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[ Demozoo ] Meteoriks Awards recommendations open

The categories for this year's Meteoriks Awards are live!

And with that, you are also able to submit suggestions to our jury here on Demozoo and Pouet for your favourite demoscene productions of 2024 - just head over to any eligible production and follow the "Recommend this production for The Meteoriks 2025" link.

This is also your last chance to join us as a juror - we'd love to have you!

[ Demozoo ] Inércia 2024 results and releases!

Inércia 2024 is over! The Portuguese event that took place on 6-8 December 2024 featured talks, music acts, a new world record on simultaneous live shader coding and many quality entries in their 4 showcases and 2 competitions.

Inércia 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org / YouTube.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 133. Xmas 2024

Christmas time is here and Flashback is loaded with music fit for the yuletide. DJ Daemon presents the tunes and talks about miscellaneous things in between. Enjoy!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces the show and wishes you all a merry xmas and a happy new year.
00:19 Stinkbug - Snowfall at Twilight
02:24 DJ Daemon presents the first medley out of three.
02:40 DanPHTMNight - Auld Lang Syne
03:33 Drax - Happy H. Christmas
04:27 Michu - Jingle bells
05:32 DJ Daemon about an upcoming "Amiga music only"-episode.
05:51 Turtledove - Aurora Zone
11:03 DJ Daemon speaks.
11:24 Zalza - Rebels theme
14:16 DJ Daemon speaks about his upcoming birthday.
14:36 Necros - December
18:53 DJ Daemon presents the next tune something special.
19:05 Jeroen Tel - Merry Xmas & Funky99
21:41 DJ Daemon tells you he like the song he just played.
21:58 Shoob 2000 - Beachfront moon
24:25 DJ Daemon recommends going to the ericade.radio website.
24:37 Trackerartist - A little heart
27:03 DJ Daemon wishes you a merry xmas and a happy new year.
27:15 KLF - Vision of Shattered Dreams
32:23 DJ Daemon presents the second medley out of three.
32:44 La Mettrie - Christmas hentai hooker
34:31 DanPHTMNight - Silent Night
36:06 Mr.young of silicon - Pikaboo bells!
37:29 Tomas Danko - White christmas
38:45 DJ Daemon talks about the demoparties running right now.
39:12 Max - The Time is Now
44:19 DJ Daemon presents the next song.
44:34 Yomaru Kasuga - Christmas Sonata
49:03 DJ Daemon complains about being out of coffee.
49:29 Daxx - Capturing matrix
53:48 DJ Daemon presents the third medley out of three.
54:07 Michu - Jingle bells
55:11 The ERICADE Radio Network wishes all its listeners a merry xmas and a happy new year.
55:18 Drax - Christmas memories
57:59 Alexander Brandon - Xmas2

Production notes:
Nothing special. It's XMAS-time.

Tags: Christmas, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.13.00 released

This update to OpenMPT 1.31 brings a number of bugfixes and improvements backported from OpenMPT 1.32 development.

Probably one of the most important changes concerns default key bindings: On many ISO keyboard layouts, special note keys (Note Cut, etc.) were not available by default. They finally have key bindings that should be available on all keyboards. If there is no conflict, the new key bindings will be added on existing OpenMPT installations as well.

Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:

