That said, its quite a vibrant part of the retro scene in Eastern Europe/Russia. Perhaps having a dedicated sub forum might encourage a resurgence in the west?
Like not everyone has the time to create a full spectrum program, but to create a short demo program. That is probably a lot more manageable (unless its showing some sort of technical wizardry). Little bit of hand holding might expand the scene in the west..
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Plus with it usually being a collaboration between a musical bod, programmer and art bod i figure its a nice way for someone who perhaps does not have a complete skill set to handle doing a full program to create something and get involved.
Perhaps I misunderstand the programs but they seem to be technical/design showcase often with some artificial constraint placed upon a subset (like only allowing 32 byte programs)
I forget the link (it was on my old bookmark list) but there were only a few discussion of the actual source)
The programming section here is rather lively and has lots of good input. I figure a demoscene discussion would be pretty great.
Here was a general tutorial (not spectrum specific)
https://github.com/psenough/teach_yours ... in_14_days
For 80x86 you have sizecoding for the tiny demos - I wish there was something like this for the spectrum.
http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page