Preview
$VER: Belgian Scene Event 1998 - Invitation
BSE 1998 - Invitation · screen
BSE Intro - VBlank interrupt
You require at least Kickstart 3.0 & AGA to run this intro.
Unable to open the screen!
Unable to open the window!
_ _____. _________ _ _ ________
._\\\ _|_____._\ _____///_._\\\ __/__.
| \_ | \________ | _\ |
| / | | | |
=|_.____________|_____________|___________._|
·--------------------------------------------
B E L G I A N S C E N E E V E N T
. _ _ _
'| (_) (_) ( )
| / / (_)
BSE 1998 ------------------- INTRODUCTION - page 1/2
You might have already heard about the Belgian Scene
Event last year. If you did, you might also recall
that the BSE 1997 was the first Amiga-only party in
Belgium since 1992! And guess what folks, this year
we're back with the BSE 1998 - Amiga only ofcourse!
After the successful experiment last year (to see
whether it is possible to organize an Amiga-event in
god-forgotten Belgium) we have decided that Amiga IS
capable of attracting enough people and giving them
a good time!
So that's why we are inviting all Amiga-lovers out
there to come and join us at the BSE 1998 party,
the cooooooooowlest Amiga-party in Belgium!
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 1/9
When ?
------
The BSE 1998 party will be held the 7, 8 and 9th of
August 1998. We already know this clashes with the
Assembly 1998 event, but are you going to drive all
the way up to Finland ? Not us :)
Partydoors will open Friday 12:00 noon and will
close Sunday at noon too. This means 48 hours of
non-stop Amiga action, compo's, and entertainment!
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 2/9
Where ?
-------
This year we have decided to organize the party in a
very easy to reach location! (We admit that it was a
bit difficult to find it last year ;).
The BSE 1998 will be held in Diepenbeek, a town near
Hasselt. It is a small town very close to all the
surrounding countries of Belgium. Diepenbeek is
situated at about 40 kilometers of the Netherlands,
60km of Germany and about 80 kilometers of France.
The partyplace will be 'Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus'
which is directly next to the two major highways
from Belgium.
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 3/9
Maybe an idiot like Bill Gates would have some
troubles finding it, so we are confident that you
Amiga people will find it very easily!
This is the adress to the party place:
Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus
Pastorijstraat 7
3590 Diepenbeek
Belgium
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 4/9
How to get there by car?
------------------------
This is a real easy one. All you have to do is make
sure that you get on either the E313 or E314 (two
major roads in Belgium). Depending on what country
you're from (or pass), you will either get on the
E313 (France) or E314 (Netherlands, Germany).
If you are coming from the E313 get off at exit 30
(Diepenbeek), take direction Genk (LEFT when you are
coming from Antwerp, RIGHT if you're coming from
Luik/Liege/Luttich) when you exit the highway, at
the 2nd trafic lights there should be a (modern
architecture) church on your right and a big open
place on your left.
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 5/9
Turn right there and the party-place is right in
front of you. (There's a huge plaque saying
"Ontmoetingscentrum Lutselus" in front
of it, so you really can't miss it).
From the E314 get off at exit 31 and drive to Genk,
go straight ahead all the time until you drive over
the Albertkanaal (big pile of water you can't miss).
Then at the second traffic lights take left. The
church mentioned above should be on your left when
arriving at the lights,the open place to your right.
Ofcourse we will put up visible signs everywhere.
We will make a deal with the local Police station so
that they won't remove the signs.
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 6/9
By Train?
---------
There are 2 stations where you can get off, namely
HASSELT and GENK. Both are on the same line:
(Knokke-Blankenberge / Luik-Maastricht). In Hasselt
you can take a bus. If you decide to go to Genk, you
can use our Train-Shuttle (read below).
If you are coming from Antwerpen or Luik/Liege there
is a train riding between the 2 cities which also
stops in Hasselt. Do NOT get off in Diepenbeek (the
train stops there too), it will have you end up at
the complete wrong side of Diepenbeek and you will
have to walk A LOT to get to the party-place (unless
you're sadistic enough to carry around 20kgs of
computer equipment for 10km ;))
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 7/9
By Bus?
