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                         ICING '96
                      
                     Stenkullen, Sweden
                      24-27 May  1996

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              www.one.se/icing/   icing@one.se



Leave  your   troubles  behind  and  visit the most atmospheric
computer festival of the year.  Dream away,  have a few laughs,
make  some  friends:  join  the Icing way of living during some
bright days in the beauteous month of May.
 

. w h e n

At 20.00 the 24th of May, the doors to Icing '96 open. 64 hours
and a great  deal of  fun later,  at 12.00  the 27th of May the
party closes down. The opening ceremony takes place at midnight
the first party night.


. p r e m i s e s

Icing '96  is  held  in  Vttlehallen,  an  icehockey  arena in
Stenkullen, Sweden, about 30 kilometres  from the metropolis of
Gteborg.  About  2000  squaremetres  of  effective floor space
serves  as  the  main  party  hall.  A  separate, ravepartyless
building,  sized as an ordinary Swedish physical education hall
is available for those who want to take a nap.


. h o w   t o   g e t   t h e r e

CAR. If you're travelling by car, take the E20 towards Stockholm
or  Gteborg,  depending  on  where  you  start.  When you reach
Kastenhofsmotet,  leave  the highway and follow the signs saying
"Stenkullen".  Having  arrived at the center of Stenkullen, turn
left  into  the street called Grbovgen. After about 300 metres
you have Vttlehallen, the party place, on your right hand.

TRAIN, BOAT, PLANE.  When travelling using any of these vehicles
you  should  get to Gteborg as a start. If you are one of those
rich  chaps  or  maybe a bit lazy, the right thing for you to do
is to call  for a cab and make the driver follow the description
above.  The  other  alternative is to locate Centralstation, the
main ( and only) railway station of Gteborg and catch the local
train towards Lerum. Get off at Stenkullen, the first stop after
Lerum. Proceed straight forward on foot about 250 meters and you
face Vttlehallen, the party place.

Signs in the surrounding of the party place will guide you; you
cannot  virtually fail to find Icing '96. If you still do, just
ask  some nice-looking fellow to explain the way to the icehall
"Vttlehallen".


. e n t r a n c e   f e e

The nominal fee for visiting Icing '96 is 200 SEK.

Swedes  may  pay  in advance and thus get 30 SEK off the price,
making  it  only  170  SEK.  This service is - due to practical
reasons -  not  available  to foreigners. However, if you bring
your  passport  or other documents that verify your originating
from outside Sweden, you only have to pay 170 SEK all the same.
Girls of all nationalities are of course let in for free.

SWEDES. Fr att betala in i frvg, g till nrmaste postkontor
och  skaffa  en postgiroblankett. Ange postgironummer 6148528-0
och David Malcus som betalningsmottagare. Glm inte att fylla i
namn  och  adress  i  drfr  avsedda  rutor. I meddelanderutan
skriver du handle / grupp om sdan(a) existerar och att det rr
sig om Icing '96. SISTA INBETALNIGSDATUM: 96-05-17.

TRJOR.  Specialdesignade  Icing- trjor kommer att finnas till
frsljning - dock i begrnsad upplaga. Trjorna kostar 100SEK.
Vill  du  vara sker p att f ett exemplar med dig hem betalar
du in denna summa i samband med frbetalningen.
SISTA INBETALNINGSDATUM FR TRJOR: 96-05-03.


. f o o d   a n d   f a c i l i t i e s

CAFETERIA. A cafeteria that stays open around the clock serves
the visitors with Coca-Cola(TM), sandwiches, hotdogs and other
necessities.

PIZZAS. A pizzeria delivers the most delicious pizzas - right in
time and with fair prices.

HYGIENE.  As  Icing '96 takes places in an icehockey arena there
is  plenty of showers available, making it possible for everyone
to  freshen  themselves  up  once  in  a while. And it is highly
recommended  to  utilize  this  possibility  as  everyone's  not
smelling like a horse adds up to a nicer atmosphere.


. c o m p e t i t o n s

GENERAL. Everyone who wants to compete in any competition has to
be  present  at  Icing '96. The organizers reserve the exclusive
right to spread everything delivered to the competitions, decide
which contributions may participate in case of too many competi-
tors  and  disqualify any contribution that contains racistic or
pornographic  implications  or  in  other ways is offensive. All
contributions  in  the demo and intro competitions on both plat-
forms  will  be taped to video, which means that everything must
run (or at least work) in 50Hz.  Detailed information about this
is located in the PC competitions section.

PRIZE MONEY.  The main  purposes of releasing something within the
borders  of  the  scene  is to achieve honour and pride, isn't it?
But then again, a  total  sum of about 25000SEK will be given away
as  prize  money. This sum is,  however,  a function of the number
of visitors and, to some extent, the quality of the contributions.

