Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:01:22 +0100 http://raww.org/ raww.org arse-end en-gb http://raww.org/images/raww_dot.gif http://raww.org/ icabod@raww.org http://raww.org/3262 Not much happens here in the last time. icabod seems to be busy with his family and work things and I have no time to watch and write news about Speccy scene happening in English and together write my own Czech blog. Excuse me, please... This post is just about a compo I've announced today - the JHCon 2011 Basic GOTO-less Compo. Take a look at Factor6's blog for details and rules. Spread the news, then go and write a funny ZX Basic thingie! Yep, do it. Just for fun. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:01:22 +0100 http://raww.org/3261 The 12th Forever party, named FOReVER C, will be taking place just this weekend in Cultural House of Horna Suca near Trencin/SK. If you still develop some scene production, do not hesitate and send your ZX related work to mike(a)zeroteam(dot)sk! All the info is on the party web. And don't miss the AY Riders' concert! Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:38:59 +0000 http://raww.org/3260 As most of you probably noticed, this portal had slowed down, mainly because icabod and other raww.org staff are busy in their real life (IMHO). There are, of course, still news around. We'll try to keep this site alive by posting news but not in such a high frequency as we used to do. For now, happy New Year and all the very best with your Spectrum. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:57:52 +0000 http://raww.org/3259 They are back. Who? AY Riders band with their newest EP album called Atariders. It contains mainly covers of famous 8-bit Atari songs as well as some original compositions. Go here and listen AY influenced by POKEY. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:44:37 +0100 http://raww.org/3258 Before DiHalt remained a matter of hours. And I want to inform you that we have again implemented the online voting. At the moment we have 3 demos, a lot of graphics and music. Online voting begins in the morning 10 and ends on the morning of July 11. To see the marvelous new stuff for ZX Spectrum can be found here. Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:28:20 +0100 http://raww.org/3257 It's Shucon party and as usual there are several presentations of new Speccy hw and sw projects. One of them is diZZy's MIDI synth using SIF serial interface connection. It allows user to play 3 AY tones at once with keyboard dynamics possibility. It's very beta, but if you're interested, just look at my blog. There is a YT video. Watch it. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:36:35 +0100 http://raww.org/3256 MacBuster of XTM has opened a new competition to recreate the popular Horizons tape that was shipped with every new 48k Speccy, but in your own way/style. There's even a great prize for the best entry. But hurry, you have less than 2 months to make your New Horizons! More info can be found here! Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:17:44 +0100 http://raww.org/3255 Oh yeah! Public pressure, organizers di: halt which will take place July 10-11, agreed to hold the beeper music compo. The rules are very simple. No more than two tracks from one author, the length of the track no more than 3 minutes, the track can be written in any musical editor under Beeper. The music is desirable to send in a set with the invoked Basic file (tap / trd / scl image), well, or at least compile music file with the address playback. And do not forget to specify the name of the track and music editor. Address for sending works: dihalt10 (at) mail.ru Official site Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:22:49 +0100 http://raww.org/3254 The Spectrum summer party Shucon is held from Thursday, 1.7. to Sunday, 11.7. in Nezdenice, Czech Republic. If you're a Speccy fan, then just come and have a nice summer holiday with mostly Czech&Slovak Spectrum scene mates! Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:39:18 +0100 http://raww.org/3253 Prodded into action by an email from Vinnny, it's only fair to point you to the website of DiHalt, arguably one of the two main ZX events of the year. It's on July 10th and 11th in Nizhny Novgorod. Good stuff. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:23:48 +0100 http://raww.org/3252 I recall that on 19 June will be an 8-bit demoparty Artfield 2010. And I have good news. All those who miss the event, will be able to watch broadcast, chat and even vote for the contest works. Broadcasting on June, 19th from 11:00-18:00, demonstration of competitive works at 15:30 (Moscow time). Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:35 +0100 http://raww.org/3251 Shiru (author of Music Box T.E., Music Synth 48K T.E., and Phaser1) and Alone Coder (author of Sewerage and Beep Tracker) have created a blog about 1-bit music. Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:14:33 +0100 http://raww.org/3250 Many people asked where is the Ramsoft's site with thier fantastic RealSpectrum emulator. I grabbed some archives and brought it online again, at least all the gfx and downloads, here. No updates, no news, just the (almost whole) site as it was when abandoned. Sat, 15 May 2010 14:34:39 +0100 http://raww.org/3249 At Outline 2010, Gasman has released an unique player routine (which have won the 1st place in the Wild compo btw.) which is able to play streamed video with digital sound on the Speccy 128K with DivIDE interface. Go to the project website look and test it! Both emu and real hardware use are described, as well as a YT video. Tue, 04 May 2010 19:33:09 +0100 http://raww.org/3248 I've just had the following come in from ZXParty.ru: "We invite you to come and participate in the sixth annual retro-computing festival "ArtField '2010". The fest will be held on Saturday, June 19th, 2010." - the party is taking place in Voronezh. The compos are below the break... Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:28:52 +0100 http://raww.org/3247 There is a new platform game for ZX48K. Made by Timmy, with music by Mister Beep. Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:40:48 +0100 http://raww.org/3246 System of Pink has made a great invitation for Shucon 2010 Party: Total Brain Reset. It's held from 2nd to 11th July at usual place of village Nezdenice, located on south-east of the Czech Republic. Watch the video. Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:13:17 +0100 http://raww.org/3245 Finally I managed to compile the list of games working with ZX Spectrum 48K + AY-interface. The list is here: http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/48K_AY_games.html Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:01:12 +0100 http://raww.org/3244 Omega has uploaded the source to Krap Gang's winning demo from Forever 2010. Read more here! Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:20:46 +0000 http://raww.org/3243 All entries/releases from Forever 2010 have been uploaded to the Forever website. You can grab them here! Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:23:25 +0000 http://raww.org/3242 The first photo set from Forever 2010 can be watched here. Photos are by Logout&Lada. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:06:00 +0000 http://raww.org/3241 Very fresh result of ZX Spectrum competitions right from the party... Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:46:06 +0000 http://raww.org/3240 Hägersoft games will be now on the Scene+ disk-magazine... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:19:30 +0000 http://raww.org/3239 The biggest 8-bit event of the year FOReVER 2010 is near! This year it's called The 8-bit Odyssey and it's taking place on 19-21.3.2010 in Trencin, Slovakia. If you want to submit a Speccy compo entry, you can do it by sending your work to mike(at)zeroteam(dot)sk. Usual compos are demo, 1K intro, AY music and ZX picture. Support Speccy scene and make an art! Btw. I've heard that even johny.noone is going to make a demo :) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:12:25 +0000 http://raww.org/3238 SIF, the Sinclair Serial Interface by Pavel Urbancik has finally a new operating software. It allows the long awaited loading and saving files via FTP over the ethernet. It has an NMI option, terminal, configuration utility, FTP client and browser, can load 48K SNA files and view SCR files. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:48:42 +0000