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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Trumpton Riots, an STE musical treat!

An Atari STE sample demo made in STOS.

This one has appeared without any pre-announcement. Just one guy getting on with stuff and releasing it, I guess.

The functionally named ‘M.Lynn’, who made an STE Outrun music disc a while ago, has created this very ‘UK- Sceners of a certain age group specific’ release.

[ demoparty.net ] On demoparty.net as a wiki

There seems to have been (or still is) some discussion about whether demoparty.net can be regarded as a wiki or not.

My idea has always been a webpage that brings two groups together: those who are organizing a demoparty and those who would like to visit one (or more than one).

But let’s get back to the original point: demoparty.net has never been a real wiki. New parties (and news and images) require manual approval by an admin, which is not how a wiki usually works. Apart from that, most information is editable for logged-in users. Please use this function if you find inaccurate information.

At a certain point, some parties complained about this (for whatever reason), so I added a feature to “claim” a demoparty series. With this, a party is fully responsible for its events on this platform, which is why only they can, for example, add this year’s Revision.

To sum it up: more engagement, adding parties, and fixing mistakes on this platform is encouraged and will help both the demoparties and the demosceners. And in the end, it will help the demoscene.

Love. Poti

[ demoparty.net ] ROMA.EXE 2026: Pre-registration form

Please help us estimate the number of visitors and who is interested in friday’s events (wine tasting, city tour, social dinner) pre-registering here:

https://roma-exe.com/preregister.html

Thanks!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] An interview with Thadoss of Dune (Part one)

Forewords: I have known Thadoss from fame as a Dune member for 3 decades. He has brought us several nice games and demos among others but more recently he has also amazed us all with Taedium Vitae, in my opinion already a classic Falcon demo that was released at the latest Sillyventure winter edition. This is the reason why I wanted to learn more about him in this first part.

As you may have guessed you can expect a second part that will be dedicated to this great demo. I thought it would be cool to invite both Jade (gfx) and Virgill (msx) to join him in this second part to share their thoughts about the making of the demo. 

Before I forget, part one of the interview was carried in French and then manually translated by me, no AI implied here so that I will take full responsibility for my poor English. :) Now let's get started!

STS: Hello Thadoss, first question, an easy one to start with: can you tell us a bit about yourself? 

Thadoss: Hi everyone. My name is Laurent Sallafranque, I am a 51 French man who lives by the seaside near Brest in Bretagne (west coast). I work as a risk manager in a bank company but I have also worked in various IT departments over the last 2 decades first as a coder then later as a project manager. 

[ Wanted! ] Looking for Amiga Coders

Hello! I need some people into my demogroup called The Kingdom. We're starting demogroup, looking for Amiga Coders. My name is Polemic, I live in Czech Republic, UTC +1, And don't hesitate and contact me Discord: pol3mic_

[ Wanted! ] 64klang soundtrack for 64k intro (target: Revision 2026)

Hello, friol from Rome/Italy here. I'm a demoscener since 1997, and also author of 4k presented at Revision 2025. I'm seeking for a soundtrack for an intro at Revision 2026, using 64klang. The effects/ideas for the intro are 90% consolidated, but I need a good soundtrack for it ("demostyle" music or similar in a tempo near 120bpm). The intro would also be the official PC invitation for ROMA.EXE demoparty (https://roma-exe.com/). Let me know if you are interested! Many thanks.

[ Wanted! ] Looking for GLSL / shader wizards to create demos

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share the result of my first collaboration with an amazing shaders developer! Check it out here: https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/fhfU3oh5HfaRxiv4KKBDSE During the development of this demo, I also built a custom demo engine that allows me to easily create new demos. It’s fully scripted, so adding new content is a breeze! On top of that, I mixed the music for this demo myself. However, I’m always open to incorporating music from other sources if it fits the vibe. If...

[ Atariscne.org - News ]  A quick trip to Atari.Anides.de

It’s CiH here, with another short(ish) article for your enjoyment.

This text is about another of those long-hidden legacy sites, that still somehow exists and can still be used today, in this case for picture enhancement enjoyment.

I’m writing about the one-stop, multi-formatting image conversion shop which is atari.anides.de. This was created by ‘Anima’, aka Percy of Light, who was also responsible for several arcade to Atari conversions. The most memorable to me personally being Galaga 88 and Cho Ren Sha, but there were several other experimental projects at varying stages. (Will the Sharp 68000 PacMania conversion ever be finished?)

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari themed LED lights offered by retrohax.net

Drygol, of retrohax fame, recently posted on atari.area forum that he is producing and selling 15x14cm plexiglass laser engraved plates that are lit up by a led lights base.

drygol mentions that he could not capture the real vibrance of the colours, so expect even better results up close.

