Ok guys, JHCon 2011 will take palce from 16.-18. December 2011 at usual place, GVN in Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic! See more info on my blog. Hope you'll come, or contribute to the crazy Basic compo ;)

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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!