test your demos and intros on the compe-
tion machines.

18:00 The deadline for wild, demo and intro competitions.

Perhaps more special competitions.

Sunday, 8th of June

00:00 More competitions: wild, Amiga intro and demo, PC intro
and demo (not necessarily in that order, though).

30-60 minutes time to vote and return the voting disks.

The counting of votes (in real-time).

The winners will be announced.

Sleeping?

8:00 Re-runs.

12:00 All good things... Abduction'97 will be over.

6. Wanted - your chance to be an organizer (UPDATED)

On infotext 1.00 we were looking for people to take care of filming a
party video. The job has been taken.

However, now we are looking for a few people who understand the basics
of internetworking. Contact Markus. Quickly.

7. Contact Abduction Organizing ry

Karpow/Scoopex is responsible for Amiga compos. Send your Amiga-related
questions, comments and ideas directly to him (unless you want to get in
touch with the main organizers, Mainframe or Markus (that's me!)):

Seppo "Karpow/Scoopex" Seppala [email protected]
Korpikylantie 245
61980 Pantane 06-2324183

Ilkka "Mainframe" Jauho [email protected]
Kaitovayla 30A11 040-5404704
90570 Oulu fax: 016-3793902

Markus "Markus Aurala" Aurala [email protected]
Caloniuksenkatu 6A17
00100 Helsinki 040-5040510

Feel free to contact Abduction Organizing ry for any reason (well, read
the whole invitation text and visit our web pages first, please). Feed-
back is appreciated. Or so.

8. Internet, mailing-list & Abduction Archives (AA) (NEW)

At the partyplace there will be a party network with an access to the
Internet. Thanks to The University of Oulu and Oulun puhelinyhtio. More
information about this feature will be on our web pages and the mailing-
list very soon.

Yes, the mailing-list is here again and you can join it by sending mail
to [email protected] with "subscribe" in the body of
message (subject field is ignored).

The mailing-list is for important last-minute-got-to-know-it-information
from the organizers; the people on it are the first ones to know if the
competition rules or schedule change.

Also, the Abduction files will be very soon available on our official
FTP server (dot.tcm.hut.fi that is).

9. Greets, thanks and final silly words (UPDATED)

Abduction Organizing thanks Mass, Deepheep Entertainment and Scoopex for
the excellent invitation intros. Big thanks go also to our sponsors:

Pohjanmaan mikro http://www.pomi.fi
Laatumikro http://www.laatumikro.fi
Zoo-lo-disk / Zoo-gate
Oulun puhelinyhtio http://www.opoy.fi
The University of Oulu http://www.oulu.fi

Without them Abduction'97 would not be organized and we would be extre-
mely bored.

Abdutkin on. Bye for now.

Signed,

Markus "Markus Aurala" Aurala,
your friendly neighborhood party organizer,
on the behalf of Abduction Organizing ry