[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] Listen to the greatest demo tunes from Arok in Hungary
Finally the tracks from the Arok demo party in Hungary are here! The party ran a month ago, but the super great tracks have just been officially released. Here is the obligatory playlist, so you can enjoy the best the party had to offer.[ scenemarket – latest listings ] [NEEDS RECAP] nVidia GeForce FX5700LE (AGP)
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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Sillyventure 2026 SE releases
The actual files of the Sillyventure 2026 Summer Edition compos are now available for download and comes in three parts (for size reasons).
As one would suppose, some party versions have been exchanged by finals.
NRG 2026 DEMO PARTY: 23rd - 25th October in Poznań, Poland
A new Polish demoparty is coming this year! We’ve prepared a fresh, modern set of 11 compos covering graphics, music, realtime productions, video, games and more. You can check the full lineup and rules here:https://nrgevent.eu/compo
There will also be some very nice glass trophies and other prices waiting for the winners. NRG takes place inside PGA, in the indie hall, and your NRG ticket also gives you access to the whole gaming event. We’ve managed to keep the tickets inexpensive, so it should be a pretty good excuse for a weekend in Poznań. And Poznań itself is definitely worth the trip: a beautiful city, very well connected, and conveniently close to Germany.
Remote entries are welcome too. If you’re planning to take part, whether
at the NRG party or remotely, please add yourself to the attendance list:https://nrgevent.eu/registerMore information here:
https://demozoo.org/parties/5620
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[ Atariscne.org - News ] A Belated Summer News Round-up!
Ahem!
It’s been a while since I’ve been on here in any meaningful capacity. A massively overdue catching up session is about to land.
Some ‘real life’, or more accurately’, family’ issues have stolen my focus in a big way, and continue to do so. Some of you will already know what happened and are kindly bearing with me.
Still, quite a lot has taken place in the world of the fuji symbol computers and consoles over the past weeks and months. None of it being reflected in the pages of Atariscne.org - It might be time to redress that failure, so here I go again. There is quite a lot to cover.
This is mostly from a games and demos perspective. There have been other exciting developments in the world of utilities and especially hardware, but those topics will need to be addressed elsewhere.
[ Amiga online magazines ] The making of AsmTwo – when you want to make something good even better
Amiga 1200 picture taken by Dan Counsell under the unsplash license.. Introduction and questions by Ghandy. Before...[ scenemarket – latest listings ] ORWO NP7/MA8
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A number of respooled rolls of ORWO NP7 (tested to be around iso 125) and MA8 (slightly scratched, iso 3). The NP7 is very crunchy grainwise but aged well, like shooting photosensitive sandpaper. Some of these will have more character than others as they were decanted from daylight spools. Feel free to message me on discord for example images or development recipes.
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[ Amiga online magazines ] In 2028, Roma.exe will avoid the summer heat. An interview with Razdee of TRSI.
This summer was hot with no doubt. Roma.exe was the first demoparty in Italy since 19 years....[ Atariscne.org - News ] Rapido releases ST1 streaming depacker
Following Rapido's return to the Atari scene with the 2 releases at Sommarhack, he recently published his latest experiments in packing; https://github.com/odipar/ST1. Coded by Claude, directed by Rapido. ST1 is a modified version of the well-known ZX1 packer by Emmanuel Marty, that incorporates a parameterized (fixed) window size for backreferences; which means that not the complete unpacked file requires to be available for depacking. ST1 provides both a packer (java/c# runtimes) and depacker (m68k). General usecase is (de)packing streams, which characteristic is that only a part of the compressed data is used per time; instead of the whole decompressed dataset. I held a talk at Sommarhack this year about YM with timer playback using compressed streams; it has my interest and Im trying to find a somewhat generalized solution. I use (a slightly modified version of) tat's minymiser (https://github.com/tattlemuss/minymiser) to pack the bytestreams. Afterwards Rapido asked me for the sheets I presented. And a few weeks later (now), it with the release of ST1 there is an alternative choice for (de)compressing bytestreams. ST1 explicitly states it is inspired by minimyser. Looking at the code; the main difference seems that ST1's context is a single, general purpose bytestream depacker, whereas minymiser is a complete solution interleaving depacking the different YM bytestreams into a single playback frame. So to use ST1 for YM playback, one should implement their own. So I did; 14 YM register streams, each individually packed. Depack 14 frames of complete YM data at init and then 14 bytes per frame for a single stream, cycling through the compressed streams each frame. Needless to say; it works :). For a quick comparison purposes I ran 2 measurements, using the (timerless) YM3! dumps of Motus and Darwin's Dilemma end tune. On average, ST1 with ~1.08-1.21% cpu (~3.6 scanlines) per frame vs minymisers ~1.9-~2% cpu (~6.1 scanline). spkr out. 🔗 Visit the Github repository of ST1[ scenemarket – latest listings ] AVer Media Live Gamer Mini GC311
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[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 166. The last day of Edison demo party 2026
It's time to close the book on Edison demo party for this time. Join DJ Daemon and Coreus live from M/S Borgilla in Stockholm on the 18th of July 2026 where we talk to D.Fox and fsFreak. We also give you one hour of everything you want to know about Alexander Brandon, the legendary artist and then we hold a roundtable with Nocturn about retro games and the joy we got from them.[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.11.00 released
This small update to OpenMPT 1.32 fixes a number of playback bugs and brings a few other improvements.
Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:
For a complete list of changes, have a look at the full version history. If you are upgrading from OpenMPT 1.31 or older, read the release notes to get a glimpse of the biggest changes.
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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Silly Venture 2K26 SE - a party report
Written by: Tecer
Dwór Uphagena, Gdansk, 30 July - 2 August 2026
There is a workshop in Gdansk where people build electric guitars. Beautiful and expensive ones, current waiting time: 14 months. Mayones started there in 1982, in a family garage, and forty-four years later they are shipping custom instruments to players all over the world - but the shop still works the way it worked at the beginning. You pick the woods. Somebody's hands do the rest. Every instrument that leaves the building is a series of decisions a person made on purpose.
I went there on the Friday afternoon of Silly Venture. It cost me the Shotgun tournament and one of the Silly Talks, and I would do it again, partly because it is a remarkable place and partly because it put me in exactly the right frame of mind for what was going on across town at Silly Venture.
Because that is what a demoparty is too. Seventy-four productions came out of this one, and every one of them is somebody having decided, deliberately and at length, where each byte goes.
Let me take the weekend in order.
Thursday, July 30thI arrived on time. My luggage took a more relaxed view of the schedule.
The route was via Amsterdam, and somewhere in the transfer my bag formed its own opinion about which plane to be on. Schiphol runs two flights a day to Gdansk; I was on the earlier one, and my bag, having weighed the options, chose the later. This is the best possible version of losing your luggage, and I say that as somebody who spent the intervening hours not entirely convinced of it. The bag turned up in the evening, intact, having seen slightly more of the Netherlands than I had.
Gdansk itself was packed with people. Peak summer, and on top of the usual tourist load the city was in the middle of St. Dominic's Fair, running late July to mid-August, the largest open-air market in Poland. Several hundred stalls of people selling things they made, threaded through the old town, for three weeks every summer, since the thirteenth century.
So consider the city this party takes place in: a centuries old market of handmade goods, a guitar workshop that has been carving instruments one at a time since 1982, and a hall full of people who spent their year hand-assembling code for computers that went out of production before some of those stallholders were born. Gdansk is extremely good at this sort of thing.
This was, after several Silly Ventures over the years, the first time I have stayed at the hotel on the same site as the venue - the party hall sits in a building directly behind it - and I can report that it is an enormous improvement on every other arrangement I have tried. My room was a floor or so below ground level, which suited me perfectly: dark, quiet, and a walk of moments from the compo screen. No thoughts on planning the trip back. You simply go to the party, and later you simply go back.
Gates opened at 16:00 for the traditional business of claiming a table, which at an Atari party means claiming a table and a mains socket, ideally one not shared with anybody running a CRT. I did none of that. I went over for a look, said hello to Grey, and spent a while doing the thing everybody does on the first evening - scanning the room for people whose faces seem familiar.
I did not find too many.
[ Atariscne.org - News ] New Atari ST emulators
Yes, you read that correct - emulators as in plural. Both emulators runs on all three major platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS) and are available for download.
First up is Atari System Emulator, or ASE, an open-source Atari ST emulator written in C#, using Moira, the excellent Motorola 68000 emulator written in C++.
At the moment, it can emulate an Atari STf/fm quite efficiently, with partial support for the STe. It supports .ST and .MSA disk images, as well as .STX images with copy-protection schemes. You can also manage your game and software library using a screenscraper.fr account and retrieve cover artwork and descriptions for your collection, including GameMenus such as those by Pompey Pirates, DBUG, Medway Boys, and others.
The emulator is currently under active development, and future releases will include compatibility improvements and new features.
Youtube video about ASE, and thanks to The Bit Culture for submitting the text.
🔗 Check out Atari System Emulator (ASE) at Github
Then we got NeoST, which just had its first release nicknamed "Newborn".
NeoST is an Atari ST emulator built as a teaching "hack box": instead of a black box that just runs games, it is a transparent motherboard where every chip is modelled separately and wired onto a Bus that is the memory map.
