the year is +2 f e v e r k k o n t i n u e s le officielle invitazione symphony002 demoscenefestival motto united scenes! file version mekka - 1 day invitation isn't internet explorer optimised. sorry :) welcome willkommen bienvenue bienvenido dobryjdien witaj. Yes it has happened! In answer to your questions we are introducing the final version of le invitazione. Hasta la P a r t y ! [welcome] Symphony.org team would like to invite you with great pleasure for the another edition of the party, which has hopefully become a constant item in your calendar... bzz! erhm.. Stop! It is a great pleasure indeed, but we're not going to invite you for a party you possibly could get used to. Welcome to the ::::: A R T I S T I C E X T R E M I S T S G A T H E R I N G S Y M P H O N Y 0 0 2 C O M B I N E D D E M O S C E N E F E S T I V A L Yes! We invite you for the second edition (slowly becoming legendary) of the popular "trzcianka party". We've gained some experience and because of that we hope that we'll be able to show the completely new quality of the party. We are wiser after last year's events and suppose that we'll do even better. [introduction] This year's party is going to last for FIVE DAYS. We'll do anything to fill these days with great fun, various competitions, so-called extra events and last but not least with the thing for which we travel thousands of kilometers God-only-knows-where - the scene atmosphere! One who attended Symphony001 knows what we're talking about :). [do you ask when?] Let's start with this: the whole schedule has changed. We, our dear friends, are going to start on Wednesday, 17.o7.o2 at about 6 a.m. and finish on Sunday 21.o7.o2 afternoon! Altogether it makes 11o hours of letting off the steam pot. 11o+ hours of holiday, beach and things like that :). And what are you going to do with us? :) The detailed time-table is going to be released soon. [do you ask where?] Disco "U Kojaka". It's quite big, provides really great sound and fancy illumination. Party-place is situated at the recreational grounds of city Trzcianka, in the forest, near the lake. If you don't know where is Trzcianka, well.. it's your right not to know :). So, Trzcianka lays in Wielkopolska, about 95 km from it's capital - Poznan, 110 km from Gorzow and 230 km from Berlin. It's the small city surrounded by charming landscapes and lakes. A year ago we used to think that getting there may be a huge problem for you, but it turned out to be not so dramaticly difficult :). This year we'll try to adapt the mentioned disco even better. We'll do our best to ensure more comfortable sleeping room and better access to all kinds of food. We also know that you liked the houses, so we make an appeal to reserve them now - in the summer time it's really hard to find spare ones. In the CONTACT section of our webpage: symphony.vdb.pl you may find the phone numbers of Trzcianka Sport & Recreation Centre, where you need to call in order to get a reservation. In THE PLACE section you may finds photos of all the houses and prices (for 24h). Perhaps they don't look as an apartment in Sheraton, but ask people who were at Symphony01 how you may enjoy yourself there :). More detailed information (access roads, accomodation) may be found at http://www. symphony.vdb.pl [do you ask for how much?] Unfortunately. 40pln and not a penny less. So far we don't have any sponsors, so we can't afford lowering the price. If only something changes, you'll be the first to know. People with computers enter for "less" :), women enter for a pretty smile and foreigners don't even have to smile :) (they enter for free). Mat/Ozone will get food, drinks and accomodation :) [do you ask what we'll give you?] For 9o% we'll provide internet access and we'll try to build a LAN, as at the major parties (it doesn't impress us much, but it's another way for you to deliver your productions to our control-room and for us to spread it all just after the party). Of course, some people have to declare first that they'll come with their machines. One of the things we didn't see to (or rather underestimated) was counting the votes - we agree that we screwed it up, so we promise to improve. Right now we're configuring and testing counting and spreading system. Of course also this time some concerts will take place, but in a bit different way. Other events include: open air goa party party, bonfire, water sports, voleyball, football, grill (take your own coal) and other things, which maybe aren't anything special in comparision to concerts of Welle:Erdball or Press Play On Tape, but together make this genuine atmosphere which makes the party called 'grrrreat!" [do you ask about competitions?] After thinking over all the pros and cons of previous edition we've decided to do anything to simplify everything :) and help you with presenting your productions. We'll try to make some computers available - they could be used for checking or finishing your works. If everything goes right, we'll assign a special room with two machines for your use only. Here goes the compo-machines configuration and detailed list of competitions: AMIGA a1200t. ppc 603/240 mhz. 60/50 mhz. bvision. 64mb ram a4000. ppc 604/233 mhz. 40/40 mhz. cybervision. 64mb ram PC intel celeron 1ghz. geforce2 ddr. sb!live. 256mb ram amd duron 1ghz. geforce2 ddr. sb!live. 256mb ram windows 98se. latest detonator drivers. latest directx. C64 c64. 