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[ demoparty.net ] Decrunch 2025: Decrunch #10 - 2025 is postphoned

We regret to inform you that the DECRUNCH demoparty originally scheduled for May 16th-18th, 2025 must be postponed. This decision was not made lightly, especially as we celebrate our 10th anniversary alongside AMIGA’s 40th birthday - a milestone year for us all.

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[ Demozoo ] Meteoriks award winners announced

The final results of the 2025 Meteoriks have been presented on stage at Revision.

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for NEW TALENT goes to ciosai_tw for bruh i ain't naming things with an Honorable Mention of steffest for Ordo

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for OUTSTANDING CONCEPT goes to A Statement On The Platform Wars by Moonbase Allstars

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS goes to Chromatic North by epoqe

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to 13:37 by Fairlight

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to The Mind by Haujobb & SWEET16

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST SOUNDTRACK goes to Asura by mfx with an Honorable Mention of Crystal Dynamics by NOGAPNOBACT3RIA

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT goes to Gosia by SIMurai with an Honorable Mention of Mariana by Jin X

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST VISUALS goes to Empires by Conspiracy with an Honorable Mention of Fishbomb by Extend

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST HIGH-END INTRO goes to Starseed by LJ & Puryx with an Honorable Mention of Empires by Conspiracy

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST DIRECTION goes to Asura by mfx with an Honorable Mention of XO by Nuance

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST HIGH-END DEMO goes to Stranded by Madwizards with an Honorable Mention of Asura by mfx

Check out the full list of nominees, and the 2025 watchlist of notable releases hand-picked by the juries.

[ demoparty.net ] Nordlicht 2025: Nordlicht 2025 is Postponed

Hello, people! We (almost) got news for you. So here’s a summary of current developments .. Nordlicht will NOT take place from 3rd - 6th July! BUT we are almost certain that it will happen a couple weeks later. We are in the process of getting a deal with a new location, first viewing and discussion were very positive but there is no signable contract just yet. So bear with us while we sort things out. Please do cancel your hotel bookings for 3rd - 6th, if any, because that date is deffo out of the question due to how the new location operates. We’ll get you updated as quickly as possible, pinky promise!

Once we finalized the date, I’ll start a new thread right here on pouet et al.

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.15.00 released

This small update for OpenMPT 1.31 fixes a couple of bugs and bring a few other improvements. This is most likely going to be the last OpenMPT 1.31 release, and we are looking forward to releasing OpenMPT 1.32 very soon.

Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:

• Relaxed BRR file rejection heuristics a bit.
• Sample loop and cue point information is now also copied for sample selections.
• Fixed possible crash when replacing a sample with a shorter one while outside of the sample editor, and then returning to the same sample slot.
• Drawing sample data from right to left caused the drawn lines to not be interpolated properly.
• Fixed a crash when trying to remove the only point of an instrument envelope.
• If multiple keyboard layouts were installed, note key mapping could be based on the wrong layout, causing e.g. B-4 and Note-Off keys to be swapped on the default key map with an active US keyboard layout but also a German layout being present.

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the full version history. If you are upgrading from OpenMPT 1.30 or older, read the release notes to get a glimpse of the biggest changes.

[ Demozoo ] MountainBytes 2025: Results and releases!

MountainBytes 2025 is over! The Swiss demo event of the year took place on February 14th to 16th and leaves us with many productions worth watching from four main competitions and the specials OHP demo competition and the innovative 3D graphics competition (with models included in the digital performance as part of the Saturday evening live act).

MountainBytes 2025 on Demozoo / scene.org

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube sooner or later.

[ Demozoo ] MountainBytes 2025: Remote entry submission open

The MountainBytes 2025 partysystem is live and available for remote entry uploads! Get an access key by contacting MountainBytes organizing by Email or Discord and register & upload at party.mountainbytes.ch.

This is an upload facility for non-visitors only! For everyone going to the party in Cham/Switzerland on the next weekend, please do not apply for a key yet as you'll get a unique, lovingly handcrafted access key at the MountainBytes welcome desk.

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.14.00 released

This first update of the year of OpenMPT 1.31 brings a number of bugfixes and improvements backported from OpenMPT 1.32 development.

Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:

• Fine tempo adjustment shortcuts now also work with formats that don't support fractional tempo.
• Pressing Ctrl while moving sample loop points or clicking loop start / end spin buttons now moves the loop, keeping the loop length constant.
• Sample Cue preview shortcuts now set the cue point if it's currently unused and the sample is being previewed. The cue point is inserted at the currently playing sample position.
• Time stretching didn't update sample cue points.
• Default velocity for instrument plugins was broken in OpenMPT 1.31.13.00.
• Fixed potential crash when trying to move the cursor past the start or end of a pattern when the order list is empty.
• Avoid NNA channel starvation due to sample-based instruments that have a MIDI channel assigned and NNA set to "Continue".
• XM: Warn when saving an instrument that references more than 16 (compatibility export) or 32 samples. "Find MPT Hacks" now also warns when an XM instrument uses more than 16 samples.
• ITP: Instruments paths were always read as relative paths since OpenMPT 1.31.01.00, usually causing them to fail to load. Since OpenMPT 1.28.01.00, instrument and envelope flags were no longer read correctly as well.
• Passing a relative path to a module file as a command-line parameter for OpenMPT did not work as intended since OpenMPT 1.29.10.00.
• Real BPM approximation reported infinity when rows per beat was set to 0. A default of 4 rows per beat is now assumed in this situation.

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the full version history. If you are upgrading from OpenMPT 1.30 or older, read the release notes to get a glimpse of the biggest changes.

libopenmpt has also been updated with the same bugfixes.

[ Demozoo ] Meteoriks Awards recommendations open

The categories for this year's Meteoriks Awards are live!

And with that, you are also able to submit suggestions to our jury here on Demozoo and Pouet for your favourite demoscene productions of 2024 - just head over to any eligible production and follow the "Recommend this production for The Meteoriks 2025" link.

This is also your last chance to join us as a juror - we'd love to have you!

[ Demozoo ] Inércia 2024 results and releases!

Inércia 2024 is over! The Portuguese event that took place on 6-8 December 2024 featured talks, music acts, a new world record on simultaneous live shader coding and many quality entries in their 4 showcases and 2 competitions.

Inércia 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org / YouTube.

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.13.00 released

This update to OpenMPT 1.31 brings a number of bugfixes and improvements backported from OpenMPT 1.32 development.

Probably one of the most important changes concerns default key bindings: On many ISO keyboard layouts, special note keys (Note Cut, etc.) were not available by default. They finally have key bindings that should be available on all keyboards. If there is no conflict, the new key bindings will be added on existing OpenMPT installations as well.

Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:

• In the tree view, open modules and instrument library entries can now be located in Windows Explorer through the context menu.
• Special note keys (Note Cut / Off / Fade / PC / PCs) were not available in the default key map on various keyboard layouts.
• When partially pasting a normal pattern event over a PC event, the effect column was not erased properly if it wasn't part of the copied region.
• When moving the last instrument envelope point, avoid it snapping back quickly when moving backwards.
• Various playback compatibility improvements (IT, DBM, IMF, MED, STM).
• Possible crash during module cleanup when searching for unused samples if an instrument refers to a non-existing sample slot.
• Added the possibility to disable enhanced GDI upscaling via hidden setting Display.UseGDIUpcaling. This may fix freezes when opening the editors of some older VST plugins when this mode is enabled.
• Channel Manager: Channel buttons now have tooltips.
• When enabling the hidden Display.HighResUI setting, OpenMPT claimed to support per-monitor awareness. This was not really usable, so OpenMPT now only claims to support one system-wide DPI setting. Better DPI-aware support will come in OpenMPT 1.32.
• MIDI recording: Velocity amplification was rounded down to integer multiples of 100%.
• After loading a module with missing external samples, OpenMPT still prompted to save those empty sample slots to disk when closing the module. Doing that resulted in a crash.
• When changing a keyboard shortcut via a search that had results in multiple contexts, a wrong context could be assigned to the shortcut, causing the shortcut to not work.
• The instrument library browser, cleaning up auto save files, scanning for missing samples or creating the list of templates or example songs in paths longer than 260 characters did not work.
• When saving a copy of a module, its modified status is no longer reset.
• On Windows XP, the advanced settings list was not formatted correctly.

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the release notes and the full version history.

libopenmpt has also been updated with the same improvements and fixes.

[ Demozoo ] Transmission64 2024: results and releases!

Transmission64 2024 is over! The online C64 demo party that took place on November 23rd 2024 featured talks (TeensyROM, 45 years of PETSCII in 21 minutes), music acts (Shogoon and friends 3, Vincenzo and Press Play on Tape) plus many quality entries in 7 competitions.

Transmission on Demozoo / scene.org / CSDb

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube.

