LOCATION:
"VIKINGSKIPET" in Hamar, north of Oslo, Norway.
The main hall from the '94 Olympics in Norway. (If you don't know what the Olympics are, you are just the guy we want at TG, and believe us, the hall is big!!!) They even held an INDOORS cross-country skiing event in this hall.
12.000 square meters of pure pleasure (the same size as 3 soccer fields or 3000 tabletennis tables.) The total area of the hall is 26 000 square meters and 350 000 cubic meters. (350 million liters). Stairsfree entrances (excellent for rolling those car
ts filled to the brink with equipment).
3000+ seats, tables and SEPARATE poweroutlets available. Every person gets a seat, every person gets a tablespace and every person gets his own grounded poweroutlet. (1 power outlet per person, bring your own grounded multiple power out
lets to have more than one item connected at a time).
10 seperate LARGE wardrobes with 4-10 showers per wardrobe. Of course no money will be charged for this basic facility. Don't panic, bring your own towel! Sauna is optionally available.
Coin-operated laundry to get those clothes refreshened.
Catering will be provided. Junkfood and not-so-junk food will be served at your leisure.
Silicone and methane lifeforms make special arrangments.
Sleeping area is inside the hall. You will be allowed to sleep next to your beloved computers, and also separate facilities will be available for those who require less noisy environment to sleep in.
Also, for those who need something less 'campy', there's a motell next-door with 56 rooms totalling 224 beds.
Be warned that these rooms are often filled to the rim with other tourists.
Swimminghall, tennishall and so on are available in the Hamar area, but at this time, opening hours at Easter are not available.
PARKING:
Big parking facilities available immediately outside the hall at no extra charge. Will take any kind of possible vehicle you can arrive in. Extraterrastials call ahead for separate reservations.
Limousine service available.
No car queues at ANY time to the main road, or blocking of fire lanes to the main road. Failure obey so will result in summarily towing, no warnings will be given! There's plenty of parking space, so there's no need for a queue anyhow.
DATE:
Easter'96
System Boot: Tuesday 2 April 1996 00:01
System Shutdown: Saturday 6 April 1996 16:00
For those of you who arrive early, you will not be let in before 0:01.
Official opening and the time which every feature will be available is 12:00.
PRICE:
More than 110 hours of party for 200 NOK! (About US$ 30). This requires you to pay in advance. If you wish to pay at the entrance, the fee will be 250,- NOK (About US$ 37). This gives you an exciting party for less than 50 cents an hour!
As usual, girls and non-Europeans are let in for FREE. ET's also have free entrance, but have to provide their own phones.
PREREGISTRATION:
Filling out this form and paying in advance will bring you straight past the queue in the registration hall. In addition, it will save you the fair amount of NOK 50,-.
You will need to include a facial photo 3x4 cm.
Having this information HANDY upon entering the hall, without prepaying will also save you a lot of time.
All information is confidential and will be maintained with the highest level of confidentiality. No mailings or unwanted attention will follow of you entering this information. This is for our reference and future contact only.
By Norwegian law, you are only required to enter your complete name (first and last), but PLEASE enter the other information. It is GREATLY appreciated.
Now fill out the PostalGiro, and pay the amount of 200,- pr. attendant. If you pay for more than one person, make a clear note here for which person(s) you are paying.
Put the reference name for payment in the address field for the payee with a complete name and address. Failure to do so can cause your payment to end up as an advanced form for anonymous gift to TG96.
All the attendants must fill out their own registration-forms and include a photo. If you send several preregistration-forms in one envelope give each photo a number, and write the same number in the form that it belongs to. Please fill out the form as co
rrectly as possible, and do not make jokes with sex: (ie. SEX: YES, plenty! or similar). If the data we receive are incorrect, you will have to line up with the others. The photo will be used for the ID-card, and is a reference to your face, so do not sen
d a photo of your girlfriends beaver, your dog, or your 128 year old grandpa.
If we do not receive the payment, or are incapable of verifying that proper payment has occured, you have to pay entrance at the gate as everybody else (so be concise to avoid misunderstandings).
If you are paying for others.Send the forms and Photos to us, and you will recieve an ID-card, which you MUST bring. The card will be your proof of payment.
I pay for these people:_________________________________________ _________________________________________
NETWORK:
1500++ Ethernet connections with high speed internal and Internet party network from day 0 at NO EXTRA CHARGE!!
The NETWORKS available at the party is:
Novell Netware, for fileservices, network gaming (thru the IPX/SPX protocols) and internal chat-lines.
Internet for IRC and Telnet sessions. WWW and FTP will be limited due to limitations on system resources. (1500 WWW's is quite demanding). TCP/IP protocols only. For further instructions on how & when, read in later revisions, or contact us.
98% COAX connections, bring your HUB's for TP-connections.
You just need a PC with an Ethernet-card, or buy one from us for 250 NOK (US$ 35) (16bits NE2000 cards for ISA-bus only). This is non-profit way for us get YOU onto the network if you don't already have an Ethernet card. You get to keep the card afte
r the party. No rentals or credit plans available.
Major body parts acceptable as a shortterm deposit.
For the Amiga, special deals with our dealers will be made available. As this feature is not yet properly laid out, contact us for information.
POWER:
Seperate poweroutlet per person, 20 persons per breaker switch.
2000 Amps available instantly, and our special TECH task force will be monitoring the powergrid at all hours. The hall itself is providing this as a courtesy service, so it's not us spending the week putting the power up. It's in place the week BEFORE t
he party.
COMPOS:
PC, Amiga, C64, demo, intro, Internet, music, gfx and wild competitions will be held, plus a few surprises...
See separate paragraph for more info.
VIDEO:
Hot new movies and all the old goodies will be shown at regular intervals, 24 hours a day, all week. A special auditorium with 200 quality seats and superb audiovisual equipment provides the quality experience for all of you moviebuffs. If it's good eno
ugh for Olympic hot-shots it's certainly good enough for you.
CONCERTS:
We're gonna have a rave-concert hosted by a popular Norwegian DJ. Laser effects will be a part of this concert. Mads Drøschler (Gatekeeper/Xtacy) will hold a small concert, as will Henning Kristiansen. Drøschler also held a concert at "The Party V". We wi
ll also have a one hour long stand-up comedian show.
SLEEPING:
Special arrangements with the local fire department allow sleeping inside the hall. (No more sleeping outside in a tent, we're computer freaks and not Grizzly Adam's fans.) You'll be allowed to sleep next to your dear computers.
TV-STATIONS:
As a lot of you set up your own TV-stations, we wish to provide you with the best transmission possibilities available.
To make the Tech-crew help you out with this, a few rules have been set.
By doing this, you can just ask the Tech-crew to assist you in setting up your transmissions, and possibly relay it to the main screen.
FIRE REGULATIONS:
See parking and general rules.
In case of fire, warnings will be issued over the PA-system and by our guards, there's no need for a panic, as the hall is built to evacuate 19 000 people within 60 seconds. Warnings by alarm systems will be given MANUALLY and will be verified by our gua
rds, so please report any incidents to your nearest guard immediately.
The fire dept. is located at the side of the hall, and they will support us to avoid unnecessary firedrills or situations.
MEDICAL REGULATIONS
Be aware of your own limitations and contact one of our guards if you need assistance. Also be aware of your buddies. Astmatic and diabetic attacks have been observed earlier and will hopefully not occur at Hamar.
