



		  IBM OS/2 Warp(*) Demo Competition
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  * OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are registered Trademarks of IBM Corporation

  Future Crew & Accession in connection with IBM Finland are proud to invite
  you to participate in a new competition: the IBM OS/2 Warp Demo competition.




  WHAT IS OS/2 WARP ?
  -------------------
  
    OS/2 Warp is IBM's new version of its award winning operating system, 
  highly advanced environment based on system object model (SOM) and 32-bit
  architecture.
    Warp was the codename for the product before official announcement 
  invented from Star Trek (TM of Universal Studios) movies and their 
  spaceship travelling speed.
    Now you can be the one to make a demo for the new IBM OS/2 Warp. Besides
  winning great prizes your group could become very well known in the business
  world; and you know what that means - commercial demos! So don't pass this
  unique chance to make your breakthru!
    One of the great new features OS/2 Warp gives you as a demo coder /
  graphician / etc is it's DIVE (Direct Video Interface). DIVE is a way to
  create games and even demos to run under OS/2 Warp's Presentation Manager.

 
 
  WHY IBM?
  --------
 
    Why would so huge company as IBM take interest in the demoscene? Simply
  because they have understood the value your products (demos!) have. IBM
  might put your demo running to their machines at CeBIT or Comdex next
  year, think about that possibility of getting more fame!
    We are introducing this competition because we feel that this gives you
  as a demogroup an opportunity to become known also outside the demo scene.
  Can your group get any better recommendation than that you have made a
  demo for IBM? If you win in this compo, you should have no problems in
  getting work with commercial demos.



  The facts
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    The Warp demo competition is not exactly a normal demo competition. In this
  compo you have theme (OS/2 Warp) for your demo - that is, to win you have
  to advertise OS/2 Warp in your demo. This does NOT mean that your demo
  can't be a normal demo. Don't do it like the traditional demo that is=
  attached just to have an understanding of the OS/2 Warp product how it
  looks like.
    Your aim is to create a demo that is entertaining, flashy, creative
  fast and also highlight the benefits of OS/2 Warp for 'normal' PC users.
  Although this might sound something you haven't done before, it is not.
  Advertising in a demo is what you do at the moment - you just advertise your
  own group? So instead of putting "XYZ Crew" everywhere in your demo, you
  should have some info about OS/2 Warp and IBM or something similar flying
  around, or wobbling in some fancy effect. If you can also point out why
  OS/2 Warp is a superior graphical user interface on Intel platform, it is
  just great! However do not insult any competitive products.
    But don't let these guidelines stop you from doing a great *demo*?
  What we want is that you make a demo (just like you have been doing before)!
  New tricks and code are not a must. You can glue from your own older demos
  parts and make just a new look to them with OS/2 Warp.
    Assembly Organizing Inc. reserves the exclusive right to publish
  the productions mailed to this competition on a CD-ROM media.
  The productions will most likely be published on the Asm'95 CD-ROM.
    The authors of the winning productions will receive a portion
  of the net income of the CD-ROM from Assembly Organizing Inc
  according to the following table:

   place           percentage
   ---------       ----------
   1st place          5%
   2nd place          2.5%
   3rd place          1.5%
   4th place          1%
   5th place          0.5%

  Although the percentages can look low, the total revenue for the winning
  demo can be as much as 8000 US dollars (calculations based on the estimate
  of 10 000 CDs sold).



  Closing words
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    This text file is the final version. Please, before starting to make a 
  demo, contact the organizers of this competition and ask for the latest news
  about this competition. You can find the contact info below.


