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Information about the city of Kazan and Tatarstan Republic is available at: http://www.kzn.ru http://www.kcn.ru/tat_ru/index.htm http://www.tatar.ru http://www.tatarstan.ru http://kazanet.da.ru Place: Menjinsky's palace, str. Karl Marks, 26. Total 500 persons, bar, security. Time: opening at 13 o'clocks (GMT+3). Order of holding the competitions (the final schedule will be announced on august 28, 1999, in first day of CAFe'99): Day 1 Day 2 1. Official opening ceremony 1. Opening 2nd day 2. Amiga/PC 1k intro 2. Amiga/PC 4k intro 3. Multichannel music 3. 4-channel music 4. ZX Spectrum 4k intro 4. BK 4k intro 5. Hand-drawn graphic 5. Render graphic 6. BK demo 6. ZX Spectrum demo 7. Amiga/PC 64k intro 7. Amiga/PC demo 8. Wild 8. Animation 9. Closing 1st day 9. Count the votes, closing Price: preliminary price of tickets for 2 days is about 20 roubles (about $0.8 US), for 1 competitive day - about 15 roubles (about $0.6 US). Prizes: prizes may include hardware. 1$ USD = 25 ROUBLES, 1 DM = 13 ROUBLES - Amiga/PC: Demo 64k intro 4k intro 1k intro 1. 1500 roubles 1. 1000 roubles 1. 500 roubles 1. 500 roubles 2. 1000 roubles 2. 600 roubles 2. 300 roubles 2. 300 roubles 3. 500 roubles 3. 400 roubles 3. 200 roubles 3. 200 roubles 4 channel music Multichannel music Hand-drawn graphic Render graphic 1. 500 roubles 1. 500 roubles 1. 500 roubles 1. 500 roubles 2. 300 roubles 2. 300 roubles 2. 300 roubles 2. 300 roubles 3. 200 roubles 3. 200 roubles 3. 200 roubles 3. 200 roubles ASCII graphic ANSI graphic Animation Wild 1. 250 roubles 1. 250 roubles 1. 800 roubles 1. 800 roubles 2. - 2. - 2. 400 roubles 2. 400 roubles 3. - 3. - 3. 300 roubles 3. 300 roubles - BK: Demo 4k intro 1. 1000 roubles 1. 500 roubles 2. 600 roubles 2. 300 roubles 3. 400 roubles 3. 200 roubles - ZX Spectrum: Demo 4k intro 1. 1000 roubles 1. 500 roubles 2. 600 roubles 2. 300 roubles 3. 400 roubles 3. 200 roubles Total - 20500 roubles. Last version of rules always available on the addresses: - PsychoPath BBS (CAFe'99 HQ) phone: +7-8432-424909 23:00 - 7:00 (GMT+3) 2:5049/94.0 subj:cafe99 - Mario's World BBS (CAFe'99 HQ) phone: +7-8432-751320 21:00 - 6:30 (GMT+3) 2:5049/86.0 subj:cafe99 - http://cafeparty.da.ru General rules - use of drugs is hereby explicitly forbidden - use of alcohol is also forbidden - no littering - smoking is allowed in the places especially allocated only - for participation in competition, the works are accepted created for the following platforms: Amiga, PC, BĘ, and ZX Spectrum - entries created for platforms Amiga and PC are estimated together - competition in every nomination will be held in the case if two or more works are submitted in nomination - order of display of entries in every nomination will be selected randomly - submitted entries must be created especially for this party - only the entries previously not exhibited are accepted - entries packed by archivers rar, zip, lha, lzx are accepted - presentation of demo, intro, 4-channel music and animation can be done by trustees. They hold responsibility for correct execution of work - one trustee can not represent more than one author/group - for presentation of graphics, multi-channel music, ASCII and ANSI the presence of author or one member of group is necessary - participant, who has achieved a prize-winning position (1st to 3rd) in one of nominations in the competition, receives a prize - in case of absence of the author the prize will be handed to the trustee - all entries should be submitted on one of CAFe' 99 addresses before august 23, 1999 - music and graphics will not be accepted after august 26, 1999 - demo, intro and animation can pass registration on day of competition holding - all entries should be sent as early as possible, for testing and checking - each participant should fill in the registration form for each entry, exposed by him Competitions Amiga/PC Amiga - must run on MC68030/68882/16 Mb. fast - maximal memory used - 32 Mb. - loopable only by choice "-loop" parametr - exit from demo/intro in system on left mouse-button pressing any time - not allowed to reboot the machine at exit - must do a "clean exit" back to the operating system - pure animation is not allowed - must work after SetPatch is run PC - must run on P133/16 Mb. - maximal memory used - 32 Mb. - loopable only by choice "-loop" parametr - exit from