-------
From Hasselt trainstation, you can take 2 busses in
the direction of the party-place. First of all there
is bus nr 36, direction Genk and nr 45/4 direction
Rozendaal. and get off at "Lutselus Kerk". Just
before the stop you will pass a big open space and
quite a big road and the party-place on your right.
but you will have to ring VERY URGENTLY when you
pass the party-place since the stop is right in
front of it :).
However: it's unlikely that these busses wil ride or
on Sunday, so try to use our Train-shuttle between
Genk station & the party place as much as possible.
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 8/9
If you want more bus information, you can check the
regional office of De Lijn.
All bustickets to the Partyplace cost about 80 BFR.
Train Shuttle?
--------------
If you are coming by train and have some stuff with
you that you dont like to take on a (bumpy) bus-ride
we offer a train-shuttle between the trainstation of
Genk and the partyplace. If you want to use this
shuttleservice we DO ask you to inform us in advance
when you will be arriving at the trainstation!!
BSE 1998 ------------------- WHERE & WHEN - page 9/9
When you inform us in advance, we will give you a
cellular (GSM) phonenumber to call when you arrived
at the trainstation or have missed your train so
that we don't end up waiting for nothing in Genk.
A small (symbolic) fee will be asked for the trip
(the gas in fact). If you plan on using this service
then please let us know. Thanks.
By Plane?
---------
Fly into Zaventem/Brussels (code BRU) and there take
a train (omnibus towards Brussels, rides about every
15-20 minutes). In Brussels, take a train or by car
by car get on the E40 in direction Luik-Liege and in
Leuven get on the A2 (E313/E314) direction Aachen...
BSE 1998 ------------------- RESERVATIONS - page 1/2
You can make your reservations by either sending an
email to:
bse98@gmx.net
Just include your NAME/HANDLE/EMAIL and the number
of seats you want to reserve.
Ofcourse you can also reserve your seats online at
the BSE 1998 homepage:
http://uc2.unicall.be/crisp
http://bse.base.org
BSE 1998 ------------------- RESERVATIONS - page 2/2
Or if you don't have the internet, try:
PO Box 25
3000 Leuven 3
We will not accept payments in advance. If you
reserve your seats you will get them. The best seats
will go first ofcourse.
We strongly ask you to reserve your seats in advance
so we have a good estimate of the people that will
attend the BSE 1998. That way we can make sure there
are enough seats for everyone and that everyone has
a decent view!
BSE 1998 -------------------- PARTY RULES - page 1/1
* You are on Belgian soil, so the Belgian laws apply
inside & outside the party-hall. Some fragments of
the Belgian Law:
- Thou shall not copy illegal software.
- Thou shall not smoke weed.
* The party-organizers have the right to refuse
anybody at anytime for any reason to connect their
whole, or a piece of their equipment.
* Intoxicated (read: drunk, stoned) people and
troublemakers will be thrown out.
* If you damage something, you will pay for it your-
self. No money ? No problem, we'll call your mum!
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 1/11
These are the competitions we are going to organise:
* Amiga Demo competition
* Amiga 40kb competition
* Amiga 4ch music competition
* Amiga graphics competition
* Amiga Fast Intro
* Wild Compo
If there are enough entries (more than 2) for one of
the following competitions, then these will also be
organised:
* Amiga 4kb competition
* Amiga PPC competition
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 2/11
Competition rules:
------------------
General competition rules:
- The organisers have the right to disqualify an
entry. Possible reasons are for example racism or
pornographic contents.
- All entries must be 060 compatible. The coder is
allowed to turn of caches in the code to ensure
the 060-compatibility.
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 3/11
Amiga Demo competition:
- Maximum filesize is 6 Megabytes (uncompressed).
- No new files may be created on the harddisk.
- The entry must be delivered on either DD or HD
disks. An installer script is allowed, but not
required.
