Category Archives: Demoscene

Sundown 2007

March 29, 2007 – 10:51 am

RC55 has announced this year’s Sundown, the “other” UK demoparty, a multi-platform scene event featuring “old-school” platforms such as the ZX amongst the other, more “standard” competitions. Again the event takes place in Budleigh Salterton on the south coast, about an hours drive from my home. I’ve already mentioned this on raww.org, so why mention [...]

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I did it! 1k! Almost…

March 15, 2007 – 2:16 pm

Time is an odd thing. There are times when you seem to have nothing but time, and seek to find things to fill it up. There are other times when you seem to have no time, and enough things to do to create a 72 hour day. Now is one a time of zero time. [...]

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One week away

March 9, 2007 – 9:27 am

Forever8 is one week away. 7 days. 7 days in which I have very little time to spare. But I’m determined to finish something for the party (especially as I can’t make it to the party this year). My intro currently stands at 523 bytes. It does very little (tho’ that “little” does look kinda [...]

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How to use 1k?

February 19, 2007 – 4:34 pm

So the raww.orgy is over, my recent illness has pretty much cleared (maybe 98%), and it’s time for my next project. It seems like months since I last coded an Intro (indeed it is months), and the project I had planned for Sundown just didn’t see the light – the result of too late planning. [...]

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Freedom to Geek

January 17, 2007 – 11:27 am

If you’ve spotted my current playlist (to the right, it should be) you may have noticed some very geeky stuff. No, I’m not talking about the 70s prog rock, tho’ that is fairly geeky. I mean the AY tracker tunes. I’m trying to get into “Retro Mode” for the upcoming raww.orgy. I’m working on this [...]

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Upcoming Projects

September 4, 2006 – 9:48 am

Those of you who follow this blog like the avid fans you so obviously are *cough*, will know that I was working on my 512b Intro for Chaos Constructions. Well it got into the competition and came a rather spectacular last place. I guess my idea of “nice” doesn’t quite match other people’s. But it [...]

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Next…

August 8, 2006 – 3:16 pm

I sent off my intro to the organisers of CC6 – I’ve not heard back from them whether they have it yet, but I’ll upload it to their FTP and send it on to Vega soon, who has kindly offered to present it at the party for me. So now I’m on to my next [...]

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