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The Meteoriks Award 2026 for NEW TALENT goes to DJ_Level_3 & Marv1994 for Primer
https://demozoo.org/productions/371249

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for OUTSTANDING CONCEPT goes to ReelTime by Demostue Allst★rs
https://demozoo.org/productions/379064
with an Honorable Mention of No-CPU Challenge by Demostue Allst★rs
https://demozoo.org/productions/376675

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS goes to Heritages by iapafoto
https://demozoo.org/productions/371224

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for [b]BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to
Codeboys & Endians by Booze Design
https://demozoo.org/productions/366745

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to
Vaporous by The Twitch Elite
https://demozoo.org/productions/371134

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST SOUNDTRACK goes to AddMortem by Arise & Joker
https://demozoo.org/productions/370512

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT goes to
Small64 by N64Brew
https://demozoo.org/productions/371258
with an Honorable Mention of The 2025 Rotozoomer Challenge by Batman Group, Capsule, DESiRE, DHS, Django, Lemon, Loonies, Tarnow & mis, TTE
https://demozoo.org/search/?q=%5Brotozoomer-challenge%5D+year%3A2025

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST VISUALS goes to
Brute Concrete by Digital Dynamite & United Force
https://demozoo.org/productions/377656

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST TINY INTRO
goes to
Party.DLL by Desire & Haujobb
https://demozoo.org/productions/371106
with an Honorable Mention of Starpath by HellMood / Desire
https://demozoo.org/productions/367702

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST HIGH-END INTRO goes to
Tension by Digital Dynamite & Aenima
https://demozoo.org/productions/371364

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST DIRECTION goes to
Hexer by LJ
https://demozoo.org/productions/371094

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST HIGH-END DEMO goes to
BREACH by mfx
https://demozoo.org/productions/371397

Throughout the past years, the archival teams of Demozoo and Scene.org have been working tirelessly to preserve old demoscene stuff from disks, CDs, tapes, and lost websites. From now on, we will present you with some highlights from the current excavations on a regular basis. This week, we have sifted through half-broken Wayback Machine captures to preserve releases from two MS-DOS era demoscene producers. First, we have Dual Processor System, a two-person outfit from Berlin who made oldschool intros and FM music in 1995-1996. And secondly, Albert Software Inc., who was, despite the name, a solitary coder on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. Happy Easter holidays! We'll be back soon with more preservation updates.

The Meteoriks nominees have been revealed at Mountain Bytes 2026. You can check the full list of nominations at demozoo and there is also a watchlist of other productions that didn't quite make it to a nomination but were highly discussed by the jury and quite worth watching.

The laureates for the different categories will be revealed at Revision.

All 190 entries from the Size Coding Challenge and 18 entries from the Wild category are online. Enjoy the incredible code and the creative snowflake-themed demos!

Transmission64 2025 is over! The online C64 demo party that took place on November 29th 2025; it featured interviews (Mason of the Transfer Team and Gideon Zweijtzer), music acts (Zyron with Paramiamix and Goto80 with A/V TXT), plus many quality entries in seven competitions.

Transmission on Demozoo / scene.org / CSDb

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube.

Transmission64 has launched the 2025 party system at https://t64.to/register. They can't wait to see your contributions starting to appear! The categories are Demo, 4k, Graphics, Screen Fader, BASIC oneline, PETSCII and Music (all C64, obviously). Submission deadline is Nov 28th, 2025 at 16:00 CET.

Transmission64 2025 starts on Nov 29th, 2025 at 16:00 CET. Rules, timetable and more information can be found at: https://transmission64.com/

Our friend and resident Playstation expert ps1ch has made a very handy guide right here on Demozoo on how to extract and preserve ps2 cracktros. Hopefully it'll help more people grow skills in these areas, and we can have more classic cracktro history preserved.

Thank you, ps1ch!

https://demozoo.org/pages/preserving-ps2/

The following competitions are NOW open for you to remotely submit your entry:

• Realtime: 1k Intro, 4k intro, Beginner Demo, Fantasy console, Oldskool Demo, Demo
• Music: Tracked music
• Wild: Short film, Real Wild

Check out also https://scene.assembly.org for voting (with entry ticket) and entry submission.

The final results of the 2025 Meteoriks have been presented on stage at Revision.

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for NEW TALENT
goes to ciosai_tw for bruh i ain't naming things
with an Honorable Mention of steffest for Ordo

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for OUTSTANDING CONCEPT
goes to A Statement On The Platform Wars by Moonbase Allstars

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS
goes to Chromatic North by epoqe

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION
goes to 13:37 by Fairlight

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION
goes to The Mind by Haujobb & SWEET16

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST SOUNDTRACK
goes to Asura by mfx
with an Honorable Mention of Crystal Dynamics by NOGAPNOBACT3RIA

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
goes to Gosia by SIMurai
with an Honorable Mention of Mariana by Jin X

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST VISUALS
goes to Empires by Conspiracy
with an Honorable Mention of Fishbomb by Extend

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST HIGH-END INTRO
goes to Starseed by LJ & Puryx
with an Honorable Mention of Empires by Conspiracy

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST DIRECTION
goes to Asura by mfx
with an Honorable Mention of XO by Nuance

The Meteoriks Award 2025 for BEST HIGH-END DEMO
goes to Stranded by Madwizards
with an Honorable Mention of Asura by mfx

Check out the full list of nominees, and the 2025 watchlist of notable releases hand-picked by the juries.

MountainBytes 2025 is over! The Swiss demo event of the year took place on February 14th to 16th and leaves us with many productions worth watching from four main competitions and the specials OHP demo competition and the innovative 3D graphics competition (with models included in the digital performance as part of the Saturday evening live act).

MountainBytes 2025 on Demozoo / scene.org

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube sooner or later.