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The goal of this  infofile is to  provide you a quick  overview of the  escape
party. More detailed and actual information can be found on our website.


                           -
                              Escape at a glance
                                                -

The Escape is a small,  but fine scene party in switzerland.  it's held once a
year at  pentecost in Aarau.  It's not only the atmosphere  that makes the es-
cape a  special event in  the calendar of ever  swiss scener,  with our events
around the party we make the scene live.

As a special there will be a barbecue-party on  sunday afternoon! Therefore we
recommend you to bring your favourite meat, saucages etc.,  and we'll go shop-
ping on sunday morning as well in the case you forget it.

Date      2. - 4. of june, 2001
          opening time: saturday 15.00
          closing time: monday 12.00

Location  Alte Turnhalle
          5033 Buchs AG
          Switzerland

Website   http://www.escape-party.ch


                               -
                                  The Compos
                                            -

- Demo: The  topic is 'Cube'. Maximum  size is 2MB (== 2048 KB).  Your product
  must be runnable under  Windows 9x or in the  DOS-box of Windows 9x. It will
  be shown on a Athlon 900, 256MB RAM  with video  accelerator, so you may use
  DirectX or OpenGL.

- Tracked music: The following formats are allowed: XM MOD IT S3M SID.
  They will  be played with cubic  player, respectively with Windows  Sidplay.
  Songs that exceed 5 minutes will be faded out after that time.
  
- Streamed music:  You may  use any  format we  can play. Songs  that exceed 5
  minutes will be faded out after that time.

- Graphics compo: You may use any format we can play. Please be aware that the
  maximum resolution of our beamer is 1024x768! Pure scans are restricted.

- Flash demo compo: We introduced this new compo to give art-interested people
  who do not  have programming skills, a chance  to present their own crea-
  tions. You may give us a website which we'll host on the escape webserver.
  Other Escapers may visit your site and rate it.
  The rules are:
  - Your product will be shown with the flash 5 player, in 800x600x24 reso-
    lution with sound.
  - Please don't add user-interaction, as it's intented to be a demo compo.
  - Demos that exceed 5 minutes will be aborted after that time.
  - Maximum size: 4MB.

  
...and of course there will be lots of surprise-compos at the party itself!


                            -
                               The Way To Escape
                                                -

As it's in the  same location as last  year, you shouldn't have  problems with
finding us. There are some maps on our website, so the best is, you print them
out (and don't forget 'em at home...). There's plenty of parking space.
However, a short description: if you're coming from Zurich, you best leave the
highway at "Aarau Ost" and change  to the freeway to "Aarau". Drive it down to
the end until you come to a crossing, turn off left to "Buchs", drive down the
street until it's end (at the  right you should see the parish hall now), turn
left, after  two big curves  you can see  on the left the  place with the  gym
hall.
If you're coming  from Berne, you can  either leave on "Aarau Ost" as well, or
leave "Aarau West" and  find your way through  Aarau. So you have  to drive to
Aarau first, turn right to the train  station, you  should have no problems to
find Buchs. Take  the main road, you're right if some tracks cross the street,
after the two curves you'll see at left the gym hall.


                               -
                                  Networked
                                           -

As always, the network will be twisted-pair only. If you want to borrow cards/
cables, please contact the network organizer IN ADVANCE, as we have only a few
spare.
We'll provide one switched port for every table,  the rest is up to you! So if
you have switches or hubs, bring them along.

And we provide also ONE power  port per visitor.  We don't care  anymore about
people having forgotten their power equipment at home.


                              -
                                 Food Supply
                                            -

There will be a separated bar-room with  low loise for people to chill out and
have a talk together.  Also, we'll try  to renew the agreement  with the pizza
deliverer, so you'll get  italian food for a very low price. If you don't like
pizzas,  there are McDonalds and other fast food restaurants nearby. Coke will
be available for free.


                              -
                                 The Rules
                                          -

- Escape is for sceners, not for gamers. If you're a hardcore-gamer, there are
  lots of LAN-parties around, take them as better alternatives. 
- Smoking inside the hall is strictly forbidden. There are some smoking faci-
  lities inside, but please use the ashtrays.
- Drugs are strictly forbidden.
- Please leave your place clean at the end of the party.


                              -
                                  The Team
                                           -

crest@space.ch      Coordination & public work
gysh@space.ch       Website & all the graphical stuff
unlock@profzone.ch  Compos
vac@space.ch        Room & Installations
vynka@space.ch      Network & Electricity

with thanks to:
Heike (barmaid), P.Doom (intro), Asc (ASCII-logo)
