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Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Drone Light Show Compo so far – we got some awesome entries in, and with all the permissions right on track, the compo is a go! 

However, we still have some drone flight minutes to fill, which is why we decided to extend the deadline to this Sunday, 02.08.2026 23:59:59 CEST.

Don't miss out on seeing your creation in the sky – get something done this weekend! All technical details can be found in the compo rules. 

The sky is the limit!

[Submitted by darya]

Speed is an Amiga pack/diskmag. The Speed Special Editions for Abyss, Rotozone, Cosmic Orbs, Gerp 2026, and Revision 2026 have received a major update!

- A new Abyss game is added to the Speed Abyss Edition.

- Two extra bonus disks are added to the Speed Gerp 2026 Edition and a second bonus disk to the Speed Revision 2026 Edition.

- Some newly added Revision 2026 modules have been made executable (black screen is normal; exit with the left mouse button).

- Several party versions updated to their final releases.

- Added five new intros to the Speed Rotozone Edition (three on Disk 3, two on Disk 1), while keeping all productions in chronological order of release.

 

Download the complete package here: https://nahkolor.c64.page/NAH-SPEED_SE_COMPILATION.ZIP

[Submitted by magic]

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 164. A bright Friday at Edison demo party 2026

We went live from the Edison demo party on the 17th of July at 4pm CET. Follow along as DJ Daemon and Coreus talk about what's happening, line up some really great tracker music classics never heard on the station and also meet Triad's own Frost.

Playlist:
00:00 Hard ericade.radio - Here is a live broadcast from the Edison demo party with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
00:09 DJ Daemon and Coreus introduces the show and talks about what's happening.
02:10 Desire - Yksi, kaksi, kolme
05:02 DJ Daemon seems to be in full panic mode, whereas Coreus is cool like a cucumber.
07:30 Anders Enger Jensen - Computer Street (Level 1)
11:32 ericade.radio - We are Live from the Edison demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus
11:42 Siatek - I love you
14:19 [Interview] Frost of Triad is in the bar that is our studio. Coreus and DJ Daemon talk with him. Frost has a very special style that often veers into gore and death. And he explains that it was his childhood experiences that made him the artist he is today.
24:12 Prism - Can you feel it?
27:46 [Interview] We continue talking with Frost. Coreus and DJ Daemon get the answers.
39:07 Rapture - Summertime
43:05 ericade.radio - You're listening to a broadcast from the Edison demoparty in Sweden
43:10 [Interview] The third and last segment where we talk with Frost. Coreus and DJ Daemon are quite interested about his weird trophies that the competitors can win. Mostly circuit boards he has creatively cut to ribbons.
01:06:24 Eivind Sommersten - Savage (I will never know)
01:09:54 Radix - Yuki satellites
01:13:29 Jakim and Michu - Access denied
01:14:47 Xyce - Suaire de turin
01:18:24 Hotline cafe - Redlight Precinct
01:21:50 Joule and Malmen - One two three
01:23:46 Ivory - The Quest
01:30:08 Lizardking - Art of Chrome
01:32:45 Lizardking - Space hulk I
01:36:31 Slash_AtD - 8-bit Tatarstan
01:40:19 Radix - Yoghurt factory
01:42:11 DJ Daemon mentions that some people have reported problems hearing the stream due to a technical problem. Coreus tries to get the Internet connection on his phone working. We talk about the upcoming interviews tomorrow.
01:46:49 Pyromaniac - Celestial fantasia
01:51:35 Brainbug - Excalibur outrun.cp
01:55:50 Skaven - Mercury Rain
02:00:12 DJ Daemon and Coreus mess around with the cabling and then they're announcing the live graphics competition. Then the obligatory "Internet is bad here"-complaint.
02:03:28 Ko0x - Hobbes adventure
02:07:46 Michael Hendriks - Baby Jack
02:12:11 Jester of Sanity - Elysium
02:15:56 Purple motion - Aquaphobia - 1993 / spring
02:16:54 Mayhem of Carcass (Max Quagliotto) - Epsilon ellipse mayhem world-domination-lfODD and MC vocODD
02:18:23 Vogue - Ambient engergy
02:23:24 ericade.radio - Live from the Edison demoparty in Sweden!
02:23:32 DJ Daemon is impressed by the new stationids and Coreus is mentioning all the weird problems we had.
02:28:52 Rapture - Aurora borealis 5
02:31:55 DJ Daemon thinks that Napoleon was wrong: nothing is fun with world domination. And Coreus notes that the Twitch stream is now active. And Marcus Dicander, Edison's resident piano player has just arrived. Also, FSFreak has brought the toilet tunes back and that is awesome. "Should we put chiptunes in the toilet?"
02:37:37 The REW - Rivendell
02:39:50 ericade.radio - Live from the Edison demoparty in Sweden!
02:40:00 Leviathan - Tranquility
02:45:29 ericade.radio - Live from the Edison demoparty in Sweden!
02:45:38 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into that good... Nah, he just signs off.

