
 MEKKA 1996

 Mekka 1996 will be organized by - amable -

 29th - 31st of March 1996  in  HITTFELD / GERMANY

  I. Introduction / About Mekka '96
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   No long introduction... There will be a new Demo-Party in germany.
   We do not expect it to be GiGANTIC or GREAT ... we want it to be small
   and special. We try to connect a little group of talented guys, cheap
   entrance fees and some kewl prices for the Compos.
   
   The main intention of MeKKa is, to create a GATHERING , with some WiRED
   attenders who'll make it to THE PARTY of the year.
   [Sorry... don't know how to insert "Assembly" in this ;)]

   We expect you to go on a pilgrimage to demo-Mekka'96 and have fun you
   never thought about.


  II. Where and When
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   The Party will be held near Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany.
   We will rent a congress center with room for about 700 persons and 500
   computers.
   First we thought of renting the "Congress Center Hamburg" ... But we
   could not know how many guys will enter the arena -> so we've decided
   to use the smaller room! We do NOT expect more than 700 guys to attend...
   really ;)!

   Date    : Friday 29 to Sunday 31 of March 1996
             The doors will be opend on Friday at 18h [6pm]

   Location: Veranstaltungszentrum "BURG" Seevetal in Hittfeld/Germany
             That's very close to Hamburg.

   The center lies between 3 motorways so it's the easiest way to get there
   by car/bus, but to come by train and airplane will be possible too
   although it is more expansive.


  III. Costs
  ~~~~~~~~~~
   As you know Mekka will be held the first time in 1996. To calculate how
   many people we have to expect please registrate. Therefor you will get
   a reserved table for your computer(s). The earlier you reserve the better
   will be the place of the table reserved for you in the party-room (to read
   about registering scroll down a bit).

   Entrance fee:
   .............
   You pay in advance  : DM 25,- / person (about 17 US-Dollars)
   You are registered  : DM 30,- / person (about 21 US-Dollars)
   Without registration: DM 35,- / person (about 25 US-Dollers)

   The organisation is NON-COMMERCIAL!!! As usual the entrace-fee will be
   distributed among the winners of the competitions.

   We will be able to change foreign currency into german deutschmarks
   during the hole party. Please concider that our exchange-rate may not
   be very good.

   The Price includes:
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     - a table where you can place your computer
     - electricity
     - access to the party-network (if we get a network, see below)
     - the oxigen you wast at the party-place ;)

   If you don't bring a computer you are not entitled to get a table 
   [There will be enough chairs]


  IV. Features
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
   We have not listed all of the features yet but here a list of the most
   important points:

     - The party-place is mostly one big hall !

     - There will be a big screen of 5,5 * 3,7 meters !

     - There is a very nice SOUND SYSTEM available in the "BURG"!

     - Public voting for everybody ;)

     - There'll be a big "MAGIC-THE GATHERING"-Compo!
       Organiser : Ratzkartoffel/X-PoSuRe [reach him in our BBS]

     - Sleepin' : suXX ... ;) ... there are two little rooms reserved for
       tired guys ! QUIET rooms !


  V. Competitions
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   -= General Competition-Rules =-