If you're interested,use your favorite translation service on https://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=323978 and read up on instructions on how to order.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Puckman - STe Pacman replica

Puckman, as the same suggests, is a Pacman-like game. In fact, it's more or less identical to the arcade version of Pacman, graphics, sound and all.

Coded by JC-DUSSE it incorporates some demo-techniques such as top/lower border removal and multiple STe PCM-channel sound.

The game was just recently updated to support Mega STe, previously it failed to detect the machine.

 

Puckman video by JC-DUSSE

🔗 Download the game at Itch.io

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 146. Xmas special 2025

It's time for the yearly talk show where DJ Daemon, Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep meet to discuss the retro-, demo- and gaming scene. We are a little bit late due to some technical troubles, but here is your last chance to celebrate christmas 2025. Yeah, we know, it's January 2026 but still... Enjoy tracker music and retrotalk!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Odin aka Sacio - Jeengleballs
00:37 DJ Daemon presents the show welcomes Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep.
02:28 Alexander Brandon - White Hare
07:47 We talk about Spotify and how it has remove half of our Flashback episodes.
13:11 Jeroen Tel - Mountain Breeze.
17:21 What is everyone up to right now?
25:49 Stimul -Thwy.
28:48 Commodore is back in business after 30 years. Are we impressed?
43:02 Mick Rippon - The Final mod.
49:35 Copyright and the demo scene. How much can you sample before getting into trouble and can you use AI?
01:02:48 Selecta Novel - Simon the Sorcerer - Dragon's Winter Cave.
01:07:28 We delve into AI and how to use it in music production. Can it be done without creating more AI-slop?
01:10:49 An excerpt from Baron of Dubstep's AI-assisted song "Juste un fantôme sans demain master_Print".
01:11:33 PHIL.MOD (synthwave) candidate 2
01:15:14 Time to talk about the games that we play during christmas.
01:33:06 Karsten Koch - The Blue Valley.
01:38:17 So we talk about modern games that have that "retro vibe".
02:11:04 Scrap Metal featuring Arachno - Jupiter Girl.
02:15:14 Nerd wars time! people. We talk about retro PCs vs the gaming consoles of the day.
02:36:52 Slash_AtD - 8bit Tatastan
02:40:40 We present the last medley.
02:41:15 Jpk - Christmas silence
02:43:36 Jazz Jackrabbit - Xmas 2
02:45:49 We say goodbye for this time.

Production notes:
A christmas show recorded in December of 2025 via Discord.

Colophon: None.

Tags: Christmas, Cohost: The Baron of dubstep, Cohost: Coreus, Host: DJ Daemon, Talk show, 2025

[ Atariscne.org - News ] zeST New Year release

Zerkmans Atari ST re-implementation for cheap development FPGA boards was just updated with exiting new features.

• GEMDOS harddrive; similar to virtual harddrives in emulators, you can use a folder in the underlying Linux OS as a harddrive for the ST.
• Mega ST realtime clock
• More drivers for WiFi and and ethernet networking
• Better compatibility with USB and Bluetooth mouse/joysticks
• Bug fixes in the extended fullscreen graphics modes

🔗 Check out the zeST project page

[ Demozoo ] ❄️ Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025 – Results & Releases! ❄️

All 190 entries from the Size Coding Challenge and 18 entries from the Wild category are online. Enjoy the incredible code and the creative snowflake-themed demos!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] SNDH Archive 2026 is here

The annual SNDH release schedule is on point and the 2026 archive is ready for download. 222 new or fixed files.

The 2026 release also brings the SNDH specification up to v2.2 with a couple of improvements;

• The TIME tag is replaced with FRMS. TIME was always a bit inaccurate, while FRMS measure exactly how many calls to do before loop/end. Almost all files have the FRMS tag, while only a small subset had the TIME tag.
• The FLAG tag is finally official which detail what hardware the track in question is using (MFP timers, STe PCM sound and so forth)

Furthermore many SNDH headers have been cleaned up with more uniform names.

 

As a bonus, here are some Atariscne.Org picks from 2025!

 

🎼 Get the archive and read about format upgrade at the SNDH site

[ Wanted! ] Looking for some talented coders, musicians and graphicians for my demogroup "GRiBFORD"

Hello, I'm murloc013 from Russia, living in the UTC +5 timezone. I'm looking for some talented coders, graphicians and musicians (I am one myself) for my demogroup "GRiBFORD", named after a goober that pops up in Zane Little's YT videos. Right now, we are 3 people. If you are interested in joining the group, you can send me a message here or contact me on Discord: murloc013 You can message me regardless where you're from, I am absolutely OK with having partners and members around the world...

