Sat, 16 May 2009 17:52:40 +0100 http://www.raww.org/ raww.org arse-end en-gb http://www.raww.org/images/raww_dot.gif http://www.raww.org/ icabod@rawwdot.demon.co.uk http://www.raww.org/3192 Quick pointer to two dates for your diaries: Artfield has been announced for the 6th and 7th of June. Compos other than the standards include Gigascreen pix, 1k procedural graphics, and ZX General Sound compo (well, it's a .MOD compo). DoHalt is taking place a month later on the 11th and 12th of July. In addition to the standards there's a TurboSound FM compo, in which I hope a few more people will use the AY as well as just the FM part. Makes it sound a little more "ZX", IMHO. So. Add them to your PDA's, iPhones, and whatever other technology you use to record upcoming events (a pen and paper, you say?!) and get working. Sat, 16 May 2009 17:52:40 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3191 Hidden among the spam I spot an email from Yerzmyey pointing me to DWD Records, where you can grab an album of his music, titled "Interphase", along with some other 8-bit artists' work. Check it out, and enjoy some aural pleasure. Sat, 16 May 2009 17:42:49 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3190 One of the newest Velesoft's projects is a website with all the information about the well known DivIDE interface. You can find here photos, something about history and first prototypes, firmwares, adapters, docs, DivIDE Plus information, emulators supporting DivIDE and many more. Wed, 13 May 2009 18:26:56 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3189 The new ubiktune release is out now. It's a music mix by various artists - C-jeff, Riskej, Key-Jee, MmcM, Factor6, Klim and Trommler: As the cold and gray of winter ebbs, the majesty of nature changes inexorably to spring. The change in the environment brought about a lightness in the hearts of our musicians, who got together with their Spectrums to craft you 9 new musical pieces to help you celebrate the return of spring. Go here and download the album in both mp3 or Ay_Emul formats! Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:06 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3188 Sad news. Michal Ovcarov, known as Triton of his own group Spectravision, author of demos Triton Mix 128, Hypnotic World and Unlimited Dream, as well as a never released (?) unique sample playing routine and some CBM's X-Tracker modifications, has died on 2.5.2009 in a motorbike accident. Our condolences to all who knew him. Wed, 13 May 2009 08:13:16 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3187 This is not exactly ZX news, but one could say it's in close touch with ZX scene. Slovakian Zeroteam released their first demo for Amstrad CPC range computers. It's called CPCTro and has attracted attention of many CPC news portals like this or this one. Mikezt did the coding works and Factor6 the rest: music, picture, and charset design. The CPC scene likes us. So let's like the CPC scene. Wed, 06 May 2009 11:43:24 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3186 About a year ago I reported on the news of a Czech Sintech - Sintech being the lovely people who (many years ago) sold me my delicious MB02+. At that time I hinted that there would be a UK shop coming soon - and now it's here: sintech-shop.co.uk. Good things: Prices in GBP, another place to buy ZX stuff (and so much more besides). Bad things: I can't make a clever pun on the name like I did before. Fri, 01 May 2009 15:38:23 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3185 SPC (Spectrum & SAM Profi Club) Cologne was a bit quiet for longer than one year, after Wolfgang was unable to continue to edit the magazine. But now I decided to rebirth it, with regular publishing of the club magazine. There is a new issue of the club magazine, partly english, mainly german, which was created and put online for free: womoteam.de... Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:56:54 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3184 Just going through my emails from the last couple days and I spot one from Newart pointing me to his new site ZXPress.ru - it's a library of e-zines and e-papers for the ZX, generally "made in Russia". The downloads are there for a few hundred issues of a variety of 'zines, along with a big collection of articles (around 2000!), in a slightly easier translatable format... that's to say, the ones I've looked at are text - hoorah! Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:37 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3183 Thanks to Factor6 for posting the missing news earlier today. I really should have read the site before posting it myself - I suck. Apologies to Claus Jahn, Yerz, LCD, ... for posting news and me ignoring it - actually, I didn't ignore it, but my new email filtered out the "news waiting" email. Hmph. Factor6 now has more admin rights, which should help :) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:43:54 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3180 I got an email from Yerzmyey writing that there are two new Speccy game releases available. Kuiper Pursuit by Jonathan Cauldwell with Yerz's music and W*H*B by Bob Smith with Mister Beep's zak and levels by Jumping Stack, Karl Gillott, Mulder and ZnorXman. Go play. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:49:42 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3179 RockOn is a small one-day-party held by SPHP (Historic Computers Friends Association) at Gregor's home, Rokycany, Czech Republic. It's mainly about Speccy and for Speccy freaks, but other lovers of retro platforms can find it interesting, too. The party is held on 30.5.2009 and visitors have to let to know the organiser, because the space is limited. Very brief info in Czech is here. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:39:27 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3178 Weren't enough of AY Riders photos and videos, right? Go there! Videos: Autumn Is Calling Prazakum je hej Around Past Summer Mood Old TV Tune Super Monaco Grand Prix Photos (will be available only for a little time...) http://www.speccy.cz/AY-Riders_Bratislava_2009.zip Enjoy! :) [posted by Wixet] Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:37 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3177 Hi, guys! The concert is over. I must say it was a really insane gig. [posted by YERZMYEY] Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:06:32 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3176 New version of ZX-Paintbrush and ZX-Blockeditor released. [posted by clausjahn] Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:03:17 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3175 After a very long time of improvment, Retro-X final alpha version was released now. Details are in the mew Retro-X forum at: http://lcd.forenworld.at The list of improvments is very big this time, so grab it while it is hot, from WOS or http://lcd-one.da.ru [F6 note: As I don't have rights to add new articles from other users (hello icabod?), I can only see pending posts in the system. This one is written by LCD] Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:52:52 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3174 Do we need serial interface? With WiFi or Ethernet option? Some people think so and such a piece of hardware is currently in development by Pavel Urbancik, one of the speccy-hardware-specialists from Czech Republic. As I spotted on IRC, some people (Hi LAesQ :-P) asked me for more details. Now, there is an English website of the project online. Go there, LAesQ! (and the others) Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:23:11 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3173 And it was big. All the info as well as links to photo galleries, videos even a local radio podcast (in Slovak language) are at AY Riders' website. Thanks to all the people at the concert place for making a perfect atmosphere. And for all the rest, regret you weren't there. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:52:55 +0100 http://www.raww.org/3172 Not so long since our last Prague concert there is a new gig, this time in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It's taking place on 18.4.2009 in A4 Zero Area club, starting at 8pm. Look at the riders' site for more information, ... and come :) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:18:57 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3171 Very (very) quick post with the results of Forever|neXt, which happened this weekend... after the cut. Releases will follow. [Update by F6]: Download the releases here! Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:48:28 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3170 FOReVER neXT starts today in sunny Slovakia. Hooray! But I won't be there. Boo! That's it really, just a pointer to keep an eye out for news from the party. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:27:16 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3169 Just had an email from proud Daddy evilpaul pointing us all to the scene.org awards where three ZX-related items are in the lists. Triebkraft's "Aeon" is nominated for a Best Oldschool Platform prize, Ate-Bit have "Pimp My Spectrum" in the Best 64k and Original Concept categories, and Inward feature in the Best Animation category (tho' not for a ZX release). Perhaps most impressively is Aeon being nominated in the Public Choice category. Good luck to all, eh? Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:19:00 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3168 I'm still slacking, but that doesn't mean I don't care about my favourite 8-bit party, Forever, the next event being only... 10 days away (actually I see it's 9 days - hmm). Recently the traditional "Create & Win" compo started up, which may well snag you free entry should your design skills be "leet" enough. I won't be at the party, but that's due to my son being Christened that weekend - so maybe I'll drink some Slovak beer anyway. As you know, there are the usual ZX compos, so get working! Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:33:22 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3167 While we're talking about music, a very quick pointer to the latest Ubiktune release, a collection of AY music by Fatal Snipe titled "Fellowship". Grab. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:20:23 +0000 http://www.raww.org/3166 Thanks to Yerzmyey for pointing us to the Bitfellas BitJam Podcast, where #53 is all AY-Riders music. Oh yes. The direct download is here, but the rest of the casts are worthy of your attention too. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:17:18 +0000