Production notes:
Our live broadcast from Edison, where we were on location at the boat M/S Borgilla in central Stockholm in Sweden. This broadcast started on the 17th of July 2026 at 4pm CET.

Tags: 2026, Demo scene episodes, Edison, Host: DJ Daemon, Cohost: Coreus, Edison 2026

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] Pågadata just ended - listen to their best tracker tunes

Pågadata 2026 here in Sweden ended yesterday and produced a number of great tracker tunes in the Amiga and wild competitions. Now we have the best of those in a good playlist, so you can give them some love as well.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] Load up 13 new tracks from Edison 2026 in your web browser

The demo scene delivers again! Edison 2026 may be over, but we will not forget the great tunes it delivered anyday soon. Here are the tunes, ready to rock your speakers.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Five Fingers Punching hard at Edison party!

The Stockholm-based and usually more PC and Commodore centered Edison party 2026 brought a surprising release: "Tic Tac Finger" by Five Finger Punch (FFP) for Atari XL/XE with 64 KB of RAM. The demo is a very positive multipart demo supported by catchy Maze music. You will find refreshing ideas and a demo playing a bit with the Atari-Commodore rivalry.

The demo ranked first place in the oldschool demo compo.
Thanks for this lovely surprise, FFP!

🔗 Tic Tac Finger on Pouet

🔗 Tic Tac Finger on Demozoo

 

The demoscene report brings you all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular we take a look at the releases from DiHalt Summer that took place in the Russian woods, then we cover Lost Party that took place in Poland and the small Vammala party in Finland. https://youtu.be/8xJ6cq3GTzE

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Nectarine Demoscene Radio is looking for new jingles - An open call for musicians!

Are you a scene musician who wants to boost your scene cred? Are you a veteran musician eager to have more recognition? Nectarine Demoscene Radio (scenestream.net) -- the first and oldest demoscene radio online -- is looking for new radio jingles, because we got too many old jingles with our old web address in 'em! • THE EASY WAY You can give us permission to use a snippet of your scene music in our jingles -- and our mods and admins will do the rest! Additionally, you can record a brief voiceover...

[ Amiga online magazines ] Live performance: Music and Code: Two highlights from Edison 2026

Some impressions from the Edison 2026 party. Text by Marcus Dicander, photos by Smaugur/Nukleus. “When I was...

[ demoparty.net ] Deadline 2026: Remote entries only for executable and wild / animation compos

Good day everyone! 🌴🦩 While we’re slowly starting to prepare the resort for you we have two important announcements to make:

🐠 In order to avoid preselection in graphics and music compos, this year we will only accept remote entries for all executable, wild and animation compos!

🐠 Due to the popularity of the party in the recent years we unfortunately can’t guarantee a table space for everyone anymore. Therefore we advise you to come early if you need a table space for the entire time and would like to kindly ask you to only occupy as much table space as needed, so that other fellow sceners can get a place to work as well.

