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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Outline 2026 live

Our esteemed Dutch Atari party is taking place this weekend. A few Atarians have signed up, let's see if they share some impressions from the party later on. Alternatively, the live stream for Outline party is available here:

🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/outlinedemoparty

🔗 Outline website with time table

🔗 Outline 2026 on Demozoo

A small bugfix release. Some highlights:

- Fixed crashes related to small or empty parts.

- New option to specify initial report theme, overriding the browser preference.

- Fixed delayed switch to light theme when loading the report.

- Some fixes related to labels in the report.

- Fixed REUSEGUI window sometimes opening behind other windows.

See the announcement post for more details.

[Submitted by Blueberry]

The sky is the limit! Following the success of the Drone Show at Evoke 2025, we are now taking the next steps towards making a Drone Compo happen this year.

As one can imagine, this comes with a set of technical, organizational and legal challenges compared to a traditional compo. Because of that, we want to share an early overview of where things stand, what to expect as a participant and how to set up your workflow for success. A detailed writeup by mop, along with a video tutorial and last year's show file by newemka can be found here. 

Since we do not know what the future brings, consider this a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to use the sky as your canvas. Remote entries are allowed!

[Submitted by darya]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Gemtos is over and here is a summary!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 6

← Fixing Post-Increment Addressing

DBRA and the Cost Model Balancing Act

When you write assembly for the m68k, dbra is just there. Put your count in a data register, end your loop with dbra dN,.label. Four bytes, twelve cycles per iteration on 68000, no flag dance, no comparison. Your loops naturally form around the instruction.

C/C++ does not work that way. The natural loop in C is for (i = 0; i < N; i++) or while (cond). Neither says "count down and exit when you wrap", well, while can. But a counted-up loop with an unsigned comparison is what the language naturally models, and that is what GIMPLE mostly produces. Turning that into a dbra is a backend job, and requires carefully written code. And GCC, for reasons we will get to, mostly stopped doing it for m68k.

[ Wanted! ] Confirm your consent for the Art of Coding demoscene UNESCO nomination

Art of Coding is working to get the demoscene recognized as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. Norway is leading the multinational nomination, Germany is confirmed, and the nomination deadline is 1 June 2026. You can still sign after that date to show community consent and support. https://forms.gle/FzwVd7ovndev3VrP9 Take 1 minute. Yoghurt

Norway is leading a multinational UNESCO ICH-02 nomination for the demoscene, with Germany confirmed as co-submitting State Party.

As part of the documentation of community participation and free, prior and informed consent, practitioners are invited to complete the consent form below.Deadline: 1 June 2026.

Link: https://forms.gle/FzwVd7ovndev3VrP9

Yoghurt

[Submitted by Yoghurt]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Chipo Django 3 is now available in its final version

Insane writes:

Chipo Django 3 is now available in its final version.

There were reports of a buggy replay, so I took apart the Lance replayer once again and (hopefully) fixed every known issue. This new version now runs the latest version of the ProTracker Replay 2.3f by 8bitbubsy using the Lance Paula emulation. (Both the Acorn and Amiga side also had some different bugs fixed)

The replayer source code is available here.

And special Thanks to evil for recording both the party and final version for youtube!

🔗 Chip Django 3 on Demozoo
🔗 Chip Django 3 on Pouet
🔗 Fixed Protracker 2.3f replayer on Github

Latest news and releases from the active demoscene community, this week in particular a look at the releases from Multimatograf and speccy.pl

Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Black Valley is looking for a few more people to help with crew duties this year!

If you are someone interested in being part of our little organizer family, please do get in touch. We are looking for people both in general and specific areas, so if you have a special skillset that might help us take some of the load off the other orgas, that is as welcome as just a social person for infodesk duties. If interested, please get in touch. Email: contact@blackvalley.party Discord: https://discord.blackvalley.party/ See you all in July! ❤️

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Return to Blacktooth finally released!

The second big game release over these past days. This one has been pending for absolutely ages. Return to Blacktooth, aka Head Over Heels 2 has been released by Thalamus Digital Publishing.

I remember writing something about this, over a decade ago. Colin Porch, the programmer, started this when he was still at Ocean Software, but this was not taken up by them. He was showing it around at various computer shows. The new game having over 300 rooms to explore and brand new puzzles in the classic old school isometric format.

Many years later, this has found its way to Thalamus Digital Publishing, with a digital release on the 4th May 2026 and a physical release to follow later.

