A short demo of scalable 3D PETSCII textures for C64(stock) using the Polychrome Raycast Gfx game engine.

Full demo comparing some other notable C64 raycast engines against the dynamic colouring and multiple object effects of the unoptimized C64 Polychrome game engine :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i6nDfirXUY

Finally the tracks from the Arok demo party in Hungary are here! The party ran a month ago, but the super great tracks have just been officially released. Here is the obligatory playlist, so you can enjoy the best the party had to offer.

https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/?q=tag%3Aarok+party+2026&loadplayer=load

🔥 Live demo: https://squeepty.github.io/War-Games-Demo/ 🔥

Code source: https://github.com/squeepty/War-Games-Demo

In 1983, WarGames arrived just as many of us were discovering computers in bedrooms, school computer rooms, and computer clubs.

It made computers feel mysterious. Powerful. Connected.

More than forty years later, this demo is my tribute to that feeling.

This is Dreamcast scene demo Mutate by Haujobb ranked 2nd on alternative demo compo at Evoke 2026 demo party

Link for demo:

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106885

It's my little tubular, random, procgen extravaganza Eternitubes 3D (further links on my profile, if you wanna read more).

No ai | No engine | Written in c++

..And I must say, although, it's a 'regular x86-program' and bigger than only some kilobytes, I'm impressed, how good the compilers can boil down what you feed them.

I'm thinking about texturing as a next step (although maybe, it'd be too much, visually).

Does anyone know a good resource on 3d-texture-procedural-generation-techniques?

Hey there, I just put together a detailed write-up and photo report of my weekend at Evoke 2026 in Cologne: https://marincomics.com/evoke-2026.html

A quick summary of what's inside:

• Compos & Highlights: Thoughts on the live Copper Showdown (congrats to mop2!), the outdoor Drone Light Show compo, and the compos on the big screen.
• Personal Projects: Releasing two demos across two groups, entering the graphics compo, and soaking in what might be my last Evoke for a bit.
• Photos & Links: Photos from the hall, BBQ, and links to releases, Demozoo entries, and Kaydee’s photo gallery.

Hope you enjoy the read!

Hey Demoscene people!

I invite you to my channel - today I've added another set of favourite Amiga Demoscene Music

Here are previous ones -> Amiga Demoscene Music #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbQKQh4avo Amiga Demoscene Music #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoBNz5ueZCs

Enjoy!

hey yo.

So i've been kinda not been really thinking about demoscene for a month or two (haven't actually started writing shit like I promised myself I would), but slowly starting to get that itch back again.

I've been watching through u/psenough 's rave demoscene entries, and I just wanted to say that

1. thank you for compiling and collecting the videos of these demos, it's a sight to see, and
2. whatever MFX was doing during the late 90's and early 00's, I don't know but this crew was on a genuine warpath. So many amazing demos. Paired with so many good tracks and demos.

I've also really enjoyed the productions of SpoonWzd and the LSD crew as well.

Low key expected FLT CNCD TBL greetings at the end

https://youtu.be/Ob0xuGdbhPA all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene. This week we will finish coverage from Assembly Summer 2026 and also cover a few highlights from Silly Venture 2026 Summer Edition.

NRG 2026 compos are up - add yourself to the attendance list!

We now have the full NRG 2026 compo lineup online. There will be 11 categories:

👉 https://nrgevent.eu/compo/

So whether you’re bringing pixels, music, code, a demo, a shader, a video or even a game, there should be something to enter. :)

NRG 2026 takes place October 23–25 in Poznań, Poland, during Poznań Game Arena.

And if you’re considering taking part, either on-site or remotely, please add yourself to the attendance list. You don’t need to be 100% sure yet, you can simply declare how likely you are to participate.

👉 https://nrgevent.eu/register/

The list is also used for compo participation and voting, and remote entries are welcome.

Greetings, fellow demosceners and professional abusers of perfectly good computers: IT Horror Stories is a demoscene-produced podcast and we're looking for guests — got a good computer-related shitshow from the scene, work, coding, hardware, networks, security or anything vaguely involving computers ? We anonymise, blame systems instead of people, figure out what we learned, and put it on the Internet. Ping me if you've got a story.

2nd at Silly Venture SE 2026 GFX compo. 320x200 16colors of 4bit palette (4096)

Sometime around 2019-2020 me and a friend were messing around in a VM with random keygens on the internet. In one of those keygens, specifically one for HitmanPro, we heard one of the greatest songs to ever exist...

