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hey friends! 👋

we just launched scene.market: a community marketplace for trading physical items face to face at demoparties.

what is it?
a simple platform where you can post offers and searches for retro hardware, disks, magazines, merch, and other scene-related stuff. no shipping, no payment processing - just arrange a handoff at the next party.

how it works:

• login with your SceneID
• post an offer ("i'm bringing my spare Amiga 500 to Revision") or a search ("looking for a C64 PSU, will be at Evoke")
• pick which demoparties you'll attend
• someone interested? they claim your item, you get their contact details, sort out the rest yourselves

pricing options: free, buy me a drink 🍺, fixed price, trade, or surprise me

upcoming parties synced from demozoo: Revision, Evoke, Assembly, Deadline, Edison, and 30+ more already listed.

the whole thing runs on Go + HTMX + SQLite, and is operated by Computerkunst e.V. - source will be made open soon.

we'd love your feedback. try it out and let us know what you think!

https://scene.market

greetings to everyone who still has a box of old hardware in the attic. time to find it a new home. 🖥️

[Submitted by v3nom]

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.08.00 released

This is a regression update to the most recent OpenMPT 1.32 release to address a single bug.

OpenMPT 1.32.07.00 contained a fix for a crash in the sample mixer, which unfortunately also caused the duration of some sample loops to be altered. This was most notable in MOD files, where chip samples could suddenly be out of tune.

OpenMPT 1.32.08.00 addresses this regression, fixing both the crash and also keeping chip samples in tune.

For a complete list of changes, have a look at the full version history. If you are upgrading from OpenMPT 1.31 or older, read the release notes to get a glimpse of the biggest changes.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari Invasion 2026 is over

The 10th edition of the Dutch Atari Meeting took place past weekend and judging by the photos available this was a great event for all Atari platforms.

According to wildly circulating rumours also some Atari sceners were present, some of them meeting as ripe men, decades after their previous encounter when they were fresh and young.

🔗 Atari invasion homepage

🔗 Photos on the respective Flickr homepage

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 2

What a Compiler Must Get Right (That You Don't)

When you write assembly, you know the context. You know which registers hold what, whether a pointer is aligned, whether the loop count fits in a word. You know because you put it there.

Consider a demo screen where you reserve a6 for the background rasters. You update the pointer in the VBL interrupt and just advance with a minimal (a6)+ in the HBL. All your other code simply does not touch a6, because you wrote all of it. Need to update a screen pointer? Just write the global. No function call, no overhead, no uncertainty.

A compiler has no such luxury. It must be correct for every possible input the language allows. It cannot "just know" that a pointer is word-aligned, or that two buffers never overlap, or that a register is free. It must prove it, or assume the worst. And not all code it calls may even have been compiled by it. Maybe it was built with an older compiler, a different language, or maybe you wrote it in assembly yourself.

A new tool for composing bytebeat has just been published: DawBeat, an experimental browser-based DAW designed to arrange bytebeat formulas on a timeline rather than writing a single monolithic expression.

https://dev.eypacha.com/dawbeat/

The idea behind DawBeat is to approach bytebeat composition more like working in a traditional DAW: formulas can be placed in clips, arranged across tracks, and modulated over time.

Current capabilities include:

• timeline with tracks and clips
• drag formulas from a library
• real-time bytebeat playback in the browser
• variable tracks and value trackers
• automation lanes for parameters
• formula effects and audio effects
• MIDI input for controlling parameters and writing automation
• MIDI clock synchronization
• phone or tablet controller via QR (automation companion)
• undo / redo and multi-clip editing
• export compositions to WAV or MP3 

The project explores a different way of working with bytebeat, focusing on composition and arrangement over time rather than a single standalone expression.

[Submitted by eypacha]