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DiHalt 2019 Lite took place last weekend in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and was the occasion for an extravaganza of ZX Spectrum releases, plus quite a few other 8-bit platforms, especially in the graphics competition. Click below and see for yourself!

DiHalt 2019 Lite on Demozoo / scene.org

Hi, there. Hope you all had a wonderful new years celebration. This post will just be a little round-up of things that happened on the admin side at the end of the year, to catch you all up and get to kicking ass in the new year.

First of all, welcome new staff member 100bit to the fold! 100bit has been excelling as a contributor for some time, always adding and fixing information, and we believe in empowering our users - so we quickly escalated his privileges, allowing him to fix himself issues that would previously need help from an admin. Looking forward to a 2019 with you on the team, sir! :)

Secondly, towards the end of December, Gasman shipped an update to the site, enabling upload of nfo / txt / diz and any other related text file to a release - closing issue #354 on our GitHub in the process. You can find the functionality by clicking the Add Other Information button on any production, and selecting Add an info file.

Finally, we'd like to remind you that our Hackathon #3 is upcoming in late january - the 26th, to be precise. We invite you all to join us on our Slack community - get invited if you're not already there and help us hack on code, documentation, text, screenshots or any other aspect of the site you want to help out with.

Oh, and one more thing. A fantastic opportunity has come around for us, which we won't talk too much about before we have some actual results from it, but rest assured - 2019 will be very interesting. :)

All the best - upwards and onwards,

-- Menace

The German party Under Construction will seemingly never be finished, since they held ANOTHER EDITION this last week. Probably, all the workers at the construction site took three days off to have beer and make demos.

Even if the construction is taking its time, we do have some files and results to show for it.

Under Construction 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

(and yes, I used an old icon that is not in tune with the current artwork. So sue me. :) )

A few days ago, Noname/Haujobb published their framework to GitHub, likely as an extension to a talk he and Hellfire gave at Evoke, titled Modern Amiga Demo Cross-Development. Sharing is caring, so head over there and start reading up;

https://github.com/leifo/haujobb-amiga

Wow, what a weekend that was! Compusphere in Sweden (and 25th anniversary!), Cookie in Paris and TokyoDemoFest in... (wait for it) Tokyo, Japan. We've gathered everything that's been made public already. Check the links below and please contribute if you happen to own anything that's missing.

Compusphere 25 on Demozoo / scene.org
Cookie 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org
TokyoDemoFest 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

The fresh winds from Finland brought us the releases from this small demoparty which took place in Tampere last weekend. We've collated all the prods and they're just a click away. Enjoy!

Vortex 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

The yearly edition of Syntax took place earlier this month in Melbourne, Australia. The releases have been made public in a not-so-organized form and we tried as best as we can to reconcile them to the results, which involved a lot of educated guesses. It's not 100% complete though, so if you know things that we don't, please contribute!

Syntax 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

Regular US event Demosplash took place earlier this month in Pittsbutgh, Pennsylvania and we have now all the releases neatly listed on Demozoo. Some really cool ANSI/ASCII art as often with US demoparties and a rather intriguing partial remake of MS-DOS classic Second Reality, only running on a holographic display.

Demosplash 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

We just passed another little milestone - we now detail, in more or less detail, 70,000 pieces of demoscene-related music.

Much of it even playable right in the browser, thanks to the quite wonderful Cowbell! If you're not aware, you can drop-in a download link to eligible formats from one of the supported platforms - scene.org (not inside archives), modland, or modarchive - and you'll have instantly enabled playback in the browser! We even made a little thingiemabob that lists a subset of tunes that are eligible but do not have download links - clicky clicky - and you can help by dropping in some links in there!

So, fast forward then I guess, to the next milestone :)

X! Every two years, we get a new X party. If you've been living under a rock, X is pretty much the C64 demoscene Olympics, and where all the big guns unleash their firepower. And such firepower! We're got the complete results integrated into Demozoo now, and the files are available on scene.org, so really - fire up your machinery, and get to it. We're really not worth this embarrassment of riches.

X 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org