You can find out more by following this link - https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/return-to-blacktooth-atarist - A purchasable download to enjoy this game should be available from the 4th May 2026.

CiH - Atariscne.org - May 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Miracle Boy in Dragon Land Released!

Some *big* game news for the Atari ST this weekend, as Miracle Boy in Dragon Land has finally dropped after four years of work.

(From the website) - "Miracle Boy in Dragon Land offers a magical adventure across 25 levels, combining exploration, puzzles, mini-games, and equipment upgrades. The player takes on the role of Paolo, tasked with freeing the kingdom from the clutches of the evil Count Drago in a universe inspired by the classic Wonder Boy in Monster World."

We have Samuel Blanchard and DMA-SC to thank for this marvel.

It is very ambitious in scope, stretching the ST’s boundaries hard. A 1MB ST is your ticket to ride!

You can find out more here - You can purchase a digital copy and there are a decreasing amount of physical copies available.

CiH - Atariscne - 2.5.26

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Gemtos 2026 releases

Gemtos releases are coming in, one of them being a nice new multipart 16kb intro by No Extra.

🔗 Gemtos 2026 on Demozoo

[ Atariscne.org - News ] A sneak peek at Atariada 2026

Atarionline.pl reporters are on fire, with a first video summary of Atariada, taking place right now in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 160. Sunday, the last day of Revision 2026

