m8trix by HellMood

HellMood strikes again, this time with an 8 byte "Matrix" type effect for MS-DOS. The Youtube capture sucks, so make sure you download this and try it out in DOSBox or on a real oldschool PC.

And once you get bored with it, have fun with this 16 byte Paint program by the same author ;)

Daily Dosis: There Are No Waffles in Hell by DoctorGentleman

Kerberos - Upcoming New C64 MIDI Interface

A fundraiser is currently underway for an exiting new C64 MIDI interface. At a target price of 50 EUR, this thing will be well worth your money.

Developed by German C64 coder and hardware expert Frank Buß, the cartridge will feature not only full MIDI in, out, and thru support, but also a possibility to directly transfer PRG files from PC via USB. It comes with SIDWizard and Steinberg Pro 16 pre-installed. The design and firmware will be open source, so you can build this beast yourself as well, if you're feeling lucky.

Even if you're not interested, you gotta love the guy's thick Colognian accent ;)

Read up on the details on the fundraiser site and preorder the cartridge or donate a few bucks to the project!

Daily Dosis: pasif spasial by remedmatika

BB by introspec

Another outstanding 256 byte ZX Spectrum demo from Multimatograf. This one took first place. Now waiting for the Obama version ;)

Download the demo here.

Daily Dosis: Hyber Boom Geometry by Galaxy Wolf

50 Years BASIC

Yesterday was the 50st anniversary of our beloved BASIC programming language, so Happy belated Birthday from Ancient Wonderworld.

People have written about the occasion in detail elsewhere already, so I'm not going to bother with a full length article.


Just a fun fact that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere: Did you know that BASIC wasn't always called BASIC? When John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz started to work on the language in 1963, they orginally called it Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment, or short DOPE. I wonder what they were smoking...

Crypto by Debris

Debris (zx), the masters of tiny demos, have released a new ZX Spectrum prod at Multimatograf. It took a well deserved 2nd place in the 256 byte compo.

Download here.

Daily Dosis: Public Message by Alpha C

RoboCop - New Demo for Apogey BK

Kakos_nonos and brightentayle released a new demo for the Russian home computer Apogey BK01c. The prod took first place in the recent 8bit demo compo at Multimatograf.

More info and a download link can be found here.