Thank you for your understanding, dear beloved visitors of the Apocalypso. Keep calm and carry on.

[ Amiga online magazines ] The making of “Interceptor Intro” by Complex and Zymosis.

We asked both people involved in making this great demo how everything took place. Text by Ghandy...

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Silly Venture 2026 SE - It’s getting closer!

 

It’s time for the next summer party!

After the small(ish) but perfectly formed Sommarhack party at the start of July, the onset of Silly Venture Summer Edition is crashing through for the end of the month.

I’m going to let the big man himself, Michal M. tell us more.

Here's the link to the main site landing page.

There is also an Atari Forum topic for the party.

Things to take note of especially.

T-Shirt ordering stops on the 22nd July at 08.00hrs. T-Shirts can be collected in person or posted later on.

The link to upload competition entries on the main site is now available, after some delays.

It looks like there is more happening this time around, than at the last summer edition, if rumours are correct?

Unfortunately I’m not going this time around, due to a combination of personal and wider issues, but we’ll see for November, eh!

CiH - For Atariscne, July 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] ExtenDOS 4.11 released

Mikro writes:   When I was working on a new ScummVM release, I realised that its new features would allow users not only run ScummVM on standard TT/Falcon but also to easily play sampled music directly from a CD. So instead of the usual testing setup (Falcon with CT60) I booted into the 030 mode with intention of recording a nice video of me playing The Secret of Monkey Island off my SCSI CD drive.   Imagine my surprise when all I got was a black screen as soon as I started the game. It took me quite a while (and dedusting many of the long forgotten memories of how to set up various CD drivers like ExtenDOS, Spin!, SCSI Tools or Egon CD...) to pinpoint the exact culprit (it would work nicely in CT60, FreeMiNT, EmuTOS, from IDE HDD drive, from USB CD drive, ...) but in the end it was a small but nasty issue in ExtenDOS CD.BOS SCSIDRV driver.   Fortunately, Roger Burrows is still around and kind enough to take a look so I'm happy to announce that he has just released ExtenDOS 4.11 which fixes the nasty issue: http://www.anodynesoftware.com/e4/main.html.  

So I was able to record that Video after all.

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular we take a look at a bunch of small demoparties that recently took place, Sommarhack in Sweden, Black Valley in Norway and Impulse in Portugal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXwr92NtaQE

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Chip 'n Tell by SYNC

At Sommarhack earlier this month Troed of SYNC released a new tool that will be of help to many people.

 

Have you ever wondered which tune plays in a demo screen or cracktro?  Wading through dozens and dozens of SNDH-files before you finally find the correct one.

Well those days are over. 

Send a recording of the music to Chip 'n Tell and it will identify the track in seconds, or it can even work in continuous mode to identify tracks live as they play.

Chip 'n Tell by Troed / SYNC

🔗 Check out Chip 'n Tell!

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] CT60 TOS 1.05 20260715 has been released

After mikro released his updated TOS 1.03e he also bugged me to dedust my old sources.

So here is the current CT60 TOS 1.05 20260715 by tSCc.

Rebased on 1.03e with further 1.05 fixes merged.

mikro ist schuld!

Get it at https://insane.tscc.de/

Changelog at the github link on my page.

-insane/Rabenauge^tSCc

 

🔗 Download at Insanes website

🔗 Sources and changelog at Github

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari Summer in Poland

Krupkaj writes:

There was not only an Atari ST demoparty this summer, but also an Atari 8-bit party in central Poland, held in Licheń Stary.

 

We enjoyed four great days filled with competitions, a barbecue and even two live concerts. Among the released intros, graphics and music entries was Level, an excellent new demo for the Atari 8-bit.

🔗 Lost Party 2026 on Demozoo

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Summer 2026 update

So there's been some slow days here at the site, the editors are clearly dozing off at a beach somewhere... Or?

Nah, we've been busy going to demo parties, of course.

 

Here's a quick roundup of the latest ones!

