Welcome back to your childhood!
You are at the right place if you are looking for the Commodore 64 / +4, 8bit Atari and / or Spectrum scene. You won't be disappointed if interested in exotic computers of the 80s, early Nintendo, Sega or Atari game consoles either. Arok covers them all and lets you celebrate 8bit love all together :)
Party is over
We had over 200 visitors, lots of releases and fun. Thank you for joining us! Downloads can be found here and the compo results are the following:
GAME COMPETITION| 1. | Dave / SIDNIFY |
REMIX COMPETITION
| 1. | #07 | 82 pts | Perpetual Motion - Slaygon |
| 2. | #08 | 79 pts | Live Forever - SIDRIP Alliance |
| 3. | #05 | 71 pts | Cheese of Wiklund (compo edit) - Ziona |
| 4. | #03 | 69 pts | Lethargic - Eivind Sommersten |
| 5. | #04 | 64 pts | Stormlord Arok 330 Edition - Tony Fluke73 Wiren / RetroGamingMusic |
| 6. | #02 | 59 pts | Draconus (arok edit) - Tim Forsyth |
| 7. | #06 | 57 pts | Beroot Olejuuri - Dr.Future |
| 8. | #01 | 49 pts | World complete - Dobos Ferenc |
MUSIC COMPETITION
| 1. | #06 | 169 pts | Dirk Gently - Necropolo / Lethargy |
| 2. | #08 | 156 pts | Taming the Fire - Dave / SIDNIFY |
| 3. | #07 | 152 pts | Android 2.0 - Proton / Finnish Gold |
| 4. | #05 | 151 pts | Flowery Meadow - Chabee / SidRip Alliance |
| 5. | #04 | 135 pts | Get Up Funkier - Hermit |
| 6. | #02 | 112 pts | Dope - Johnny / Abandoneds |
| #03 | 112 pts | Bodyspray - G-Fellow / Code7 | |
| 8. | #01 | 89 pts | Verschlimmbesserung (Arok short mix) - Gabez |
GRAPHICS COMPETITION
| 1. | #10 | 340 pts | Miryam the Medusa - Grass/Hokuto Force, Lethargy |
| 2. | #08 | 295 pts | The Lost One - Carrion / Censor Design |
| 3. | #05 | 279 pts | Goa - Leon / SgrRscChrLth |
| 4. | #13 | 258 pts | Bomberman vs Earth - Chronos |
| 5. | #09 | 207 pts | Guru Meditation - Slaxx / Quantum |
| 6. | #15 | 201 pts | Emptiness - Oberon / FACES |
| 7. | #07 | 194 pts | Blue planet - Chesser / Nigaz |
| 8. | #03 | 181 pts | Shatter the sky - _bi_polar_ |
| 9. | #11 | 178 pts | Rockin' Ronin - Dave / SIDNIFY |
| 10. | #17 | 170 pts | Bored of games - Almighty God / Atlantis |
| 11. | #06 | 164 pts | Public Enemy - Kody / Hokuto Force |
| #16 | 164 pts | Water cycle - Balázs | |
| 13. | #02 | 156 pts | Magasabb Szellemi dimenzió - blasterNOX |
| #12 | 156 pts | 25 Years Arok - Freeze | |
| 15. | #01 | 149 pts | Áokgömb - Bettu |
| 16. | #14 | 148 pts | PETSCII Dungeons & Droids - Ko-Ko |
| 17. | #18 | 120 pts | 40% Friendship - Raf |
| 18. | #04 | 105 pts | Venom - Gabez |
BASIC COMPRESSOR COMPETITION
| 1. | #03 | 775 bytes | RLE! - Charlie |
| 2. | #02 | 881 bytes | 881 bytes - Raf |
| 3. | #01 | 937 bytes | BASIC compress - vili |
GAME DEV COMPETITION
| 1. | #03 | 293 pts | Prince of Persia - TCFS |
| 2. | #02 | 221 pts | PETSCII Wizard of Wor - Pexy.io & Pleasure Bytes |
| 3. | #01 | 200 pts | Stick Man Arok Edition - Epy |
| 4. | #05 | 120 pts | Treasure in The Depth - Raf |
| 5. | #04 | 92 pts | Tron Deadly Discs Rc5 - Mr SQL / RelationalFramework |
WILD COMPETITION