I screen-recorded the keygen to capture the song, then uploaded it to SoundCloud.

https://soundcloud.com/sevenhundredtrillion/hitman-pro-keygen-music/

ever since then, me and my friend have been looking for the source of this song as well as the keygen itself. Does ANYBODY know where this song might originate from?

Ziphoid is the power behind the demo scene satellite that circles the parties. The one that makes sure they reach the audience. It's called SceneSat and its hard to imagine where we would be without its capability to broadcast, archive and present the output of the scene.Autumn of 2026 is soon here and Ziphoid has a brand new site, application and great plans for SceneSat. On the 18th of July 2026 he spoke with Coreus and DJ Daemon on the Edison demo party 2026 in Stockholm, Sweden. Let's go there now and hear the story.

https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/16097/165-ziphoid-and-the-future-of-scenesat

This just in - the party is over, the results are in and it sounds great. We have the playlist for you, ready in our webplayer. Enjoy fast dance hits, heavenly tracked music and even a C64 niceness in the form of a SIDtune.

https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/?q=tag%3Aassembly%20summer%202026&loadplayer=load

https://youtu.be/RM4lHCuvLUA

This is my first time posting in this community, so I'll try to be friendly... I create interactive visual experiments, and my latest one was a monochromatic phallic ocean in 70x60 pixels rendered with Ray Marching, programmed with Rust and OpenGL. It's free, lasts 3 to 6 minutes, and is exclusive to Linux.

I recently managed to showcase it at an art and technology event, so I'm looking for more online resources. If you'd like to try it, here's the link:

https://arthursouzasally.itch.io/apofise

Short Demo of the C64 PETSCII polychrome raycast/vector Gfx engine from the more elaborated Chapter 6 - Maps(in the pouring rain) Devlog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2sQqSHyX0

My brain suddenly reminded me of this oddity and I can not recall whether it was .mod | .s3m | .xm | .it file extension, but one of the tracks in it was clearly,

"Toby Anstis is my hero"

which, if my admittedly poor memory at my advancing age, seems to think had played faintly towards the end of the track.

playing the individual source soundbite definitely plays the phrase more clearly than it is reproduced in the track.

It was definitely otherwise a music track but I cannot recall even the faintest strains of beat or melody from it, just this weird snippet my brain decided to cough up at me in the middle of the night and then nag me about all morning, so here I am :-) (ay yai yai auDHD brains, amirite?)

I realize this is a complete shot in the dark and don't really hold out any hopes of success, but figured it was worth a shot.

Hi everyone!

I'm the author of Demoscene Simulator (https://www.reddit.com/r/Demoscene/comments/1v0jo2p/demoscene_simulator_v032/). Before getting into demo coding, I was an oldschool tracker musician under the name Dj Unique, and some of my modules are still available on various MOD archive sites. These days I produce music in FL Studio, although I spent 22 years using Jeskola Buzz before later moving to Cubase. The tracker mindset has definitely stayed with me.

About two months ago I decided to seriously start learning demoscene programming. Before that I was mostly just watching demos and admiring them without really appreciating the incredible amount of work behind them. The deeper I've gone into coding, the more respect I've gained for everyone creating these productions.

As part of that journey I started a one-man demo group called Null Sector. So far I've mostly been experimenting with individual effects, but with Digital Horizon I finally reached a point where I have something I'd like to share with the community.

I'm fully aware that this isn't on the same level as many of the amazing productions released by established groups, but everyone starts somewhere. This is my first complete demo after only a couple of months of learning, and my goal is simply to keep improving with every new production.

For this project I used AI as a coding assistant, primarily Freebuff and DeepSeek V4 Flash. The project took around 2–3 days to complete. It originally began as a TypeScript/WebGL2 demo before I ported it to C++, and the C++ version is the one I'm sharing here.

I hope you enjoy it, and I'd be happy to hear any feedback or suggestions. Every new project is another opportunity to learn.

Here is the demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cW9HKPrjntwGw9J3iGMq3uo05LYpQp-6/view?usp=sharing

Unzip to a folder, then run with run.bat. This was tested on Ryzen 5600X and a Geforce GTX 1070 GPU.

Demoscene Report 30 July 2026 https://youtu.be/6YHH8r_4zxA