The Official Info Pack on the Amiga Convention '96 Release 2.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** Please feel free to spread this file around wherver you can, as long as it is not altered. We don't want people to show up at the wrong city or during the wrong month! If you are a magazine, please feel free to put this in your magazine.All that we ask in return is that you e-mail or call us to tell us that you have put the information into the magazine. Also, if you would like to have an article written for your magazine after the convention about what happened at Amiga Convention '96 please e-mail *************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------- * NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS * - Dave Haynie (forme C= engineer, Senior H/W engineer at SCALA) will address the public. - Dale Larson (former C= engineer, president of IAM), will be present at Amiga Convention '96 to do some presentation. - Al Mackey (author of the popular games MegaBalls series), will also be present for doing presentation. - Our *OFFICIAL* WWW sites is up and running since friday the 17th of May! the url is http://www.acropolis.net/ac96/ (thanks goes to Manos Konstantiniadis aka Guybrush for setting up and managing our WWW pages!). - We are in discussion with some well known engineers working at VIScorp to attend the show (not confirmed yet). --------------------------------------------------------------- In August, in Montreal, the fourth annual Amiga Convention will take place! This convention will gather the Amiga community together from all across the world to show its support for the Amiga! We hope to make this show an event in the long fight to make the Amiga a well known computer in North America again. WHY: We are putting on the Amiga Convention '96 to support our favorite computer, the Amiga! We feel that for too long, the Amiga has been ignored, and now that the Amiga is owned by people who actually will support it well, we want to help them out in any way we can. We also want to get a lot of people together to have a really cool time! WHERE: The Howard Johnson Hotel in Montreal, large enough to hold over 1,000 people, not including the surrounding rooms. ADDRESS: Howard Johnson (514)-842-3961 475 Sherbrooke West Street Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 2L9 WHEN : 3 & 4 of August 1996 TIME : 10:00 - 20:00 (8:00 PM) Saturday 9:00 - 18:00 (6:00 PM) Sunday ENTRANCE COST: 7 Canadian dollars COMPETITIONS: Gfx (3d) -------- 1st place : $300 2nd place : $200 3rd place : $100 Music (mod 4 chan.) ----------------- 1st place : $300 2nd place : $200 3rd place : $100 Demo (2 megs max.) ------------- 1st place : $500 2nd place : $300 3rd place : $100 COST FOR RENTING TABLES : $150 - 1 day, $250 - 2 days, for one table of 6' by 3' and chairs. These tables are aimed towards dealers and developers. FREE TABLES: We will also have free tables, for anyone who wishes to BRING THEIR AMIGA, whether to show off something cool, or just to help someone else who might need one at the time. However, at the free tables you get less space than the pay tables, it is first-come first- serve, and you cannot sell products at the tables! That is strictly for the rented tables. ACCESABILITY: The show is easily accesable by bus and subway, as well as having lots of parking space in the vicinity for cars. WHY DEALERS SHOULD COME: We offer tables at an incredibly rate, a price which includes electrical outlets and electricity. You also get the chance to show and sell your wares to a crowd of Amiga owners, all of whom have money to spend and are influenced by how big a prescence you have at the show. WHY PEOPLE SHOULD COME: We will have stands from many major dealers and developers. It will also have a lot of friendly Amiga owners there, plus a booming sound system and TV setup that will show crazy demos and products. It will be a wild good time for all! BRING YOUR AMIGA AND HAVE A BALL * Just 5 minutess walking distance from the Metro Station McGill. * We will have Audio/visual equipment setup for presentations of demos, programs, hardware, new products, etc. * The Howard Johnson has a Restaurant, a Bar, and more. * For special room rates please contact us or the hotel. CONTACT: To get the latest info about the Amiga Convention '96 and get more details about it please check out our WWW sites at url http://www.acropolis.net/ac96/ If you want to buy a table, get more information on the show, or just talk to the organizers, e-mail either or , or call (514)-649-9756 (in Canada) and ask for Frederic or (514)-933-8095 (in Canada) and ask for Jeremie. regarding the Amiga Convention '96. You can also mail the organizers at: Frederic Tessier 922 Deschamps Sainte-Julie (Quebec) J3E 1N9 Canada