- The demo is allowed to take advantage of the
Cybervision3D that is installed in the main
competition machine. You do have to inform us at
the partyplace that you want to use it.
Maximum resolution is 640x480 in 24bit.
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 4/11
Amiga 40kb competition:
- Maximum filesize is 40960 bytes.
- The intro must be quittable by pressing the left
mousebutton at any time.
Amiga 4ch music compo:
- Maximum 5 minutes will be played. If the module
playing time is 5 minutes and 10 seconds then we
will ofcourse also play the last 10 seconds ;)
- Replaying will be done by Protracker 3.61 on an
Amiga 4000.
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 5/11
Amiga graphics compo:
- Only pixelized graphics in either IFF/GIF/PNG
formats. Read: Renders will be disqualified.
- Maximum size is the beloved 640x512x8 PAL mode ;)
- All images will be converted back to IFF with
ADPro so we can easier view them on the Amiga!
Amiga Fast Intro:
- Should be according to the rules that will be
announced on the party. More info at the party
itself ofcourse :)
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 6/11
Wild compo:
- Anything that doesn't fit into the other
competitions.
- No real rules here,just make sure you can connect
your equipment to the video beamer. The video
beamer has a standard CVBS Composite video plug.
We can provide you with the necessary cables to
convert from SCART and Amiga RGB Video to that
CVBS plug. You can also use the VGA port of the
beamer which supports resolutions of 640x480
(in 24bit).
- VHS Videotapes are also allowed.
Ofcourse there will also be loads of fun compo's!!!
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 7/11
Compo Machines:
---------------
You can select any of these machines to run your
entry on. If you don't specify a computer, your
entry will be run on machine 1!
Machine 1 : A4000/060 at 50Mhz, with 68060 FPU
PowerPC 604e at 200Mhz
42 Megs RAM
Cybervision64/3D (4Mb)
Machine 2 : A4000/040 at 25Mhz, with 68040 FPU
16 Megs RAM
Cybervision64/3D (4Mb)
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 8/11
Machine 3 : A1200/030 at 50Mhz, with 68882 50Mhz FPU
16 Megs RAM
Machine 4 : A1200/060 at 50Mhz, with 68060 FPU
16 Megs RAM
Prizes:
-------
After last year's fabulous prizes (cough, cough),
we decided to give away money in combination with
hardware/software for the main competitions.
BSE 1998 ------------------ COMPETITIONS - page 9/11
Amiga Demo competition:
1) 5000 Fr.
2) 2000 Fr.
3) 1000 Fr.
Amiga 40Kb competition:
1) 2000 Fr.
2) 1000 Fr.
3) 500 Fr.
Amiga 4ch competition:
1) 1000 Fr.
2) 800 Fr.
3) 500 Fr.
BSE 1998 ----------------- COMPETITIONS - page 10/11
Amiga graphics competition:
1) 1000 Fr.
2) 800 Fr.
3) 500 Fr.
Wild Competition:
1) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
2) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
3) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
Fast-Intro:
1) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
2) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
3) Hardware/Software prize (TBA)
BSE 1998 ----------------- COMPETITIONS - page 11/11
Note: These numbers may change depending on how many
visitors we have! So the more people you bring along
the more money you'll take home! (And yes, the
prizemoney can also increase!)
We are also negociating with several sponsors for
additional hardware-prizes, and even whole computer
systems (last year there was a complete A1200 Magic
Pack with HD!)
BSE 1998 ------------------- USEFULL INFO - page 1/4
* Entrance fee is will be 500 BEF, which is apx:
25 DM/ 25 HFL / 16 USD / 85 FFR.
* The party organisers will be at the partyplace
starting from Thursday (6th) evening. Please note
that we can only guarantee that everything will be
up and working Friday 7th at noon! So if you arrive
too early, you might not immediatelly have power.
We will provide you with the following facilities:
--------------------------------------------------
The partyplace can accommodate over 300 people,
has powerful PA equipment. We will also have a high-
quality videobeamer (and it won't blow up ;) that
will provide the online party-news for 48 hours.