It's the last day of Revision 2026 for us. DJ Daemon and Coreus talk about what's happening and play the best chiptune music from the demoscene. We also interview the sceners Nebula and Fibonacci and finally legendary Dosbox creator Harekiet.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
00:06 DJ Daemon presents the show and welcomes Coreus. We talk about the discussions between Dojo and D. Fox in what they call "Morning glory".
04:00 Jester of Elysium - Elysium
07:42 We discuss the upcoming competitions and also mentions Coreus eating breakfast on the air sound like ASMR from hell. Coreus does not like Gods and DJ Daemon tries to defend the game.
11:25 Allister Brimble - Amiga never dies
15:25 We really believe the Amiga will never die. Then we talk about the demo scene being the last bastion of human creation. DJ Daemon worries that the next generation will never have known anything except AI and having no reason to learn how to create stuff themselves.What is executable music.
19:56 ericade.radio - From a demo party live with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
20:06 Richard Joseph - Gods
22:36 DJ Daemon talks about the upcoming interviews and mentions how hostile the demo scene.
23:22 Sphenx - Flutana variata
34:45 DJ Daemon talks about the executable music demo competitions
36:07 Alexander Brandon - Unreal tournament menu
38:08 DJ Daemon talks about Flashback, tracks from past and its retro gaming coverage.
39:40 Alexander Brandon - Unreal - Main Title
44:17 DJ Daemon notes that Coreus is out chasing people to get an interview or two.
45:16 Nicsure - Occ-san-geen
49:55 DJ Daemon and Coreus thinks some entries in the competition sounds like noise. Mature, old, vintage. Do we need more adjectives? Coreus thinks so. We debate if halflings are elves not. A bit unclear.
53:14 Michiel van den Bos - March of the halflings
58:15 DJ Daemon and Coreus talks about Giana Sisters. We debate if people use phones to actually call each other any more. We also talk about the sisters themselves... Not just the game... You know the Giana Sisters.
01:02:39 Arne Puszelski - Giana sisters title
01:06:15 ericade.radio - Live from a demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
01:06:24 DJ Daemon mentions that old tracker music could have nasty names and still be totally innocent.
01:08:45 Alexander Brandon - Foundry
01:12:17 Alexander Brandon - Unreal technology demo 95
01:14:08 DJ Daemon notes that Danko is competing with a brand new song on Revision 2026.
01:15:26 Glyn R Brown - PCW-Tune 88
01:19:54 ericade.radio - It's 2026 and we give the latest tracker music
01:20:04 DJ Daemon tells you that the modern graphics competition is soon to start.
01:21:50 Josss and Ma2e - An AI generated title
01:24:40 DJ Daemon promises that Flashback, tracks from the past will resume its retro gaming coverage.
01:26:00 Foundation shaker and Full metall jacket - Commodore's revenge
01:30:27 ???? - ???? Purple motion of Future Crew - SSI-intro
01:32:20 ???? - ????
01:39:21 Coreus talks about Jogeir Liljedahls new tracked song and what's playing on the streaming competition. We talk about old FPS games like Quake, Half life and Duke Nukem. DJ Daemon complains about the "walled garden" approach from companies like Bethesda. This is not good.
01:44:12 Mr. Man of Andromeda - Mindriot
01:47:45 ericade.radio - From a demo party live with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
01:47:52 DJ Daemon and Coreus are preparing for the interviews that coming up soon.
01:48:56 Nighthawk - Dinner at Rachael
01:52:07 DJ Daemon and Coreus talk about the upcoming YouTube episodes based on this broadcast. He also wonders how many radiostations except ours that can be enjoyed on your Amiga or Atari Falcon.
01:53:33 Eivind Sommersten - Scratching zwaantjes returns
01:57:04 DJ Daemon notes that the modern graphics competition is coming up.
01:58:25 Algar - Lust for life
02:01:27 ??? - ???
02:05:19 ericade.radio - Live from a demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
02:05:27 DJ Daemon false starts the interview as Coreus is not yet ready.
02:05:58 Firing up
02:09:48 ericade.radio - The ERICADE Radio Network, no AI slop!
02:09:55 [Interview] Sceners Nebula and Fibbonaci from the Netherlands.
02:19:19 Mick Rippon - Compromise celebration
02:23:27 [Interview] Continuing the interview with sceners Nebula and Fibbonaci from the Netherlands.
02:39:44 Radix, Xylo, Xyce - Rainbow dash
02:43:08 Katod - Last ninja 2 central park cover
02:49:49 DJ Daemon and Coreus remembers Last Ninja 2 and both hate it. It was beautiful, but had horrible game play. Why? It's because of money, people. The story is quite interesting, actually.
02:54:26 04050 - Second stage boss
02:56:48 DJ Daemon and Coreus talk.
02:57:35 Proton - Contest demo tune 3
03:03:00 DJ Daemon and Coreus talks about the 3D printing contest. And the prize? That would be a cheese grater that does computer cooling. Or something like that.. We don't know either.
03:18:09 Znurre - Solen lyser fortfarande på min balkong
03:20:47 DJ Daemon reports that all competition entries for the tracker tune competition have been made available on the scene ftp-server. We ponder how few entries there are these days.
03:23:36 Lizardking - Trans atlantic 2007 (CDE musix club radio mix)
03:28:36 ????? - ?????
03:36:42 ericade.radio - Live from a demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
03:36:50 [Interview] We talk with Harekiet, a legendary demo scener who is credited with creating the original DOSBox.
03:46:54 Peters - Sticker 8
03:49:15 [Interview] We continue talking with legendary scener Harekiet.
03:58:36 ???? - ??????
04:03:23 DJ Daemon says that we will soon release the broadcasts as podcast episoce.
04:04:35 Jogeir Liljedahl - Jogeir Liljedahl and Scorpik Pulse of Noiseless - Ambrozia
04:16:23 ericadde.radio - Live from a demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
04:16:30 DJ Daemon and Coreus wrap up the discussion and Harekiet gets to request his favorite tune.
04:17:20 Kepler - Tingly sensation
04:23:00 RTS - Jamboree 2
04:26:43 DJ Daemon talks about the next song being one of his favorites.
04:27:34 Skaven - The white tiger (Original)
04:30:24 ericade.radio - DJ Daemon LIVE - right here, right now
04:30:32 DJ Daemon talks about not liking the current competition.
04:31:57 Ghidorah - Toilet Story
04:34:16 C512w - Toilet story sven?!
04:37:59 DJ Daemon thanks for listening and starts rapping things up.
04:39:06 Sphenx - Adventurer in Merregnon
04:43:22 DJ Daemon presents the next song.
04:43:50 Steve Roz - Vintage Vinyl
04:47:17 DJ Daemon and Coreus talk about the experiences from the party and talk about the pinball machines.
04:54:40 HyoChan - Ureshii
04:54:46 HyoChan - Ureshii (Again? Ya, really!)
04:56:51 ericade.radio - Live from a demo party with DJ Daemon and Coreus.
04:56:58 DJ Daemon gets a curve ball from Coreus in the shape of three songs. We also compare notes and talk about the good, the bad and maybe even the ugly.
05:06:23 Alexander Brandon - Hopteego
05:08:13 Armandox - Lizard kings theme
05:14:48 Firefox and Tip of phenomena - Musiklinjen (Hyperbased)
05:20:19 ericade.radio - We are for the demo scene

Production notes:
Live broadcast from the eWerk building in Saarbrücken. From Sunday 5 April 2026.

