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                           official invitation
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                             1. Introduction
                             2. The Time
                             3. The Place
                             4. The Party
                             5. The Competitions
                             6. General rules
                             7. Hints
                             8. Thanks
                             9. Contact
                             
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1. INTRODUCTION
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"ERROR IN LINE '99" is a demoscene-related convention (or party), which will
continue the traditional line of Easter conventions. The convention will 
mainly focus on alternative computersystems, as Acorn, Atari, Amiga and C64. 

Our general aim is to offer a good surrounding for a meeting of demo-
sceners and  computerfreaks. So, you can expect some days of interesting 
conversations and creativity. But do not forget, we can just offer a good 
surrounding. 

However, we hope to make this convention a remarkable and funny event and
we will try to keep it as noncommercial as possible.

So let's have a look at the facts:


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2. THE TIME
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The convention will start on:    Friday, 2.April 1999, 03:00 PM.
And the official ending is:      Monday, 5.April 1999, 11:00 AM.


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3. THE PLACE
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We have chosen a very atmospheric and comfortable location, which is situa-
ted in the centre of Dresden.
For instance it takes 5 minutes to walk to the central railway station or 
15 minutes to walk to the historical core of our town, which is really worth
a visit, by the way.



HOW TO GET TO THE PARTY PLACE?
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If you want to come by CAR, there are TWO POSSIBILITIES how to get to the
party place: 


I.

If you take the A4 from "EISENACH", then leave the motorway at the EXIT 
"DRESDEN-ALTSTADT." Then always follow the traffic signs which lead to "PRAG".

After a while, you will reach a street, called "NUERNBERGER EI." This street
is easily recognizable, because it is a big street (4 tracks), which is 
divided by a big "GREEN ISLE".
Go straight there, till you reach the first TRAFFIC LIGHT AFTER the "NUERN-
BERGER EI". Then turn LEFT here (direction: Hauptbahnhof (central station).

Drive down the hill and you will see a RUSSIAN CHURCH on the right side. 
Turn LEFT, after you passed this Russian Church. Now you are driving on the
"Reichenbachstrasse".

Finally turn RIGHT into the next street and look for a parking place.
Then follow the SIGNS to get to the location.


II.

The second possibility, if you come by car, is to take the A4 from BAUTZEN.
Leave the motorway at the EXIT "DRESDEN-HELLERAU". Then turn RIGHT and always
go STRAIGHT till you reach the BAHNHOF NEUSTADT (railwaystation "Neustadt").
Drive through under the railway and turn RIGHT.

Then go STRAIGHT again. You will drive over a big BRIDGE and after some 
minutes of driving, you will reach the HAUPTBAHNHOF (central station). Turn
RIGHT here and drive through under the station. 

Then you will see a "CONRAD ELECTRONICS" - building on the right side. 
After this building, turn RIGHT into the next small street. Turn LEFT again, when you
reach the next crossroad.
Go straight then, and after ca. 200 meters, look for a parking place.
Then follow the signs to get to the parking place.



If you come by TRAIN, you will find the party place very easily. Either ask
people for way or just use the following description:

Leave the railway station through the MAINDOORS. Then turn right. Go 
straight forward and you will walk under a bridge. Then you will cross a 
street and you will stand in front of the "CONRAD" - building.
Now just walk along the building on its left side and you will automatically
come on a sidewalk, situated beside a bigger street.
Now just go straight. If you see a meadow on the right side after some 50 m
walk, you will be on the right way. Keep on going straight and you will 
see two yellow phonebooths on the light right side. In face of those 2 phone-
booths you will be able to see the party place's entrance doors, beside a 
sign "GAG 18". 

We will put up SIGNS, so you will find the way easier.



And if you want to come by PLANE, you should inform us as early as possible,
so that we can take you from the airport Dresden-Klotzsche to the party 
place by car.



If you still have nasty PROBLEMS, to find the location, you can also call 
our EMERGENCY HOTLINE (from 2.April - 5.April ONLY): (0351) 4719085

THE PARTY-ADDRESS:        GAG 18
                          FRITZ-LOEFFLER-STR.16
                          01169 DRESDEN
                          GERMANY



Regarding the way to the party, we have a special offer for all interested 
demofreaks from POLAND:

You can contact GREY/MYSTIC BYTES for help, hints and further information in
your motherlanguage. And if there is enough interest, he even may organize a
BUSTRIP to the party. 

CONTACT him at:
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Mail address:             Grey / Mystic Bytes
                          Michal Michalowski
                          ul. Goszczynskiego 2/10
                          80-134 Gdansk
                          POLAND
                          Tel. (+48 58) 303-34-67

Email address:            grey@promail.pl 


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4. THE PARTY
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As mentioned before, we will try our best to offer you good conditions and
a good atmosphere for a great event.

We hope for many interested and motivated visitors, who are finally the most
important part of a successful and exciting convention.

From our side, we can offer you:
 
-the possibility to meet a lot of demofreaks from many different countries
-place for ca. 150 people 
-the excellent ambience of the location
-the big screen, which will display demos all the time
-many competitions and prizes
-an own bar with fair prices
-pizzaservice and other foodservices
-a divided smoker and nonsmoker area
-a realtime article
-a sleeping room
-WCs and showers
-the possibility to play Dart
-the possibility to play Volleyball                                     
-the central situation of the location
-bus and tram stations at the party place 
-a parking area nearby
-shops near the party place
-the opportunity to come even earlier and  have a look at Dresden for some 
 days. But therefore you have to tell us early, because this space is very
 limited.

The entrance fee for all 4 days will be 30 DM.
The entrance fee for only 1 day will be 15 DM.
(No other currency, please.)

