[HTTX 1.1b] [http://www.symphony.w.pl] [Symphony Demo Scene Festival] [english translation: Marcin 'Aragorn' Stępnicki] [news translation update: Lukasz 'Beeper' Taranta] ------------------------------------------------------INVITATION------ Yes! Dear Sceners, right now in front of your eyes there is the invitation for another copy party which will be held in our beautiful country. After the long combat with organization problems, with a little bit of timidity:) we - the Prototype group along with our friends - have a great honour and genuine pleasure to invite you - coders, musicans, swappers, everyone involved in the scene in one way or another - to arrive to a very unconventional demo-festival which covers under a mystical name of Symphony! We'd like to ensure you that (at least in our plans) it's going to be a party which will change the point of view on the other ones, which we all have attended. We surely aren't original when we say we'd like to go back to the roots and fully "underground" atmosphere, because it's something every real scener wants - and especially the organizer. And yes - it also isn't unique - we're going to create (with your help) the party which hadn't taken place in Poland before - without Quake, lamers, platform-wars, without the crappy "umc-umc" party... Dear friends. We invite you to THREE DAYS OF DEMOSCENE FESTIVAL in the best meaning of these words. The schedule won't change, there'll be competitions (wow:)), boozing, chattering and... all the standard stuff. But we've prepared a few surprises, which we belive to cause the Symphony be more to your liking. Now goes the RAW MEAT! When? September, namely 14-16, the third weekend of that month. We've chosen such a date because of you and common phenomenon known among the students as "the September campaign". Really many people have asked us to change the date. The party will last for three days, it'll start at Friday early in the morning and finish at Sunday noon - after the prize ceremony. We are aware of the fact that at the same time Lahve/RSN+MWI is going to make a copy party (well... a little bigger booze-party) in Czech and some people want to go there, but after we had discussed the above with Lahve we decided that who want to go to Czech will do that anyway, but we can't change the date. But if little people will come to Symphony (because of Czech party) it'll be a pity - and afterwards the opinion that polish scene is lazy because noone wants to make a party will spread among the sceners:(. And still, try to sell the idea of changing the date of Apocalypse to Lahve. We can't do it now - it's a lot easier to change the date of a joint meeting than the one of three days party. Where? I suppose that little of you have the idea where is Trzcianka - small, picturesque place. The majority of you will probably ask yourself something like "where did I put my geographical atlas":). Stop. Stay cool - we're going to explain it. Trzcianka is located near the railroad from Pila to Krzyz, so it's in the Wielkopolska province (look at the maps), around 90km from Poznan and 25 from Pila (and it isn't near Bydgoszcz - Payda). Don't be afraid - it's a lot easier to go THERE than to Gravity:). If you go by a train, you have to change to another one in Krzyz or Pila, but it shouldn't be a problem. From Wroclaw it's about 4 hours, from Warsaw 5, from Szczecin about 2.5. In any case, as someone smart said "even if the party will be organized in devil's ass, the scene will come anyway". So we consider this part finished - you can find more information and tutorials how to come on our webpage. Party Partyplace is the building of the biggest disco in that area "U Kojaka", which can house about 700 people (crowd), but for 200-250 - which hopefully will come - it should be comfortable. Of course we cannot guarantee luxuries like in Mariott, but we hope nobody will become disaffected by discomforts:). In the hall plays around 4500 watt and shines a few thousand of lights. And about the equipment - the biggest problem is as always a good projector. At firts we were supposed to have two for free but finally we have to pay:(. We'd like it to be good, so it'll cost us a bit. Bigscreen is 4x3m, and the place is ideally blackouted so it's not a problem watching anything even in the middle of the day. Unfortunately in the building there's no place for a sleeping room, but we've managed to solve this - nearby the partyplace we'll pitch two military tents with mattresses and (if