     - The Rules may change until the final invitation-text.

     - At least one of the Competitors must be present.

     - We must have all entries until Deadline (see below).

     - If there are too (and I really mean toooooooooooo) many entries we
       will make a preselection.

     - The entry must be released at the party - not at any time before.
       [Please release a "final"-Version of your productions at the Party]

     - There are only PC-Competitions.

   -= Demo/Intro Competition-Rules =-

     - The Competition-PC will have following configuration:

        Prozessor       : i486DX2-66 (maybe better)
        RAM             : 8 MByte
        Videocard       : PCI-Board with fast Videocard and 2 MB RAM
        Soundboard      : - Gravis Ultrasound with 1 MByte RAM
                          - Creative SoundBlaster 16 ASP
        Operating System: DOS 6.2
        Memory Configs. : anything possible with HIMEM.SYS or EMM386.EXE
        Max. Base-Mem   : 600 KByte (= 614400 Bytes)

     - The production should support a GUS or/and SB!

     - No precalculated animations are allowed.

     - 1oo% VGA-Register-Compatible Videomode MUST BE SUPPORTED.

     - Additional you can use VESA 2.0-Videomodes too! Look for UNIVBE51!

     - Your can test your production up to 3 times on our PC to fix the
       latest hardware-problems.


   -= Demo =-

     - Maximum size: 4 MByte (= 4194304 Bytes)

     - Only the first 15 min. of the Demo will be shown on the big screen.


   -= Intro 64KB =-

     - Maximum size: 64 KByte (= 65536 Bytes)

     - Only the first 10 min. of the Intro will be shown on the big screen.


   -= Intro 4KB =-

     - Maximum size: 4 KByte (= 4096 Bytes)

     - Sound (Adlib or whatever you want) is possible too.

     - Only the first 5 min. of the Intro will be shown on the big screen.


   -= Music 4ch =-

     - Maximum size: 512 KByte (= 524288 Bytes)

     - Allowed format: Must be playable with latest Cubic!

     - Module will be played with the latest Cubic-Player on a PC defined
        in the "Demo/Intro Competition-Rules".

     - MIDI is not allowed

     - Only the first 4 min. will be played during the competition.


   -= Music Multichannel =-

     - Maximum size: 1 MByte (= 1048576 Bytes)

     - Allowed formats: Must be playable with latest Cubic!

     - If your prefered Module-Format is not in the list above you must
       bring the right module-player too.

     - MIDI is not allowed

     - Only the first 5 min. will be played during the competition.


   -= Graphic =-

     - Maximum 640x480 and 256 colors

     - Allowed formats: GIF, BMP, PCX

     - We must get two versions of this final graphic. One with and one
       without the sign of the gfx-artist.

     - The picture must be pixel hand-drawn - scans and calculated pictures
       are not allowed.

     - We need at least two significant steps of the picure.


   -= ANSi =-

     - No animations are allowed.

     - Not more than 200 Lines!

     - Will probably be shown with AcidView


   -= 3D-Object =-

     - Don't know the rules yet. They will follow in the very next version
       of this invitation-file.

     - We don't really know if we should make this compo!?


   -= Surprise =-

     - We will have some surprise-competitions at the party too.

     - Hey! Please stop reading this part. If we would tell you something
       about this compo it won't be a surprise any longer! ;)


  VI. Prizes
  ~~~~~~~~~~
   The prizes depend on the number of attenders.

