This week a Spectrum demo: Machined by Triebkraft & 4th Dimension 3rd place at Sundown 2007 open oldschool demo compo.

This week a Pentagon (ZX Spectrum clone) demo by Placebo: Inbetween, winner of the Cafe 2002 demoparty

This week is time for a Atari 8-bit demo: Asskicker by Shadows, released in 1996

This week a ZX Spectrum demo: Bomb by ate bit, winner of the oldskool demo compo at Sundown 2007

This week a C64 demo by Horizon, Instinct, Focus and Triad: The Wild Bunch, winner at X2006

Due to a small error in the comment form, (& were accidentally replaced by &) it was imposible to post comments. It's fixed now.

That's right, a year ago, 19th of September of 2006; SolidState started. It's not a very active blog, and I've been maintaining the blog code more time than I actually spend writing posts.

New Design

As you may see, the blog sports a brand new design since today, originally based on a  free template by STUDIO7DESIGNS, it has heavy modifications both in design as in function.
Also added an RSS feed displayer at the bottom of the page.

New Engine

Since early august, the site has been running fully based on flatfile databases. That required a lot of coding, but the final result is almost as good as when it used MySQL. The only drawback is that the blog becomes slow at the high transit hours.
On a previous post, I stated that this flatfile engine was only to be used until the time I get 50 posts on the host's forum. Well, it turned out that when the day came for all accounts w¡thout 50 posts to lose access to MySQL; the host changed the rules again and the only way to activate MySQL after that day was by paying a small fee.
I'm not going to pay any fee, so the flatfile will stay for undetermined time.

Wiki (Spanish Only)

In the navigation bar on top of the page you'll notice a new 'Wiki' link, by clicking it you'll be sended to Wikifericos, a wiki about old computer peripherals & expansions.
There's almost zero information in there right now, as I got into rewriting the blog engine and redesign just after I started the wiki.
The wiki is only available in spanish and will remain that way for the time being.

This week a ZX Spectrum 128 demo: Action by Megacode released in 1996

This week, a demo for the Atari Falcon with 68060 processor: Derealization by Dead Hackers Society, winner at Big Floppy People 2006
^{Via 32BitOS}

 

This week demo is for the Atari 8-bit line: Ultra by Taquart