Tags: 2026, Cohost: Coreus, Demo scene top lists, Host: DJ Daemon, Revision, Revision 2026

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Past Glories - A lost and re-found Sillyventure Report from 2016

SV 2016

It’s another Sillyventure past times report. Another one that remained hidden in the archives until now. This one was mostly made, as it happened.

It was a pretty faithful diary of my alcohol consumption and state of intestinal health during that period. Oh, and quite a few party happenings as well.

I liked my writing from that period, seemed to be livelier back then and less, tired, than more recent efforts.

CiH - April 2025

#This bit is not in realtime!#

Good morning, evening, or dead of night, whenever you are reading this new Maggie issue. This is the official CiH authored realtime party report, with non-realtime later on additions, for the eagerly anticipated Sillyventure 2016 party. (Not to be confused with the realtime article, which is an entirely separate document created by a lot of people, sometimes in co-ordination with their fingers and brains, but often not!)

So is this going to be another party of our dreams, or a never-ending silicon nightmare? Well read on and discover.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] nrvpack 3.03 — Atari ST executable compressor

exxos has released version 3.03 of nrvpack, a free online executable compression service for Atari ST PRG/APP/TOS/TTP files. Upload a file and get five compressed variants to choose from, each with different size/speed tradeoffs. 

The packer and all 68000 decompression stubs were written from the ground up. Months of development went into the compression engine — including optimal parsing with dynamic programming, lit-cost sweeps, context-width tuning, and extensive testing of preprocessing transforms and encoding strategies to squeeze every last byte out of typical 68k executables. 

On large real-world programs the best format achieves around 2.75:1 compression ratio. A fast-depack option is also available that decompresses in under a second on a stock 8MHz 68000. All formats support colour-cycling raster bars during decompression and run on any ST/STE/TT/Falcon.

The service is free and requires an exxos forum login.

🔗 https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/nrvpack/
🔗 https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8312

All the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community of digital artists and event organizers. This week in particular we cover a few remnants from our Revision 2026 coverage and a deep look at the highlights from the creative competitions at The Gathering 2026. Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Cyber Legends 2026 website

Felice writes:   Just to let you know, there's now a new website for the Cyber Legends events held in Toddington, England.   The url is https://www.cyberlegends.co.uk   The next event will be on Saturday October 10th and we'd love to see you there. Tickets should be on sale soon.  

[ Demozoo ] Replay 2 (featuring demozoo database)

There was a seminar by emoon at Revision this year talking about the (in development) Replay 2. The Replay 2 is an FPGA board with a built-in frontend. Part of that frontend is a demoscene browser and launcher built on top of the Demozoo database. Always cool to see our database being used for other projects. Want to know more about it? Watch the seminar on youtube.

Composed in true Amiga Spirit!

Jogeir Liljedahl , Markus Klein (Lman) , Romeo Knight , Martin Wall (Mantronix) , Erika Wittmann (Ziona) and many more! Enjoy folks! Download the MP3 album here!

https://nahkolor.c64.page/Encore500_V2-MP3.7z

[Submitted by magic]

Impure 1940 have just released their #92 artpack, full of text mode art goodies by Boheme, Dipswitch, H7, h8o4, Hellbeard, lmn, Prismate, tonelocc and Venam. View the pack online in its full glory at 16colo.rs!

[Submitted by dipswitch]

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 159. An eventful Saturday afternoon at Revision 2026