demo/intro in system on ESC pressing any time - not allowed to reboot the machine at exit - must do a "clean exit" back to the operating system - pure animation is not allowed - use of hardware accelerators (3Dfx or others) is not allowed - use of services DirectX, DirectSound or others is not allowed - VESA2 (and UniVBE) services are allowed Demo - not more than 4 Mb. on HDD in uncompressed form (4,194,304 bytes) - soundtrack must be presented - only the first 10 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry for one author/group 64k intro - not more than 64 Kb. in one file (65,536 bytes) - no memory extenders (DOS4GW, DPMI) are provided - soundtrack is desirable. - only the first 5 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry for one author/two from group 4k intro - not more than 4 Kb. in one file (4,096 bytes) - no memory extenders (DOS4GW, DPMI) are provided - only the first 3 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry for one author/two from group 1k intro - not more than 1 Kb. in one file (1,024 bytes) - no memory extenders (DOS4GW, DPMI) are provided - only the first 90 seconds will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry for one author/two from group 4-channel music - not more than 1 Mb. (1,048,576 bytes) - allowed only standard format MOD files (ProTracker) - only the first 3 minutes will be played - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be played - only two entries for one author Multichannel music - not more than 4 Mb. (4,194,304 bytes) - maximum 32 channels tunes - allowed formats s3m, xm, it, med, dbm - the use of packed samples is forbidden - maximum 32 NNA channels tunes - only the first 3 minutes will be played - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be played - only two entries for one author Hand-drawn graphics - maximum resolution 800x600 - maximal color depth 24 bit (16,7 million colors) - the use of scanned images is not allowed - iff, png, jpeg, gif, ham format only - author must present two versions of entry - with will sign and without signature - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only two entries for one author Render graphics - maximum resolution 800x600 - maximal color depth 24 bit (16,7 million colors) - the use of scanned images is not allowed - iff, png, jpeg, gif, ham format only - author must present two versions of entry - with will sign and without signature - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only two entries for one author ASCII graphic - 80x25 and 80x50 formats only - standard ROM font only - 32-127 ASCII codes only - author must present two versions of entry - with will sign and without signature - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only two entries for one author ANSI graphic - 80x25 and 80x50 formats only - standard ROM font only - static pictures only - author must present two versions of entry - with will sign and without signature - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only two entries for one author Animation - any kind of animation, in any standard format (videocassettes as well) - only the first 10 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry from author/group Wild - no rules (all necessary info for listening/review program and hardware is given by the participants) - only the first 10 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before contest, will be shown - only one entry from author/group BK - the use of BK 0011M is allowed - the use of hard drive is also allowed - pure animation is not allowed. - exit from demo/intro is not required - the entries such as file-image of the disk are allowed #?.bkd or #?.img Demo - not more than 800 Kb. (one DD floppy disk) - soundtrack must be presented (AY, Covox, Sound Drive) - only the first 10 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry from author/group 4k intro - not more than 4 Kb. in one file (4,096 bytes) - only the first 3 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry from author/two from group ZX Spectrum - ROM functions are not allowed - pure animation is not allowed - exit from demo/into in operating system by commands: DI LD BC,(#7FFD) LD A,#10 OUT (C),A IN A,(#FB) LD HL,#3FFE LD A,(HL) CP "E" JR NZ,NOBOOT INC HL LD A,(HL) CP "T" JP Z,#000 NOBOOT IN A,(#7B) EI RET - the entries such as file-image of the disk are allowed #?.trd or #?.fdi Demo - not more