And also during the easter weekend one of the most anticipated parties of the year was held in Germany: Breakpoint 2004! A bit late, because of the serverproblems we had last week, but all the great releases and official results await you in our party section!

During this party the Second Annual Scene.org Awards Gala was also held, rewarding the most outstanding pieces demoscene art released in 2003 with a cool award statue. Check out the Scene.org Awards website to see who were nominated and who walked away with the prizes.

Ok.. most of you have noticed already. But we're 100% back in business again! Thanks for all the support, especially to our sponsors and donators!

The news item about our disk problems seems to have gotten abit hidden with the scene.org awards winners. Please scroll down for more detailed info on what's going on with our recovery.

In the meantime, check breakpoint and the gathering homepages if you're looking for their results and releases.

Update 15-04-2004: Ok.. things are really beginning to look good now.. I went ahead with the risky filesys repair and it looks like it worked. The filesys is now errorfree, 98% of the files that were lost were in the ftparchive so i'm now resyncing the ftparchive with our mirrors to recover those. This recovery needs to be done before bringing everything online, because otherwise the mirrors will start mirroring and delete the files that were lost by the diskcrash too... I estimate the the recovery will take till tomorrow. Tomorrow I will also restart the webservices and get all hosted websites back online. So during the weekend we should be 100% operational again. (redhound)

Update 15-04-2004 (2): Went ahead and got all hosted websites back online, looks like they are all working without problems. The FTP archive will stay offline until tomorrow, so we can recover all lost files like explained in last update above. I'd like to thank you guys for all the support, understanding and comforting posts over here! (redhound)

2004-04-10 - 23.00 - Bingen am rhein, Germany

The international scene organisation (scene.org) is very proud to announce the official line up for the scene.org awards 2003. After many months of delibarations, the international jury awarded the following distinctions:

• Breakthrough performance:
  Project genesis by Conspiracy
• Most original concept:
  IX by Moppi productions
• Best direction:
  IX by Moppi productions
• Best graphics:
  Relais by Kolor
• Best soundtrack:
  A significant deformation near the cranium by Kewlers
• Best effects:
  Aura for laura by Soopadoopa
• Best 4k intro:
  Yellow rose of Texas by Fit + Bandwagon
• Best intro:
  Fr030 candytron by Farbrausch
• Best demo:
  IX by Moppi production
• The public choice award goes to:
  FR-025 The Popular Demo by Farbrausch

Scene.org would also like to thank the jury members as well as all the people who made this edition possible.

It must be Murphy's law.. starting a long easter weekend with disk problems on the scene.org server.. I just barely managed to log in remotely, and killed most services to stop the machine from hanging itself.

Running a badblock scan now, but it doesn't look very good..

Update 09-04-2004: Managed to get the website online on another server temporarily. The rest of the services will be offline until next tuesday i'm afraid.

Update 13-04-2004: Tonight I will try to duplicate the broken disk onto a new one with ghost, hope this is going to work...

Update 13-04-2004 (2): Hm.. ghost is running, but after the first few bad blocks the 'time remaining' counter went up to 24 hours.. so this might take some time..

Update 14-04-2004: Ok, ghosting has worked. We now have a duplicate of the broken disks. I can mount all the filesystems, but there are some problems in the filesystem which can only be corrected by running a command that can also result in total dataloss... so I don't think i'm going to try that. Real dataloss at the moment is not really that bad, nothing we can't put back from our ftpmirrors around the world. But I think we will have to buy a hardware raid array now and copy all files to that new volume.

Today, The International Scene Organization (ry) opened the official website for the 2003 edition of the Scene.org Awards, and is pleased to announce the official nominees as determined by the jury.

Nominations for the following categories are published on the awards' website:

• best demo
• best 64k intro
• best 4k intro
• best effects
• best graphics
• best soundtrack
• best direction
• most original concept
• breakthrough performance

We invite you all to join us to this year's ceremony and gala which will take place on the 10th of April, at the Breakpoint demoparty in Bingen, Germany.