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The sky is the limit! Following the success of the Drone Show at Evoke 2025, we are now taking the next steps towards making a Drone Compo happen this year.

As one can imagine, this comes with a set of technical, organizational and legal challenges compared to a traditional compo. Because of that, we want to share an early overview of where things stand, what to expect as a participant and how to set up your workflow for success. A detailed writeup by mop, along with a video tutorial and last year's show file by newemka can be found here. 

Since we do not know what the future brings, consider this a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to use the sky as your canvas. Remote entries are allowed!

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Gemtos is over and here is a summary!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 6

← Fixing Post-Increment Addressing

DBRA and the Cost Model Balancing Act

When you write assembly for the m68k, dbra is just there. Put your count in a data register, end your loop with dbra dN,.label. Four bytes, twelve cycles per iteration on 68000, no flag dance, no comparison. Your loops naturally form around the instruction.

C/C++ does not work that way. The natural loop in C is for (i = 0; i < N; i++) or while (cond). Neither says "count down and exit when you wrap", well, while can. But a counted-up loop with an unsigned comparison is what the language naturally models, and that is what GIMPLE mostly produces. Turning that into a dbra is a backend job, and requires carefully written code. And GCC, for reasons we will get to, mostly stopped doing it for m68k.

[ Wanted! ] Confirm your consent for the Art of Coding demoscene UNESCO nomination

Art of Coding is working to get the demoscene recognized as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. Norway is leading the multinational nomination, Germany is confirmed, and the nomination deadline is 1 June 2026. You can still sign after that date to show community consent and support. https://forms.gle/FzwVd7ovndev3VrP9 Take 1 minute. Yoghurt

Norway is leading a multinational UNESCO ICH-02 nomination for the demoscene, with Germany confirmed as co-submitting State Party.

As part of the documentation of community participation and free, prior and informed consent, practitioners are invited to complete the consent form below.Deadline: 1 June 2026.

Link: https://forms.gle/FzwVd7ovndev3VrP9

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