News

We've had a busy week over here, and as things start to return to normal and we're catching up on email and twitter and irc mentions, it seems everyone and their mother announced the dates and details of their parties. So, let's do a quick list of some of the highlights;

RESETkání 2014 (may)
Birdie 2014 (may-june)
Nordlicht 2014 (july)
TRSAC 2014 (october)
X 2014 (october)

The website for nvscene 2014 just went Live, and with it lots of information on the event - tickets, compos, and speakers for the seminars.

And the seminars demand special attention - the lineup is pretty stellar;

A Journey Into the Depths of a 4096 Bytes Production by David Valentine (Polaris / Northern Dragons) and Beausoleil Samson-Guilemette (Barzoule / Northern Dragons)
A Really Realtime Raytracer by Matt Swoboda (Smash / Fairlight)
A Short History of Hardware Abuse by Michael Dille (The Madd Doc / Cmucc) and Derek Kozel
An Introduction To the Possibilities of VR and AR For Digital Artists by Visa-Valtteri Pimä (Visy / Trilobit)
Demo Engine Tricks of the Trade by Armin Jahanpanah (Spike / Science)
Interactive Simulations (where nobody has to die) by Robert Hodgin (Flight404 / Cinder)
Multi-platform Graphics Done Right by Bent Stamnes (Gloom / Excess and Dead Roman)
New Ideas and Techniques For Creating Real-time Imagery by Iñigo Quilez (IQ / RGBA)
Procedural Content Generation and Shaders by Etienne Caron (Mr. Khan / NAID)
Real-time Fluid Dynamics by Maciej Matyka (Maq / Floppy)
Realtime Procedural Planets Rendering by Vander Roberto Nunes Dias (Imerso)
Rules of Thumb for (slightly) Better Design by Thomas Mann (Pixtur / Still)
Technical history lesson: Demo effects on the classic Amiga by Aske Simon Christensen (Blueberry / Loonies)

Website: http://nv.scene.org/2014/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/485080678256355/

T-101 will be hosting the SceneSat Sat-U-Rated Allstars 2013 live show on SceneSat radio.

Tune in on the 18th of January 2014, 17:00 CET to hear what voters voted as the top-25!

SceneSat Radio

Without telling us, those sneaky people organizing 7DX held a 2013 edition in the middle of december, with a number of tasty releases. Thanks to one of our irc users (hi wysiwtf!) for pointing it out, so we could take action.

Results are already in, and results.txt has been uploaded to scene.org - now everyone go fill in info, add screenshots and awesomeify it.

Despite being a smaller, "lite" edition, DiHalt 2014 Lite this weekend had lots and lots of ZX Spectrum releases, plus a few from other platforms now. Results are all in place, and screenshots and downloads are slowly filling in.

Check out some Spectrum goodness :)

Remix64.com and SceneSat are proud to present: Remixer of the Year 2013 Awards! Live on SceneSat.com

More information:
http://scenesat.com/show/518
http://www.remix64.com/roty.html

Tune in!

TSCC is extremely proud to present you the biggest Atari Demo Scene archive there is... entitled: Fujiology. Based on the ashes of the No Fragments CD-series we gathered together as many Atari Scene releases we could find. The archive was compiled by Lotek Style mostly during 2013.

The archive features 4 sections. The main section features releases for the Atari ST (11.280 Files). Then there are bonus sections for TT (16 Files), MAGS (3.021 Files), JAGUAR (471 Files) and FALCON (1.247 Files). Further sections are planned to be included in future updates.

The archive can be downloaded or browsed at http://fujiology.untergrund.net - and every production is already in Demozoo!

Atari FTW.

libopenmpt is a BSD-3-clause-licensed, cross-platform C and C++ module playback library. It is based on the player code of the Open ModPlug Tracker project.

Since libmodplug, which is based on an earlier version of the original ModPlug code base, had been released, the code bases of other ModPlug descendants (most notably Schism Tracker and Open ModPlug Tracker) had diverged significantly from the libmodplug code base. libmodplug did, in our opinion, not maintain pace all that well - especially regarding playback accuracy in corner cases. libopenmpt is now here to fill this gap. Get more information at the libopenmpt website at lib.openmpt.org.

Revision 2014 was announced with a kicking demo at the conclusion of the tUM highend demo competition, and a preliminary website where you can register is already up.

Get in, and see y'all in Saarbrooklyn in april!

At tUM this evening, LNX released - and open-sourced - Demobox, a HTPC application with a demoscene twist. In their own words; "Demobox is an application to run on your living room computer. It allows to run demos straight from your couch, bypassing launcher windows if there are any. And of course, you can watch videos or listen to music :)"

So, head on over to Demobox right here on Demozoo, or to the GitHub page to have a look at the source.

Update: For now, only the source code is available, but Xtrium tells us binaries will be provided very soon!