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 145. AmigaOnly

For the third time, we give you an hour with just Amiga modules. DJ Daemon presents some really good examples of tracked music created on trackers such as Noisetracker and Protracker on the Amiga. Four channels are what is on the schedule for today.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces a brand new episode with only Amiga tracked music.
00:22 Porno productions - Falling in
03:07 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of today.
03:30 Dsx - Nike
04:08 WOTW of Gothic - Intro number 33
05:08 Dalmet - Glory
06:29 Dna - Game 1 introtune 1
07:47 DJ Daemon mentions the Xmas talkshow coming up in a week from now.
08:24 U4ia - Dr facts tripmaster
11:36 DJ Daemon talks about "Amy the squirrel" (as seen on the episode cover artI)
12:31 Protas - At the sunrise
15:37 DJ Daemon talks about where he is right now.
16:09 Doh - Indian ague
19:16 DJ Daemon reminds you that we only play Amiga-songs today.
19:46 U4ia - Astronaut's requiem
26:52 DJ Daemon talks about future episodes on this podcast.
27:37 Arpegiator of Imphobia - Far from earth
30:50 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today.
31:22 Dune - Fat mystic
33:53 Ascender - Overscan
36:43 Trackerartist - Axkold
39:24 DJ Daemon tell you to join us on ericade.radio/discord
39:49 Dr Vector - Auto rock
42:58 DJ Daemon metions Virgill's "Cheesy listening" and the Pretracker format.
43:37 Gladiator - Solution
47:10 DJ Daemon talks about the new Commodore company.
48:04 cTrix - Demo disco partee
51:36 DJ Daemon reminds you that ericade.radio exists (go there!)
52:10 H0ffman - Calm to be the storm
55:55 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into that good night with....
56:27 X-Ceed of Scope - Galaxy
01:00:17 DJ Daemon tells you to go to ericade.radio.
01:00:24 C-quence of Impact - In orbit

Production notes:
The third episode with only Amiga tunes.

About the squirrel girl on the cover:
For anyone not seeing the retroconnection, Eric W. Schwarz did most of those characters on his Amiga. And the short films he made used Moviesetter. All us nerds were amazed that they could be made on an Amiga. It was during the waning years of that platform and we were happy to be able to prove the Amiga still "had it". Amy the squirel was as close of an unofficial "mascot" the Amiga had. But he made many more characters like talking airplanes, angry lemmings and even..,. Saddam Hussein.

Colophon:
It's a take on adult entertainment site "OnlyFans". But I got it wrong. Due to stressing out a bit during post production, I erroneously switched the title from "OnlyAmiga" to "AmigaOnly". So that's the name of the episode now.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, Eric W. Schwarz, Amy the squirrel, Amiga only, 2025

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] More madness: making Flashback in 2025

How we make the podcast episodes in 2025. A crazy story, really.

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.06.00 released

This small update to OpenMPT 1.32 is mostly a bugfix release.

Here's a list of the most notable changes in this version:

• Fixed a crash when saving IT / MPTM files and shutting down OpenMPT on Wine 10.20 and potentially Wine 11.1.
• Shift-clicking the sample loop start / end spin buttons now moves the loop points finely, instead of snapping to the next self-similar point.
• Some MODs with samples larger than 64k inside PT36 containers were not read correctly.
• Exporting the same module multiple times (or exporting individual instruments / channels) could lead to files differing in length by one sample when using modern tempo mode.
• MIDI Export: Choosing the percussion channel for an instrument and then keeping "Mapped" mode selected and never manually touching the dropdown menu resulted in wrong MIDI percussion notes to be exported.

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.

libopenmpt has also been updated with the same bugfixes.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 144. A tracked christmas

Christmas is here and it's time for the annual christmas episode. DJ Daemon gives you one hour with juletide songs never before heard on the station.From Amiga to the retro PC, it covers 4-channel Protracker to 64 channel of Impulsetracker goodness. Enjoy the christmas of 2025!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon presents the obligatory christmas podcast episode.
00:22 Maniac of Crux - Crux-mas
05:10 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of today.
05:35 Mildewy - Chiptune bells
06:09 Jeroen Tel - X-Mas Groove
06:45 HyoChan - Merry, merry christmas
07:31 Wavemaker of Tnl - Adeste fideles
08:21 Juhla - Aamu
09:05 DJ Daemon talks the upcoming talk show with Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep.
09:43 Prime time of Trsi records - Awakening day
15:23 DJ Daemon tells you like it is: Die hard is a christmas movie.
15:47 Trackerartist - Let it snow
16:47 DJ Daemon presents the next song.
17:07 Nemesis of Zenon - Christmas joy
21:02 DJ Daemon tells you he doesn't speak over the songs (thanks!).
21:45 Mad god - 2T2M-Xmas-Song
26:50 DJ Daemon teases an Inercia demo party episode coming up.
27:26 JoeMuc2015 - the hall of fame
29:25 DJ Daemon talks about the newly updated site (ericade.radio).
30:00 Yalek W the Lombax - Holidai
33:51 DJ Daemon talks about another upcoming "only Amiga" episode..
34:28 Arcturus - An arcturus christmas
39:34 DJ Daemon presents the next song.
39:55 Necros - December
44:15 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today.
44:46 B00mer - Jingle bells (Santa sucks)
46:19 Mr. Jarom - Jingle bells remix
47:51 DanPHTMNight - Silent night
49:26 Gammis of Lemonride - Lonely chrismas
52:03 DJ Daemon tries to talk Spanish. It doesn't work as you probably could guess.
52:25 LHS - Feliz navidad remix
54:57 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into that good night...
55:24 Lolodachi - Xmas intro
57:58 DJ Daemon tells you to got to ericade.radio
58:10 HyoChan - Snowflakes