Since the avaiable space is limited, we can not gurantee place for every-
body. So please register your coming. 
Then, you will get a place 100% and the entrance fee is reduced to 25 DM.


Remittance to the following account:

Stadtsparkasse Dresden
Account owner: Jens Syckor
Banking account: 442 027 035
Banking leadnr.: 850 551 42


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5. THE COMPETITIONS
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During the four days of partying, there will be many competitions held. 
We offer several configurations and possibilities, on which the entries can
be presented.


Available configurations are:

-Atari STf
 8 Mhz, TOS 1.4, 1 MB RAM

-Atari Falcon 030   
 16 Mhz, FPU, 4 MB RAM 

-Atari Falcon 030
 16 Mhz, FPU, 14 MB RAM


You can choose any of the listed configuratons, which will be used to pre-
sent your work at the competition.

Further we can record the entry on every configuration you have - you just
have to lend us your computer for the recording.


5.1. THE COMPETITION RULES:
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-FALCON 030 DEMO COMPETITION
 The maximal size is 6 Megabytes.

-ATARI ST DEMO COMPETITION
 The maximal size is 2 DD disks.

-INTRO COMPETITION
 The maximal size is 98304 bytes. All systems are allowed.
 
-4 KILOBYTE INTRO COMPETITION
 The max. size is 4096 bytes. This competition is for every available system.

-128 BYTE INTRO COMPETITION
 The max. filesize is 160 bytes including the header. This compo is for all
 available systems.

-TRUECOLOR GRAPHICS COMPETITION
 The name of the software and hardware, that had been used to create the 
 pictures will be displayed. The entries have to be in standart format, as 
 TGA or JPEG.

-16 COLORS GRAPHICS COMPETITION
 The same as for the Truecolorcompo, but the pictures have to be painted 
 using less than 17 colors and have to be either in GIF- or PC1-format. 

-MULTICHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION
 We will play the modules with Graoumftracker on Falcon 030. This tracker 
 supports the following formats:  DTM, GTK, GT2, MOD, S3M and XM.
 As always, we will play your entry with every other software or hardware
 as long as you can offer it.
 The max. filesize is 1,4 MB and every entry will be presented for 2:00 
 minutes. We may display the tracker on the big screen, while playing.

-4 CHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION
 The same rules as for the Multichannel competition, but the songs have to 
 be in 4 Channel Protracker-MOD format. 

-SOUNDCHIP MUSIC COMPETITION
 You have to offer the needed hard- and software to replay the song. Using
 samples is forbidden here.
 
-FAKE DEMO COMPETITION
 The entries have to run on one of the available systems.

-WILD COMPETITION
 Wild things wanted! Present videos, photos, animations, programs that do not
 fit in any other category, do aerobic, play flute, whatever...
 
-SURPRISE COMPETITION
 

5.2. GENERAL COMPETITION RULES:
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-Every entry has to be done by yourself.

-All entries have to be delievered on DD or HD-formatted disks.

-If there are too many entries, we may preselect. If you wish we can use a
 jury consisting of party visitors for that.

-If you prefer, we will run the entries on your own hardware.

-We will try to let you sit next to us, when we record the entries. So the
 competitor has the chance to choose the best way for his entries and can
 make sure, that it runs perfectly at the competition.

-You are allowed to make use of every hardware specification or accerlator
 you want. You just have to offer the possibility to lend us your hardware
 for the recording.

-At the competition, we will display on which machine the entry has been 
 created and on which machine it is presented. We may also mention which 
 programs have been used for the creation of the entry.

-The entries have to compete.

-If there is high enough request for other competitions, as for the ACORN,
 ATARI XE or C64, we may add them. 
 
-We will publish all entries after the party and have your agreement for 
 that.

-Everybody, who has paid the entrance fee can win prizes for his entries.

-Any entries with racial-hostile, nationalistic or pornographic contents are    
 forbidden.

-We may change the competition rules.


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6. GENERAL RULES:
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1. Drinking is allowed as far nobody and nothing else suffers under that.

2. Smoking is allowed in the smoker areas ONLY.

3. Follow the organizers requests. 

4. Every visitor is responsible for his equiqment.

5. Microwaves are forbidden.

6. Copying pirate software is not allowed, as well.

7. Keep the toilets and showers clean.

8. All damage has to be paid by the person who caused it.

8. We want this party to become a reasonable one. We do not expect any 
   damages, theft, fights, pukers etc. If we catch someone responsible for
   something like that, we will hand him/her over to the police and let him
   pay (or clean).
  
   And we please you to help us to avoid something like that!
   

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7. HINTS
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-for getting the latest news, information and updates, join our MAILINGLIST.

-Do not forget the following stuff:
 -a map
 -money
 -hard- & software
 -multiply cords
 -a sleeping bag
 -you know what.. :-)


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8. Heavy THANKS to our:
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-coorganizers       Paranoid/Paranoia
		    Evl/dHs
                    Grey/Mystic Bytes
-sponsors           Conrad Electronic
                    Michael Ruge
                    Running Design Team
                    Titan Designs
-supporters         Earx/FUN
                    MC Laser/.tSCc.
                    Reflex
                    Tommy/Comic Pirates 


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9. Contact:
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Mail to:                 Nils Feske
                         Caemmerswalder Str.19
                         01189 Dresden
                         GERMANY

Phone to:                (+0049)351/4015284

Email to:                error_in_line99@t-online.de

Join our mailinglist at: error_in_line99@t-online.de

Check our homepage at:   http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden/~js712688/index.htm


Contact the Polish organizationbranch:
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Mail to:                 Grey / Mystic Bytes
                         Michal Michalowski
                         ul. Goszczynskiego 2/10
                         80-134 Gdansk
                         POLAND

Phone to:                (+4858)303-34-67

Email to:                grey@promail.pl 






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