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All of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular the second part of deep dive into the releases from Revision 2026. Watch on youtube.

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] ChatGPT Client for Atari ST

kallebl0mquist published a ChatGPT Client for the Atari ST, so also modern and hip work environments can be migrated to the Atari platform.

Dumbing down with class, using this seductive keyboard
(Picture by kallebl0mquist)

From Github:

I have been building a GEM-based LLM chat client for the Atari ST in GFA BASIC 3.5E. What if an Atari ST could talk to a modern LLM? Not a fake retro skin in a browser, no emulator (though I love Hatari!), but my actual old Atari Mega STE. GFA BASIC was developed by Frank Ostrowski in 1986 and was hugely popular among ST users at the time. So I chose it in the hope that there might be still some resources out there. Did I learn GFA Basic properly for this project? No, but i dug out all the old docs and books and forced codex to learn it. Ha,ha. Poor thing.

The setup :

• Atari Mega STE in high-res monochrome
• GFA BASIC 3.5E on the Atari side
• Raspberry Pi and python 3.12 on the other side
• Nullmodem serial cable (StarTech 30cm USB Nullmodem Seriell Adapterkabel, USB-A auf RS232 DB9)

🔗 ChatST on Github

[ Amiga online magazines ] Party report from Revision 2026

some impressions from Saarbrücken in 2026. Text by Ghandy of Nukleus, images by Viscid, thx! I’d rather...

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 158. A good Friday at Revision 2026

