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This is truly the last chance to order "Silly Venture 2026SE" T-shirts.The deadline is tomorrow, July 22nd, at 8:00 AM(...)

ABBUC (short for Atari Bit-Byter User Club)—the world's largest club for Atari XL/XE computer enthusiasts and programmers, active continuously since the 1980s (!)—is providing the following prizes for the winners of the Silly Venture 2026 summer edition competitions: - Tetris Icon Light - Donkey Kong T-Shirt (XL) - Super Mario Bros.Fridge Magnet Set - Pac-Man LED Neon Light - Pair of Pac-Man Socks (S/M) - 8-bit World Map Puzzle (1,000 pieces) - 2x A8PicoCart Kit We extend our sincere thanks to the sponsor(...)

The Summer Edition of Silly Venture – 80s Style. This year’s summer edition of Silly Venture takes us on a journey back to the golden age of 80s computing and gaming—the era of Atari, as well as Commodore, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, and many other legendary platforms(...)

Here is a visualization of the T-shirts for this year's summer edition of Silly Venture 2026. Design: mOOnie / Mystic Bytes As with every summer edition, the T-shirts come in a choice of three colors: - black - white - burgundy PRICE: 27 EUR By purchasing a T-shirt, you help cover the event's expenses(...)

An invitation to the summer edition of Silly Venture 2026 was presented at the "Sommarhack 2026" party in Sweden this past weekend.Hardware requirements: Atari Jaguar PAL/NTSC POUET: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106637 DEMOZOO: https://demozoo.org/productions/393765/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9nNx7qlUw We hope you enjoy it(...)

Mark Watson, creator of "PokeyMax", is donating 5 PokeyMaxes to the winners of our Atari XL/XE competitions. (the photo below shows PokeyMax during production) For those unfamiliar: "PokeyMax" is a replacement for the POKEY chip for the Atari XL/XE(...)

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (UK) is supporting the Atari 8-bit prize pool for the Silly Venture 2026 Summer edition by providing the following prizes to the winners: - Atari 1010 Cassette Recorder (Hong Kong) - Koala Pad Touch Tablet - Sio2SD - Box of floppy disks Thank you very much.(...)

It’s high time to present the SCHEDULE for the summer edition of Silly Venture 2026.The schedule may undergo slight changes regarding the discussion panels under "Silly Talk", but we’ll do everything we can to ensure both competition blocks take place on time(...)

One of the short "Silly Talks" panel discussions at the summer edition of SV will be "The Unknown 2600 Universum" moderated by Aragorn.What is it(...)

The Speccy Party is another opportunity to remind everyone about the 2026 summer edition of Silly Venture.We thank the organizers for this opportunity and congratulate them on a successful event for ZX Spectrum fans(...)

We would like to thank the organizers of Revision 2026 (.DE) and Grawitacja 2026 (.PL) for the opportunity to advertise our event. (...)

During the last edition of the Forever 2026 party in Slovakia, thanks to the kindness of the party organizers, we managed to promote the summer edition of Silly Venture 2026 - both on the party place itself (thanks to Pinokio, mOOnie & Piter!) and during the stream on Twitch.   (...)

Preparations for the "Atari 520ST music-electro" concert (featuring YERZMYEY and PINOKIO) at Silly Venture 2026SE are in full swing.Below, we present Yerzmyey's "workshop" 🙂 We also managed to find out that in addition to music from the regular 520 ST, there may also be threads from the 8-bit Atari 🙂 Event at chipmusic.org (...)

After each Silly Venture edition, a few items remain that you might be interested in.All proceeds from their sale will be used to cover shipping costs to those who participated (or will participate in upcoming Silly Venture editions) remotely(...)

Last weekend, we had a "top-of-the-line" meeting 😉 Most of the SV Team & Friends (Sachy & Pani-Ka, organizers/co-organizers of the events like RetroKomp/Load Error and the BOOM.party)(...)

At the upcoming summer edition of Silly Venture 2026, we invite you to an electro chip-tune concert performed by the duo YerzmYey (keyboards) i Pinokio (drums). Start: July 31st (Friday), 20:00 Location: Dwór Uphagena, Gdańsk Thanks to Hospes for creating the poster(...)

It's time to unveil the official logo for the Silly Venture 2026SE summer edition.Designed by: mOOnie / Mystic Bytes(...)

I'm pleased to announce that another interesting person from the Atari XL/XE game development scene from the late 1980s and early 1990s will be attending Silly Venture 2026 SE. This time, it's Andrew Dickinson, author of the game "Plastron," published by Harlequin Software (UK)(...)

After further, final negotiations with Arche management, we have some very good news for you. The difficulties we had so far in setting a date were mainly due to the fact that we wanted to keep the current location (party place), which works great and is enthusiastically rated by Silly Venture participants(...)

ATTENTION! It seems that we were a little hasty in publishing the date of the summer edition of SV.While the date of the winter edition is fine, the summer edition conflicts with another Atari event - “Sommarhack”(...)