[ Demozoo ] Transmission64 2024: Entry submission now open

Send an email to keys@transmission64.com to receive your access key and then head on over to https://vote.transmission64.com/ to upload your entries. Categories are Demo, 4k, Graphics, Screen Fader, BASIC oneliner, PETSCII and Music. Transmission64 organizing is very happy about your support! Deadline for your entries is Nov 22nd, 16:00 CET.

The winner of the demo competition wins a fully assembled EVO64 board, sponsored by EVO64!

Rules, timetable and more information can be found at: https://transmission64.com/

[ demoparty.net ] Transmission64 2024: Registration for every submission and voting is open

And we’re ready for your entries <3 You can now email us at keys@transmission64.com to receive your access key and then head on over to https://vote.transmission64.com/ to upload your entries. Thank you for your support! Deadline for your entries is Nov 22nd, 2024 16:00 CET. See you online!

[ demoparty.net ] Benediction Coding Party #4: Results and News

This years result and news just got published today 10th November, after the voting deadline 9th November

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.31.12.00 released

There was a catastrophic bug in the previous OpenMPT 1.31 update released earlier today, making keyboard input impossible in several pattern editor columns. This is a hotfix release addressing the bug. There are no other changes in this version. We apologize for the inconvenience this update may have caused.

Have a look at the OpenMPT 1.31.11.00 release notes to see what else has changed in today's updates.

[ demoparty.net ] Transmission64 2024: Win the T64 demo compo, win an assembled EVO64 board.

Win the demo compo, win an assembled EVO64 board. Details below.

Big thanks to Darrel and EVO64 for their support.

https://transmission64.com/2024/10/16/win-the-demo-compo-win-a-evo-64-board/

#c64 #demoparty #demoscene

[ Demoscene Research ] Tracker Paper in English

There are bigger updates underway, but as a quick heads-up: the tracker paper originally published in Finnish in 2019 is now available in English too: http://widerscreen.fi/numerot/ajankohtaista/trackers-the-rise-bloom-and-later-developments-of-a-paradigm/. Also see the errata.

[ Demozoo ] Entry submission now open for Assembly 2024

The following competitions are NOW open for you to remotely submit your entry:

• Realtime: 1k Intro, 4k intro, Beginner Demo, Game Development (Deadline today Friday 26th at 17:00 CET), Fantasy console, Oldskool Demo, Demo
• Music: Tracked music
• Wild: Short film, Real Wild

Rules, timetable and deadlines can be found at: https://assembly.org/en/events/summer24/program/demoscene-competitions

[ Demozoo ] Black Valley is over for this year!

Very recently, Black Valley 2024 concluded its third iteration, bringing with it some very interesting releases to say the least! Check them all out at;

Black Valley on Demozoo / scene.org

And, the vod is of course always available at Scenesat - day 1 and day 2.

[ Conspiracy ] Emticles and Arpires

In case you missed it, we have released our first 64k intro with our new toolchain! There's also going to be some more content in the articles section about how it works, so keep your eyes peeled.

[ Demoscene Research ] Hege Nordli’s PhD thesis available

Hege Nordli’s scene-related PhD thesis, The Net Is Not Enough: Searching for the Female Hacker, has been hard to obtain for years, but now that problem is remedied. Markku spent a few hours scanning the book and got permission from Nordli to make the pdf available online (thanks!), so here you go: http://www.kameli.net/~marq/scenepub/nordli_hege/The_Net_Is_Not_Enough-ocr.pdf

[ Demozoo ] Revision 2024: results and releases!

Revision took place this weekend at its usual HQ at E-Werk in Saarbrücken, Germany, and saw many productions released across all sort of oldschool and newschool platforms. All results and releases are now available.

Revision 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Demozoo ] DiHalt 2024: results and releases

Dihalt took place on 5th-7th January in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Most releases targeted the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, or the more exotic Electronika BK-0010 and all are now available for download.

DiHalt 2024 on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Demozoo ] Silly Venture 2023 Winter Edition: results and releases

The latest Silly Venture, a Polish demoparty dedicated to all Atari machines, took place in Gdańsk on 7th to 10th December 2023. The releases cover pretty much every Atari hardware ever produced and are now available for download.

Silly Venture 2023 Winter Edition on Demozoo / scene.org

[ Demozoo ] Syntax 2023: results and releases

Syntax, the proverbial demoparty from down-under, took place at the end of last year on its usual home turf of Melbourne. The releases were a good mix of oldschool and newschool, with the former arguably more popular.

Syntax 2023 on Demozoo / scene.org