Every year’s autumn for the last 8 years, super Commodore 64 news portal from Slovakia, C64.sk, runs the SID Compo, C64 scene’s biggest online music competition.
It has now been announced, the LAST installment of this compo, starting now and ending by end November. Each year the amount and quality of releases has been rising a lot, so I bet this time, being the last one, it will be no exception, with everyone wanting to make the SID Compo leave us with quite a loud bang.
Get updated about it on the compo page at CSDb, and join if you want to.
You can also check out the previous installments which are full of delicious tunes (in between brackets, my favs :)) :
Booze Design raises the bar for tech achievement on a C64 demo.
So, another X party has finished! This milestone of the C64 scene has delivered some of the best productions of the last years, as always. Let’s have some of the official blurb:
“13 years of X parties, 10 years at the farm, the 9th X in total and still going strong. Who would’ve thought.
The biannual c64-only event in rural Netherlands has been one of its kind in 8-bit partyland. Not only do you get brilliant demo/graphics/music competitions, but you also get a nice bed, hot showers, proper food, breakfast and all the beer, soft drinks, tea and coffee you can drink.
For the competitions and performances you can count on a high quality big screen and audio equipment to keep the cows awake.”
The stream of releases is BIG, as always the C64 scene proves to be one of the most productive in the demoscene, and the quality bar is usually quite high. This party has seen the release of the tech-groundbreaking demo “Edge of Disgrace” by Booze Design, which has raised the bar for C64 demo tech quality very, very high. I can’t wait for X’2010 when this demo should be surpassed by a new one :)
Other personal favourites are Pearls for Pigs from Xenon, and My Beauty from Fairlight (featuring music by mr. Goto80)
On the music side, I can recommend to give a listen to the tunes by Randall and Fanta.
All the info comes thanks to the Commodore Scene Database!
Here are the final listings with CSDb rankings and links to vote/comment/download the prods: (more…)
On CSDb, sid musician Fanta has posted an mp3 of his 4 voice MOD track PLUS two voices of sid coming off a real c64. The track itself is relatively unspectacular, but the scene reaction is interesting ranging from grudging respect, to feedback on everything from the style, the results, and the point of doing such a thing.