needed) heating. Besides, a few steps away there are two holiday camps with cheap houses (around 20zl per person/day) and two hotels. Additionaly, around 200m away there is a clean lake, beach, tennis courts, football pitch and volleyball ground. In September there shouldn't be many people, so we can do what we want:). Security guards WON'T be professionals as most of the organizers promise, but there'll be people who'll take care of your safety. We'll back to this later... btw. May you need this: partyplace adress is: 64-980 Trzcianka, ul. Piotra Skargi 56. Cash Let's be honest - prices of passes haven't changed for a few years and all other prices have. So you'll be allowed to come in for 40pln (and this won't change). We know that some of you will say that we are making business out of the scene and we are... (everybody knows), but we can do nothing about it. People with their computers come in also for 40pln but receive a little gift made of glass or tin:). Girls and foreigners come in for free - and we mentioned that disco, you can find your company there:). And OF COURSE the famous MAT/Ozone, even if he were foreigner, also comes in for free. After the party we'll make a report about costs available to all of you so that you could state yourself that making a three days party for (let's say) 200 people isn't a piece of cake... and if we'll be left with some cash, we'd like to invite anyone interested to help us spend this on drink:). Btw, from the polls at our webpage it seems that 70% of people is willing to pay even a bit more so we have YOUR permission! Compos We've predicted (or at least we think so) many additional events, which are intented to make your stay at Symphony more pleasant. We've planned two (or maybe even three) concerts. In all probability on of them will be a concert of local fames ("The Ketchups" - famous hits of Kurt C., Rage Against the Machine and H. Vondraczkowa:)) and the band who plays an ethic music (drums, guitars, saxophone and flute). We hope to invite one more (jazz!) band. Like during all decent parties we ensure many crazy-compos which will be run by the three scene DJs - comrade Zorka19/PSB^PZPR, citizen Zabora and the third eager and steadfast competitor. Besides: wild party at the beach, volleyball tournament, graffiti compo, stalking, firecamp, grill, many girls, cheap bear (2.5pln/0.5l) and! ATTENTION!! ATTENTION! - perhaps one hot meal for everyone! Fastfood bar is opened 24h/day, besides around 300 meters away there are shops and restaurant. Competitions o Demo o Intro 64K o Intro 4K o 2D/3D Animation o 2D Graphics o 3D Graphics o MP3 Music o Multichannel Music o 4channel Music o Chip Music o Wild+Crazy Demo o Webdesign / Java Demo So, altogether 15 compos for 2 platforms (for now - 19.06.2001 - we don't have any participants from C-64/Atari so we count only PC/Amiga ones). ATTENTION!!! PC-DOS-Non-accel productions get +5 points extra just because they're for DOS. Free visitors: As always there are some people who can come in for free: o women o the one and only MAT^Ozone o foreigners o Prototype members o Azzaro o Fenek o Mavey o Payda o Rem o Skip o Ubik o (it's not the end...) COMPETION RULES: Every production should have 'product.nfo' file included, with the following information inside: o author/group (the person responible for the production present at the party - usually coder) o title o type of the production o comments, for example how to run this :) (musics - please make your choice of the player (fasttracker/digibooster) You dont have to be present at the party to contribute an each competition. demo pc o packed demo cannot exceed 10mb (little departures allowed), o demo cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed demo amiga o packed demo cannot exceed 10mb (little departures allowed), o demo cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed intro 64k pc o max. 64kb (65536 bytes - NO DEPARTURES!!!) o intro cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o max. 6 minutes long, o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed intro 64k amiga o max. 64kb (65536 bytes - NO DEPARTURES!!!) o intro cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o max. 6 minutes long, o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed intro 4k pc o max. 4kb (4096 bytes - NO DEPARTURES!!!) o intro cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o max. 6 minutes long, o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed intro 4k amiga o max. 