• In the tree view, open modules and instrument library entries can now be located in Windows Explorer through the context menu.
• Special note keys (Note Cut / Off / Fade / PC / PCs) were not available in the default key map on various keyboard layouts.
• When partially pasting a normal pattern event over a PC event, the effect column was not erased properly if it wasn't part of the copied region.
• When moving the last instrument envelope point, avoid it snapping back quickly when moving backwards.
• Various playback compatibility improvements (IT, DBM, IMF, MED, STM).
• Possible crash during module cleanup when searching for unused samples if an instrument refers to a non-existing sample slot.
• Added the possibility to disable enhanced GDI upscaling via hidden setting Display.UseGDIUpcaling. This may fix freezes when opening the editors of some older VST plugins when this mode is enabled.
• Channel Manager: Channel buttons now have tooltips.
• When enabling the hidden Display.HighResUI setting, OpenMPT claimed to support per-monitor awareness. This was not really usable, so OpenMPT now only claims to support one system-wide DPI setting. Better DPI-aware support will come in OpenMPT 1.32.
• MIDI recording: Velocity amplification was rounded down to integer multiples of 100%.
• After loading a module with missing external samples, OpenMPT still prompted to save those empty sample slots to disk when closing the module. Doing that resulted in a crash.
• When changing a keyboard shortcut via a search that had results in multiple contexts, a wrong context could be assigned to the shortcut, causing the shortcut to not work.
• The instrument library browser, cleaning up auto save files, scanning for missing samples or creating the list of templates or example songs in paths longer than 260 characters did not work.
• When saving a copy of a module, its modified status is no longer reset.
• On Windows XP, the advanced settings list was not formatted correctly.

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the release notes and the full version history.

libopenmpt has also been updated with the same improvements and fixes.

[ Demozoo ] Transmission64 2024: results and releases!

Transmission64 2024 is over! The online C64 demo party that took place on November 23rd 2024 featured talks (TeensyROM, 45 years of PETSCII in 21 minutes), music acts (Shogoon and friends 3, Vincenzo and Press Play on Tape) plus many quality entries in 7 competitions.

Transmission on Demozoo / scene.org / CSDb

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube.

[ Demozoo ] Transmission64 2024: Entry submission now open

Send an email to keys@transmission64.com to receive your access key and then head on over to https://vote.transmission64.com/ to upload your entries. Categories are Demo, 4k, Graphics, Screen Fader, BASIC oneliner, PETSCII and Music. Transmission64 organizing is very happy about your support! Deadline for your entries is Nov 22nd, 16:00 CET.

The winner of the demo competition wins a fully assembled EVO64 board, sponsored by EVO64!

Rules, timetable and more information can be found at: https://transmission64.com/

[ demoparty.net ] Transmission64 2024: Registration for every submission and voting is open

And we’re ready for your entries <3 You can now email us at keys@transmission64.com to receive your access key and then head on over to https://vote.transmission64.com/ to upload your entries. Thank you for your support! Deadline for your entries is Nov 22nd, 2024 16:00 CET. See you online!

[ demoparty.net ] Benediction Coding Party #4: Results and News

This years result and news just got published today 10th November, after the voting deadline 9th November

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.12.00 released

There was a catastrophic bug in the previous OpenMPT 1.31 update released earlier today, making keyboard input impossible in several pattern editor columns. This is a hotfix release addressing the bug. There are no other changes in this version. We apologize for the inconvenience this update may have caused.

Have a look at the OpenMPT 1.31.11.00 release notes to see what else has changed in today's updates.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 132. Cosy in the dark

Even further into the autumn - it's October. DJ Daemon gives you tracked music fit for a cosy chocolate drink in a dimly lit work room.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces the show.
00:17 Agem - Blured
04:00 DJ Daemon presents medley number 1
04:20 Renard - Zerd_01
05:02 Tuner - Ecuador Remix
07:01 Speechless - Soviet NES
08:52 DJ Daemon speaks about the upcoming demo parties.
09:19 Blue Zone and Sinope - Dust of Eternity v2.0
12:40 DJ Daemon presents the songs.
12:56 Brandon Hale - Club Sandwich (TB Remix)
17:33 DJ Daemon comes with an update about LGR.
18:11 Defilus - Minna saapuu kaupunkiin
22:53 DJ Daemon translates the song that he just played.
23:10 Dilik - Hanashiro
26:43 DJ Daemon talks about the weather.
27:01 Spamtron and Random - Bwargh
31:02 DJ Daemon presents medley number 2
31:19 Dj moonraver - Where are you?
33:26 Purple Motion - Aquaphobia - 1993 / spring
35:55 JaseChong - Funky Jam
38:29 DJ Daemon talks about an upcoming update of the website (ericade.radio)
39:00 Reed Richards - Imploder remix
43:34 DJ Daemon talks about the Amigaprogram "Imploder"
43:56 Ng Pei Sin - Souvenir D'enfrance
46:43 DJ Daemon presents the next tune.
46:56 Peter oakson - Venusian winds
50:31 DJ Daemon leads you into that good night with two new tunes.
50:51 Vangeli Erotokritaki - Hyperatlantic
56:13 DJ Daemon reminds you that the next show comes out in November.
56:19 Vince Kaichan - Geoconstruct 1998