JURY PRIZE.  In  the  cathegories Amiga demo, Amiga 64k, PC demo,
PC 64k,  graphics and music, a special prize based on the opinion
of  a  jury  will  be  given  away.  This  prize  is more or less
symbolic -  e.g.  a  way  to  justify  the one who draws the best
picture and not the biggest tits. Though, 10 percent of the total
prize money is intended for this use.

AMIGA DEMO.  Amiga demos must run on a standard A1200 from HD and
there  has  to  be a possibility to quit to the operating system.
The competition machine is an A1200/030/50MHz. Maximum demo size:
5Mb. Maximum length: 10 minutes. Deadline: 14.00, Sunday 26 May.

AMIGA 64K. See Amiga demo for machine specifications. Intros
should be delivered on a bootable disk. Deadline: 11.00, Sunday
11.00.


PC COMPETITION RULES.


  PC Compo machine specification:

  Hardware:

  CPU.............: AMD 486DX4-120 (40mhz external)
  Graphics card...: Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (vesa local bus)
  Sound card......: Gravis Ultrasound Max 1mb
                    16-bit clone card (SB pro, WSS)
  Chipset and Bios: AMI WinBios
  Memory..........: 8mb DRAM, 70ns
  Hard drive......: Quantum Fireball 1280A, Conner CFA540A
  Hard drive cntl.: Cheap 16-bit Multi I/O (ISA)

  Benchmarks:

  CPU.............: Norton SysInfo 8 - 237.8
                    Landmark Speed 2 - 401mhz (FPU 1058mhz)
              
  Memory..........: Internal Cache   - 243 mb / sec
                    External Cache   - 75  mb / sec
                    Normal memory    - 50  mb / sec

  Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 19275 chars / ms

  Mode 13 graphics: 8-bit dump       - 9.5 mb / sec
                    16-bit dump      - 19 mb / sec
                    32-bit dump      - 37 mb / sec

  For comparison, the Cirrus 5426/28/29/30 VLB values are:

  Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 9102 chars / ms

  Mode 13 graphics: 8-bit dump       - 6 mb / sec
                    16-bit dump      - 12 mb / sec
                    32-bit dump      - 12 mb / sec
                    (no typo - they're 16 bit)

  Hard disk.......: 4.8mb / sec (!), 9 ms average seek

  The Memory timings were made with Sysinfo2 (by Nadir of Rage)
  which is included in this package.

  You can choose which memory manager you want to run your demo
  with. We have Qemm386 8.0, Himem and Emm386. If you don't say
  anything, we'll run with Qemm.

  Operating system: Windows 95 and 4dos 5.51
  (We will not run the contributions with windows installed, but
   with the Windows 95 dos version.)
  
  The demo...
     ...should support Gravis Ultrasound.
     ...must support silence
     ...may support SoundBlaster
     ...must run with 550k conventional memory free (Himem.sys)
     ...must run with 600k conventional memory free (Qemm386)
     ...may use SVGA up to 800*600, but higher than 640*480 isn't
        recommended
     ...will be shown for 10 minutes 
     ...must not take more diskspace than 5mb
     ...may use tempfiles on drive C
     ...must EXIT if esc is pushed
     ...should run from CD-rom

  ALL contributions will be taped to video (S-VHS).
  This means that they must run (or at least work) in 50hz.

  If you use a supplied 50hz mode (LIKTWK19.ZIP), you can be sure
  it  will look perfect on the bigscreen. If you don't, we'll run
  it  with a driver (GA.COM) which changes all modes to 50hz, and
  that *MAY* screw  things  up.  The best choice is to use one of
  the 50hz modes included, and you will also earn lots of raster-
  time  by  doing  so.  Problems?  Questions? Ask Liket. Both the
  driver  and  the modes are supplied, so you can always check it
  out. If you have a REALLY good reason, we can *probably* run it
  realtime,  but  since  this  is a big hassle, and a big risk of
  failure, we'd prefer not to.

  The PC demo deadline is 14.00, Sunday 26 May.


PC 64K. See PC demo for machine specifications. Deadline: 11.00,
Sunday 26 May.

  NOSTALGIA. The most experimental competition and an attempt to
  unify  the  Amiga  and  PC  platforms. A500 versus 286 PC. The
  systems  are  SUPPOSED to perform quite equally, if coded with
  optimized assembly language.

  PC system specification:

  Hardware:

  CPU.............: Intel 286-10
  Graphics card...: Tseng 4000 ISA
  Sound card......: Gravis Ultrasound Max 1mb
  Chipset and Bios: Victor
  Memory..........: 1mb
  Hard drive......: Nec D5146H (30mb RLL)
  Hard drive cntl.: RLL

  Benchmarks:

  CPU.............: Landmark Speed 2 - 11mhz
  Textmode........: Landmark Speed 2 - 3800 chars / ms
  Hard disk.......: 300kb / sec, 30 ms average seek

  The graphics card does NOT support Vesa, so if you want vesa
  support we need to load UniVBE which uses a few k's of base
  memory.