4kb (4096 bytes - NO DEPARTURES!!! o intro cannot leave anything on the disk after it finishes o max. 6 minutes long, o craps in demomakers will be moved to wild compo, o the ability of breaking the demo in EVERY moment, exiting to the system o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed animations o we accept the following formats: avi, avi divx, mpeg o max. 10 minutes long. o max. wielkosc pliku 500 MB o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed ray compo o we accept the following formats: jpg, gif, png, ilbm, o max. 800x600 (strange resolutions will be scaled to the nearest normal ones) o evidently scanned pictures will be disqualificated o the author must prove that the picture is his own work! o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION gfx compo (8+24 bit) o we accept the following formats: jpg, gif, png, ilbm o max. 800x600 (strange resolutions will be scaled to the nearest normal ones) o ewidentne skany niestety odpadaja na starcie o the author must prove that the picture is his own work! o the author must prove that the picture is his own work! o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION mp3 compo o we accept the following formats: hmm? :) o max. length 5 min. o max. size 5 mb o player used: the latest winamp o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION multichannel o we accept the following formats: xm, dbm, med o max. length 5 min. o max. size 5 mb o players used: fasttracker(xm) and digiboostera pro(dbm) o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION 4channel o we accept the following formats: mod, xm, dbm, s3m, med o max length 5 min. o max. size 1 mb (1048576 bytes) o players used: fasttracker(xm) and digiboostera pro(dbm) (at your will) o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION chip music o we accept the following formats: XM, MOD, DBM, MED, SID, THX, MLED o max. length 5 min. o max. size 32kb o players used: FastTracker / DigiBooster / SidPlay / HippoPlayer o we presume the SELECTION crazy / wild o in this compo will participate: executable files (crazydemos) and funny movies and animations (avi, divx, mpeg, vhs). o CDs, vhs or HDDs are preferred medias o max. size 200 mb o max. length 10 min. o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed java / webdesign o you can use everything that will be displayed by Internet Explorer 5.5 o max. size of the whole page: 1,5 mb o the page will be presented by its author o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o we presume the SELECTION ascii / ansi o the authors should present one of the following subjects: "look around. draw what you see" or "The portrait of the 21st century man" o we presume the SELECTION others o C64 (demo/intro/gfx/msx) - only if we get enough requests o Atari (demo/intro/gfx/msx) - as above The minimum for the compo to take place is 5 entries. It doesn't apply to demos, intros, animations, graphics and music compos. In case of the lack of sponsors (it means: no cash) we'll be forced to cut down the prizes in the following competitions: ascii/ansi/webdesing/javademo. COMPO MACINE pc o AMD Duron 800, 256 ram, GeForce2 GTS, SoundBlaster 128 o Windows 98 / DOS7.0 o DirectX 8.0 or newer o Detonator Drivers 3.0 or newer o or (at your will) the latest release of Linux (write want you need - distribution, kernel, modules, libraries and so on) if you can link the demo statically or provide both versions) o grey iron box o plastic power button (12mm in diameter), o monitor color made by "chrl", samsung keyboard. o mouse, brand "cheap" o sticker "intel inside" amiga o Amiga 1200, 060/50, PPC 603/240, 128MB, BVision o KickStart 3.1, Workbench3.9, WaruUp, WarpOS o we'll try to get any soundcard, but it won't be easy (hey! i've got one, may give you!) o grey Elbox box :) , genuine mouse o monitor on the edge of explosion and o Amiga 4000, 040/40, PPC 604/233, 64MB, CVision o KickStart 3.1, Workbench3.5, WarpUp, WarpOS c64 / atari o C64/Atari brothers! We'd like to have 6502/6510 compos but we won't if you don't request one. If you or your group would like to enter any competition, inform us at once. Besides, we're looking for some to help us with organizing the whole thing - we don't have a floppy drive for C64 nor any Atari:(. So if someone was kind enough to bring his own machine and run the whole compo on it he'll be treated as one of the organizers and will come in for free - so please reconsider the offer:). After the party the whole stuff (un/selected) will be available on the internet. NEWS: o Pozor! A huge group of visitors from Czech Republic want to join us. Sweet kisses to Lahve. o To ensure Your comfortable presence at the party, we ask You to bring Your own "things" to SIT on. In the party hall the floor is build from CONCRETE... o Due to severe polish internet infrastucture problems - we had some reports about problems with establishing link to our upload servers - we have to make sure that anyone of You if nesessary maybe able to upload some stuff. Especially for You there is another one place on the internet to upload on. o a) o Address: tkdmass.dhs.org o Access:: Anonymous (and cd pub/incoming) o Upload ONLY as one file (eg. archive) o b) o Address: amiga.fdns.net o IP: 217.97.18.67 - You may need this if TPSA resolvers are dead ;] o Access [1]: Anonymous (and cd incoming:) o Access [2]: login/pass: upload/upload o You may create subdirectories and upload many files. o Any problems - MAIL ME PLEASE - amiga@irc.pl o We've added english NEWS and QUESTIONAIRE translation. o The Symphony Demo Scene Festival is now under the auspices of Mr. Paweł Kolendowicz, the mayor of Trzcianka. [sorry we have translation/hierarchy problem: 'Mayor' is a 4 administration level: 1.President, 2.Wojewoda (eg. ~state gubernator), 3.Starosta (eg. ~2nd level of state administration), 4.Burmistrz (~local and/or regional administration)]. o Elban/Arise informed us that any scener may join the libation train (some more info at: http://www.wawa.mov.pl/libation/index.php) o Caution! It is going to be crowdy at the party. o Completly new! From now on you can make a preliminary reservation of tables behind the bar. After paying a registration fee, you will receive a receipt which will make the best place in the room belong only to you :))) o Attention photoshopers! (pro-vo-cation:) Especially for you we are adding a new gfx competition - Image Processing Compo. Rules: o following formats will be accepted: JPEG, PNG o max. 800x600 (any 'weird' resolutions will be scaled to nearest 'normal') o no racism/neo nazi contents allowed o max. file size 1 MB o there will be a selection o A new party rule has been added: The author of a production does not have to be present at the party to participate a competition. o Things are going wild. Over 5000 refreshes on our website. Person no. 5000 entered the site at 13.46 on the 26th of August 2001 and was using Mozilla 4.0 browser. o Attention! There will be no acompanying events on the party weekend in Trzcianka (The Europian Speedboat Championship) It will take place the week after the party. The previous information was found at an unofficial site of Trzcianka which turned out to be really unoffivial :)) o Due to the above... We wish to inform that anyone interested in sleeping in a rented house near the party place _CAN_ make a reservation under the following number: ++48-(prefix)-(67)-216-22-32 (prefix may be 1033, 1044, 1055) To do this you will need to know the type of the house (NOT the one from the invitation), Your first and last name and, most likely, a personal ID number and a phone number. o IT'S HERE! The coded Amiga invitation. You can download it from the download section at Symphony's website. o The PC invitation had some trouble runnning at some configurations. Corrected version now available. o If anyone would like a banner with a link to Symphony's website, here is the code to put in your site: SYMPHONY o I (Bloodman) have added a discussion forum to the website based on the news system with a possibility to create subjects and to comment. The level of discussion is totally up to you... o Almost forgot;) The website has been redesigned to PHP format. The 1D engine has been totally changed. It is faster, more functional, doesn't lose colours after washig and coregatabs rulez... :D o IT'S HERE! The coded PC invitation (you can choose languages between Polish and English). You can download it from the download section at www.symphony.w.pl o Well, it is starting to be loud abroad... really loud. For instance at a Commodore portal - www.c64.sk: "At the end of the HOT summer full of HOT parties, another HOT party is announced. Get the invitation here. This time it is Symphony 2001 party held for the first time on 14.