than 640 Kb. (one DD floppy disk) - soundtrack must be presented (AY, Covox, Sound Drive) - only the first 10 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry from author/group 4k intro - not more than 4 Kb. in one file (4,096 bytes) - only the first 3 minutes will be shown - only 15 entries, allowed before competition, will be shown - only one entry from author/two from group Provided recreational competitions for spectators. Such as Coca-Cola- (Fanta-, Sprite-) compo and others. To participate in similar competitions can any desirous. Equipment The preliminary characteristics of demo-computers (it's possible the changes in improvement of the equipment). Amiga A1200, Blizzard MC68040/40 RAM 2 Mb./32 Mb. PC P-II 266 RAM 610 Kb./32 Mb. Gravis Ultrasound 1 Mb./Sound Blaster 16 S3 Virge 4 Mb. uniVBE (if required) DOS 7.10/Win95, himem, emm386 (if required) BK BK 0011M RAM 128 Kb./64 Kb. (ALTPRO SMK64) YM2149F/Covox/Sound Drive HDD 240 Mb. (Samsung) MK-DOS v3.17/ANDOS v3.30/CSI-DOS v3.30 5.25"/3.5" fdd ZX Spectrum Pentagon 128 Z80A/3.5 RAM 128 Kb. AY-3-8910A (ACB)/Covox (#FB port) TR-DOS v5.04 5.25"/3.5" fdd Light/acoustic - multimedia projector (large screen), power acoustic systems, electronic system of votes calculating etc.) Registration Due to preliminary selection, all works should be registered beforehand. It is necessary to send works to one of the official addresses CAFe'99, having filled the registration form. snail: P.O. box 190, 420066 Kazan, Russian Federation e-mail: pavel@ksu.ru fido: 2:5049/96.15 bbs #1: +7-8432-424909 23:00 - 7:00 (GMT+3) bbs #2: +7-8432-751320 21:00 - 6:30 (GMT+3) Registration pattern Work: ...................................... Compo: ...................................... Group(s): ...................................... Author(s): ...................................... Contact: ...................................... Comment: ...................................... Tasks of pre-selection committee include selection of the best works for competitions according to the rules. Only the best works, according to the pre-selectors, will be allowed for competition. The works by the members of pre-selecting committee, and as well as individuals associated with the organization of CAFe'99, will pass pre-selection on the general bases. Structure of the pre-selection committee: Demo/Intro: Lasoft/Excess, SIV BLADER/Excess, Pasha/Excess^PAVIT Graphic: ZK System/Excess, Lion/Excess, Maxi GC/Adelaida Music: Lasoft/Excess, Casio/Excess, Maxi GC/Adelaida Organizers Vysokaj Gora Computer Center Director: Larisa Vladimirovna Bikmullina snail: str. Shkolnaj 17, 422700 Vysokaj Gora, Russian Federation phone: +7-84365-21076 e-mail: root@vcc.kcn.ru root@vcc.v-gora.tatarstan.ru http: www.kcn.ru/school/vcc pasha / Excess team / PAVIT corporation Pavel Vladimiroff phone: +7-8432-578974 e-mail: pavit@mi.ru excess_team@mail.ru fido: 2:5049/96.15 2:5049/72.4 Lasoft / Excess team Alexander Lyovin e-mail: lasoft@mail.ru fido: 2:5049/42.42 xPasha / Excess team Pavel Yarmolchuk phone: +7-8432-315583 e-mail: pavel@ksu.ru pavel@ipian.kazan.ru fido: 2:5049/46.185 ZK System / Excess team Konstantin Zuykov Vitaly / Excess team / PAVIT corporation Vitaly Nickeshin phone: +7-8432-440949 Adam Damir Nasyroff phone: +7-8432-754485 e-mail: adam_bazaroff@mail.ru fido: 2:5049/86.17 Information Support The magazine "ComputerWorld-Kazan" / "HiTECH for all" Editor: Alexander Andreyev / Michael Volokitin snail: P.O. box 704, 420111 Kazan, Russian Federation phone: +7-8432-386673 +7-8432-642963 e-mail: root@cwk.kazan.ru; hitech@bancorp.ru http: www.cwk.kazan.ru www.cwk.kazan.ru/hitech The magazine "New Amiga" Editor: Boris Volkoff snail: P.O. box 10, 164514 Severodvinsk, Russian Federation e-mail: tok@severodvinsk.ru http: tok.severodvinsk.ru/amiga.htm "System 104.0" ("Volga FM104.0") Host: Bulat T. Karim - sys104 http: sys104.knet.ru e-mail: sys104@bancorp.ru fido: 2:5049/79.0 Russian ZX Spectrum Web-master: Alex Shalin - Bishop http: speccy.isCool.net e-mail: shalin@mail.ru fido: 2:5030/332.25 PsychoPath BBS (CAFe'99 HQ) Sys. Operator: Shaun Bogdanov - Psycho / OutSiders Group phone: +7-8432-424909 time: 23:00 - 7:00 (GMT+3) e-mail: pirx@mail.ru fido: 2:5049/94.0 Mario's World BBS (CAFe'99 HQ) Sys. Operator: Vit Dunaev - Mario the Santekhnik phone: +7-8432-751320 time: 21:00 - 6:30 (GMT+3) e-mail: mario_world@mail.ru fido: 2:5049/86.0