  The demo...
     ...should support Gravis Ultrasound.
     ...may use SVGA up to 800*600, but higher than 640*480
        isn't recommended
     ...will only be shown for 10 minutes
     ...must not take more diskspace than 1mb
     ...may use tempfiles on drive C
     ...must EXIT TO DOS if esc is pushed

  ALL contributions will be taped to video (S-VHS).
  This means that they must run (or at least work) in 50hz.
  See the regular PC DEMO compo rules above.

  We will use Himem.Sys or clean boot.

  Amiga system specification:

  Computer........: Commodore Amiga 500
  CPU.............: Motorola 68000, 7.14mhz
  Graphics card...: Fat Agnus
  Sound card......: Paula
  Chipset and Bios: Kickstart 1.3
  Memory..........: 512kb onboard CHIP, 512k slowmem (fake-fast)

  The demo...
     
     ...will only be shown for 10 minutes
     ...may only take one disc (880kb DD)
     ...should run on an Amiga 1200



GRAPHICS.  Pictures  have  to  be delivered as .IFF/.LBM or .GIF
files  in  maximum  256  colours  and 640x512 pixels resolution.
Pictures that is obviously copied or scanned will NOT be subject
for disqualification, but when showing the picture on big screen
it will be stated that it is copied or scanned and, if possible,
from which picture. Deadline: 18.00, Saturday 25 May.

4 CHANNEL MUSIC.  4  channel  music  contributions  have  to  be
delivered in ProTracker format and must not be bigger then 720k.
Competition  tracker:  ProTracker 3.11.  Maximum playing time: 3
minutes. Deadline: 13.00, Saturday 25 May.

MULTI CHANNEL MUSIC. Multi channel music contributions have to be
delivered as .XM, .S3M  or .MOD files and will be played in their
respective  trackers.  Maximum playing time: 3 minutes. Deadline:
13.00, Saturday 25 May.


. s p e c i a l   e v e n t s

Watch  out  for  an extraordinary opening ceremony, an inspired
toastmaster,  scene  Jeopardy,  live  music,  movies, nostalgic
moments, flowers and pocals to the winners and a big, big bunch
of  crazy  surprise  competitions; hey, it has already started:
have  a look at the Icing '96 WWW-pages (www.one.se/icing/) and
find some very first surprise competitions.


. t - s h i r t s

Exclusively DuffE designed Icing t-shirts - without flying cakes
 - is available for the price of 100 SEK. Though, as the edition
is limited, you'd better hurry to buy one when you arrive at the
party.

SWEDES.  Vill  du  vara sker p att f ett exemplar med dig hem
betalar  du  in  100 SEK i frvg, i samband med frbetalningen.
Se vidare ovan i stycket gllande inbetalning av intrdesavgift.


. r e g u l a t i o n s

OF COURSE.  General Swedish law is applicable at the party place,
so  forget  about bringing those bombs and pistols, striking down
old defenseless ladies and stealing sweets from kids at Icing'96.

ALCOHOL. Evil preparations and more common drugs such as alcohol
is, naturally, not allowed at Icing '96.

SMOKING. You have to stay away from those cancer-sticks inside the
Icing '96 premises.

RAVES.  It  is  strictly  prohibited  to  hold rave parties in the
sleeping  hall.  Real  troublemakers  will  be  handed over to the
police.

COMMERCIALISM.  No  one  may  sell  software,  hardware, food etc.
without permission from the organizers.

PROPAGANDA.  Political  propaganda is not acceptable at Icing '96.

RESPONSIBILITY.  The Icing'96 organizers do not take any responsi-
bility for illegal swapping of commercial software or VHS, damaged
hardware  or  theft. If you bring your equipment, make sure not to
leave it unattended.


. f u r t h e r   i n f o r m a t i o n

Having read this text through you should know most things you need
to  when  planning  your trip to Icing '96 successfully. Still, if
you  cannot  sleep  in  the  nights  or  go pondering all day upon
something regarding the party: 
                   
       E-Mail:  icing@one.se
       WWW:     http://www.one.se/icing/
       BBS:     +46 (0)31-885248 (Digital Highway)
                +46 (0)31-990078 (Pure Climax, only 23.00-7.00)
                Login "icing" and password "icing" are valid on
                either BBSes.
       Voice:   +46 (0)31-7020940 (Jesper "DuffE" Skoog)

Even if you fell that you know everything about Icing '96 there is
to  know,  visit the Icing '96 WWW-pages where you'll find updated
and  last- minute information, detailed party schedule and, not to
forget, funny competitions.


