IBM OS/2 Warp(*) Demo Competition --------------------------------- * 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 --------- 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 ------------- 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 **** Rules of the IBM OS/2 Warp(*) demo competition ---------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Should any questions arise, contact the organizers of this competition. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------