15th Oct 08

Latest news before MAIN#3 : compo et prize machines and more

MAIN#3 2008 latest news

Weather : october spring - Sun - 25°c

Compo machine official Demobox: thanks to H2o
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 512MB (Alpha Dog Edition)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
2GB of Corsair RAM (DDR2-800)
XFX nForce 680iLT SLI motherboard

First prize :
PC HP + 22" screen / Intel core 2 quad QU6600 - 2.4GhZ
3 Go ram - nVidia Geforce9300 - HDD SCSI 500 Go

Mobile phone - MMS - SMS : 33-0-6 42 84 17 31 / Christian
Email : cybernostra [a-t] gmail.com
Party place : Espace Julien 39 cours Julien 13006 Marseille - Cours Julien metro station - Fr

Opening night and installation, on Thursday 16 October.
Official opening on Friday October 17 around 20:30

Welcome and records: the reception is through an entrance reserved for participants near
the main entrance. This entrance is open only for you. You will be welcomed by ourselves.
A password will be issued with which you move anywhere in the party place.

Baggage storage: A room is closed and secured for this purpose for the deposit and
luggage storage.

Your place in the party: first come first served is the rule, wifi in the place plus ethernet
link (please take a 3m wire with you, better).

Food and drink: we provided a space food to eat at your own pace and a bar to drink
beer and local variety at your disposal too. You can eat on your party place.

Sleep: The Dojo is open to fixed hours that you will be on site, the rule is not entered
with shoes or drink and eat in the Dojo and well on not smoking.

Showers: showers are available in the Dojo at its opening hours.

13th Oct 08

MAIN#3 rules released : max res & max run

Hi sceners, there is 4 days before the MAIN#3
we changed some rules and add infos.

Based Christie VP equipment resolution upgrade and 6mx4m screen
GFX : Maximum resolution is 1400x1050 pixels.
Photo compositing : Maximum resolution is 1400x1050 pixels.

Based musicians suggestions [complains] the streaming music maximum running time is increased to 4 minutes maximum.

You are welcome because you are the very important person for demoparties organizers and for that, there is a living demoscene !

For the musical event, Ezloopaz from Netherland join us for a live set.

12th Oct 08

MAIN#3 TIMETABLE released

The definitely schedule is online, enjoy the party and welcome. Remote entries are allowed. http://www.medianostra.net/inside/?q=fr/timetable

9th Oct 08

News about the MAIN demoparty and sponsors

Hello dear sceners

The date gets closer, in less than 7 days the third edition of the MAIN demoparty start, register and save your place under the sun of Marseille.

news about the sponsors : Autodesk offers 3 full licenses (Maya or 3ds Max choice) and Ubisoft offering packages of games and certainly job recruitment. These are the 2 companies that have contacted us "spontaneously" for support, it is rather encouraging for the scene!

Schedule time table and machine compo and hardwares prizes : the specifications quickly come at the http://site www.mainparty.net

Workshops: 6 Theremins available to try and use the strange & magical sounds... stay connected

29th Sep 08

MAIN 08 Invitation by Tristar & Red Sector Inc. out now!

MAIN 08 Invitation Intro out by Tristar & Red Sector Inc. out now! Thank you to the team members. Sceners, you are welcome in Marseille for the third edition.

10th Sep 08

MAIN 2008 : Demovibes Live fot the saturday 18th night

the MAIN 2008 demoparty orga is proud to announce Demovibes Live fot the saturday 18th night, Moonove and Willbe revisited some of the most famous themes composed in Amiga and PC demos. To each buddy his favorite style : while Willbe did remix well-known 2000's newskool classics from Little Bitchard, Dune and KB... Moonove gave his vision of the early 90's oldschool era, exploring the music of Jogeir, Nuke, Moby and so many others.

http://www.demovibes.org/dvlive.htm

Register on www.mainparty.net !

26th Aug 08

MAIN fixed dates : 16th to 19th october 2008

Hi fellows, the dates are fixed now : 16th to 19th october 2008 at the Espace Julien Theater place as last year.
Ticket for scener including sleeping : 20 €
Doors and sleeping commodity opening the 16th for early sceners, official opening the friday 17th.
We gonna deliver the schedule and the program soon, but now we can announce an eclectic musical schedule for the night with for the 16th a scratching turnabilism musical program with good DJ's, 8bit chipusic night for the friday 17 and demoscene musicians for the saturday 18 night.
You are welcome