 
  Contact information
  -------------------

  Assembly Organizing                   StarPort - The Future Crew WHQ
  Address: Lakkisepantie 13             +358-0-615 000 28
           00620 Helsinki, Finland      internet: mpoli.fi (telnet/rlogin)
  Voice:   +358-0-777 3721				   (user-id: pcboard)
  Fax:     +358-0-757 3115		ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi (anonymous)
  Email:   Pekka.Aakko@Helsinki.FI      www://http.mpoli.fi
				        Email: abyss@unix.mpoli.fi


 
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  Rules of the IBM OS/2 Warp(*) demo competition
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  Trademarks:
  - OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are Trademarks of IBM Corporation (*)
  - IBM and Future Crew & Accession accept all non-IBM Trademarks mentioned
    in this note (TM)
 
 Organizers:
       Future Crew & Accession (FC & ACC), Finland
       Oy International Business Machines Ab, FINLAND (IBM)


 
  These are the only official and final rules:

   1. Make a demo of your own (animations not accepted)
   2. Running time between 1-4 minutes
   3. Maximum filesize 4Mb
   4. Gravis UltraSound(TM) and Sound Blaster(TM) support is required
      (if you support other cards, it will be a bonus)
   5. You can use any (S)VGA (with 512kb VMEM) mode you like, as long
      it is COMPATIBLE. So, if you use some fancy mode, make sure it
      works on at least 5 different cards (Cirrus, Paradise, Tseng,
      Trident, Video 7, Western Digital (all TMs) are examples of cards
      you should test your demo on). All graphics code must be 100% VGA
      register level compatible, and should you use svga, work under the
      VESA standards and the UniVesa driver.
   6. One has to be able to exit from the demo by pressing ESC during any part
      of the demo.
   7. The demo has to run on 550 kb free conventional memory and under
      4Mb of extended memory in DOS (Note: Expectation is that the
      demo is made on DOS. However OS/2 is the other extra platform of choice
      but not required by any means to participate.)
   8. The demo has to be compatible with QEMM, 386MAX, EMM or any
      similar memory manager (TMs)
   9. Competition closes the 28th of February 1995 (28.02.95). The
      participating demos must be delivered to the following
      address by close of day, ONLY in one these three ways:
        a) uploaded to StarPort (contact info shown above)
        b) mailed to Assembly Organizing Inc, address shown above
        c) sent by email (uuencoded or MIME) to abyss@unix.mpoli.fi
   10. The individuals of a group participating in this competition
      guarantee that they have all rights to every part of code,
      graphics, sound or other effects or material used in the demo
      to be able to grant IBM full rights for free distribution and
      usage of the demos in IBM's marketing.
   11. IBM will reserve world-wide rights to use all participating
      demos in this competition for an unlimited time period in its
      marketing activities like publicly display and freely distribute
      the demos and to copy them without any limitations.
   12. The author(s) will retain copyrights to his/their demo and
      are solely responsible that the necessary ownership information
      is implemented in the democode and visible. The author(s) are
      also responsible to highlight any other trademark ownership
      in their demo even if partly referred to such third party.
   13. The use of IBM OS2 Warp logo is moderated: whenever word "warp" is
      shown on the screen, it must state "OS/2" somewhere, as Warp
      is a trademark of Universal Studios. Thus, everytime you
      use the word "Warp" you must put "OS/2" somewhere to the screen also.
   14. Filenames you use in the demo must follow ISO-9660 format. Ie, NO
      special characters are allowed (like !,",#,=CF,%,&...), only letters and
      numbers. "_" is allowed, and "." inbetween the filename and its
      extension. In case of uncertainty, contact the organizers of this
      competition for further details.
   15. The prizes of the OS/2 Warp competition are:
         1st place     3000 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 2000 USD)
         2nd place     1500 USD + IBM PC Software (worth 1000 USD)
         3rd place     1000 USD + IBM PC Software (worth  800 USD)
         4th place      500 USD + IBM PC Software (worth  700 USD)
         5th place        0 USD + IBM PC Software (worth  500 USD)
  16. Any taxes or other such payments based on winning the above
      prizes are payable by the winner if applicable.
  17. The winners will be selected by an IBM Finland appointed jury.
  18. The base criteria to select the winning demos will be:
          - The creativity of the demo
          - How well it captures the mind of ordinary people
          - How well it displays IBM OS/2 Warp and its benefits
            in a new innovative way
 
PS. Do not contact any other IBM organization in the world than
    IBM Finland who has been arranging this with FC & ACC if anything
    to ask from IBM.

    Address: Oy International Business Machines Ab
             Personal Software Marketing
             Box 265
             FIN-00101 Helsinki
             Finland


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