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Byterapers, Inc., the internationally celebrated demogroup, announces upcoming 40 years anniversary celebrations
The Finnish demoscene has (almost) always been know as the home of the best of the best, even if they are sometimes best only at beer drinking. Neverthless, there are still survivors of the 1980s Era of Home Computing and the Things That Shall Not Be Named. One of them is Byterapers Inc., the top grossing, award winning, universally worshipped demoground founded in 1986.
Through the best of times, the worst of times, surfing through the rise, decline and new wave of demoscene, Byterapapers has managed to survive – and stay current. Be it C64, Amiga, PC, mobile or whatsoever platform, the group has seen it all.
Fast forwaring a bit and some 40 years later: Friends. Thou art henceworth invited to the 40 years anniversary of Byterapers inc., 3.-6.9.2026, Räyskälä Grand Villa, Loppi, Finland
100 km from Helsinki, 120 km from Tampere, 900 km from Gothenburg, 1 month from Assembly.
Basic information: beds for about 50+ persons. Beds reserved/sold invidually via Shoppe. Plenty space for mattresses, tents and campers. PA, screen, projector & other tech stuff.
Programme: panel discussion(s), behind the scenes of the demos, gaming competitions, demoscene competitions, outdoor competitions, live acts, stuff.
The event is made possible by number of sponsors, gaze upon them on the rightmost honorary column of love . We’re open for further sponsorships. for the location, technical equipment, amazing party features and more.
TICKETS
The tickets shoppe will open up for visitors 1st of April 2026.
All tickets, except the basic one “no bed reservation” version, include a reserved bedspace. Beds include a blanket and a pillow, without bedwear – bring your own linen and other sleeping accessories.
Better ticket versions, pink piggy and golden hog editions show your respect and support for the event organizers and enables more features to be unlocked at the party (food, drinks, all other fun things). Moneymen and cashgirls, go crazy and spend spend spend!
Ticket prices
Basic entry, valid for whole long weekend. No bed reservation, bring your own mattress, camper, tent or just sleep outside in the cozy forest with all the friendly animals and insects. Only 65 €
Regular entry, valid for the whole long weekend. Includes a reserved real bed in cozy bedrooms, including pillow and blank, but you need to bring your own linen (pussilakanat). Just 95 €
Pink Piggy ticket, same things than above, including unlimited glory. Merely 250 €
Golden Hog ticket, same things than above, including true elite superpowers. Whopping 500 €
COMPOS
The full list of demoscene competions will be released later on, but we’ll include all the common ones like photo, graphics, music and demo, not forgetting the wild.
Compo machinery TBD.
Remote entries are allowed and more than welcome.
All demoscene competitions and events are organized in cooperation with the awesome Compocrew ry
PARTY ACCESSORIES
Anniversary party T-shirts, sweatbands, belt bags, and all the other essentials will be available in the Byterapers webshop during the spring and summer of ’26. Please note that there will be no sales desk at the party—everything is made by preorder.
CONTACT
A lot of (B) members can be contacted if you know how.
Some can be contacted even if you don’t know the way of exploding fist.
However, meanwhile you can contact us via following secret techniques:
Oldschool IRCnet #byterapers & Discord server Byterapers https://discord.gg/xWpH7gf5Gn
Party Organizing: IRCnet /msg mikron, Discord pm mikronBee, email mikronbee at gmail.com
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