BSE 1998 ------------------- USEFULL INFO - page 2/4
The partyplace has about 200 Amps (in total about
80000 Watt) of high-quality, clean and secure power.
Loads of people seemed to enjoy last year's bar, so
we are going to have a fully equiped bar again this
year where you will be able to buy Real Belgian Beer
and real Belgian food! This all will be at very
cheap prices, you will get 1 consumption for 40 BEF
(about 2 DM / 2 HFL / 1 USD / 6,5 FFR). Ofcourse we
will also sell a wide variety of sandwiches, snacks.
We know the food and drinks are a bit more expensive
than first announced (well, 7 BEF) but this is
because the drinks are more expensive in this
partyplace then we first expected. It is still cheap
though :)
BSE 1998 ------------------- USEFULL INFO - page 3/4
There are dozens of places you can eat nearby, there
are sandwichbars (a la MacDonalds), bakeries,
grocery stores so you won't have any problems
getting those hot meals!
There is a quiet sleeping area reserved where you
can do those bits of sleeping everyone needs now
then ;).
BSE 1998 ------------------- USEFULL INFO - page 4/4
Things we won't have:
---------------------
* A party-network: Who needs a network anyhow ?
PC-gamers playing Quake II ultra-mmx-accelerated
versions ? Young kids trading pornography ?
We Amigians don't need any of that. If we want to
trade we do it the real way: swapping disks, hard-
disks and parnet! Ofcourse you are free to setup
a local parnet/sernet/... network of your own!
* Nasty PC users consuming all the bloody power!
BSE 1998 ------------------ PREVIOUS YEAR - page 1/2
As we already mentioned, last year's BSE was some
sort of an experiment, to verify if enough people
were interested in visiting Belgium. We were
pleasantly suprised by the number of visitors:
32 visitors in total! Considering that it was the
first edition, that was not that bad at all! (The
average start of a party is 20 visitors, so we had
about 60% more :).
As for the organising last year: we actually
organised the whole thing with a telephonebook &
some friends in 3 hours and it turned out rather
good :). This year we are spending 8 months to
organize, so it can only get way better!
BSE 1998 ------------------ PREVIOUS YEAR - page 2/2
Ofcourse some mistakes were made last year, and we
also learned from them! Therefor the BSE 1998 will
be completely different with:
- more staff ('coz we really lacked that last year)
- better equiped bar with more drinks/snacks!
- more entertainment (how about a 4hour videotape
of all those classic demos ?)
- more fun competitions
- and especially ... more Amiga people to talk to!
BSE 1998 ------------------------ CONTACT - page 1/3
If you have any questions, remarks, suggestions,
then feel free to contact us:
General information .................. bse98@gmx.net
PR / Technical info ............... crisp@unicall.be
Party co-ordinator Franky ........... mb10075@tvd.be
You can visit the BSE online at:
http://bse.base.org
http://uc2.unicall.be/crisp
Ofcourse you can give us a voice all too!
Crisp : +32-11-333229 (24h weekends)
Franky : +32-16-235962 (after 18:00u)
BSE 1998 ------------------------ CONTACT - page 2/3
Snailmail should be directed to:
POBox 25
3000 Leuven 3
So if you don't want the Amiga 40kb intro
competition to be announced on a bloody 233Mhz
Pentium PisswCee running a buggy PC Scala, if you
don't want organizers asking how they have to start
an Amiga program, then be sure to visit the BSE1998!
Crisp & Franky,
speaking on the behalf of the BSE1998 staff
BSE 1998 ------------------------ CONTACT - page 3/3
Credits for this invitation intro :
-----------------------------------
Design & very quick code ............. Crisp / Crux
GFX: BSE1998... ................. Graffito "Madcow"
GFX: Bovine spongiform encthing ..... Makno / Crux
Music .............................. Notman / Iris
This program is to be ran on Amiga computers only.
Trying to execute it on a PC will result in a
horrible Windows95 crash, but hey, we're used to
Win95 crashing, right ?
©1998 by Crux