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As of this week, Demozoo now has records of over 300,000 releases in its database, with nearly 140,000 executable productions, over 47,000 graphics and over 113,000 music tracks. It's no small feat, so we would like to say a heartful 'thank you' to all contributors, past and present, for helping preserve the history of the demoscene, from the most humble and obscure releases to the mega-hits we all know.
Those numbers are crazy when you think about them, but the most impressive thing is that we are still missing a lot of prods, especially for some of the 8 bit platforms (that's you, Amstrad CPC!) that have historically been a bit of a blind spot for us.

The only demoparty dedicated to sizecoding took place on Twitch last weekend and generated a whirlwind of tiny but perfectly formed releases. 16 byte to 512 byte intros, oldchool or high-end, pixel art, nanogames: there's something for everyone.

Lovebyte 2022 on Demozoo / scene.org

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.

DiHalt took place last weekend in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia and was as usual very much a ZX Spectrum-centric event. All competitions were well-attended and there are plenty of nice releases to peruse.

DiHalt 2022 on Demozoo / scene.org

Slightly late one that one, but the results and releases from Transmission64 2021 Fall Edition (quite a mouthful!) which took place online earlier this month, are now available. C64 only as usual!

Transmission64 2021 Fall Edition on Demozoo / scene.org / CSDB

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.

Silly Venture 2021 Winter on Demozoo / scene.org

The long-running and only Japanese demoparty TokyoDemoFest took place online last weekend. The full results and releases are now available.

TokyoDemoFest 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

Australia's only demoparty was back in force last weekend and attracted a fair amount of lovely releases, including a boatload of C64 graphics.

Syntax 2021 on Demozoo / scene.org

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!

Demosplash 2o21 on Demozoo / scene.org