Production notes:
Nothing special. It's time for the cosy part of the year. When you rather stay at home, that going out into the rain and stormy weather.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ demoparty.net ] Transmission64 2024: Win the T64 demo compo, win an assembled EVO64 board.

Win the demo compo, win an assembled EVO64 board. Details below.

Big thanks to Darrel and EVO64 for their support.

https://transmission64.com/2024/10/16/win-the-demo-compo-win-a-evo-64-board/

#c64 #demoparty #demoscene

[ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 018: Lebendige Demoszene

It's alive! We couldn't end 2024 without having another edition of the Demonights and thus we're more than happy to be part of this year's presentation series at the "«Chaostreff» in Berne on the 12th of December. We'll have a bit of a talk about the demoscene entry to the Swiss List of Living Traditions and we'll watch demos. What could you possibly want more, before Christmas?

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 131. Autumn is in the air

The hot weather is over and the evenings grow darker: it's autumn. So fill up a cup of your favorite beverage and lean back in your chair. It's time for another episode of Flashback, tracks from the past... with DJ Daemon.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces the show.
00:22 Morgan - Caelie Dannsair
08:24 DJ Daemon presents the first medley.
08:41 Danko - Wonderland 3
09:42 Dizzy of Cncd - Fanatic waltz
11:06 Aero - Black steel
15:41 Raina - Eehana
17:23 DJ Daemon talks about Pågadata 2024.
17:49 C.C.Catch of Ren-93 - Elemental Warriors
21:18 DJ Daemon mentions the addition of 120 tracks to the 24/7 station.
21:41 Chris Jarvis - Pale Dreams
26:43 DJ Daemon presents the next song.
26:52 Latyl - Greasy duck v1
29:35 DJ Daemon mentions youtuber LGR (Lazy game reviews) and the storm that stopped his show.
30:02 Cube of Aggression - World of Dreams
33:38 DJ Daemon mentions coffee and Finland.
34:02 Fleshbrain of Crusaders - Neptune
38:21 DJ Daemon presents the second medley.
38:43 Sacio - Natlse
39:58 Trackerartist - Johdattelupolska
41:04 SkylarZYX - Mountaintops
42:27 Sledgehammer of theEnd - Atomic Macaxera
44:58 DJ Daemon notes that it's time to dance.
45:13 Mark M. Salud - 1-2-3-DanceMon
48:43 DJ Daemon talks about autumn.
49:07 Raina - The day they landed
51:59 DJ Daemon leads you into that good night with the next three songs.
52:17 Sam of Fat boys, Sccs - Party tune
55:02 DJ Daemon remind you to listen to the radiostation at ericade.radio.
55:11 Serpent - Forced motivation
57:41 DJ Daemon says bye and see you in october 2024.
57:45 Skaven252 - Captured Sun

Production notes:
Colophone
Nothing special. It's autumn and that's what the title is about.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ Demoscene Research ] Tracker Paper in English

There are bigger updates underway, but as a quick heads-up: the tracker paper originally published in Finnish in 2019 is now available in English too: http://widerscreen.fi/numerot/ajankohtaista/trackers-the-rise-bloom-and-later-developments-of-a-paradigm/. Also see the errata.

[ Demozoo ] Entry submission now open for Assembly 2024

The following competitions are NOW open for you to remotely submit your entry:

• Realtime: 1k Intro, 4k intro, Beginner Demo, Game Development (Deadline today Friday 26th at 17:00 CET), Fantasy console, Oldskool Demo, Demo
• Music: Tracked music
• Wild: Short film, Real Wild

Rules, timetable and deadlines can be found at: https://assembly.org/en/events/summer24/program/demoscene-competitions

[ Demozoo ] Black Valley is over for this year!