Hardware — Four machine profiles: ST, Mega ST, STE, Mega STE, from 256 KB to 4 MB of ST-RAM, with the optional hardware correctly present or absent per model (8/16 MHz 68000 cache and an MC68881 FPU socket on the Mega STE). Cycle-exact Moira 68000 core. Shifter + Glue (borders, overscan, resolution tricks, Spectrum 512, STE fine scrolling), MFP 68901, ACIA 6850 + IKBD, WD1772 FDC (writable .st/.msa/.dim, Pasti .stx), DMA/ACSI, blitter, YM2149 + STE DMA sound + Microwire/LMC1992, RTC.
Using it — GEMDOS hard disk (a host folder mounted as C:) and ACSI images; full save-states; a built-in debugger (breakpoints, watchpoints, symbols, instruction stepping, disassembly, hex view, registers); a full-screen kiosk mode driven entirely from a gamepad; opt-in CRT effects; and a deterministic neost-headless (MAME-style traces, PPM captures, RAM/audio/serial dumps) that doubles as the diagnostic tool and the regression bench.
Running titles: Enchanted Land, Super Hang-On, Lethal Xcess, The Cuddly Demos, No Cooper.
Live demo: https://habib256.github.io/neost/wasm/
NeoST is released under the GNU GPL v3. Its hardware behaviour is largely inspired from MAME & Hatari (GPLv2+), to which NeoST owes a great deal.
NeoST 0.5.2 Newborn (webAsm version) in action showing a fullscreen ST picture by Templeton. Description text nicked from the Githib page.
[ Atariscne.org - News ] Re-Falcon schematics available
The Falcon remake clone called Re-Falcon (earlier report from this spring: News on the Re-Falcon project) is now officially released on Github.
Anyone wishing to build their own Falcon from scratch are now theoretically able to do so. There are 820 components to mount and sourcing all of them is in itself quite a project, not to mention the big technical work to assemble it.
Re-Falcon populated board. Photo by Suavek.
Prototypes of Re-Falcon have proven to work well, running Falcon demos, games and other software. The Re-Falcon board is refined and does not need clock patches like many original Atari boards do. The machine is tested with CT63 and runs well without the mentioned clock patch.
Re-Falcon in traditional Falcon case and new translucent case. Photo by Suavek.
🔗 Check out the Re-Falcon schematics at Github
[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 165. Ziphoid and the future of SceneSat
Ziphoid is the power behind the demo scene satellite that circles the parties. The one that makes sure they reach the audience. It's called SceneSat and its hard to imagine where we would be without its capability to broadcast, archive and present the output of the scene.Autumn of 2026 is soon here and Ziphoid has a brand new site, application and great plans for SceneSat. On the 18th of July 2026 he spoke with Coreus and DJ Daemon on the Edison demo party 2026 in Stockholm, Sweden. Let's go there now and hear the story.[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] Assembly summer 2026 - from Finland with greatness
This just in - the party is over, the results are in and it sounds great. We have the playlist for you, ready in our webplayer. Enjoy fast dance hits, heavenly tracked music and even a C64 niceness in the form of a SIDtune.All of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular we will be taking a look at releases from Pagadata, Euskal and a little bit of Assembly Summer 2026. https://youtu.be/RM4lHCuvLUA
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[ Amiga online magazines ] Mod3m of Darkage speaking about girls and other wonderful things. A sort of Making of ‘Book in Air’
Speaking about their latest demo, the party Roma.exe and the italian scene. Pictures and replies by Mod3m...Download:
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[ Wanted! ] Looking for 6502 coder
g'day, we are looking for coders at Design Generation (DSGE) we're a small group with only 3 musicians and a few PC coders we have released currently one production we create stuff for any possible platform like SNES, Amiga, C64 etc. https://demozoo.org/groups/158125/ If you're intrested, please send a message on discord: https://discord.gg/dGsHec9AF5 Regards m4v[ Atariscne.org - News ] Reservoir Gods releases new assembler/linker
Reservoir Gods bring you a brand new cross platform host assembler and linker for Atari 680x0 development. rg-asm is a universal assembler, supporting the entire 68k family from 68000 to 68060, 68881/68882 FPUs and all Coldfire CPUs. Compatible with a huge range of existing atari assemblers (Devpac, vasm, rmac & more) your existing code will just work, no changes needed: https://rg.atari.org/tools/rg-asm/dialects.html Output includes GEMDOS PRG executables, linkable objects for C toolchains, and raw binaries. Symbol tables can be embedded (DRI, GST) or written as extern sidecars. rg-asm v0.7.0 output Built on a full 680x0 emulation core, rg-asm reports per-instruction cycle costs on each CPU, understands 68000/010 pipeline pairing, and can not only optimisze for size but also peephole optimise and reorder instructions to be more efficient. Metrics include per instruction diagnostics of CPU costs, function and application level sizes and cycle costs. All the metrics can optionally be output to JSON for processing by other tools. It's a single binary with no dependencies. Just unzip and run. 🔗 Read more and download at the Reservoir Gods site[Submitted by psenough]