Byterapers, piBaron and MFX take the demo prizes at Assembly, Evoke and Deadline 2026
by The RetroMake desk 26 October 2026
Results from three European demoparties between July and October, from the PC demo competitions to the C64, Amiga and MS-DOS entries, plus the winners of the C64 party X, which ran in June.
What we know
- At Assembly Summer 2026 in Helsinki (30 July-2 August), Byterapers won the demo, oldskool demo and one-minute demo competitions.
- At Evoke 2026 in Cologne (21-23 August), piBaron's Return to Void won the PC demo competition, according to Demozoo.
- At Deadline 2026 in Berlin (2-4 October), MFX's With Pride won the PC demo vote with 283 points to 279 and 277 for second and third.
- Otomata Labs won Deadline's oldschool demo competition with New Horizons, ahead of a C64 demo by 99.9% and an Amiga demo by Desire.
- At X 2026, held on 5-7 June in Someren, Netherlands, Elysium's The Lab won the C64 demo competition with a score of 9.520.
Three European demoparties ran between late July and early October, and all three have published results. Assembly Summer 2026 in Helsinki, Evoke 2026 in Cologne and Deadline 2026 in Berlin each crowned a PC demo and ran competitions for older machines. The placings below are as listed on Demozoo, CSDb and demoparty.net. X 2026, the Commodore 64 party, took place earlier, in June.
| Party | Dates | Demo winner |
|---|---|---|
| X 2026 | 5-7 June | The Lab, Elysium (C64) |
| Assembly Summer | 30 Jul-2 Aug | Before Zero, Byterapers |
| Evoke | 21-23 Aug | Return to Void, piBaron |
| Deadline | 2-4 Oct | With Pride, MFX |
Assembly Summer
Assembly ran from 30 July to 2 August. Byterapers won three competitions: the main demo with "Before Zero", for Windows, ahead of Gray Marchers' browser demo "DEMONSCENE" and Velocity's "Astral"; the oldskool demo with "Protocode 0x28", an MS-DOS production; and the one-minute demo with "1 Minute Wonder". Behind "Protocode 0x28" came BRZ's "Acceptance", for the classic Mac OS, and Zenon's Amiga demo "Legends Never Die". Kooma won the 4k intro with "You Are What You Eat".
The party also ran an AI coding competition, won by Doomsday's browser demo "Rasteriunelma". Demozoo lists its results but not its rules.
Jok of Dreamweb won pixel and oldskool graphics with the Amiga picture "And Then I Woke Up", and Laamaa won oldskool music with "Raver", written for the NES.
Evoke
Evoke ran from 21 to 23 August at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne. piBaron's "Return to Void" won the PC demo competition from Impure's "Glyphnosis" and Konsumer's "Supercluster". The alternative platforms competition went to Wavesitter's TIC-80 demo "The One That Got Away", ahead of Haujobb's Dreamcast demo "Mutate" and "Apocalypso", an Amiga invitation by Jobj and Steffest.
CSDb, the C64 scene database, lists two C64 entries in the party's competitions. They placed 10th and 11th in what it calls the mixed demo competition: "Animated Squiral" by Vintage Computing Carinthia and "All Your Baddies Are Belong to Us" by AMID.
Deadline
Deadline, from 2 to 4 October at ORWOhaus in Berlin, shows its PC and oldschool entries on real hardware, according to its demoparty.net listing.
The PC demo vote was close: MFX's "With Pride" took 283 points, to 279 for "VOIDSTATE" by Nah-Kolor and Suspend and 277 for erpholia's "radiomix". LJ and Gopher won the PC intro with "Yama", and HellMood of Desire won the 256-byte intro, for MS-DOS, with "8-pinski".
The oldschool demo went to "New Horizons" by Otomata Labs, which Demozoo lists as custom hardware, with 469 points. Second and third were the C64 demo "Subway Arts" by 99.9% and Desire's Amiga demo "Bytes of the Art".
TRSI won the wild competition with "Channel T". All three places in oldschool music went to C64 tunes, led by MonoToni's "SIDbathing", and Steffest's Amiga picture "Nobody Wants To Play" won oldschool graphics.
X in June
X 2026 ran from 5 to 7 June in Someren in the Netherlands, and the top three in every competition Demozoo lists for it are C64 productions. Elysium's "The Lab" won the demo competition with a score of 9.520, ahead of Performers' "Next Round" on 9.415 and Lethargy's "Colors" on 8.777. Fairlight took the 4K intro with "Offline", and two Fairlight members won graphics and music: The Hobbit with "Freebooter" and Danko with "Dankoverse".