[ got papers? ] Honey/1001 Collection – Final Update
The letter collection of legendary Dutch C64 cracker Honey of 1001 Crew has provided us with a stream of treasures over the past years. Now, after five instalments, this fountain has run dry: Today, we give you the final update. It includes some fascinating materials from 1986-1987, such as letters from fellow compression expert Matcham […][ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 012: PlayBern Edition
Emerging from the underground to hit back at Corona with a fresh loud and lift-your-spirits-to-the-sky DEMONIGHTS edition in Bern on Friday, October 16th. For this event we are partnering with PlayBern, the annual festival of games and culture taking place at the Reitschule. With a 24 hour Game Jam, an exhibition of independent Swiss game design, and more.[ Slengpung ] Our very first pictures from Vortex, ever
tFt and Teo sent us some very first pictures from the madness that is a Finnish demoparty. Behold, Vortex 2019[ Slengpung ] Rsync 2020
Amidst all this madness, it's good to have a bit of normality. tFt added some pictures from rsync 2020[ Slengpung ] Deadline 2018 + Many 2019 pics
noep))) provided some nice pictures from Deadline 2018 and Nordlicht 2019, enjoy! My own pictures from Revision 2019 are now on the site as well, starting from page 5, and my Outline 2019 pictures starting from page 3. More pics from Under Construction 2019 starting from page 2.[ Slengpung ] Where sofas end - Underground Conference 10
One of the few real-life demoparty events this summer, the outdoor demoparty Underground Conference 10 happened a week ago and TMA provided some nice photos. More to come! Some first pictures from Deadline 2019, Under Construction and rsync 2020 by T$ have also been added. Enjoy![ Demoscene Research ] WiderScreen 2–3/2020 Out
A special issue of WiderScreen, edited by Julia Erdogan, Gleb and me, has just been published with the topic “Home Computer Cultures and Society Before the Internet Age”. We’ll add the individual articles to the bibliography a bit later, but already at this point I can reveal that there’s plenty to read for demoscene enthusiasts […][ Demoscene Research ] Tracker and PETSCII papers added
Just added my own Finnish journal article Trackerit: paradigman synty, kukoistus ja myöhemmät vaiheet (2019), which deals with the history and creators of tracker software, and the text art related paper titled PETSCII – A Character Set and a Creative Platform (Reunanen, Heikkinen & Carlsson 2019).[ Demoscene Research ] Finnish Unesco application approved!
The Finnish application to get the demoscene recognized by the national Unesco chapter as intangible cultural heritage was accepted just this week. Congratz to everybody involved! The scene is the first branch of digital culture to appear on the list, and the Finnish application was also the first of the national applications to be approved. […][ got papers? ] 32 Years of Computer Parties
Today, we present you with artefacts from 32 years of copy- and demoparties – from 1987 to 2019! Quite an astonishing time span, longer than the life span of some current demoscene members. The scans stem from the collections of Acidchild & Bugjam, AD aka Rough, Dipswitch, Goat, Ile, Mike, Moqui, Sir Garbagetruck, Swiss Cracking […][ got papers? ] Rough Archive Pt. 2
We start the New Year with a bang. The archive of C64 scener Rough had been sitting here for almost three years – until last month our heroic student assistant scanned over 400 pages in one go. With this update, we present you 269 letters by 127 individuals from 16 countries. They stem from the […][ Demoscene Research ] UNESCO German & Finnish applications
As you’ve probably noticed, there is an ongoing attempt to get the demoscene recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. Both Gleb and me have been participating in the national applications that need to be submitted first. See here for a news item on the German application, and here to see the Finnish one that […][ got papers? ] Zippy’s Letters: The Cynix P.O. Box
Famous Scottish Atari ST cracker Zippy a.k.a Absu, member of the groups Cynix and The Medway Boys, who was very recently interviewed on Codetapper.com, provided us with photographs from his letter archive. This time, we bring you a very special portion of these documents: The inbox, so to say, of the Cynix P.O. box in […][ got papers? ] SCA Disk Design Compo 1987
Swiss Cracking Association, the legendary Zurich-based C64 group, whose archive we have covered in numerous updates, always loved to come up with something new – be it a spectacular game hack, the first Amiga virus, or a disk designing competition. In their “SCA Competition!” demo from March 1987, they made the following announcement: SEND US […][ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 010: The C64 - Living History
It's been the year 1983 when Commodore asked in a freshly launched TV commercial: "Are you keeping up with the Commodore?" If anyone has kept up with the Commodore ever since, it's probably the demoscene. Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, the good name was sold to obscure companies. And the demoscene is still here. Some people say, more than ever![ got papers? ] More C64 Disk Covers from Goat
We haven’t featured C64 disk covers for a while, so here are some from the collection of Goat/Laxity, which was scanned already four years ago. This big batch features 50 disk covers from the early- to mid-1990s (with one early exception from 1986), including some really extraordinary ones. I won’t make a list here, but […][ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 009 - World of Pinball
We're thrilled to announce Demonights 009, this time with a special treat for pinball lovers. Michael, Freezy and Lukas will expand our demo-minded horizons and talk about pinball emulation, visualization and true stories from the world of real, oldschool hardware pinballs machines. And of course we'll also follow up on the latest intros & demos from Revision.[ Demoscene Research ] June Updates
Finally added two missing papers: Hodges 2018 and Desidério & Rossi 2008. Two interesting books came out recently, and we’re working on getting them read and added as well. The first one is Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy by Gavin Mueller and the other Gaming the Iron Curtain by Jaroslav Svelch.[ Conspiracy ] Full Steam Ahead
Now that there's a second generation of VR headsets, we decided to put Offscreen Colonies VR on Steam - still for free! Enjoy![ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 008 - Your System Is Infected
It's 2019 and we keep on going with the Demonights series. The next date that you better do not miss is the 9th of March 2019 when Demonights 008 take place. This time we bring you a truly oldschool story, told by two scene legends from Berne.[ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 007 - Anaglyph 3D
You don't need a 3D-TV or VR-Glasses to delve into the third dimension. The demoscene experiments with 3D since the invention of simple anaglyph (red, cyan) glasses. In fact because of it's simplicity anaglyph 3D is still used even in more modern productions. -- INCLUDES ONE-FX COMPO --[ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 006 - Evoke Shadow Party
After the summer solstice, the DEMONIGHTS are getting longer again. Saturday, August 18th will be the next favourable occasion to submit your most astounding ONE-EFFECT-DEMO in our local competition. Save your travelling expenses to Cologne/Evoke.eu and join us in Bern instead :-)[ Conspiracy ] Ferris Makes Conspiracy Make Demos
Our friend Ferris has a pretty popular Twitch/YouTube economy where he regularly shows off his work process, and recently he asked us to join him and show off our toolchain - and we gladly obliged! You can check out the video here if you wanna see how we do intros, and you can also support him on Patreon if you think his stuff was worth your time![ Conspiracy ] Every beginning has an end.
Since we regularly forget to update the news section here it's probably worth mentioning that we released the third and final episode for our cataclysm-trilogy at Revision 2018 (and won the competition): enjoy When Silence Dims The Stars Above![ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 005 - We have been to Revision 2018
! WITH WORKSHOP ! On April 27 we take a look back at what has been going on in the spring of the worldwide demoscene, not least of which the results of REVISION 2018! Join us for an evening of the latest demoscene productions.