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Lovebyte, the online event dedicated to tiny releases and fantasy consoles, had its second event in a year last weekend: Lovebyte Battlegrounds! Take a look if TIC-80 and Pico-8 are the sort of things that tickle your fancy.

Lovebyte Battleground 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

Here at Demozoo, we're all about making sure demoscene history is preserved, for future generations to enjoy and study. We do this in a variety of ways, by finding old software around the internet and making sure it is properly stored, mirrored and available for all.

Perhaps even more importantly, a few community members make it their passion to dump old media - and there's a crapton of stuff missing from the annals of history on all platforms. So, we are forever searching for materials to dump, scan and make available - from floppy disks, harddisks, zip disks, tapes and even disk covers and swapping letters.

We're dedicating the coming weekend to this endeavour, and hope to be sharing some of our enthusiasm and perhaps find some lost gems. We'll be hanging out in #diskdumping on our Discord server and perhaps a few of us will also be streaming some actual dumping? Drop in, hang out, and let's see if we can't help each other make more lost productions significantly less lost.

Function took place in Budapest, Hungary last weekend. Many people went. Many releases were made - tiny intros, lovingly pixelled images, awe-inspiring demos, pleasant-sounding tunes. Time to check them all out!

Function 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

The long-running Argentinian demoparty took place online for the second year in a row, but that didn't detract contestants as the number of entries was really high - possibly the best output ever for a Flash Party. Oldschool, newschool, ANSI, ASCII, Flash Party has it all!

Flash Party 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

Chaos Constructions 2021 took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia a couple of weeks ago. There were plenty of releases, with a focus on ZX Spectrum as traditionally for this event.

Chaos Constructions 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

Let's celebrate! Today we have received the final missing files from Silly Venture 2020 + 1 Summer. Feel free to explore about 102 files from atari scene's finest crowd. Compared to previous years that's a small amount but you will get high quality releases.

You can get the files here:

Silly Venture 2020 + 1 on Demozoo / scene.org / Fujiology

After getting cancelled last year, Xenium was able to take place last weekend in Katowice, Poland. Plenty of releases saw the light of day, both on oldschool and modern platforms. Take a peek!

Xenium 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

Long-running C64 event Árok took place online last weekend and all the releases are now available for download. Lots of interesting things to look at or listen to once again!

Árok 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

As last year, this year's Evoke took place online and was known as 'névoke'. The results and most of the releases (a few are missing for an unknown reason) are now available, and by all accounts it appears this was a good year from a quantitative and qualitative point of view!

névoke 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

The results for the German C64-oriented outdoor gathering are now available. Not a tonne of releases, but some really nice ones as usual, with a cool A500 demo from TEK as a bonus!

ATWOODS Summer Open-Air 2021 on Demozoo