News

News reached us today of the closing of renowned Amstrad CPC demoscene site Push'n'Pop. Apparently the site suffered a server failure, and no data was salvageable after the crash. Visitors to any section of the site today are faced with a message that ends; "Despite all our efforts to restore it, the whole website is definitively lost. Now the Push'n'Pop team invites you to close your browser and to switch on your CPC."

http://pushnpop.net/end.html

We will likely phase out any Pushnpop links from the site in the next few days.

A more personal sidenote is in order here, on the vital importance of mirrors and backup. No one site is ever entirely secure, and data loss can always occur. As demoscene researchers, we see lost productions every day, and we make it our passion to retrieve and preserve everything we can from our rich digital heritage of the demoscene. The same is true of demoscene sites, where many are lost in the aeons of time - and even though snapshots can sometimes be found on the Wayback Machine, that is most effective against static sites and not so much for database-driven sites. So this is a call-out to site owners and production makers everywhere - get your backups sorted out, and upload everything else to scene.org.

Be safe.

Most of the stuff of last weekends STNICCC is now ready for download:

http://demozoo.org/parties/1517/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/stniccc15/

Those oldskoolers up in Gothenburg are timely dudes, and already uploaded the files and results from this weekend's festivities.

Without further ado, we'll let you get to it;

http://demozoo.org/parties/2746/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/gag15/

Finland is beating Australia pretty well in the "getting stuff out to people" stakes - here are the files and results from last night's FAP already! Enjooooy! :)

http://demozoo.org/parties/2535/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/fap15/

They took their sweet time, but in all fairness - these files came from the other side of the world. The results and files from last weekend's Syntax 2015 appeared in the scene.org incoming during this evening, and we've got it all sorted out and ready for you :) Have fun.

http://demozoo.org/parties/2745/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/syntax15/

Demosplash has evolved nicely in the last few years, and this last weekend's edition is no exception. Check out the results and the very nice entries at the link below :)

http://demozoo.org/parties/2652/

All files and results from TRSAC 2015 are in!

http://demozoo.org/parties/2528/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/trsac15/

All files and results from Deadline 2015 are in!

http://demozoo.org/parties/2601/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/deadline15/

And so, the files and results from Function are in! Have fun! :)

http://demozoo.org/parties/2684/
https://files.scene.org/browse/parties/2015/function15/

Hungary's premier demoscene event, Function, is running this weekend, and there's no reason not to stop by their stream over at Ustream to follow the proceedings;

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/function-demoscene-meeting-live

It requires flash unfortunately, but if you've chosen to take the sensible route and abandoned that technology, we can recommend the quite excellent application at http://livestreamer.io to get that thing up and running in your player of choice :)

The party's homepage is at http://2015.function.hu/en/
And on Demozoo, it's at http://demozoo.org/parties/2684/

Happy partying :)