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Russia's biggest demoscene event was back in St Petersburg last weekend and saw once again many quality releases mostly on the ZX Spectrum, as the tradition goes.

Chaos Constructions 2021 Winter on Demozoo / scene.org

To celebrate the best tiny intros, we'll be awarding the best productions of 2020 on march 12th, 2021 at the Lovebyte 2021 Demoparty (http://www.lovebyte.party/)

Over the next 2 weeks, we will be announcing the 10 nominees for each of the categories. Starting with the nominees for the Best Oldschool Tiny Intro on friday the 19th of february 2021.

From march 1st until the start of the Lovebyte Party, you'll be able to vote on your favorite tiny intro.

For more information, check out the Nano Awards 2021 website at: http://nanoawards.lovebyte.party/

OMZG, the online event organised by PS, Alien01, and friends, took place last weekend and the results and releases are in! Have a look and fulfil your obsession about the friendly — but mysterious — country of Molvania.

OMZG on Demozoo / scene.org

As some of you have figured out from the Github commit and the footer of the actual webpage - today we're announcing we're moving our community over from Slack to Discord.

The reasons for this move are many - both technical and otherwise, but most importantly it's about moving where the people are. We're seeing an increased use of the platform, and more and more we were seeing people reach out to us over there on other servers rather than joining our Slack. So overall, it made sense in the end.

In order to secure a smooth turnover, this Slack will live on through february and march, before we will close it down, which should mean everyone has a good amount of time to figure out how to move over.

So, click on through to https://discord.io/demozoo - and we'll see you on the other side.

The work towards the annual celebration of last years' best productions has begun, and YOU - yes, you - can now nominate your favourites from 2020 for award celebration right here on Demozoo. Just navigate to any eligible production from 2020, and nominate right there on the page.

https://2021.meteoriks.org/ for more information.

Today we are happy to announce that Modland is under new management. Modland is a tracker music ftp site, started by Coma in the 2000’s, and run by himself up unto now. We thank Coma for his tremendous efforts to create an amazing archive of music for the world to enjoy, and we humbly hope to continue and grow the archive for the coming years.

For our users, it is our intention and hope that they will not really notice the changeover whatsoever. While we are on a complete new backend, we seek to replicate all functionality including rsync service to our mirrors as seamlessly and painlessly as possible. We are reachable on our new Discord server or at admins@modland.com if you wanna come talk to us. We also seek to re-open /incoming for uploads once we have cleared out what is already sitting there.

Upwards and onwards,

Menace (content) and Ziphoid (technical), modland.com

Long-running Russian demoparty DiHalt came back with a vengeance last weekend and was an — gasp — actual event with real people gathering into the same place, like in the old days... Anyway, people did show up and they released plenty of nicely-looking and/or nicely-sounding things, particularly for the ZX Spectrum as usual for DiHalt.
DiHalt 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

New kid on the block Hogmanay held a virtual event on December 31st and January 1st and the releases and results are now available. Please have a look and enjoy the first releases of the new year, which we are convinced will be better than the previous one :)

Hogmanay Party 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Christmas productions have a long history in the demoscene, with hundreds and hundreds of festive releases over the past 35 years or so. Thanks to our pretty cool tagging system we have gathered over 500 Christmas-themed productions, an amount which should you wish to check them all out, would probably keep you busy for a large part of the upcoming holidays! To save you some time we have come up with a little selection of releases that will definitely put you into the Christmas mood:

• X-Mas '92 by Cascada (MS-DOS demo, 1992)
• X-Mess by Sunrise Industry (MS-DOS intro, 1996)
• Christmas Chips 2 by Talent (Windows music-disk, 2002)
• No Santa Porn by Marshals (Amiga OCS/ECS intro, 2003)
• Happy Holidays by Inque and Poo-Brain (Windows intro, 2014)
• Chiperia Christmas Edition by The Chiperia Project (Amiga OCS/ECS music-disk, 2015)
• Merry Xmas 2017 by Genesis Project (C64 demo, 2017)
• Left Unsaid by 5711 (Pico-8 demo, 2020)
• Christmas Megademo by Atlantis, Bonzai, Genesis Project, Lethargy, and Offence (C64 demo, 2020)

There were a fair amount of releases for Demodulation, a retro event taking place in Russia earlier this month. It's all on oldschool platforms obviously, but not only for ZX Spectrum as sometimes in that region.

Demodulation 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org