Very recently, Black Valley 2024 concluded its third iteration, bringing with it some very interesting releases to say the least! Check them all out at;

Black Valley on Demozoo / scene.org

And, the vod is of course always available at Scenesat - day 1 and day 2.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 130. June

The sun is back on the sky and it's summer! DJ Daemon is back behind the mike with a large set of tracker music fit for the beach. Enjoy the show!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon says "it's summer" because, you know, it is!
00:18 Uncle Tom - Northstar titan
03:59 DJ Daemon presents the medley of the day
04:29 Ghidorah - Påskchip (easter egg)
05:50 Trackerartist - TZPack '93
08:43 Basehead - Badtracks beach
09:48 Trackerartist - Pelimusa
11:50 Tegekite - From Ripper
13:36 DJ Daemon talks about this pod taking a vacation.
14:12 Soda7 - Late Caller
17:56 DJ Daemon asks "what about demo parties" ?
18:32 Trackerartist - Mindstorm
26:56 DJ Daemon presents the next tune.
27:03 The Impaler - Mod Heroes!
30:52 DJ Daemon talks about Pågådata and our live broadcast from there.
31:18 Nicole - Blue sky daydream
33:55 DJ Daemon jokes about broken joysticks and Epyx games.
34:11 Mr. Man of Andromeda - Broken joysticks
37:05 DJ Daemon presents the next tune.
37:13 CS127 - Never Too Late
43:20 DJ Daemon explains how the medleys are made.
43:40 Mr. Lou - Step into my dream
52:06 DJ Daemon talks about the upcoming tunes.
52:27 Cybacolt - The Piano Theme
55:06 DJ Daemon tells you no to forget our regular station: ericade.radio.
55:14 Kevan R.Craft of MicroCra - Dawn chorus
58:50 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and welcomes you back in September.
58:58 Hmc - Simply addictive ii

Production notes:
No special thinking going on here. It was recorded in June, so it's called that.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 129. A tracked mix-tape

Back in the 90s, we had the famous "mix tape". It was generally a cassette tape with all our favorite music on. And we played this music on our Walkmans, while strolling around in the city. Today is a great modern time mix tape with some classic tracked music and more modern variants. DJ Daemon talks briefly and plays the best tracked music for an hour.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon welcomes you and presents the next tune.
00:19 Trackerartist - Feminine taco
02:57 DJ Daemon presents the first medley out of two.
03:14 Megus of Brainwave - Some funky day
04:22 Frostbite - Gemini Man Theme
05:38 Beek - Pookster
07:20 DJ Daemon talks about the next tune that he thought was already on station, when it was not. Problem solved!
07:37 4-mat - Dream again
13:09 DJ Daemon warns you that next song contains the f-word.
13:27 Deathjester of Anarchy - Orgasmod
16:18 DJ Daemon presents the next tune and promises to play more normal tunes.
16:30 Dj Keys - Darkside Compo Edit
21:01 DJ Daemon presents the second and last medley for today.
21:19 Xerxes - Wings
23:05 FigureFarter - Plok's House
25:49 Velvet of Tokyo dawn - Apartment49
28:33 DJ Daemon you're listening to your local station --- available everywhere.
28:51 J0rgen Andersson - Monotomix
32:50 DJ Daemon talks about the new "more powerful" server.
33:10 Fuzion_mixer (tqc001) - Tunnel Vision
39:22 DJ Daemon sings a short tune and presents the next one.
39:31 Manamana - Only "I love you"
43:38 DJ Daemon tells you to send song suggestions to radio@ericade.net.
44:00 Peter Salomonsen - Garbage collection
49:59 DJ Daemon wants a new genre for "heavy chiptunes" because the next tune is exactly that.
50:14 Soda7 of Darkage - Pixel Waves
52:50 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night with two last tunes of this hour.
53:11 Sakuya - Theme Windows XP
56:08 ericade.radio - Celebrating over 30 years of tracked music
56:15 DJ Daemon ."... and here is a really classic trackedmusic song".
56:18 Walkman - Klisje paa klisje

Production notes:
Colophon:
It's explained in the introtext. We're just remembering the old "walkman days". Funny little note, in Sweden we call the portable little tape players "Freestyles".