     - At least 8.000,- DM will be given.
       There will be both, hard- and softwareprices.

  
  VII. Voting
  ~~~~~~~~~~~
   There will be 1oo% public voting.

     - This does not concer the surprise-competitions!

     - If there are less than 200 attenders at the Party, there will be a
       jury of known guyz having a weight of 3o%!
       We DO NOT WANT A JURY and hope enough freaks are comming! 


  VIII. Network
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   Many parties in the last time had a party-network and we are trying to
   have one too. It has a lot of advantages e.g.

     - voting will be more easier and secure and

     - all the entries of the competition will be stored on the server and
       will be free to download a competition is finished.

   We do NOT guarantee the network, but we will try very hard to get one!


  IX. CD-ROM
  ~~~~~~~~~~
   We think that a CD-ROM is not the most important feature of a Party (!)
   but we hope to have a Party-CDROM anyhow. We will try hard too!


  X. T-Shirt
  ~~~~~~~~~~
   Nearly every party has a Party T-Shirt. We will produce a T-Shirt too...

   It will be a very HIGH-Quality-shirt. It'll be designed by a well known
   local guy, who already designed VERY kewl shirts.

   You'll love it but remeber... it's limited!!!


  XI. Sponsors
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   We have not finished the conversation with all of our sponsors so we are
   not able to give you a list of them yet.

     - We can tell you that one of our sponsors will be a well known
       international software-producer! [NOT MS! ;) ]

   The complete list of sponsors will be released in a few days!


  XII. Registration
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   There are a lot of reasons why you should registrate. If you send the
   registration form back to us you will

     - save money because of a reduced entrace-fee (see above),

     - get a better table (next the stage and the projector) and

     - help us to calculate how many people we have to expect.

   If not we cannot guarantee a free table for your computer.

   PLEASE CHOOSE A PASSWORD for protecting your registration and your
   directory on the party-server (if we get one, see above). Nobody else
   but you will have access to your handle.

         TNX in advance!


   IF YOU WANT TO PAY IN ADVANCE :
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   YOU COULD PAY THE TICKETS IN ADVANCE.  
   Please transfer the entrance-fee to one of the following bank-accounts 
   (DM 25,- FOR EACH PERSON on the reservation-form):

     Name of the Bank : Kreissparkasse Harburg
     Bank-Nr (BLZ)    : 207 500 00
     Account-Nr (Kto) : 211 00 888

     Name of the Bank : Volksbank Neu Wulmstorf
     Bank-Nr (BLZ)    : 207 691 71
     Account-Nr (Kto) : 107 273 000

     Please attach this line to your money order:  
     "M96"-HANDLE-PASSWORD-REALNAME     [german: "Verwendungszweck"]

   YOU ALSO HAVE TO FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION-FORM, too. Send it to one of
   the following adresses:

     Fido       : 2:240/5097
     BBS        : ++49-4168-911042  V.34     FARMERS INN!
                  ++49-4168-911041  X.75   SYSOP : Hardball
                 
                  - Use HANDLE="Mekka" and PASSWORD="Mekka" for fast login!
                  - A registration-door will be installed!

     Snail-Mail : Malte Kanebley
                  - Mekka'96 -
                  Im Dorfe 3
                  21629 Neu Wulmstorf
                  - GERMANY -

   IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO PAY IN ADVANCE BUT TO REGISTER:
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   Please cut the registration form, fill it out and send it back to the
   adress above.

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   - Fill out this form in CAPITAL LETTERS!

   - PLEASE try to pay in advance!

   Name    : _________________________

   Handle  : _________________________ [leave free if you don't have one]

   Group   : _________________________ [leave free if you are not in a crew]

   Country : _________________________ [you are comming from]

   Password: _________________________ 

   [Your passwort is only important, if you've paid in advance]

   Address where we could contact you: _____________________________________

                                       _____________________________________

     (Possible is your Snail-, Fido-, InterNet- or CompuServe-mailaddress)

   Number of Computers   : ______

   Number of MTG-Players : ______

   Number of Persons     : ______ [you + the persons listed below]

   Please list all the Names/Handles of the Persons comming with you:

   _________________________________________________________________________

   _________________________________________________________________________

   _________________________________________________________________________

   _________________________________________________________________________

   _________________________________________________________________________


   NOTE: Only persons who are on this registration-form will get the reduced
         entrace-fee. We have all names/handles stored in the computer!
         The main reason of

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  XIII. Trips to Mekka'96
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   There are no trips planned at the moment. Please contact us if you:

     - want to organise a trip to Mekka'96.

     - are seaching for someone who could take you along.

     - have room in your car/bus.

   If so you will get a few lines from this part of the file to insert your
   message.


  XIV. Organisers / Contacts
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   Malte Kanebley                      (Hardball/amable - SysOp/Organising)
   ........................................................................
   Voice      : Reg'd guys will get it.
   FidoNet    : 2:240/5097
   BBS        : ++49-4168-512     ZYX     FARMERS INN!
                ++49-4168-911041  X.75   SYSOP : Hardball
                ++49-4168-911042  v.34     amable WHQ
   Snail-Mail : Malte Kanebley
                Im Dorfe 3
                21629 Neu Wulmstorf / Germany


   Jan Tegtmeier                               (StarCode - Code/Organising)
   ........................................................................
   Voice      : ++49-40-60671199
   Fax        : ++49-40-6065669
   FidoNet    : 2:240/5311.45
   InterNet   : PV80090@PH80090.HH.eunet.de
   CompuServe : 102404,2435
   Snail-Mail : Jan Tegtmeier
                Reinckeweg 9
                22399 Hamburg / Germany


   Also organisers are:
   
   CLiMAX/amable
   
   Landru/amable
   
   Ratzkartoffel/X-PoSuRe
   

  XV. Disclaimer
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   - We are not responsible for your equipment you bring to the party:
     keep an eye on it.

   - We are not responsible for possible accidents during the party.

   - We are not interested in trouble making-people and will throw them out.

   - Drugs are not allowed at the party-place.

   - You have to pay for everything you damage.

   - You have to bring your own wires with you. There is only one power-
     connection for each table/computer.

   - Ofcause hackes, cracked or illegal programs are not allowed.

   - Racism is not allowed.

   - You are unter German law and everthing that's forbidden outside the
     party-place will be forbidden inside too!