1mhz. old sid. 64kb ram. ATARI we still don't know. K O M P E T I T I O N S C64 demo - standard basic executable - size is limited to : 2 disk sides - executable by using RUN command - there are no duration limitations - one production per one group C64 64kb intro - standard basic executable - size is limited to 65536b - executable by using RUN command - there are no duration limitations C64 4kb intro - stanard basic executable - size is limited to 4096b - executable by using RUN command - there are no duration limitations PC demo - windows/accelerated & MS-DOS ones - size is limited to 15MB (all files packed) - escape exits the demo - one demo per group - lmb / escape exits the demo - demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - there are no duraton limitations PC 4k intro - windows/acceleratedand & MS-DOS ones - size is limited to 4096b - escape exits the intro - there are no duration limitations - lmb / escape exits the intro - demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - one intro per author PC 64k intro - windows/accelerated & MS DOS ones - size is limited to 65536b - escape exits the intro - there are no duration limitations - lmb / escape exits the demo - demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - one intro per group AMIGA demo - ppc & mc68k ones - size is limited to 15MB (all files packed) - executable by using RUN command - there are no duration limitations - lmb / escape exits the demo - amos / demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - one demo per group AMIGA 4k intro - ppc & mc68k ones - size is limited to 4096b - lmb / escape exits the intro - there are no duration limitations - amos / demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - one intro per author AMIGA 64k intro - ppc & mc68k ones - size is limited to 65536b - lmb / escape exits the intro - there are no duration limitations - amos / demomaniac stuff goes to wild demo - one intro per group MUSIC multichannel - file formats accepted : XM, DBM - max file size : 2MB - playtime is limited to 5 min. - one multichannel module per author - selection! MUSIC 4 channel - file formats accepted : XM, DBM, MOD - max file size : 1MB - playtime is limited to 5 min. - one 4 channel module per author - selection! MUSIC chip - file formats accepted : XM, DBM, MOD, THX, AHX, SID - max file size : 32768b - playtime is limited to 5 min. - one chip module per author - only synth sounds - selection! C64 music - playtime is limited to 5 min. - one music per author - playtime is limited to 5 min. MP3 music - file format accepted : MP3 - max file size : 6MB - playtime is limited to 5 min. - one mp3 per author - selection! PIXEL graphics - file formats accepted : JPG, PNG, ILBM, BMP, PCX - max resolution : 1024*768*32bpp - if possible :) please provide "steps" - one pixel graphics per author - selection! IMAGE processing graphics - file formats accepted : JPG, PNG, ILBM, BMP, PCX - max resolution : 1024*768*32bpp - one pixel graphics per author - selection! RAYTRACED graphics - file formats accepted : JPG, PNG, ILBM, BMP, PCX - max resolution : 1024*768*32bpp - if possible :) please provide "steps" - one pixel graphics per author - selection! C64 graphics - one pixel graphics per author - selection! FLASH presentation - start by running index.html - IE 6.O + latest Flash Plug-in - one flash demo per author - selection! ANIMATION - file formats accepted : AVI, MPG, DIVX - size is limited to : 250MB - please provide (if possible) your wild demo on CD or VHS/PAL (not a SVHS tape!) - selection! WILD demo - file formats accepted : AVI, MPG, DIVX - size is limited to : 250MB - please provide (if possible) your wild demo on CD or VHS/PAL (not a SVHS tape!) - selection! You don't have to be present @ the party to contribute in any compo. Altogether it makes 21 competitions. It's going to be fun :). Ofcourse if you'll bring your own computer with different OS than listed above you will be able to show your production. Our friend Slaves / Taquart offered his help with Atari competitions - so if you'd like to use Atari as your platform, please contact with Slaves (f.e via email : slaves@scene.pl) [do you ask how can you help?] Quite easily. Come to the party and have fun. Show us something and win. Tell anybody you meet, while irc-ing, at school, in the pub, that there's something like 'symphony'. Send e-mails to all your contacts, friends and invite them for a "Party in Trzcianka". Let them know you'll be there, let them know we'll be there :). [do you ask why we advertise the party soooo much?] The reason is simple - we want to hype the "Party in Trzcianka" to the skies :). The invitation has been translated into three languages, soon we'll release coded invitations for three platforms. We'll do anything so that all the sceners in Europe, well... the world know that there is something like symphony002. We want the democompo to last for 4 hours and the whole stuff to fill up 3 cds :). We belive Symphony to become a sort of traditon, like polish 'Thursday dinners with king Stanislaw'. The best company with the exquisite dishes. [appeal #1] Do you work in a company which has some money dedicated for sponsoring? Just give us your adress and phone number [appeal #2] Are you a vizier? Sheikh? Maharaja? If so, on your request will give you our bank account number :) [appeal #3] We can't just stay awake for six days, no matter how hard we try - so we need volunteers. If you can and want to help - please write! [do you ask how to contact us?] piotr sliwinski k.a silentriot symphony.main.org mobile +48 608679549 work 67 2166210 home 67 2164787 fax 67 2166210 email silentriot@interia.pl piotrsliwinski@pf.pl [credits] idea & text by silentriot German translation: Provee/Fraction/Sataki (c64) English translation: Aragorn/Vime [the end] That's it for now. If you think it's not enough please visit www.symphony.vdb.pl - you'll find there answers for all the possible questions (well, almost :) *beware of the afterparty see you in trzcianka