Tags: Just playing the music, Explicit content, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ Conspiracy ] Emticles and Arpires

In case you missed it, we have released our first 64k intro with our new toolchain! There's also going to be some more content in the articles section about how it works, so keep your eyes peeled.

[ Demoscene Research ] Hege Nordli’s PhD thesis available

Hege Nordli’s scene-related PhD thesis, The Net Is Not Enough: Searching for the Female Hacker, has been hard to obtain for years, but now that problem is remedied. Markku spent a few hours scanning the book and got permission from Nordli to make the pdf available online (thanks!), so here you go: http://www.kameli.net/~marq/scenepub/nordli_hege/The_Net_Is_Not_Enough-ocr.pdf

[ Demozoo ] Revision 2024: results and releases!

Revision took place this weekend at its usual HQ at E-Werk in Saarbrücken, Germany, and saw many productions released across all sort of oldschool and newschool platforms. All results and releases are now available.

Revision 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Demozoo ] DiHalt 2024: results and releases

Dihalt took place on 5th-7th January in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Most releases targeted the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, or the more exotic Electronika BK-0010 and all are now available for download.

DiHalt 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 128. Spring is on the air

So the temperature is slowly rising here in Sweden. A faint feeling of spring is in and on the air, as DJ Daemon loads up some of the best tracker music there is. Join him on the journey through the music.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:03 DJ Daemon speaks.
00:16 NabilAmin179 - Pinkia's Space Trip
04:39 DJ Daemon presents todays first medley
05:14 DJ Uranus - Fly away
07:30 A-lin - Cool
09:48 Look and Zalza - little computer boy
11:18 DJ Daemon says there will be another medley in this show.
11:39 Confuzed generation - Laxity of Vibrants
16:58 DJ Daemon speaks.
17:29 Cs127 - Stars (4ch. version)
21:50 DJ Daemon talks about the next tune.
22:08 240-185 - UN Owen (REMIX)
26:33 DJ Daemon tells you the time (Pretty useless for a podcast :D)
26:46 Cutcreator - Glenzpiration
30:25 DJ Daemon briefly talks about Assembly 2024.
30:55 ExplosionTimer - Raiu
33:23 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of the day.
34:36 Delta X of Noise - Master of Orion
36:01 MrGamer - 8-Bit Love
38:00 Xerxes - Fuk
40:40 DJ Daemon speaks about his second poddcast that is in Swedish.
41:04 Inactivee - Point of No Return
43:59 DJ Daemon speaks about the end of the Edison demoparty.
44:32 Pegasus - Feelings
49:30 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and recommends the site ericade.radio.
49:48 RepellantMold - Jaded Nostalgia
53:46 ericade.radio - We didn´t start the retro fire, but we will keep it burning
53:53 Trim - Cheetahmen (yes, really)
58:54 Skaven252 - War in the Middle Earth

Production notes:
Colophone:
Simple joke. It's "in the air" and "on the air" that has deliberately been mixed up.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2024

[ Demozoo ] Silly Venture 2023 Winter Edition: results and releases

The latest Silly Venture, a Polish demoparty dedicated to all Atari machines, took place in Gdańsk on 7th to 10th December 2023. The releases cover pretty much every Atari hardware ever produced and are now available for download.

Silly Venture 2023 Winter Edition on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Demozoo ] Syntax 2023: results and releases

Syntax, the proverbial demoparty from down-under, took place at the end of last year on its usual home turf of Melbourne. The releases were a good mix of oldschool and newschool, with the former arguably more popular.

Syntax 2023 on Demozoo / scene.org