Tag: Demo Scene

Versus, The Amiga Demo Chart, Voting has opened for issue 9!

Some interesting Scene News today. @AmigaOldSkooler contacted Vitno recently through Twitter to let you all know that Void and Nukleus are bringing back the Amiga demo chart called Versus. They are looking for people to vote for their favourite Amiga demos and Artist. Looking over the details, it could come across a little daunting, but rest assured, you do not…

The Black Lotus wow Revision 2019 with Amiga “Eon” demo

The annual Revision demo party wrapped up in Saarbrücken over the weekend, and it was another great event. The Black Lotus unveiled their latest Amiga creation to the hall of expectant fans – unsurprisingly, it secured first place in the Amiga section. Demos that target the OCS/ECS chipset are especially popular. If not responsible for the demo scene itself, the…

Boing Ball So Crazy: a tribute to the classic Amiga tech demo!

We saw this published on our RSS from Pouet, and as ardent fans of the Commodore Amiga, we simply had to show off this excellent tribute to the classic ‘Boing Ball’ demo. Credit for the production goes to Pixel Nation (creator of Max Knight for OCS Amigas), who released the video at AmiParty XXIII Competition (ranked 2nd) – great work!

Multimatograf 2018 Demo Party Results

Here are the final 8bit demo results for the Multimatograf 2018 Demo Party which was held 29th-30th April 2018, in Vologda, Russia. 1. Marinows by Insiders 2. Qumi Demo by Qumi Team 3. atarin by techno lab 4. In Your Space sound demo by Manwe 5. CSP2018 Invitation by flushakkkr 6. DiHALT 2018 invitation by Q-Bone All results: results.txt Pouët:…

Revision Easter Party 2017 Streaming Now! Get Ready For Some Awesome Demo Releases!

Revision Party 2017 takes place from April 14th to 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. As you can see the stream is live on twitch right now, get ready for lots of demo scene goodness. For those of you that don’t know, Revision is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries turning up to show off…

Press Play on Pad: The Demoscene Disc [Cobe][CD32][SX32]

Cobe has assembled a cracker compilation of 32 demoscene productions on a single disc – almost all AGA titles such as the remarkable Nexus-7 by Andromeda, but also a few classic OCS demoscene productions as well (notably, State of the Art by Spaceballs). What’s more, the disc will by default play demos in a random order, making it a perfect…

A Pirate’s Life for Me – The Digital Antiquarian

This 2-part article, written by Jimmy Maher on the ‘The Digital Antiquarian’ blog tackles software piracy, since the dawn of personal computing. The first part focus on the history, starting with the open letter Bill Gates wrote back in 1976, asking the hobbyists to not copy Micro-soft software and explaining how software copyright came to be. The second part is actually my favorite,…

Commodore 64 Demo Scene group Onslaught celebrates 20 years with a new demo

Onslaught has been around for 20 years already. With almost one thousand releases, the demo scene group is one of the most relevant around. To celebrate its 20 years, the group has released a new demo showing some amazing effects as well as paying homage to its members and friends. Vintage is the New Old has published the demo on our…

How about reading a Commodore 64 Old School Disk Magazine? Attitude #16

It has been published today the Commodore 64 the Disk Magazine Attitude issue 16, reminds us how things were before the Internet and fancy websites (like ours!). The magazine mostly covers the C64 Demo Scene, with news from the groups and what happened in 2015. The nicest thing about the magazine is how well it is produced and the quality…

Reset Magazine issue #7 is Out!

Reset Magazine of July 2015 is out with lots of good stuff. Other than the regular news and reviews, it brings special articles about Zzap!64 magazine, and a featured article about the the game C64 Elite. Download: Reset #7