| 1. | #05 | 222 pts | Raster-split-fun - party version - Singular + Replay Inc. |
| 2. | #04 | 183 pts | Function - Abonyi Attila |
| 3. | #02 | 140 pts | Rotation - SIDRIP Alliance |
| 4. | #03 | 125 pts | V&V - pasy |
| 5. | #01 | 110 pts | Brrrbrrrbbrrbrbbbbbrr!!!!!! - Dave / SIDNIFY |
DEMO COMPETITION
| 1. | #07 | 320 pts | plus/4 XL - plus/4 scene |
| 2. | #04 | 270 pts | PriHistory - PRIMAL |
| 3. | #08 | 258 pts | Tomb Raider - Resource |
| 4. | #01 | 240 pts | PITI DEMO - Geco |
| 5. | #03 | 173 pts | Worm Factory - Kaszi75 |
| 6. | #02 | 168 pts | HT-1080 Zaj - Fast&Force |
| 7. | #06 | 154 pts | New Wave - Genesis Project |
| 8. | #05 | 129 pts | Fist Of The North Star Ita Ost Remix - Hokuto Force |
About Arok
Arok is an annual demoscene event for retro computer and video game console fans. This is the oldest gathering of this kind in Hungary, which is going to be organized for the 25th time this year. It attracts around 200 enthusiasts to Ajka/Hungary from all around Europe. Attendees can watch regular art competitions, enter gaming contests, listen to hardware and software development presentations, concerts, etc.
To get into the mood right now, you might check the archived video recordings of last year.
Location: Ice Rink, Ajka / Hungary
Entry fee: 7000 HUF (ca. 19 EUR)
For more info feel free to drop an email to arok@singularcrew.hu or call poison: +36702529323. You will find up to date posts on our Facebook page also.
Location
Ajka is a lovely, small town in western Hungary, north to lake Balaton. It is easy to access by train (all Intercities have a stop here) or car (route nr. 8 / E66). We are gathering the 8 bit power in the local ice rink (don't panic - without ice :) ) for the third time. It has plenty of room, easy access, has lots of parking space, owns a bufet and multiple shops are in the close neighborhood also.
If you arrive by train or bus, you need a little walking. You might use this map to get in direction.
Arriving by car is going to be easy as you won't need to get into the town center. From route nr. 8 / E66 head to Ajka from Bakonygyepes (not from Ajkarendek!!!), at the roundabout next to Tesco store take the first exit, leaving the gas station turn to the left. You have arrived ;)
Features
- place for more than 1000 visitors
- lot of free parking place
- biiig screen
- loud chip music
- sleeping rooms
- shower
- aircondition
- on spot buffet (warm food, beer, drinks)
- big stores for cheap food very close
- garden area
- 0-24 live stream
Accomodation
Are you looking for a room for the weekend? We can recommend a few options for you:
- Kristályfürdő Kemping (camping site - phone: +3630/6297353)
- Bánki Donát Szakközépiskola Kollégiuma (students hostel - phone: +3620/5854575)
- Hajnal Panzió (motel at Ajka-Bakonygyepes - phone: +3630/9930889 )
- Újélet Motel (motel at Ajka - phone: +3620/2201980)
- Hotel Kristály (hotel at Ajka - phone: +3630/6071661)
If you needed a taxi, you can call Gyula Dubinczky +3630/2441800 or Marcell Nyírő +3630/9319505.
