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General Information:............................ . . . The ParaCon 6 is taking place from November the 19th to November the 21st 2004 in the DLRG-Heim in Selter/Ts just like the past years. The party place opens at 17:00 on friday and closes around noon on sunday. Again, the focus lies on Atari 16/32-Computer enthusiasts as well as Commodore 8-Bit fanatics. Also welcome are all Sega Dreamcast players. The attendance fee is again 12 Euros and breakfast on both saturday and sunday is included. . . . .................................... ParaCon 6 offers Once again we have discussed both location and size of the party we planned and once again we concluded to keep the party just the way it was. This implies we offer => Warm and cosy sleeping area (Earplugs recommended) => Excellent breakfast on both saturday and sunday => Permanent sale of Afri-Cola => Nice giveaways for party attendants => Various Pizza- and food-services => Two supermarkets and a gas station nearby => Easy to reach by train and car => Hopefully, one or even two demo releases ParaCon 6 restrictions ................................. . . . To be on the safe-side in legal terms, we have to mention a few restrictions you have to respect when attending => The location itself is a no-smoke area => We cannot be held responsible for any kind of damage done to your equipment or theft. You have to keep an eye on your equipment yourself => Do not bring water boilers, coffee makers, toasters or microwave ovens. Coffee or tea can be prepared in a separate kitchen - Ask the organizers => Please note that party place is kind of smallish, so it is wise to bring as little equipment as necessary. => Please respect german laws. This implies to not bring or consume any kind of illegal drugs, use or share illegal software, pictures or movies. Any kind of legally offensive behaviour will be persecuted. => The kitchen is - unfortunately - not for public use (safety reasons). . . . ................................. ParaCon 6 Registration To attend the ParaCon 6 party you need to be registered. Registering can be done by sending an email to paranoid@atari.org Additional information about the current registration status, expected people or latest news can be found on http://paracon.atari.org Pre-Registration itself is free. The attendance fee is requested on arrival. Please mind that available space is limited so registering early is sensible, otherwise we might have run out of space. Also, in case you have registered but decide not to come, it would be kind to inform us so we can rearrange. ParaCon 6 Route Plans:................................... . . . . The ParaCon 6 is held exactly where the previous ParaCon-parties took place as well, so it's fairly easy to find if you have already been there. Otherwise, here are the details for going by train or car. General Information: The town is called Selters, Selters/Ts. or Niederselters. When using internet search engines, one of the above names should deliver a hit. The town is located between Frankfurt am Main and Cologne, so Frankfurt is a good way-point to start with. Going by Train: The exact route depends on whether you come from the north or the south of Selters. If coming from the north, you will head for Limburg a.d. Lahn first. Additional typical way-points are Giessen, Wetzlar or Koblenz which have routes to Limburg. In Limburg, board a train going to either Frankfurt, Niedernhausen or Wiesbaden. Please make sure that this train is a so-called "Regionalbahn" which stops at every station on the way. Please note that "Regional-Express"-trains do not stop in Selters. The stations from Limburg are: Eschhofen, Lindenholzhausen, Niederbrechen, Oberbrechen, Niederselters. If coming from the south, you will most probably go past Frankfurt am Main. Find a train going to Limburg a.d. Lahn in Frankfurt, again make sure that this is a "Regionalbahn" and not a "Regional-Express". It might be necessary to change trains in Niedernhausen, depending on the schedule. Then you have to make sure that the train going from Niedernhausen to Limburg is a "Regionalbahn". From Niedernhausen on, the stations are: Idstein, Woersdorf, Bad Camberg, Niederselters. Once you have arrived in Selters - mind the rather ugly greenish station - get off the train and go to the street behind the station's building. You should now face a pub called "Zum Bahnhof". On the right side of the pub is a small street leading slightly downhill towards a little stream. Cross the little stream using the bridge and walk straight on, passing a parking lot. You will most probably see the sign of the "Penny Market" up ahead. After a few hundred meters to the right, you will find the DLRG-Heim. Going by car: Selters is between Frankfurt and Cologne and the main highway between these two major cities is the Autobahn A3, so this way or other, you will have to get to this major highway. If coming from the north (around Cologne): Enter the Autobahn A3 to the south, heading for Frankfurt. Leave the highway at the town "Bad