-16. september 2001 in Trzianka/Poland. According to the well written and definitely not boasting invitation text - this party seems to be well organised. Interesting is the claim that traditionally on Polish parties, foreigners go in for free. One more good reason to check it. Thanx to Fenex/Arise - coder of the invitation, for sending it to us." o We apologize to Satellite party organisers for publishing an unverified piece of information (that there won't a Satellite party). Madbart^Appendix informed us that it "is yet unknown whether the party will take place or not" - but it doesn't mean it won't. o It just so sadly happens that on the party weekend, a small acompanying event occours in Trzcianka. Well, the mentioned event is (small, right...) The Europian Speedboat Championchip Trzcianka 2001. So we expect an uncontrolled flow of people. (See the point below too) o Due to the above... We wish to inform everyone interested in renting a house aruond the party place that the reservation has to be made by the end of august (there might be problems later) You can make a reservation under the following phone number: 0-(prefix)-(67)-216-22-32. To make a reservation you need to give the type of the house (NOT the one from the invitation:))), your first and last name and probably an ID number plus your phone number. The sooner the better... o The response to the news below totally exceeded my expectations (BloodMan). As a result I received the transation the next day. Enlish translation has been done (in the speed o light) by Marcin 'Aragorn' Stepnicki and Lukasz 'Beeper' Taranta - good job. German vesion of invitation is about to be finished. Of course I would like to say thank you to everyone who applied for translatig but was just too late. o Symphony will be one of the few REAL multiparties - many C64 sceners declared their presence o on the 21.08.2001 you'll be able to download invitro for C-64 from http://www.symphony.w.pl - hopefully PC and Amiga versions too. o after the visit on SLC we realized that the whole polish scene is coming to Trzcianka :) o Sebaloz^LepsiDe helps Fenek^Arise to code the invitro for C64. o Fenek/Arise is coding the invitro na C64. o Procreation group founds (as the prize) one free ride (in both directions :)) to Mekka&Symposium 2002. o We've made the set of commercials/banners available HERE o I've counted the surveys - about 240 people confirmed their arrival. Accorng to stat4u the page has been visited by more than 1000 people (15.07.2001), with "refresh" it gives over 1800! We're a bit afraid because of it - the partyplace isn't prepared to receive more than let's say 350! Don't bring your families with you :). o We've got about a dozen productions announced, both for PC and Amiga! C64 scene is also waking up... Keep the spirit alive! o We're going to promote the party at Assembly 2001, therefore attract more foreigners to show themselves/their productions at our party. The action will be conducted by our man from the USA - Pyromaniac/Paragon5 o We're sorry, but we didn't manage to convince Lahve/Mawi+Reason to change the date of Apocalypse Meeting 3 (yes we know that some people may choose Czech, but believe us... we tried. Respective log is on www, but it's you to make the decision - especially after this sentence: "I won't change date because of 10 Poles". o Invitros for PC (by Procreation) and Amiga (surprise) are going to be released soon. We're looking for brave enough to code the one for C64... o Compo rules have changed. 6 minutes limit for demos has gone. o We've announced the Symphony-anthem compo, but there's no response. We'd like to remind that the author of best music will enter the party for free, and his zak will be used in productions promoting the party. Entries and questions can be adressed to: silentriot@interia.pl. It's worth it! o We've signed a deal with the place where the party will be held (disco "U Kojaka"). We've managed to negotiate quite good conditions, so you can be sure that the party will take place where we've told you it will. o There'll be no security guards for the whole party, with an exception of Friday to Saturday, when about 300 meters away there'll be another disco. For that night some guys with "Security" ID will show up. o We're still searching for sponsors which is a little bit harder than we thought. Well - Trzcianka is not Warszawa nor Wroclaw :(. o We've got another Amiga compo machine (A4000 040/40 + PPC604/233. Thanks Ubik! (1oo% prophets). o We really don't know how it happened, but in the previous version we didn't mention MAT/Ozone as a person who enters for free. Sorry... and we confirm that MAT comes in freely, as well as foreigners and women. o It's possible that