aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) (09/30/89)
BADGE in association with AmiEXPO presents BADGE Killer Demo Contest 2 to be held Friday, October 20, at 7:00 pm in Santa Clara Convention Center, Sections A & C. Note that admission is FREE and open to the general public. Members of BADGE and all Amiga User Groups are encouraged to attend! The audience will participate in the voting. The winners will be announced on Sunday afternoon at AmiEXPO and will be notified personally by phone or mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are the guidelines for entries and the list of prizes. Note that the list of prizes has grown considerably since the last posting. [A great thank you to all companies and organizations who are donating prizes! Their names are listed below.] Send in your entries! We'll be accepting entries until the day before the contest; however, the earlier it gets to us, the better. Entries might be disqualified if they do not meet the guidelines listed below. Sending your entry in early gives us time to notify you if something is wrong with the demo. Entries should be submitted on floppy to: BADGE Contest P.O. Box 31008 Los Gatos, CA 95031 The rules for the contest are very basic. Each entry > must be easy to install and run > must be safe to run > must be freely distributable > must promote the Amiga Any entry can be disqualified for the following reasons: < the entry crashes the system < the entry has or installs a virus < the entry does not exit the system cleanly < the entry is not freely distributable < the entry requires disk to be write enabled All entries should be accompanied with a README file indicating the minimum configuration required to run the demo and exactly how to start and stop it. Note that some entries have been sent on bootable disks, ready to run by just booting the disk. Although this setup is very convenient, we cannot distribute the disks that way. We'd appreciate it if you sent the demos on non-bootable disks, ready to run by clicking on an icon. (Any demos that didn't do this have been "fixed," usually with the use of iconx. The authors of all entries received so far have been contacted with the status of their demos.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The list of prizes is as follows: (Note that the list isn't final and might still change; most likely grow) Amiga Jacket donated by Boing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Fantavision, & entertainment programs donated by Broderbund Amiga 2000 Computer donated by Commodore Programmer's Guide to the Amiga + disk and The Amiga Companion donated by Datapath Elan Performer donated by Elan Design Populous, Zany Golf donated by Electronic Arts A2620 Board donated by Go Amigo Flicker Fixer donated by MicroWay DigiView Gold, DigiPaint 3 donated by NewTek AmigaTeX donated by Radical Eye Software Microfiche Filer donated by Software Visions 2400 baud mini modem donated by Xecom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a few words about BADGE... BADGE is the "Bay area Amiga Developers GroupE". The group consists of developers and users who enjoy working on the Amiga and want to promote it wherever possible. The goal of BADGE Killer Demo Contest is to get people to create demos that promote the Amiga; it has succeeded twice so far (in BKDC0 and BKDC1) to attract a killer collection of demos which have made their way into dealer windows and many freely distributable disk collections. BKDC0 Best Overall winner was "RGB," by Joel Hagen; BKDC1 winner was "Charon," by Brad Schenck. BKDC2 is your chance to become famous! Ali Ozer, ali@polya.stanford.edu