Camberg", the next exit behind "Limburg Sued". The exit itself is currently under construction. Carefully read the signs, you will most probably be lead off the highway before going through the gas station, which is a bit untypical. If coming from the south (around Frankfurt): Enter the Autobahn A3 to the north, heading for Cologne. Exit at the town "Bad Camberg" right after "Idstein". The exit is tricky and has a rather sharp curve directly before the gas station. Drive carefully and read the signs. In both cases, simply follow the signs leading towards "Bad Camberg", which implies turning left at the very end of the highway's exit. The road will lead you downhill into the town, passing a little industrial area, going over the train station over a bridge and going down an alley up to a terminal T-crossing with traffic lights. Turn left at this crossing heading for "Limburg a.d. Lahn". Stay on this road and leave the town until you pass a "Minimal Market" on the left side of the road, followed by a crossing with traffic lights. Turn left at this crossing - in front of you should be a "Penny Market". Follow this road downhill until you see a little white building on the left-hand side, which is the "DLRG-Heim" where the party takes place. If you accidentally get lost, simply ask people around. The DLRG-Heim is right next to the public swimming pool. Also, the next major city, Limburg a.d. Lahn, now has a train station for the ICE-train named "Limburg Sued". If your route goes over this station, please tell us when registering and we might be able to pick you up at this station, saving you roughly one additional hour of travelling. . . . ........................................ ParaCon 6 Invitro Again, i'd like to apologize for the massive delay on this little intro, which runs on the following hardware: An Atari ST compatible computer, having at least 1 Megabyte of RAM and a colour monitor. Atari STE and Falcon is supported, an RGB monitor is recommended then. The intro runs on the Atari TT but behaves funny on that. If you run into problems using accelerators, extended operating systems or something, please try on a so-called clean machine. Also, in case your emulator has problems running this - sorry about it, but it's not guaranteed to work with emulators. Credits: Background graphic of the main effect by an unknown artist Music "Crokett's theme" by an unknown artist as well Music-Replay Routine by Ninja III of The Independant Fundamental Demo Environment initially by Evil of DHS Roto-Zoom routine based on the one by Gizmo of DHS All other code and graphics by The Paranoid The intro might behave slightly funny on the Falcon on VGA monitors. It seems that the mod-replay routine by Ninja III is quite intelligent and reacts to the VBL occuring more often on VGA than on RGB. This has influence on the screen swapping and results in jerky movement of the scroller. I tried to conquer this problem by cleverly arranging the interrupts, but the problem is not fully solved. Meanwhile i have also monitored problems on the Falcon using RGB-monitors. Again, it seems to be connected to the replay-routine but i am running out of time to investigate. Also, the synchronisation of effects and music is based on a 50Hz display. I apologize for the inconvenience. The demo has been tested to run on an Atari Falcon030, with and without Nemesis, NVDI 4.11, VGA and RGB, an Atari Mega STE4 with NVDI 4.11 and an Atari 1040STf. To be honest, the intro is mainly dedicated to the MegaSTE - It's a bit slowish on the ST, mainly due to the mod-replay ... Additional Information:.................................. . . . When the first official and public ParaCon was held, the ParaCon 2, we had very little to offer except for the location - the supermarket closed early, there was only one Pizza-service and that was it. By now, the environment has improved, so we now have two supermarkets nearby that are open until 8 o'clock PM on saturday and one hosts a bakery which is open on sunday mornings. Instead of just one, we now have 2 independant Pizza-Services and an additional food-service that offers typical german Schnitzel, Curry-Wurst and other food. Also, on saturday morning you have the chance to fetch some original Selters-water that gave the mineral water its name (Seltzer water). Four pubs are in reach of which two serve excellent food for fair prices. Finally, we sell bottles of Afri-Cola during the party for a very fair price, however, if we run out of stock we might not get replacements in time. . . . ............................................:Final Words Well, that's it for now. We do hope to see you on the ParaCon 6 in Selters and we hope to make it a fun event just like the years before. So feel free to register, pack your gear and have a nice trip - See you on the ParaCon 6. We like to thank our sponsor, Textildruck Fuchs in Selters. Feel free to visit the website http://www.textildruck-fuchs.de and again, this invitro, the website and all that wouldn't have been possible without http://www.afri-cola.de Signing off The Paranoid Paradox/2004