News

Hope everyone's having fun and hacking on various bits of Demozoo :) The third hackathon is well under way, and if you're not already there, please do stop by our Slack to chat. We'll be around all weekend, so come say hi!

Now, for some news. We're happy to announce that we have cooperated with the premier Amiga demoscene database Janeway, for an export of all their data, for inclusion in Demozoo. This means that over the next few weeks, you'll see a significant bump in Amiga-related information on Demozoo. Just to put the amount of data in perspective, they currently sit at over 90,000 productions alone. Thank you very much to the entire Janeway team - particularly Asle and Zeg, for the generous gesture of allowing us their data. At Demozoo, we value open data, and we're very happy that our brothers and sisters working on more specific sites feel the same.

We'd like to stress very explicitly that this does not in any way shape or form mean that Janeway is going away. The team is motivated and active, and will still be going forward for many years to come.

The C64 scene had the opportunity to flex their muscles lately with that online competition organized by our friends at CSDb. No less than 63 entries were submitted! There's no shortage of creativity and talent in sight for the little brown box.

Intro Creation Competition 2018 on Demozoo / scene.org

MAGFest is an annual festival held in Washington, USA that celebrates video games and video game music. This year it included a demoparty for the first time and we now have all the releases on Demozoo.

MAGFest Demoparty 2019 on Demozoo / scene.org

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