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                       |          \     p a r t y     /             |
    ___.               |           \     2 o o o   .::::::::.       |
 ._)   |  $zw   _______.  ________  .     _______ ::::'  `::::  __  ._______.
 |   __|_____._) ____  |_)  ___  / _______)__   / ::::    ::::_)  \ |   ___/
_|   \____   |   \ |   |    |/  (_(____ /   ___/__::::    ::::   \ \|    |___
\      | /   |    \|   |    /_____|    )|  |/     |:::    ::::    \      _///
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      /_____\_         .                           `::::::::'        \__\_
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                       |        I  n  v  i  t  a  t  i  o  n        |
                       :                                            .


 We  proudly  present the official invitation to the second edition of the PC
demo-party  by  the  name of Horizon. We'd like to thank  Okregowe Zrzeszenie
Studentow Polskich in Wroclaw for their immense help in realizing this event.

                            When? Where? How much?
                              -----------------

                                  8-9 July
                       "Palacyk", Kosciuszki street 34
                                   Wroclaw
                                   Poland

 The entrance fee is 30 zl (circa $6.5) for admission without a computer. Its
25  zl  (circa.  $5.5)  for  admission  with  a  computer.  Not breaking with
tradition, women enter for free.
 In  order  to  avoid  confusion only PC with a monitor, Laptops, & Notebooks
will be valid for the discount. Palmtops & Palmpilots don't.


                       Directions to the PARTY PLACE
                              -----------------

 You  exit  the  main  highway  headed  straight  toward  the intersection of
Dworcowa  street  &  Kosciuszki  street.  You  proceed  to  take  a left onto
Kosciuszki  street  towards Kosciuszki square. You will pass through a larger
intersection  with  Kollataja  street. 200 meters beyond this intersection on
your  right  hand  side  will be the "Palacyk" which where the party is being
held.  We  will  do our best to provide road markers for our foreign visitors
with the words HRZ'2k.

                             Extra Informations
                        ---------------------------

 The  largest  change from the previous Horizon event is that this will be an
'open  party'  and  that an invitation won't be necessary to attend. The only
people  that will be excluded are the ones that didn't behave themselves last
year. In other words Horizon'2000 is NOT invite only.

 This  year we strive to hold the party with higher standards than before. We
figure  that  it will be superior in every way to last years party. With this
comes  higher  expectations  of  the  visitors  as  well.  Any  incidents  of
vandalization,  fighting,  public  intoxication,  &  disruption of peace will
result  in the offending parties being asked to leave the party place without
the option of readmission.

 There  will  be  security personnel on site to keep the peace as well ensure
the safety of all the visitors in attendance. This doesn't mean that drinking
alcohol  or  playing  loud  music  will be prohibited. We just ask that these
rights  aren't  abused.  Take  heed  that not only are all the organizers are
financially liable for any accidents incurred but our honor is on the line as
well.  We ask that you hold onto you identification cards at all time so that
we can keep records of all visitors.
 If  you plan on bring on bring your computers please remember to bring power
strips,  extension  cords,  and  all  networking  cables, etc that you fee is
necessary.

 Just like last year all the newest information presented in this invite like
maps,  info  etc can be found at our web site at:  http://www.horizon2k.ae.pl
The information found on this page is always the most current and we ask that
you visit as often as you feel.


                                COMPO MACHINE
                                -------------

 The compo machine will have the following configuration:
-== Intel Pentium III 550 MHz, GeForce256 32MB DDR, 128 MB RAM, SB 64 AWE ==-

 It  will be running Windows 98 SE with DOS 7.0. All standard drivers will be
the  newest version available. There will be NO GUS within the compo machine.
This means that all productions must support Sound Blaster. This was decision
was made in order to keep current with the standard configurations of most PC
& demo scene users nowadays.

                                   COMPOS
                                   ------

 The  largest change from last year's edition is the removal of the 4ch music
compo.  This  was  decided  in order to cut down on the large number of music
compos  already in place. We also decided that it wasn't worth it to split up
the demo compo by platform or hardware configuration. So as a result there is
only one demo compo.

 You may enter your productions remotely or at the actual party place. In the
music  compos  the pre-selection committee will select no more than 10 songs.
We'd  like  to  remind  all  participants that all entries must not have been
shown  at  parties  held  before  Horizon.  If you are interested in entering
remotely please e-mail Inferno/Cryogen for details at :

                    e-mail: d_jawor@extern.com.pl (100MB)

                                    or at

                        e-mail: horizon@ae.pl (20MB)

The following compos will be held:

> Ascii compo
 - There is no size limit outside of the fact that we request that the
   picture fits onto one screen when viewed in a resolution of 800x600
 - All pictures will be viewed in Acidview. First in a hi-rez mode and
   then in the original text configuration.

> Ansi compo
 - There is no size limit outside of the fact that we request that the
   picture fits onto one screen when viewed in a resolution of 800x600
 - All pictures will be viewed in Acidview. First in a hi-rez mode and
   then in the original text configuration.

> Chip compo
 - Valid Formats: mod, xm, s3m
 - Max Size: 32KB (32768B)
 - The first 3 minutes of the song will be played.
 - The songs will be played in the tracker that they were created in.

> MP3 compo
 - Valid Format: mp3
 - Max Size: 6MB
 - Max Time Length: 5 minutes
 - The songs will be played in the newest version of WinAmp.

> Multichannel compo
 - Valid Formats: mod, xm, s3m, it
 - Max Size: 3MB
 - Max Channels: 32
 - The first 5 minutes of the song will be played
 - The songs will be played in the tracker that they were created in.

> 8bit oldschool gfx compo
 - Valid Formats: bmp, gif, lbm (iff), pcx, png, tga, tif
 - Pictures  must  be created in a resolution of 320x240 or lower with a bit
   depth of 256 colors or lower.
 - Pictures will be viewed in ACDSee 3.0 (or whatever is the newest)

> Raytracing compo
 - Valid Formats: bmp, gif, jpg, lbm (iff), pcx, png, tga, tif
 - Max Resolution/Bit Depth: 800x600, 32bpp
 - Pictures will be viewed in ACDSee 3.0 (or whatever is the newest)

> Gfx compo
 - Valid Formats: bmp, gif, jpg, lbm (iff), pcx, png, tga, tif
 - Max Resolution/Bit Depth: 800x600, 32bpp
 - Pictures will be viewed in ACDSee 3.0 (or whatever is the newest)

> 4k intro compo
 - Max File Size: 4KB (4096B)
 - Intro may not exceed 10 minutes in length
 - Music is allowed and will be played through a SB.

> 64k intro compo
 - Max File Size: 64KB (65536B)
 - Intro may not exceed 10 minutes in length
 - Warning: music will be played with a SB. There will be NO GUS in the
   machine.

> Demo compo
 - Max File Size: 10MB
 - There is no time length, but we ask that you are reasonable.
 - Music will be played with a SB.


Extra Compos:

> Video compo
 - Work must fit onto a CD in the following formats : mpg, avi, & fli (flc)
 - Outside of that there are no limitations that we will impose on this
   compo. We ask that you are reasonable in the amount of time the
   presentation takes up.

> Crazy compo
 - Max File Size : 10Mb
 - Crappy productions from demo & intro compo will be (play) show for
   laught time:) 


Outside  of  these announced compos, the organizers have a few onsite compos
planned if time permits.

If you have any questions/concerns please contact us at:

atom1@poczta.onet.pl (Atom)
lesatr@box43.gnet.pl (Lesnik)


(C)2000 Horizon Team [ Atom.Falcon.Impexus.Inferno.Keyg.Lesnik.Sammar.Tiges ]

