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As most of you already know, the Special Guest of the winter edition of SV in 2024 was Adam Gilmore, a fantastic composer of music for games on 8-bit Atari (including the author of music for games released in the 80s and 90s by "Zeppelin Games" - "Zybex", "Draconus", "Ninja Commando", "Blinky's Scary School", "Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge" and "Fruit Machine").Adam turned out to be not only a fantastic musician, but also a very interesting personality   And what do you think about the fact that the coder and publisher of games such as "Zybex" and "Draconus" will also appear at SV(...)

As you know, one of the Special Guests at the summer edition of Silly Venture 2025 was supposed to be RJ Mical (co-creator of the Atari Lynx hand-held console and Amiga computer).Unfortunately, for objective reasons he can't be with us this summer, but..(...)

A solid dose of music at the next edition of SV will be provided by a duo in the persons of: Ania - ​🇨​​🇭​​🇮​​🇲​​🇪​​🇷​​🇦 and Marcin - ​🇧​​🇱​​🇦​​🇸​​🇵​​🇭​ - ​🇩​​🇯​ ​🇹​​🇷​​🇮​​🇵​​🇱​​🇪​​🇽 A unique vinyl set awaits us.And knowing the temperament of Chimera and Triplex, we should rather write..(...)

Today, the invitation to the summer edition of Silly Venture for Atari XL/XE computers was released.The code was written by PPS, the music was composed by Foster/Zelax, and the graphics were prepared by mOOnie and PPS(...)

I am pleased to inform you that NRG has become one of the strategic sponsors of Silly Venture.From here, I would like to thank NRG, NRG STUDIO and personally Piotr Siwiński for their trust and support of our event(...)

Although we were not able to attend this year's Revision party, we managed to make a symbolic appearance at this largest demoscene party in the world in Saarbrücken (Germany) via advertising the summer edition of SV2025SE in the form of a beam-slide and ATASCII Screen in the demo “Lost World” by the Desire group.We sincerely thank the Revision organizers and all members of the Desire group ❤ By the way, we encourage you to check out the "Lost World" demo on POUET: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=103927   (...)

Fellow PPS once again converted the logo of our event to Atari XL/XE format. This time he took “on the job” the logo of the summer edition (SV2025SE) by mOOnie / Mystic Bytes. A preview of the Atari XL/XE version can be found below. And the download can be found here: https://sillyventure.eu/download/pps_25th_SV_logo.zip A small request - if someone uses the logo in his prod, I would ask to add mOOnie and PPS in the credits :)   (...)

Today I received sad news from Duddie from Retronics that our colleague Arek Milewicz - known by the pseudonym Bitman (a Polish Atari guy living in France for a long time) has passed away.Arek used to sometimes visit Silly Venture, the last time was during the winter edition in 2022 (where he already had health problems and was taken to a hospital in Gdańsk for a few days)(...)

 I am pleased to inform you that at the summer edition of SV in 2025 (the 25th anniversary of our event, July 31-August 3, 2025), 3 exhibitors have announced their presence: RETRONICS, NRG STUDIO and (for the first time) MICRO-ZEIT - an independent German publisher covering the digital scene, culture and computer history. If you are interested in a booth at our event - contact us(...)

Well, it's time to present the Special Guest of the summer edition of Silly Venture 2025.Some of you learned about it from the video that was shown at the winter edition last weekend...(...)