Saturday and this is when it happens! All the cool competitions will soon be running and people are getting ready for them. Follow DJ Daemon and Coreus coming to you from a table in the venue, behind a scary wolf head and loads of old computers.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - We're now going live from a remote location
00:06 DJ Daemon welcomes you to the show and tells you that Coreus is chasing after cool stuff on a nearby mediamarkt. The audio level thing is a comment on Revisions horrible streaming audio that annoyed everyone on the Discord server.
00:48 SLL of Kefrens - Techno1
01:37 SLL of Kefrens - Techno2
02:56 SLL of Kefrens - Techno
03:57 DJ Daemon complains about being old, bald man... But he remembers when he at least had some hair.
05:17 Slaze - Rex Lacerta
08:56 DJ Daemon can't stop commenting on Revision's earsplitting audio. This time the scene loudspeakers that are ... well, loud.
09:37 Maran project - Nerdy girl
12:12 DJ Daemon delves deeper in on the comments from the sceners on Discord. Mainly about the audio levels. They are even more snarky than him. Yeah, we'll leave this subject now, promise.
13:22 Chris Huelsbeck - Cat Shop Girls (From Seven Days - Seven Songs)
17:32 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon andCoreus!
17:40 Coreus is back from his shopping spree and tells you about a very familiar voice he heard in the shop.
20:55 Xyce - Morse
24:07 We talk about Xyce and their productions. The Coreus tells us what we need to know about Saturday at Revision.
29:04 Zantac of Smeuch, Euphorbia - Kicked by Chuck Norris
30:44 Ache and NRG - Visions of the past
34:11 The Rave party is on.. Sehr schnell... It's called the "Algorave". God know how they came up with that name. We also talk about the seminars that will be held soon on Revision.
41:24 Mick Rippon - Alone
44:52 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
45:00 What is the connection between RaccoonViolet and Mick Rippon? Crying? We tell you! Coreus has also tried the pinball machine and got full approval from Pamela Anderson. And then he tell DJ Daemon to stop wasting the songs!
48:27 Jeroen Tel - Mountain breeze
52:38 What is this weirdness that's called Petscii? And how does it compare to emojis? Does it? And what is ANSI all about anyway. Let us take you back to the 90s.
01:03:18 Skaven252 - Revenge of the cats
01:09:13 ericade.radio - We love the demo scene
01:09:18 We have different opinions on cats. Coreus is not a fan... DJ Daemon is. And what's up with Skaven? Here we talk about his cool skills and songs. And "is that a Vextrex? Nah, it cannot be". Also a good question: what can we say about you if you choose to sit in the back of the room at Revision?
01:15:15 Jack Jazzrabbit - Medivo
01:17:18 Jester of Sanity - Elysium
01:21:00 Coreus should really learn to vaccum himself. His Roomba in Norway seems to have gotten stuck under the table. And he is in Germany. So there... We also talk about the robodog roaming around the venue.
01:26:41 EA - Revenge of Autumn
01:29:35 DJ Daemon and Coreus - we both hate Garfield... But agree on the Lasagna and the Mondays.
01:38:25 MmcM - Climbing
01:40:55 DJ Daemon just tells you what's playing.
01:41:55 Dr Future - Plastic pop (plastic kills life mix)
01:44:30 DJ Daemon wonders how much English the Germans know. Then braggs that the swedish does it better. But at what price? We all sound like the Swedish chef. Bork, bork people!
01:45:36 Horace wimp - Hymn to aurora
01:49:46 ericade.radio - With music from the Revision, Edison and Shadow demo parties
01:49:53 talks about how Ericade started as a radio station due to Covid in 2020.
01:51:06 River - Bunny Hop Back
01:55:20 A bit of a teaser of an upcoming interview.
01:56:41 Firefox, K-Line, Romeo Knight - Fall from Sky
02:00:38 DJ Daemon notes that the big start of today is in hour
02:01:34 Saga musix - Steelchambers 2 HQ remake
02:06:10 We love us some 80s gaming music... See below!
02:06:47 Trackerartist - Dragons lair
02:09:12 Rapture - Greylag Runners
02:13:02 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
02:13:12 [Interview] Coreus talks with scener Oilheap. It's all about old game you almost forgot about, shaders, the alluring shining cube and his demo scene past.
02:28:06 Bonefish and JosSs and Mygg - Dan Dan Dada
02:32:11 [Interview] Coreus continues talking to Oilheap. It's all about what he expect of today's compos.
02:45:52 Xyce - Fleurs colorees
02:47:58 Anniversary Tune 8
02:50:40 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
02:50:49 We are preparing to wrap up this show.
02:53:23 Cyborg Jeff - Waterworld dolphinkingdom
02:58:39 German keyboards! They are the worst. DJ Daemon and Coreus talk about the whole thing.
03:04:49 Alexander Brandon - Unreal tournament menu
03:06:48 ericade.radio - We are for the demo scene
03:06:54 It's goodbye from us for today. We'll be back in the next episode one more time.
03:08:25 ericade.radio - We love the demo scene

Production notes:
Live broadcast from the eWerk building in Saarbrücken. From Saturday 4 April 2026.

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

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Grawitacja 2026 results and photos

Last week Grawitacja 2026, an "8-bit gamejam" took place in Krakow, Poland. The event featured a 36 hours game development competition. Our friends over at Atarionline.pl have recorded and published a video from the live presentation of the entries. About 8 Atari games were shown. Results and photos are available on the event website.

🔗 Grawitacja website