Category: Demoscene
The X2024 demoparty, held at Someren, The Netherlands, once again proved to be a hotbed of creativity and technical wizardry. Amidst a sea of impressive entries, Fairlight’s “13:37” demo captivated all in attendance and secured the title of the best demo. If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favour and check it out. It’s a demo that deserves to be experienced firsthand. …
DPaint.js is a sophisticated image editor capable of reading and writing Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images. The editor is not complete yet, but it looks pretty usable. A nice feature is the ability to visualize your artwork in Deluxe Paint running on an Amiga emulator directly in the browser. Main features Fully Featured image editor with a.o. Layers…
Logos are an important aspect of demoscene culture because they serve as a means of self-expression and identification within the community. They can also be a source of friendly competition, as groups and individuals strive to create the most impressive and visually striking logos possible. In addition to branding for groups and individuals, logos are often used within demos themselves…
Demo Sceners all around the world are getting ready for the best party of the year, Revision 2023! For those of you that aren’t so familiar with the demo scene, A demoparty is – on the first glance – like a LAN party. Depending on the size, a few or hundreds of visitors may bring their computers and set…
PETSCII Compositor is a Windows tool that helps create PETSCII art based on existing graphics. A few days ago, the creator, MultiStyle Labs, released a new version, 1.10. The program aims to allow any user to can grab any image, load it to the program and, with a couple of clicks, see thatimage turned into PETSCII graphics. What caught my…
Hokuto Force has released an enhanced version of Dig Dug, one of my favourite games for the C64 (I’ve played a lot on the arcades back in the day, to be honest!). In addition to the NTSC speed option, the team took the time to fix some bugs in the original game and focus on features that would be appreciated…
The 2nd. ATASCII Compo is in the history books now. The ATASCII-art competition aimed to find who are the real artists out there cable of conveying their imagination through the Atari 8-bit character set. Looking at the 23 entries this year, you cannot see a “bad” one, so in the end, it was really to find the best of the…
Demoscene – The Art of Coding is an initiative to enlist the demoscene as the first digital culture on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. AJ and Joerg (er, Derision and Nafcom) talk to Dedux, Flopine, Kudrix, and Unjello about why this is important and how we can all help move the initiative forward. (interview begins at 10:00) http://scene.world/artofcoding
The Only Sprites Compo hosted by CSDb came to an end and announced the winners. Because the compo had received demos and games competing, it was decided to separate them into two categories. In the Demos category, the winner is Oldschool Sprite Demo by Bonzai, which had tough competition against the other 26 demos. The best game category had only…
The damascene group Abyss Connection has started the new year with a new tool targeting the Commodore 64 scene. Ditheridoo is a multicolour bitmap editor for C64. It runs on 64-bit versions of Linux, macOS and Windows. The editor is open-source and written in Python and allows easy dithering, and in this first release offers checkerboard, x-line, y-line, light dither…
