This year, I visited Silly Venture for the first time in the summer. The complete report with many pictures is available on the Silly Venture 2k24 Summer Edition page.
Getting there took me 25 hours due to plane delays, canceled bookings, and broken aircraft. The location and the party were quite different from Winter, and a lot of new, or for me yet unknown people were there. We had Jesse Burns from the US Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment with us. Due to my delayed arrival, I could only give half of the planned presentation on Programming the 2600 (VCS). The recording is available in the SV2k24SE - Friday stream. Unfortunately, the second part could not be done due to technical issues and the late starting time. But you can check the old recording from 2014 for that. The source code is not very well readable in that video, but it is available for download via slides & source code.
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I had two releases at the party. The first, "Alex Murphy," is an Atari 8-bit demo for 64k Atari 8-bit machines. It was inspired by Buddy's cover of the C64 Robocop theme, released in May. The demo uses Taquart Interlace Picture (TIP) mode to display a 160x188-pixel picture in 256 colors. It ranked 1st in the Atari 8-bit demo compo, which was too easy, as the only other entry was assigned to the intro compo.
The second release was a small player I created for Glafouk's Atari VCS music competition entry, "As it comes...". It ranked 2nd in the compo. Regardless of my contribution, it was my favorite tune in that compo because it has a lot of melody and a great mood.