So we have finally set up shop in the eWerk building in Saarbrücken. Join DJ Daemon and Coreus as we come to you live from Revision 2026! We also meet with sceners Truck and Jenna. Five hours with delightful demo scene music.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - We're now going live from a remote location
00:07 DJ Daemon and Coreus welcome you to Revision 2026 in Saarbrücken.
04:19 Slipstream - The golden disk (Revision 2026 Invitation)
05:48 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
05:56 We can't pronounce the name of the city we are in. Are we American? Nope. We also talk about what's coming up on the demo party.
11:35 Alexander Brandon - Frolick lane
13:29 We talk about the sorroundings, including the LED-cube from heck. DJ Daemon does not like the word "Hack".
17:26 Hollywood and Jet-Z - Easter islands
21:24 DJ Daemon is controlling the broadcast while Coreus is out to chat with the orgas.
22:12 Arpegiator of Chryseis - My wolf 2
27:54 DJ Daemon loves the tune sooo much. "Can you believe it's an Amiga tune?".
29:26 NabilAmin179 - Pinkia's Space Trip
34:02 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
34:10 DJ Daemon talk about of the old tracker musicians and off course "Jeroen Tel".
35:32 Jeroen Tel - Tintin on the moon
38:40 DJ Daemon notes where we are.
39:48 AceMan - Vintage Groove
43:37 DJ Daemon about a relatively unknown Swedish Amiga tracker artist by the name Meanace.
44:24 Meanace - Westcoast jazz
45:42 Phandral of Sanxion - The jester
48:30 DJ Daemon talks about what is going on in the Revision discord server channel. And Coreus comes back mid discussion.
51:01 A.Kiviniemi - Cant help! (iLoveYou!)
54:14 Alex Menchi - Savage cat
58:59 We talk about Epyx's legendary game Impossible Mission. "Stay a while ... stay forever".
01:06:41 Phandral of Sanxion - The jester
01:09:31 4-mat - l.f.f
01:12:08 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
01:12:16 Outshined and Imode - A photograph
01:33:16 ericade.radio - We will cover Revision 2026
01:33:23 DJ Daemon talks about upcoming demo stream from Revision.
01:34:10 Sysfins - The aooga mooca song
01:47:22 DJ Daemon complains that so many listeners gave the previous song so little love. Coreus teases about an upcoming interview.
01:49:40 Maniacs of Noise - Firing Up!
02:12:21 DJ Daemon talks about the upcoming start of the event.
02:13:42 Neurodancer - Gates of Infinity
02:21:14 ericade.radio - Live from the Edison Demo Party 2025 with your hosts DJ Daemon and Coreus!
02:21:26 DJ Daemon talks about the streams soon coming to Twitch from Revision. Coreus talks about the seminars of the party.
02:29:11 Steve Roz - Lappa Valley Express
02:32:20 ericade.radio - With music from the Revision, Edison and Shadow demo parties
02:32:28 DJ Daemon mentions the poor quality of the Internet in the Venue. Coreus talks about where Saarbrücken is located near France.
02:34:05 Dya and No-XS and mAZE of Desire - Brink it back to me
02:37:18 We mentioning the high audiolevels, the heavy bass pumping throughg the locale and the poor network conditions.
02:42:10 Saga musix - Steelchambers 2 HQ remake
02:46:47 DJ Daemon talks about the upcoming interview with... Well... We let you guessing. And then he talks about the different people attending. Two generations meet.
02:48:24 Xyce - Ordering pizza
02:50:20 DJ Daemon talks about what AI in demo production.
02:51:53 Allister Brimble - Trodders title
02:53:56 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
02:54:05 We note that the demo party is starting in 5 minutes from now. Coreus has found the venues own robodog!
02:58:20 Dr. Awesome - Moongazer
03:05:02 Trilogy by Timelord - Mystique part two
03:12:16 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
03:12:24 The question to Coreus is: how many sceners have you met? Answer: Weyland, Truck, Njursten, Spacie, Mrs. Beanbag, Jenna.
03:14:33 Mrs Beanbag - Cool star
03:17:43 DJ Daemon looks through the schedule for the Revision 2026 party.
03:19:06 K. Jose - Enemy forces v2
03:26:50 DJ Daemon talks about the raunchy tunes that used to appear on the Amiga scene.
03:28:44 Subi of Desire, SSR - One thing
03:32:19 Zalza - Waves of energy
03:35:53 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
03:36:01 [Interview] Coreus welcomes Truck and talk with him about his demo scene history and various other stuff.
03:51:13 ericade.radio - We love the demo scene
03:51:18 Elwood - Sweet dreams
03:54:13 ericade.radio - Powered by the demo scene
03:54:19 [Interview] Coreus continues the interview with Truck. ericade.radio - With the greatest tracked tunes from the demo scene
04:14:13 Ericade.radio - here is a brand new tune on the station
04:14:17 Cocio and finsprit
04:17:23 Mrs Beanbag - Holiday
04:20:27 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
04:20:34 [Inteview] Coreus interviews American Scener Jenna.
04:33:15 ericade.radio - We help organize the Edison demo party here in Sweden
04:33:22 Nuke of Anarchy - Velo matrix
04:36:04 ericade.radio - We are for the demo scene
04:36:15 [Inteview] Coreus continues the interview with American Scener Jenna.
04:49:25 ericade.radio - We love the Amiga
04:49:29 Voyage to Eternity
04:52:18 DJ Daemon explains that network is not entirely stable at times.
04:52:50 Colidace - The Red Alliance
05:00:00 DJ Daemon explains the story behind the next song, as explained by Jenna.
05:01:06 Liam the lemming - No Need For Secrecy
05:03:45 DJ Daemon and Coreus prepares to leave the broadcast and thanks you for listening.
05:04:34 ericade.radio - We are for the demo scene

Production notes:
Live broadcast from the eWerk building in Saarbrücken. From Friday 3 April 2026.

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

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Fried Bits 3 video footage from VHS

Zeme hat  finished editing and fixing the subtitles of the Fried Bits 3 recording of a videotape found in his storage. Great insights into one of the most famous Atari parties of the era and possibly the pinnacle of the Atari Falcon demoscene. Thanks for sharing this, Zeme!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Fujiology archive server announcement

Given the current developments in the scene and the impending loss of the 
host 'untergrund.net', I have decided to accept an offer from the Echtzeit 
association and we have moved the entire archive to a new server.

You can now find the Fujiology archive here: 

https://fujiology.org/

Big thanks goes to Echtzeit (Psykon and Unlock) for their fast help. 