Schedule (WIP)
16:00 Opening ceremony
17:00 Deadline for remix compo
17:00 Demo show
18:30 Remix compo (Slay Radio live)
11:00 Game compo (Lanre+Zazrak)
11:00 Home computing behind the Iron C. (RAF)
13:00 Cloud computing on C64 (Awe, Anchor)
14:00 The Foundation (Visage)
14:30 Gauntlet & others (Tuan Publishing)
15:30 Service-life (Tóth Zoltán, Tihanyi Róbert)
16:00 Deadline for ALL compos
16:30 SIDemu (Mikus Lóránt)
17:00 Music compo
18:00 BBQ
20:00 GFX compo
20:30 BASIC compressor compo showcase
21:00 Game Dev compo
21:30 Wild compo
22:00 Demo compo
12:00 Doors close
Dj Detox
Dj Adrián (E-Dioda)
Dj Teofill (Teo)
Dj Codekiller
Dj BBQsausage (Viti)
Dj Lethargy (Visage)
General rules
No smoke/smoking inside ...
No smoke/smoking inside No animals allowed ... No tenting allowed ... Keep away from football fields ... Alcohol allowed ... No drugs ... Your hardware, your responsibility ... Big Brother is watching you ... Bring your power cords ...Compo rules
Supported hardwares are vanilla Commodore 64 / plus4 + 1541. If you bring a release for an exotic platform, please let us know and / or bring your gear!
C64 releases are run on new SID if not noted otherwise. Old SID is of course available.
Demo entries have a time limit of 10 minutes.
Music entries have a time limit of 3 minutes and 30 seconds (might be longer, but will be faded out). Digitized samples are allowed.
During music playback we show general slides (author, title, note), not the screen of your player.
Remix entries should provide (at least link to) original. For example HVSC in case of C64 covers.
Remix entries should be submitted in 256kbit, constant bitrate MP3 format. It is needed for proper playback on C64.
Graphic entries should have no animation. Workstages are required. Using AI is not allowed. Signature is allowed.
One entry / competition is allowed for each participant.
Remote entries are allowed but those go for the fame only. Prices are handed personally for antendees only. Use arok@singularcrew.hu to submit.
We reserve the right for preselection that includes moving entries to the wild compo or rejecting them.
Entries with porn or racism are going to be excluded for sure.
Compo entries may not have been released before.
Visitors
Are you planing to visit Arok? Help organizing the party by signing into this pre-visitor list! Your friends are going to know that they can expect you and we can calculate costs. Use the email arok@singularcrew.hu to get into the list of fame!
adt/absolute! Ambrózya Anchor AWE BadCode64 Bigbilly BlooD2oo1/Neocore Boaaa Dr.CC/Angels CapaC/Singular Cargo/Singular Chesser/Nigaz Chronos/Absence Csaba/NewWave Dave/SIDnify de Blondie/Resource d'Avid/Lethargy Detox/CrimsonJihad dev0/Lethargy Edhellon/Resource Epy Feryx/Lunaticats
Fido Freeze/Blazon Füvesi/Singular Gabez Hevő Janee/Breeze Jean76 Joe Forster/STA Joshi/Szittyózium Kami Kaszi75 Krisztika Lameron/Vakondok Lanre Leeroy/SMV Design Leon/SgrRscChrLth Lion/Chromance Lightning Loloke/Lethargy mashBp/absolute! Martinland/Lotek64 Megabyte/Unsoft Mephisto/Ebola MMS Mohus Murányi Zoli Nadin NecroPolo/Lethargy Nicron
Nonoo/SharkRF Olessák Róbert Oswald/Resource Pazso/Retrocomp. poison/Singular
Popmilo/Tempest
RAF/Vulture Rambo/TRY^RSC Ray/Therapy Rawbites Répa/Therapy Schedar/Lethargy Sei/Lethargy Senki Alfonz Siz/Absence
Slaygon/SLAY Radio Soci/Singular Suby/SIDRip Szél Tomi TGM/Singular Tiger Verona/SSyndrome Vili Vincenzo/SGR^LTH Visage/Lethargy Viti/Hokuto Force Will/Chimera Wortex/Therapy Zazrak Ziona/SLAY Radio Zsuzsi/Szittyózium
