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Numbers are fun! While not a goal in itself, we do like to see our numbers grow, and we're approaching yet another milestone this weekend - we're about 150 productions shy of 80,000! So, we were thinking we'd do a little thing and gather together over the weekend to cross the finishing line together. So, who's up for some production adding and detailing this weekend?

We're always around in our Slack team - get yourself invited if you want to chat, and let's crush that number, yeah?

Gubbdata is a Swedish invite-only C64-mostly demoparty and the latest edition just took place last weekend. We already have all the releases and results available for your enjoyment, courtesy of a very efficient Hedning (thanks!). Some really nice releases this year, the C64 Graphics competition being especially impressive.

Gubbdata 2018 on Demozoo
Gubbdata 2018 on scene.org

Silesia claims to be the biggest C64 event in Poland. Its ninth and apparently last edition took place at the beginning of the month in the south of the country. Click below to browse the releases.

Silesia 9 on Demozoo

In the UK, Nova is not only a car of legends, it is also the successor of the Sundown demoparties that took place from 2005 to 2016 in beautiful Devon. The 2018 edition of Nova just closed its doors a couple of days ago and we already have all the releases available, thanks to the very diligent organizers.

Nova 2018 on Demozoo
Nova 2018 on scene.org

@Party is one of those all too rare North-American demoparties. The 2018 edition took place at the beginning of the month in Boston, USA and we now have all the releases neatly arranged and ready for you to browse. Click below!

@Party 2018 on Demozoo
@Party 2018 on scene.org

Users of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator for the Windows platform can rejoice, as a new major version is out! In addition to a host of improvements and bug fixes, they list 4 major new features;

• Beam Racing Lagless VSync which reduces input latency to sub-5ms. Replaces old Low Latency VSync. (Use 1-2 slice Lagless VSync to match old Low Latency VSync behavior)
• Virtual multi monitor support. Each virtual Amiga video output connector (Video port graphics adapter, RTG boards) can be “connected” to separate WinUAE window, emulating real hardware being connected to more than one physical monitor.
• Debugger supports running Amiga executables from shell, adds symbol and gcc stab debugging data support, loads executable to special reserved address space which enables detection of any illegal accesses byte accurately and more.
• Host mode FPU emulation mode is finally full extended precision (80-bit) capable. It is also fully JIT compatible.

More information as well as downloads available at the WinUAE homepage

France's very own Very Important Party was very much held last weekend not very far away from Lyon. All the releases have now been made public and are available just below.

Very Important Party 2018 on Demozoo
Very Important Party 2018 scene.org

Wap-Niak is a small Polish event dedicated to Atari 8-bit computers. We just got all the releases from this year's edition.

Wap-Niak 2018 on Demozoo
Wap-Niak 2018 on Fujiology

The Finnish party took place in Joroinen last weekend and we now have all the releases nicely listed and available for download. Kippis!

Simulaatio 2018 on Demozoo
Simulaatio 2018 on scene.org

This one slipped by us, but it's noteworthy so we'll double back and make sure people know. The Versatile Commodore Emulator (VICE) came out with a new version, and it's probably a good idea to, you know, update. Grab it at the VICE website now! :)

We'll post the general update list below, in addition there are a number of updates for specific platforms etc.

• New (experimental) GTK3 native port, this and the SDL(2) port will replace all other ports (which will get removed) in VICE 3.3 and onward.
• Handling of the -keybuf command now works properly for all emulators and RAM sizes.
• Fixed handling of LOAD"$$" with virtual devices.
• Fixed @CD, @MD and @RD commands for virtual filesystem devices.
• Fixed NEOS Mouse emulation.
• Call the new CIA "8521" instead of "6526A" (which is wrong) in the UIs.
• Added 4sid support.
• Fixed tape wobble.
• Erase timing fixes in flash core.
• Don't allocate sectors on tracks > 70 in the BAM of 1571 images.
• Ethernet emulation: fix register mapping in rr-net mode.
• reSID: fixed envelope bugs shown by testprogs/SID/env_test/.
• Fixed 6509 CPU port issues.
• Added support for TAP virtual network interface.
• Fixed drive clock overflow. Drive and host went out of sync on clock overflow (every ~4G cycles), which would break loading or custom drive code in the case loader/stuff is not idle during overflow window. Also drive would execute ~4G cycles out of sync, which made the emulator freeze for a while.