A discussion panel on how digital subcultures deal with the war against #Ukraine , organized by Maria B. Garda and myself as part of the COST Action "Grassroots of Digital Europe" at last year's @evoke demoparty. Featuring Mark Maletska, spaeking on Ukrainian LGBTQ+ gaming communities, and Zee Upītis (a.k.a. Raver/PHT), speaking about post-Soviet #ZX Spectrum #demoscene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d19dNy8A-k
Fractures and Resilience: Digital Subcultures in Times of Crisis (Evoke 2025 Seminar)

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Plutina
by ANDESA Soft International
for MS-Dos

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31642

#demo #demoscene #scene

Zeme is blogging about his retro game development journey on the Atari ST at the moment, and while I'm linking a specific entry you should read all of the entries.

Anyhow - this post specifically is about what I think is the coolest development that the demoscene ever invented on the lowly 1985-era Atari ST hardware: "Sync scrolling".

The ST computer was completely incapable of shifting the screen display horisontally, which made it horribly inefficient to make side scrolling games for. But us demo coders never stopped trying anyway - and the Swedish demo groups Omega and TCB independently at the same time found a hardware abusing trick to do it.

Zeme's writeup on the subject is really good - and yes - I'm mentioned multiple times since I've put together a library for others to make use of this trick in their productions.

#Atari #AtariST #DemoScene

https://blog.subspace.nl/2026/03/18/sync-scrolling.html

Sync scrolling

As you may know, the Atari ST (unlike the STE) officially doesn’t support hardware scrolling. In this post, I’m going to talk about a demoscene technique that allows an ST to achieve basic hardware scrolling regardless of that restriction. This technique is called sync scrolling.

Zeme’s Retro Blog
nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: (E) Figment Demotune (Nv) bY Epeius! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

Music Selection II
by Sonic Projects
for Amiga OCS/ECS

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=104347

#demo #demoscene #scene

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: HlG bY HullyGully-XeNopHobIA! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio
qUAntUm RaDio!

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: All That She Wants bY Crossair! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio
qUAntUm RaDio!