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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Revision 2026 shapshots

Here are a few snapshots from Revision, provided by Lotek Style and Samurai. thanks for sending those in!

Atarisceners spotted (from top left to down right): Havoc, Samurai, Havoc again (there can never be enough Havoc), NebulaH, Gunstick, Sgt Slayer (Atrocity!), JAC!, Lotek Style - not on the photo: Spiny and Havoc's friend with the sun glasses from last year ;p

A group photo may follow.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Outline 2026 webpage online

The Outline Party 2026 will take place from May 14th to 17th! The freshly baked website is now available, so better get out your remote controls!

🔗 Outline 2026 website

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Adventures in Retro - A new diskmag for the ‘other’ 16 bitter!

Why is Atariscne.org reporting on a release of a new Amiga diskmag eh, CiH?

Well, yours truly offered to help out a friend, a little side-project, as it were.

‘Adventures in Retro’ is a long term project, created by a very good friend known as ‘Woodycool’ or Duncan, in civilian life. He’s a UK based retro-fan, primarily Amiga, but he also takes in a wide range of 8-bit interests, such as Commodore C16/Plus 4 and Amstrad CPC. He also owns and enjoys an Atari ST or two, so he’s living up to the ‘cool’ part of his nom-de-scene. 

Anyway, I’ve been tempted to add a few articles, the sort of thing that wouldn’t fit easily in to atariscene.org. There is the future possibility that this mag could be released in other formats, including Atari.

If you have one of the other 16 bit machines, here’s a link to the home page, with a download of the first issue. -  https://www.adv-in-retro.uk/ - It’s pretty compatible with most Amiga’s.

I do have an Amiga 600 waiting to be resurrected and slightly upgraded. I’ve been using the OSZX Online Amiga emulator in the meantime - OSZX Online Emulator

Anyway, enjoy!

CiH - Atariscne.org - April 2026.

[ Demozoo ] The Meteoriks 2026 - Congratulations, Laureates!

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for NEW TALENT goes to DJ_Level_3 & Marv1994 for Primer
https://demozoo.org/productions/371249

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for OUTSTANDING CONCEPT goes to ReelTime by Demostue Allst★rs
https://demozoo.org/productions/379064
with an Honorable Mention of No-CPU Challenge by Demostue Allst★rs
https://demozoo.org/productions/376675

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST EXECUTABLE GRAPHICS goes to Heritages by iapafoto
https://demozoo.org/productions/371224

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for [b]BEST OLDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to
Codeboys & Endians by Booze Design
https://demozoo.org/productions/366745

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST MIDSCHOOL PRODUCTION goes to
Vaporous by The Twitch Elite
https://demozoo.org/productions/371134

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST SOUNDTRACK goes to AddMortem by Arise & Joker
https://demozoo.org/productions/370512

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT goes to
Small64 by N64Brew
https://demozoo.org/productions/371258
with an Honorable Mention of The 2025 Rotozoomer Challenge by Batman Group, Capsule, DESiRE, DHS, Django, Lemon, Loonies, Tarnow & mis, TTE
https://demozoo.org/search/?q=%5Brotozoomer-challenge%5D+year%3A2025

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST VISUALS goes to
Brute Concrete by Digital Dynamite & United Force
https://demozoo.org/productions/377656

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST TINY INTRO
goes to
Party.DLL by Desire & Haujobb
https://demozoo.org/productions/371106
with an Honorable Mention of Starpath by HellMood / Desire
https://demozoo.org/productions/367702

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST HIGH-END INTRO goes to
Tension by Digital Dynamite & Aenima
https://demozoo.org/productions/371364

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST DIRECTION goes to
Hexer by LJ
https://demozoo.org/productions/371094

The Meteoriks Award 2026 for BEST HIGH-END DEMO goes to
BREACH by mfx
https://demozoo.org/productions/371397

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Revision 2026

It's Easter time - and of course Revision party is taking place. A few Atari sceners will be present. Maybe we can share some impressions from the party later.

Here is an Atarian's management summary of the timetable:

Saturday

• 6 pm - compo block including oldschool music compo and ASCII compo
• 10 pm - compo block including Amiga intro, 256 byte and oldschool demo

Sunday

• 4 pm - compo block including oldschool graphics
• 6 pm - compo block with oldschool 4k intro and game compo
• 9:30 pm - compo marathon for the fittest, including Amiga demo compo

🔗 Revision CCC live stream

🔗 Official Revision time table

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.09.00 released

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

We found that OpenMPT 1.32.07.00 and 1.32.08.00 were compiled with versions of Visual Studio that contained a code generation bug, and it is known that this resulted in at least one way to crash OpenMPT (through playing notes in a VST plugin editor). We cannot rule out that other parts of OpenMPT are affected in one way or another, so we strongly encourage you to upgrade immediately, to avoid any data loss. No, this is not an April Fool's prank.

Besides addressing this regression, a few other minor issues were fixed as well:

• Fixed disappearing spin buttons in the main toolbar when locking the screen or invoking a UAC prompt.
• The PPQ position reported to plugins was not updated if a module tick spanned multiple VST processing calls.
• The MIDI I/O Plugin sometimes sent multiple duplicate Song Position Pointer messages.

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.

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Feline Frequencies Allstars Vol. 1½ cassettes

[ Demozoo ] Demozoo Archaeology W14/26: Old DOS Gems

Throughout the past years, the archival teams of Demozoo and Scene.org have been working tirelessly to preserve old demoscene stuff from disks, CDs, tapes, and lost websites. From now on, we will present you with some highlights from the current excavations on a regular basis. This week, we have sifted through half-broken Wayback Machine captures to preserve releases from two MS-DOS era demoscene producers. First, we have Dual Processor System, a two-person outfit from Berlin who made oldschool intros and FM music in 1995-1996. And secondly, Albert Software Inc., who was, despite the name, a solitary coder on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. Happy Easter holidays! We'll be back soon with more preservation updates.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] 30 years of Exocet

The one and only Exocet has published an interesting résumé about his demoscene activities during the past 30 years on his blog 16 coleurs in French language.

