Revision 2026 took place again this Easter and once again the great big E-Werk in Saarbrücken, Germany provided surroundings for (and a roof over) the hundreds of productions and sceners having their beer and creating and talking about how to create graphics, music and code in increasingly stranger ways and put it together to make, yes, demos.
A certain Mr. Cool relentlessly refused not to show up and had a fun time with (perhaps in chronological order) the Croatians, the Danes, the Germans, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Polish, the Italians, the Belgians, the Argentinians, the French, the British, the Swedes, the Finns (wait, did he meet any Swedes or Finns now?) the Americans and the ones from acidland and possibly someone from nowhere thrown in for good measure. If you met him there, consider yourself greeted – if you didn’t, consider yourself lucky. Or something.
After all, we are all members of the same tribe (DEMOSCENE) so we might as well fight it out via demo competitions and beer aplenty.
Now, as you may well be aware, he usually does Amiga music, and having been involved in about four releases, he was indeed. First of all, he managed an 8th place in the Oldskool Music Competition with “Stoneage Computers“, composed in AHX a few years back for … something else. The management is very dissatisfied with his choice to make a jazz song for the Tracked Music Competition, but he refuses to learn, and thus only managed to come 12th with “All in a Days Work“.
He also sneaks around lurking – no, working for a certain other group called Nah-Kolor (let us not get started on the name), and made the music for “Diamondique” (again, let us not get started on the name) which placed a very respectable 3rd in the Amiga Intro Competition, ahead of our good friends and relatives (group-wise) in Focus Design.
And he also snuck in a tune in Chipo Django 3, a chiptune collection released in the Wild Competition which came 13th, while the coder wasn’t watching, just to clutch over a few more platforms as it is for both Atari, Acorn Archimedes and Amiga (quadriple A production then… Maybe… Or not).
Slumgud also had a cameo in Moonbase by Ghetto Crew, which placed dead last, right in the slum, down in the dirt, on Dead End Street and entirely lost the Amiga Demo Competition. It wasn’t his fault though, so he tells us. It’s just that there’s something wrong with the people voting…
Now, at the end of this wonderfully long post which is entirely written for people who can actually read and does it too, we have to congratulate our Demostue friends from the All Stars with the Meteoriks award and the honourable mention and also to Loonies with the 3rd place in the 8k PC intro competition.