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raww.orgy 2008 report

March 10, 2008 – 1:05 pm

On February 15th 2008, the fourth raww.orgy began. Pronounced “raw dot orgy” (in a similar fashion to my main website being pronounced “raw dot org”), it’s one of only two demoparties to take place in the United Kingdom, the other being the multi-format, and much larger Sundown. Prior to the first raww.orgy, which took place [...]

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raww.orgy 2008 player

February 22, 2008 – 10:45 am

Well my latest release has been, uhm, released – it’s the player from last weekend’s raww.orgy demoparty. It’s a simple enough idea – a single program to both show the graphics entries for the competition, and to also play the music. For those who have seen the previous party-players, yes it’s based on the same [...]

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The perils of online translation

February 19, 2008 – 9:24 am

Here’s the thing – I don’t read Russian. Like many non-English languages, I simply don’t get it (if it were a programming language I’d have learned it in about a week). However being a ZX scener there are a lot of websites with news and comment in Russian (or a variation of it). So I [...]

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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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