Loving seeing how fast machine learning on audio is progressing things - great quality speech under 1kbps is real, and good quality music under 2.5kbps is a reality as well. That's a CD of music on a floppy disk...I can't believe this hasn't had more coverage! github.com/SonyCSLParis/codicodec

I tend to fire up Doom / Doom 2 every now and then for a blast, but I thought I'd give Legacy of Rust (free with Doom & Doom II on Steam) and wow - it's fantastic. So creative and the soundtrack is an absolute delight. Honestly, give it a go if you have it (you probably do), it's mega fun.

How old school Tape Loading worked. lemmings.info/how-tape-loa...

Actually gutted for the devs on this one. :(

New blog post! This time I went deep down the rabbit hole of NTSC/PAL emulation in the context of PS2 emulation. themaister.net/blog/2026/05...

I've been following the Xbox coverage and think Asha Sharma is doing a wicked job. Really hope Microsoft buy in on restoring the brand. Similarly for the K2 project, if they can make a concerted effort to desloppify the OS it will only help. I still appreciate all things Linux, it all helps the PC.

Funny getting block notifications for mentioning someone's trigger word regardless of context.

Well, the UK's in a prisoners dilemma stopping Reform, the vote is split between Labour and Green who in aggregate would win easily. Note: Reform voters can't speak on anything apart from migration and many voters can't articulate what Keir Starmer has done wrong apart from "nothing's changed".

I wish Emulation News YouTube channels were a bit more concise - Retro RGB and Lu's Retro Source are great but some others just pad out so much it's infuriating "Hey guys welcome back and have we got some great news in store for you, something we've all been asking for believe me..." etc.

Fired up an old MacBook running Sonoma and it still had the old UI. Really cements what a mess Tahoe is. I really hope the new CEO reverts the glass mess.

New Kaneel album is out and it is awesome <3 :) Go check it out here: mynameiskaneel.com #newmusic #kaneel #demoscene #trax

Yeah I just spent £56 on a rare Scooter CD - "Back in Ireland", which is the same as "Back in the UK", except they replaced the words UK and England with Ireland, unsurprisingly. Only 5000 copies got pressed. Actually have been looking for it on and off since 1996! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikhd...

Myself and @h0ffman.bsky.social have put together a technical write-up of Second Nature, the Amiga demoscene production that was released at Revision a few weeks back. Check it out if you're interested in how these things are done. blog.grahambates.com/posts/second...

While we are still recovering from an awesome party and already miss all of our friends, we like to look back at past editions, and now you can do the same in great detail! Head on over to archive.revision-party.net to relive memories of past editions of our wonderful easter party!

I keep thinking a lot about how it would be very useful to have a lossless but very flexible video format for old school computer / video game capture that supported resolution changes and interlacing for demoscene production preservation and game captures. ZMBV / FFV1 are close but not quite there.

Sad to hear of the passing of Moya Brennan - one of the incredible members of Clannad: www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

I can’t be the only one eagerly awaiting the next update from Reassembler on the Amiga Sonic the Hedgehog port… 😁

More incredible work from Ian Scott!

Before the hype dies, I just want to thank everyone who I got to meet at Revision 2026! I hadn't submitted a demo but was fully absorbing the sensations of the scene which really was something special. I was refining bits of my channel and promoting it a little bit. A recap video is coming SOON!

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Very curious!

I usually feel a bit meh about AY music but this absolutely oozes style, such great musicianship - give it a chance and turn it up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIir...

I picked up one of these and they're really neat! <3

I don't really post about hip hop but this 50 Cent diss by Papoose is relentless, excellent lyricism and that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucmW...

it's beautiful

I made a new old thing! Claude Code helped me update some ancient C for converting images to Teletext into modern Python and add a host of new preprocessing options. Consider this a beta test. Feedback welcome! huggingface.co/spaces/kiera... #teletext #bbcmicro #mode7

I only saw this recently - Doom on a Floppy (DOOF) - the first episode on one bootable floppy disk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3T... Github: github.com/fragglet/squ... Part of me thinks if Doom sizecoding became a thing and used something like QUOD's texture synthesis, that would be mad!