 

Sommarhack 2026 (July 3-5)

The only remaining Atari-exclusive demoparty in the nordics (as we know of) had it's 18th edition in Grådö, Dalarna, Sweden happen at the usual venue, Malmgården.

For once we were blessed by the weather gods and had a glorious Saturday where the visitors could enjoy the barbecue without being soaked and come back from the Tipspromenad with dry shoes. Amazingly the mosquitos had mostly gone on vacation as well.

Sommarhack late at night

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] How to listen to the best from Shadow party and Black valley music

Just mere days ago, the legendary demo parties Black valley 2026 and Shadow party 2026 were held and the musicians gave us their best in tracker music, chiptune and demo scene music. We show you how to listen to the best of them in your web browser.

[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] No-Screen Realtime Compo: You make the Rules!

During this year’s CoSin, about 20 people have put their heads together to discuss and design rules for a new compo at MountainBytes in 2027: the No-Screen Realtime Compo! What on Earth is a No-Screen Realtime Compo, you ask? Switzerland is a stronghold for hardware… Weiterlesen

The post No-Screen Realtime Compo: You make the Rules! first appeared on Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur.

Friendly reminder that if you want to secure the forever bragging rights of being among the first (and maybe only) people to send their entries into the sky, it's time to get going –  the deadline for the drone light show competition is 24. July 2026 23:59 CEST (yes, that's a month before the party). Remote entries are allowed! 

Our compo rules page will set you up for success with everything you need to know, including a template. For infos regarding flying permissions, check out our latest pouet post. 

The sky's the limit – don't miss out!

[Submitted by darya]

All of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular a look at the releases from ze Shadow Party in France. https://youtu.be/1GnFKY0LfYs

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Neural seeking member(s)

(I did a small intro/advert about that topic but it didn't have much success, so...) I'm primarily seeking an experienced/all-terrain musician who can handle multiple sound chips (sid, paula, various YM, etc.) to collaborate on as many projects as possible & on different platforms (no fuss, no hassle, no real deadlines) to join me in Neural. Other kind of artists are also welcome. If interested, contact me via this site or you can also eventually ping me on Discord (hitchhikr). Currently...

[ Atariscne.org - News ] DMA Bliss v0.2

Nearly exactly a year ago, Nerve / Ephidrena released DMA Bliss v0.1 to address the infamous STE DMA problem: https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/ste-bad-dma-atariscne-org-testing-a-software-fix.   Around that time I was playing with the idea of creating something similar for a separate list of issues I had found in HD Driver. Seeing Nerve's work being open sourced was the push in the right direction however I was very busy and additionally, around that time HD Driver 12.70 was released which fixed most of the issues, taking steam from my motivation to look at it again.   Well, one year later still seeing the IDE I/O rate crippled I decided to take a look after all: https://github.com/mikrosk/hddriver-patch/releases/tag/v0.2.   This patch dramatically improves HD Driver's I/O on Atari IDE, adds missing cache flush after SCSI transfers on Falcon with 040/060 CPU and finally, updates the STE DMA fix for recent (12.70+) versions as the original one wouldn't work anymore.   Use at your own risk, as I do. ;)   P.S. I cordially invite HD Driver's author to take my code and adapt them into the official product. New routines are provided in the source code comments, free for grabs.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Sommarhack 2026 News Flash

Juli 3rd, 2026, 05:01 PM:

After a very relaxed start on Thursday evening with take-away food and involving primarily the organizers and the few guests that already made it to Grädo, the party officially started today at 14:00.

People keep coming in, with Doclands of Overlanders, Rapido of Synergy and (potentially) Mr. Pink of the Reservoir Gods making a long awaited comeback. With the game compo already running and people busy preparing their compo entries, the heat is building up - which is much appreciated as its only 16 degrees outside and raining every now and then.

 

Juli 3rd, 2026, 06:49 PM: 

Breaking news from Sommarhack! Due to the unexpected and heavy rain, the barbequeue, that had been started already, is being cancelled. Instead, soup will be served soon...".