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A final version of Unique's Pt. 2 Horizons appeared today, if you want to revisit their 3rd-placed Amiga demo from this year's Revision :)

Pt. 2 Horizons on Demozoo

Historically the biggest Assembly Summer (over 9000+ visitors!) has now been wrapped and we can enjoy the releases on our sofas. The main demo compo was also filled with excellent quality releases. Compo results were not so clear until the prize giving, as the top 5 were all very first-rate entries.

On top of the classic compos there were also few more extras available at The Scene Lounge, which was an expected addition for the sceners to spend time between the compos. Scene Lounge also offered some mentoring with their workshops and seminars, so the party can hope to see some newcomers next year! Enjoy this years breath taking winners;

Demo; Number One / Another One by CNCD Fairlight
64K Intro; Out of the Box by Adapt
4K Intro; HBC-00016: Core Critical by Half-Bit Cheese
1K Intro; Geelimanipulaatio by gib3 and tix0
Oldskool Demo; Shattered Minds by Byterapers

For the 27th time (!), the annual edition of Assembly just closed its doors in Helsinki and there are TONS of releases to get your eyes on.

Assembly 2018 on Demozoo / on scene.org

It was another fabulous Datastorm in beautiful Gothenburg. :) Now, all files are out an available on scene.org.

Datastorm 2018 on Demozoo / on scene.org

Thanks to our friend Asle, we just got hold of an archive containing all the entries of the Graphics competition at Voyage 1995, most of which we were missing. Now if someone had the entries from the Music competition, that would be perfect!

Update: And after some further digging, Asle came through once again, with an almost-complete set of the music! The only tune missing from this party now is the winner, which as far as we can tell was never spread. If someone knows otherwise, or even better - has a copy of the module, LimeStone by TranceTip, DO get in touch! :)

Also happening this weekend is the quite amazing Assembly in lovely Helsinki, Finland, and we don't want you to miss all the fun even if you can't attend. And perhaps/hopefully that will spur you on to attend next year, yeah? Yeah.

They have a special area for sceners called the Scene Lounge that you can read all about here, and also - oh we don't know, people may be doing stuff on the side of the party at some hills or other, who knows for sure really, 'tis just a rumour.

Find their twitch.tv channel here and get watching!

Lastly, Assembly just wants to put it out there that the do allow remote entries as well - check the compo rules, more about submitting and the deadlines for all that!

The Stockholm demoparty Edison has files and results out now - all results are already added to Demozoo, and you can get busy examining the files, making some nice large screenshots, and generally getting stuck in with the goodness. :)

Edison 2018 on Demozoo / on scene.org

Nordlicht was held this weekend, and files and results are now available. In a surprising turn of events, that is also the case of the entries from last year's entry, where most entries were thought lost until organizers booted their compo machine to find the files happily sitting where they were last seen. :) So, without further ado, start digging in.

Nordlicht 2018 on Demozoo / on scene.org
Nordlicht 2017 on Demozoo / on scene.org

Sorry for the late heads-up, but two very notable parties in Germany and Sweden are streaming their saturday compos this evening - so head over to our friends at SceneSat for both those streams!

And get inspired to go next year. Because, seriosuly. Demoparties.

Good news for anyone who's had to sift through a pile of vaguely-related search results to find the thing they were looking for! Demozoo's search feature has had a major revamp - we've switched away from Djapian as the backend in favour of PostgreSQL's full text search, which gives us vastly improved control over search result rankings and filtering options.

You'll now see more relevant results in your searches - with exact title matches taking priority over items that match a word mid-title, for example. For extra control you can restrict your search to a particular category: just sceners, or music, or parties. The new search is equipped with powerful filtering capabilities that go way beyond that, though - open up the "Advanced search help" panel on the search results page and you'll find options for filtering on platform, production type, tags, groups and more. Want to search for a C64 cracktro by Fairlight from 1990? Now you can!