Meta Platforms feeds: - Fights in fast food joints - Slop / Brainrot - Rage bait - Thirst traps - Artists trapped in the content grind - Charlie Kirk memes Bluesky: - Cool decompilations of retro games - Amazing pixel shaders - New tracker music - Discussion of tech - Rational AI talk - Funny shit

Well, this makes total sense now.

I’ve once again relegated Instagram and Facebook to an old phone that stays at home now. Such hateful divisive platforms, I get bombarded with horrible content of all kinds and feel my friends are kept locked in their grief with unhelpful content presenting as justified or empowering. Enough! 😤

Another thing is when Eurogamer took a stance against Arc Raiders using generative AI the review got downvoted massively but then DF get the same when they endorse it - does seem a bit inconsistent.

Pretty shocked at the DLSS5 discourse - if they used a tech demo, not existing IP and dialled down the face tuning this would be much better received - and the abuse thrown at DF has been disgusting. It’s really not far different to RTX remix and ENB modifications but should be developer lead.

Let’s hope.

I felt for a long time that DLSS5 type tech was inevitable. I was impressed with the scenery lighting tbh but the faces do need work. Let’s see what comes next before going mad. All rendering is an illusion after all. When this is part of an artists tooling and workflow people may feel differently.

Put simply, the best fighting game of all time on the ZX Spectrum. What a spectacular port!

The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in. It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved. www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

There's a PlayStation demo CD with a restricted build of *Ridge Racer*. It's from 3 weeks before the final, making it some of the earliest PlayStation software. I patched out the limits to enable full access. There are lots of differences! 32bits.substack.com/p/extending-...

Is anyone I know here going to revision demoparty this year? apparently theres going to be a live coding strudel jam thing. I've never been to a demoparty before and I would have to try and get some days off work to attend, im super on the fence about going. #revision #demoscene #livecoding

High praise from DF legend John Linneman - now I’m interested!

LGR has a video out covering my #PicoIDE project and the ZuluIDE. We are officially in a awesome new era of drive emulators! youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk

Arrrgh seems like every music producer I like is buying into the low effort conversation starter short form video posting nonsense. "How fast should Drum & Bass be?" "Do MCs distract from the music?" "Do you prefer the build up or the drop?" "When did trance really peak?" thinking emoji face

Having more fun with Claude - had a server that an rclone mount stopped by OOM Killer and didn't come back up - pointed Claude at it and it found the entry in the system logs and proposed a mitigation strategy which worked a treat. The thing is, I'm still learning more when using this tool. Mad.

Can you hear the E-Werk calling you? Revision tickets are now available, get the details here: 2026.revision-party.net/blog/03-tick... Like last year you can book a campervan spot, the airport bus, and supporter tickets. Hotel info too: 2026.revision-party.net/blog/04-hote... #RevisionParty

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Sure am getting tired of seeing "ADHD" content depicting people with this condition as barely functional and often codependant. It's insulting and infantalising and I'm like, vicariously offended because this content is so annoying. Some of my friends have ADHD and they are doing well, y'know.

Still waiting patiently for Google Street View to interpolate their 360° photos using machine learning so we can glide between shots instead of the shoving transition. It's been done in research situations, why not do it live? Google Maps used to be hot for innovation, now it's just ads.

Currently trying to reconstitute the original hybridized.org site from the wayback machine with help from Claude AI. Managing to succesfully extract tracklists and cuesheets so far. Hybridized was a goldmine for progressive house and breaks back in the day, would be good to ressurect it!

Strong agree - I would have bought some of this kit over the next year as well. Very disappointing...

Well, this looks gorgeous!

Future Crew Second Reality (1993) ported to Javascript #Demoscene #FutureCrew #YR_1993 github.com/covalichou/s...