we'll do the Summer Cinema under the sky, based on old analog tapes :). Mis, Rejs, and so on! It can be the hit of the season, especially for classic fans, a number of which are involved in the scene :) o We don't know how it happened but we missed Chip Music Competition in invitation v.0.75. It looks like this: o we accept the following formats: XM, MOD, DBM, SID, THX o max. length 5 min. o max. size 32kb o players used: FastTracker / DigiBooster / SidPlay / HippoPlayer o we presume the SELECTION we apologize all interested people and invite them to participate in this compo o We've managed to get some information which could be useful. Here go the prices of renting a kayak, boat or board: o kayak - 4 pln/hour o boat - 6 pln/hour o board - 8 pln/hour o We've tested the houses! We've checked their usability as long as parties are concerned and they've completed the tests positively. Details: o House of "Spawacz Partisant" o ground floor + first floor o 8 beds in 4 rooms (means. 10-15 people can sleep here) o without a loo (in a different buliding) o Scene-Party Certificate Approved o balcony (!) o neat, tidy o only 10 pln/person for 24h, means 80pln for the whole house (you can rent only few rooms) Nobody checks how many people actually sleep there. o House, type "Glass" o 4 beds in 1 room (means 8 people can sleep here) o without a loo (see above) o neat, tidy o 70 pln / 24h for the whole house o House, type "Carrington" o 4 beds in 1 and a half room (means 8 people can sleep here) o loo o built 2 months ago o very nice o 150 pln/24h for the whole house o House, type "Dive pot" o 4 beds o shit pot! :) o they are suitable only for the heavy drinking-spree o about. 50 pln/24h for the whole house o Hotel "Nowy Ajaks" o expensive o but nice o but expensive o but very nice! o 90 pln per person / 24h - with breakfast (single room) o We'd like to STRESS the fact that we're not responsible for your deed outside the party place. (including houses). You rent them for your own money and in your name. All costs and consequences connected with your staying in these houses will be executed not by us but by directors of the holiday camp, which is OSiR Trzcianka. In other words - in case of troubles they'll call the police. That's it for now. Visit us often if you want to know what is happening or what has happened. OLD NEWS: (PREINFO) Since few weeks a group of people do everything they can in order to be able to invite you to a little, beautiful city of Trzcianka located in Wielkopolska province, for a three day long demofestival codenamed Symphony 1.0. Yes, it's past the point of no return. We do all we can to make another copy party in the best style, referring to the best traditions of polish parties. For now we can only say that we've got a place for 250-300 people with the very best audio equipment (3000W - it's the biggest disco in the area), excellent blackout and disco-like lighting system. Now we're looking for a company to rent the projector from (we can't afford ranting crap - that's why it takes so long) and a bigscreen sized 4*3. Party place is located in very charming region, nearby two clean lakes, another disco, tennis courts two football pitches and a holiday camp. It's possible to rent room there or in a hotel nearby. That's it for now. By releasing this info we'd like to book the September for our party. It's unlikely, but it may happen - if we'll be forced to withdraw our proposal we'll inform you as soon as possible in order not to take up time for any other parties. ORGANIZERS: Prototype group o Piotr 'SilentRiot' Sliwinski - main organiser, pc compos o Tomasz 'BloodMan' Tomkowiak - amiga compos, webmastah o Milosz 'dIXIe' Marganski - gfx compos, special effects o Maciej 'CDbeavis' Augustyn - amiga compos Friends and associates: o Marcin 'ByteI' Szymczak - tech support o Lukasz 'Bachor' Baszkiewicz - tech support o Azzaro - crazy compos o Ubik - tech support o Mavey, Payda, Rem, Skip, Fenek - coded invitations CONTACT: Piotr 'SilentRiot' Sliwinski Voice: (+48) (67) 216-47-87 or (+48) (067) 216-62-10 (till 17.oo) Mail: silentriot@interia.pl and Tomasz 'BloodMan' Tomkowiak Voice: (+48) 0-604-967975 Mail: amiga@irc.pl IRC: #polishscene, #amypl in IRCNet. WWW / FTP CONTACT: Tomasz 'BloodMan' Tomkowiak Voice: (+48) 0-604-967975 Mail: amiga@irc.pl IRC: #polishscene, #amypl in IRCNet. SPONSORS (as of 01.08.2001) o "Cactus" Pub o Computer shop and service JKL-Computers o Internet cafe PCNet Computer o Procreation group -eof-