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The seminars from the recent Demobit event in Slovakia was finally released on YouTube, for your streaming pleasure. There's something for everyone in there, on several interesting topics. Have fun! :)

Demoscene & Netaudio - Filipe 'ps' Cruz
Helping Charming Hand-Drawn to Survive in Cruel CG - Daniel 'Redox' Sýkora
Magic of 256-byte c86 intros - Jan 'Rrřola' Kadlec
Making 'high-end' Amiga demos - Michal 'Kiero' Wozniak
Now and then: life in the big ASD machine - Kostas 'Navis' Pataridis

The popular Easter demoparty took place last weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany and it certainly didn't disappoint, especially in the 4k and 64k categories. Click below and be amazed!

Revision 2017 on Demozoo
Revision 2017 on scene.org

And it's official! The Meteoriks awards for 2017 were given out this past Friday. The winners and runners-up are:

New Talent: Andro of Poo-Brain

• Honorable Mention: LJ

Best Interactive Production: Analysis by Bitfellas & Acko

• Honorable Mention: TIATracker by Kylearan of Cluster

Best Low-End Intro: Higher State of Resolution by Dekadence

Best Freestyle Graphics: Drowned Lullabies by Slayer of Ghostown

• Honorable Mention: Tortuga by H7 and Luciano Ayres of Blocktronics

That's not Possible on this Platform!: Wonderland XIII by Censor Design

Best Low-End Demo: Unmec by Agenda

Public Choice: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy

Best High-End 4k Intro: 2nd stage BOSS by 0x4015 & YET11

Best Storytelling/Storyline/Plot: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy

• Honorable Mention: Lunatico by lft

Best Soundtrack: Elysian by Logicoma (music by H0ffman)

Best Direction: 2nd stage BOSS by 0x4015 & YET11

• Honorable Mention: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy

Best High-End Demo: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me by Conspiracy

• Honorable Mention: Fermi Paradox by Mercury

The winners and nominees are listed on the website, as are the jurors.

The Nominees for the Meteoriks Awards, to be presented at Revision later this month, are finally in! Without further ado, we'll let you know who they are.

Best Direction: 2nd Stage BOSS - Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Gestalt - Lucy - Through The Cracks
That's Not Possible On This Platform: Be No Sqr - Chiphead - Incoherent Nightmare - Lunatico - Wonderland XIII
Best High-End 4K Intro: 2nd Stage Boss - Among The Stars - Outcast - Rhodium - Xanax
Best Storytelling/Storyline/Plot: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Evolve - In The Future - Lunatico - They Came In Peace
Interactive: Analysis - Laura - Sipper - Tiatracker - Visql
Best Freestyle Graphics: Grove of the Pilgrim Hollow - The Drowned Lullabies - Tortuga - Tribe - Vesta
Best Low-End Intro: Everyway - Harder, Better, Manic, Miner - Higher State of Resolution - Unglobal
Best Soundtrack: Calcatraz - Elysian - Everyway - Instant God - Through The Cracks
Best Low-End Demo: 30 Years Amstrad Megademo - Across The Edge - Lunatico - Unmec - Wonderland XIII
Best High-End Demo: Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Fermi Paradox - Instant God - Terminal 7 - True Colors
New Talent: AA-Ray - Andro - Branch - FMS_Cat - LJ
Public Choice: 2nd Stage Boss - Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me - Fermi Paradox - Higher State of Resolution - Lunatico - Variform 3

The year is 2017. The place, a small village in North-West Slovakia. The event, a long-running 8 bit only demoparty that goes by the name of Forever. It took place last weekend and all the ZX Spectrum/C64/Atari 8bit/PMD 85/ZX 81/Thomson/Sam Coupé/GameBoy releases and results are now available.

Forever 2017 on Demozoo
Forever 2017 on scene.org

Familiar beeps and blops were heard in Berlin last weekend as C64-focused party BCC was taking place. A fair amount of activity was observed and all subsequent releases are available right here.

BCC #11 on Demozoo

Held in 1996 and organized by Gaffer^PRoMETHEUS this online compo was all about the classic fire effect. Even if the effect evolved since then in terms of size and quality some of the releases are quite nice - and only some clicks away. So check them out :)

#coders 256 Byte Fire Compo on Demozoo
#coders 256 Byte Fire Compo on scene.org

Straight from Tokyo, Japan - the results and the files from this weekend's great edition of TDF are now available! It seems there are some pretty cool ones in there, so go explore and have fun! :)

TokyoDemoFest 2017 on Demozoo
TokyoDemoFest 2017 on scene.org

EFnet #ASM Compos 1 - 11 held between 1999 and 2004 are now online bringing you some nice releases, mostly DOS Intros. Even with some results missing this series is worth some clicks!

EFnet #ASM Compo Series on Demozoo
EFnet #ASM Compo Series on Scene.org

This weekend's Datastorm 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden was host to some amazing releases. We've had results in place since sunday, but unfortunately many files are still missing.

Edit: Files were uploaded to the Datastorm server last night, and are now available on scene.org :)

Datastorm 2017 on Demozoo
Datastorm 2017 on scene.org
Releases and results pack on datastorm.party