In this summary you will find some interesting statistics, views, production examples and demo party photos.

"Vroum Paf" - a hidden gem, first place at Outline 2007, 16 colors

According to the visualized statistics Exocet had two major phases of activity, which might be typical for many sceners. One longer and rather normally distributed episode around the year 2000, when many graphics for demos like Odd stuff, many contributions to other groups like Alive team, YM-Rockerz, DHS, JFF, MJJ etc. were created. This period also originated many of the (bitter-)sweet character pictures in unique Exocet style.

Exocet's "Lapinots" - a classic and editor's all time favorite, among many!

And after a longer multi-year break around the year 2010 we witnessed a less excessive, but highly appreciated constant comeback on many different platforms until today.

"Enemy At The Gate Array" - winning picture at Shadow party 2025 oldschool graphics compo (Thomson T08 16 colors) - as Exocet puts it in the related text file, this one was "rushed with Grafx2 in a single day at the party place"

"Rate my ride" - That cat knows how to chose number plates.

🔗 30 years of demoscene on Exocet's blog "16 coleurs"

🔗 Exocet on Demozoo

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Amiga ECS Agnus 8372A

[ Atariscne.org - News ] atrfs - Atari ATR disk image filesystem tool

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Arles Demoscene Awards bike courier bag no. 2

[ Atariscne.org - News ] FLOP #69 available

The latest issue #69 of the long lasting Czech FLOP diskmag for Atari 8 Bit has been published.

Last year a pretaste of the mag art has been made available at Sillyventure and Last party. The mag itself was supposed to be released last year as well, but as life plays, the issue got delayed. As one feature, a Fujiama party report is said to be included. The diskmag comes as two ATR disk images.

🔗 Visit the FLOP website for download

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] 15.5" Asus ROG laptop screen

[ Atariscne.org - News ] In the spotlight: Richard Karsmakers blog

Richard Karsmakers aka Cronos of STNICCC party organisation fame has written a nostalgic reminiscence of the first steps of the Atari ST demoscene on his blog. The articled summarizes a brief initial time span 40 years ago and is arguably a bit boldly, entitled "The Rise of the Atari ST Demo Scene".

A closer look at the blog generally indicates that Cronos, who was also one of the former ST News diskmag editors, still has an occasional inclination to write longer articles.

Speaking of STNICCC, the next party edition is about about 6 years away. So get started with your entries! ;-)

🔗 Richard Karsmakers blog

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Mainboard: ASUS P2B-S, new old stock

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Made's Rare Stickers - 6 different packs

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 3

How GCC Actually Compiles

GCC originally stood for GNU C Compiler. Today it is the GNU Compiler Collection, with frontends for C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Go and more, a shared middle-end, and many backends. VAX and m68k were the first in 1987; today the list spans everything from modern x86-64 and ARM to legacy PDP-11 and MSP430. Each frontend parses its language and lowers it to a common intermediate representation. From there, the shared transformation passes take over, most of them entirely generic regardless of whether the target is a modern 64-core server or our humble 68000.

What happens between "C text goes in" and "assembly comes out" is roughly 360 of these passes, each rewriting the intermediate representation. Some optimize. Some check for errors. Some transform for consistency. Most do a little of everything. We will focus on the ones where our beloved 68000 needs the most help. I have put together a summary of all GCC passes for reference.

Debugging this pipeline is where the fun and the pain live. When the output is wrong, which of the 360 passes is at fault? Often it is not the obvious one; a bad decision in pass 47 might not surface as wrong, or inefficient, code until pass 180. Understanding the stages, even roughly, is the key to knowing where to look.

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Cinderella: KUVO's Sight 4 draw

Here comes a little weekend starter kit. A production by a scener you may not haven't heard of, a release that is possibly widely overseen, for a platform many may not have heard of yet:

Kuvo of Caroline Software Incorporated released a new music disc for the Russian Elektronika BK-0010 computer (see wikipedia entry). And indeed, there is a scene for this one. And for a brief moment, the tiny Atariscene feels overdog! ;-)

Anyway, this music disk is quite a surprise, once you found it. It comes with one and a half hours of music for the twin brother of the YM2149F chip, the AY-3-8912. So Atari chipmusic stricken ears feel home immediately.

Very notably, KUVO did all of it, code, music and graphics. If you check is demozoo page you will stumble across an impressive backlog of fantastic ZX Spectrum graphics, too.

Among the tracks there are very enjoyable compositions in various styles, a good flow, sometimes laid back, sometimes uplifting and foremost nicely dynamic and catchy.

But there is more, actually, sound-wise this is way more advanced then the typical AY/YM bleepery. And a reason is found quickly, looking closely at the included VU-meters. The music disks supports 6 channels, so it is tailored for machines with two soundchips. And this offers some quality upgrade for the traditional AY soundscape, nice echoic detuned square leads, interesting slides plus reverb and delay for the masses!

Highly recommended!

🔗 Sight 4 draw by KUVO on Demozoo

🔗 Sight 4 draw by KUVO on Pouet

The boys from Hack 'n Trade teamed up to bring you "HT's Handle Charts #1" - a take on the most cool, intimidating, hilarious or plainly absurd scene handles of all times. With fancy Amiga ANSI art by Goto80, Dino, and Sixx. View it in its colourful glory at [AsciiArena]!

[Submitted by dipswitch]