DEMOSCENE

Revision 2026: highs and lows

The biggest demoscene party around, Revision, happened this weekend and we/me had a few things going on.

Firstly, we were nominated in the Meteoriks awards, where the winners are announced at Revision. Anamie was nominated in two categories (best soundtrack and best high-end demo) and CMOS Cosmos was nominated for best direction. We won neither of them. In the competitions, I competed with a 7/8 Amiga IDM-ish chiptune called Yest-26, and a sort-of-anscii-collection called Handle Charts #2. Neither did very well in the compos. I also submitted a song for the streaming music compo that didn’t even pass the preselection jury.* I got the revision bluues, oh yeah.**

But something that definitely did do well, was our 40-year-anniversary demo Razor 1911, that won the PC demo competition. Dubmood and me (with help from many others) have worked on this demo for months, with the aim of bringing Razor’s history to life. It seems like we succeeded, judging from the feedback at for example Pouet. I mostly did tons of graphics for it, from purist PETSCII to blasphemous post-textmode, but also helped with various bits and bobs, here and there, everywhere.

 

 

* it’s not the first time I’ve been rejected in the Revision streaming preselection….
** i might have appeared in other compos under other aliases, still not doing very well

Music disks, chiptoonz and pixels at Gerp

I released some stuff at the Gerp demoparty last weekend. The Wheel is a kind of traditional Amiga chiptune, which won the chip compo ahead of some very great tunes by Tempest, Zabutom, Chavez, etc. I entered the 4-channel compo with Thank God It’s Friday, which is more “challenging”. It starts nice, then goes evil, then goes back to nice.

In Mono Where Available is an Amiga music disk by the brand new group MANIA with chip music by Abaddon, JosSs, Reed, Tecon, Tempest, Vent, Vim and two tracks by me. Enjoy good stuff!

TEK’s Knight Chips III was also released at Gerp, with some bangers and a song by me. ^^

Finally, I entered my first pixel art compo with some layered text graphics.

Busy demoscene weekend

Very productive demoscene weekend from me, mostly by releasing stuff at Compusphere in Gothenburg.

But first of all – I did this (pre-recorded) performance at Transmission64.

CMOS Cosmos by Razor1911 is a dentro (about 1 mb) with lots of textmode fun, but also other stuff. Anat, Dubmood, Flopine, Zabutom and me. Oh yeah!

The Line by Up Rough, just a small piece of Amiga ANSI fun that Koobo coded and Tempest and I made the music for.

Hypocrisy was another Up Rough release, not available online yet. But it’s an Amiga 500 demo that streams audio and video from the hard drive. Made by Flubba, BLDZR and me.

Bombero was my Amiga music contribution, with excellent vocal help from Breakin.

And finally, Trader’s Delight entered the streaming music compo.

Anamie by HT & Razor 1911

Anamie is a PC demo that was released yesterday at Revision 2025. I made text animations and Dubmmod cooked it together with the help of Anat on the code. The animations are in Amiga ASCII, with a few custom characters for blocks and triangles, for example. The song is a shorter version of Anamie on B Y S A N.

This is the first demo we’ve done like this, and I’m quite happy with the results! I’m also confident that there’s plenty more to explore with this technique. Combining manual frame-by-frame animations (made in lvllvl) with coded effects, is a winning concept I think. I think PET.CORP have already proven this, hehe.

Amiga mods released at Gerp 2025

Look mommy, I won a music compo! Haven’t done that for yeears, so that makes me happy. Competing in music is a beautiful thing! ;) I also released Skwash 25 in the standard Amiga music compo, and it placed decently at #5 despite (because?) the other songs being huge files with fancy samples.

Killer Piller, the demo

Jambonbill & Ailadi in PET.CORP have made this video/demo for a new remix of my old song Killer Piller. It came #1 in the Wild Demo compo at Zoo’24. It runs in the browser, as you can see here. Oh, and btw, I’ve joined PET.CORP!