Production notes:
Our annual christmas episode.

Tags: Christmas, Host: DJ Daemon, 2025

[ Wanted! ] Tracker musician looking for ms-dos/amiga group!

Greetings from America! My Name is Keygenism from Moonshine! I'm looking for people who will use my music for the groups I am looking for ms-dos and amiga demos! I use OpenMPT for XM, S3M, MOD (for Commodore Amiga), and IT Feel free to contact me on Discord! Discord: bbtund8

[ Wanted! ] Musician, I need You!

Active in the demoscene Amiga/PC during the 80/90, I'm now an old coder who wants to redo demo. If you are not afraid to do musics for demo / B games on Android, Amiga, C64, Linux, Pico-8 Windows, web, just get in touch with me. :) Wywiwic on https://www.pouet.net Latest ugly prods : https://youtu.be/CMADRffnlVY Web: https://www.wywiwic.com/

[ Wanted! ] Graphic designer, I need You!

Active in the demoscene Amiga/PC during the 80/90, I'm now an old coder who wants to redo demo. If you are not afraid to do graphics for demo / B games on Android, Amiga, C64, Linux, Pico-8 Windows, web, just get in touch with me. :) Wywiwic on https://www.pouet.net Latest ugly prods : https://youtu.be/CMADRffnlVY Web: https://www.wywiwic.com/

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 143. Another mix tape

DJ Daemon presents a nice, 1 hour mix tape of tracked music composed on Protracker, Impulsetracker, Screamtracker and Fasttracker.Enjoy the music created by human composers sitting in front of an ancient, but very much alive technology.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon welcomes you to the show and promises there will be no more AI songs.
00:23 Cs127 - Endless facility
06:27 DJ Daemon presents the medley of today
06:42 HBtune - Bless you! Girl
08:01 Hboloid - Tropical pirates
09:24 Milkeyheart - Colour connoisseur
10:52 DJ Daemon talks about improvements on ericade.radio/stats/
11:24 Ether audio - Ambient attack
13:18 DJ Daemon talks about Modarchive slowness that has happened recently.
14:00 Leigh Malpas - Ice heaven
17:43 DJ Daemon talks about the AI song and the response.
18:33 JustOrb - My moronic life
22:48 DJ Daemon talks about Retro.gg's "12 days of christmas".
23:20 Crisps - t6-3
25:52 DJ Daemon talks about the next song.
26:10 Leigh Malpas - Flute lux
29:30 DJ Daemon teases about the upcoming christmas episodes.
30:06 Ether audio - Telepathic
33:25 DJ Daemon notes that we're at the half time of the show.
33:50 Saga musix - Eating your heart
37:20 DJ Daemon talks about the "christmassy" feeling of the next song.
37:37 Platonist - Omnivision
41:29 DJ Daemon talks about Revision 2026.
42:05 Saga musix - The cave of time
46:02 DJ Daemon mentions our Discord-channel.
46:31 Lunari - Entirely overcast
50:51 DJ Daemon hopes for Edison 2026.
51:25 Substance - Light in the dark corner
55:34 DJ Daemon thanks for listening and leading you into that good night.
56:02 Wow25 - Healthy

Production notes:
Just an episode with nice tracks from Modachive.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2025

[ Wanted! ] Looking for music for a X16 prod

I'm coding a demo for the X16 and have the 'principle' effects done. I now need some help with music to get the demo coreagraphed. If you dont know of the Commander X16, it has a PSG and YM2151. It also has PCM, but as it has to be fed by the CPU I'm not sure how much we can use that. Maybe scene dependant? The good news is the machine is supported nativley by Furnace, which should make the process much easier. Happy to share what I've got so far if anyone is interested.

[ Demozoo ] Transmission64 2025: Results and releases!

Transmission64 2025 is over! The online C64 demo party that took place on November 29th 2025; it featured interviews (Mason of the Transfer Team and Gideon Zweijtzer), music acts (Zyron with Paramiamix and Goto80 with A/V TXT), plus many quality entries in seven competitions.

Transmission on Demozoo / scene.org / CSDb

Video captures of the whole event including all compos and specials are to appear on YouTube.