Bulletin board systems (BBSs) were crucial communication and file exchange hubs for the scene well up to the mid-1990s. Scattered all over the globe, they represent a whole era, both for the legal/demo and the illegal parts of the scene. Already a while ago, Demozoo began to catalogue BBSs that had a scene connection. Now, just over a year later, we have over 7500 BBSs in our system, complete with sysops, affiliated groups, BBS intros, text ads etc. – and more are getting added every day.
You can browse the “boards” through an alphabetical list, or through our BBS-related tags. But, most excitingly, you can browse the global BBS network on a world map, a generous New Year gift by Gargaj/Conspiracy.
Enjoy the trip into a forgotten era of scene history, and if you were part of that yourself, please feel welcome to join our preservation efforts in this field. Also, if you were a sysop yourself and still have your BBS back-ups, please get in touch.
Finally all the files from Silly Venture 2021 Winter edition are available. Grey managed again to take us to the Atari wonderland by organizing another great event with some brilliant releases.
To celebrate the best tiny intro productions, we'll be awarding the top productions of 2021 on February 11th, 2022 at the Lovebyte 2022 Demoparty. The nomination process for the Nano Awards will run from December 1st, 2021 until January 1st, 2022, and you can nominate your favourite intros here on Demozoo. The nominated intros can range from as little as 32 bytes all the way up to 512 byte productions across a wide range of platforms. Nominees will be announced here on January 1st, 2022.
For more information, check out: https://nanoawards.lovebyte.party/
11 years of Demosplash! This time again with releases for multiple platforms running on real hardware during the compos. It is also the 1st time that demosplash offered a size constrained compo for productions up to 1k. The entries are just a few clicks away, so check them out!
Assembly Creative Tech 2021 was a special event held at The Finnish National Opera in Helsinki which aimed at exploring "how art and technology collide" – which sounds like a pretty good definition for the demoscene to us. And demoscene there was, as you can see for yourself with the results and releases that have been dutifully listed.