Watch out if you still have links to 'untergrund.net'... they might
be gone soon.

🔗 Echtzeit– Digitale Kultur 
🔗 Fujiology archive

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular covering part of the activities that took place at Revision 2026, the largest pure demoscene gathering of demoscene enthusiasts in the world that took place in Saarbrucken Germany during easter.

Watch Demoscene Report 14 April 2026 on youtube.

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] New version of FreeMiNT distro

Krupkaj writes:

After six months, Michal has released a new version of his FreeMiNT distribution for 32-bit Atari computers.

This release uses the HDDriver demo as its disk driver, with Uwe providing a special version specifically for the distribution.

A notable new addition is stool, a MiNT tool that replaces the uiptool utility known from TOS. It provides web-based access to Atari disks.

All included GEM/TOS tools are now stored on the GEMDOS C: partition. The distribution also features an experimental 060 kernel, improved SCSI write support, RAW access through devfs, and plenty of other improvements.

The image is available on GitHub.

🔗 FreeMint distro on Github

[ Demozoo ] Demozoo Archaeology W15/26: Classic Mac Demos

Last week Ramses shared with us the filebase of his old BBS, Uphold the Law. Being a pure demoscene board and running from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, it hosted many releases that have since then disappeared from the Internet. This includes 37 forgotten demos and intros for classical Macintosh machines from the second half of the 1990s which we now added to Demozoo, as well as a number of previously known Mac productions that were tagged as "lost". As we are not particularly versed in classic Mac emulation, we would highly welcome volunteers to screenshot these newly discovered productions.

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 5

← Register Allocation and the Cost Model

Fixing Post-Increment Addressing

Some years after high school, me and AiO worked at the same company for a while. I spent a lot of time at his apartment in Vimmerby, watching demos on my Falcon030 and his accelerated Amiga, playing Elite Frontier, and making grand plans for projects that mostly never shipped. I was going to write a Worms clone called Grubs, built around fractal-generated terrain and a neat paralax scrolling trick. In the end the only game released from that apartment was DB Phone Home, a 4K side-scrolling platformer for the Falcon. But the thing I remember most is reading AiO's copy of the MC68060 User's Manual.

The 68060 can not only do a multiply in two clockcycles, but execute two instructions at once!? Motorola called it superscalar, and I thought it was the most exciting thing in the world. I imagined what an Atari with this beast could do, and where the 68070 would take this — even wider issue, more parallelism, the same trajectory the industry was already on with the Pentium and the PowerPC. Of course, the 68070 never came. ColdFire does not quite count for me. Our beloved CPU family ended with the 68060, and the dream of wider superscalar m68k died with it.

But the industry kept going. GCC optimizes for that dream-made-real on other architectures: x86-64, ARM, RISC-V. Independent instructions that hardware can overlap or even reorder to execute over half a dozen instructions per cycle on for example an Apple Silicon M3/M4. This all works, as long as there are no data dependencies between consecutive operations. And this is where it goes wrong for us.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari at the Revision Party?

So you’re thinking that at the big multi-format Revision Easter party, there isn’t anything of compelling interest for us Atari fans? That amongst the system smashing Amiga and PC releases, there simply isn’t anything there for *our* platform?

A first glance may make you leap to that conclusion, but a slower and more considered examination reveals there are traces of Atari and Atarians. We can be found in all sorts of unexpected places!

This is what we discovered for Easter 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Sillyventure 2026 SE website is online

The website for Sillyventure 2026 SE is online, featuring a new layout and several interesting new items and photos. 

So far about 30 people have registered. The party itself will take place from 30.07 - 02.08.2026.

🔗 Sillyventure 2026 SE website

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 157. Warming up for Revision 2026

Here is the first hour of four live broadcasts from Revision 2026. DJ Daemon and Coreus meets up in the lobby of a hotel near the Revision venue. Here we talk about the upcoming Revision and meet up with fellow scener Spacie who just happened to be a few chairs behind us. And off course we play all the cool chiptune music.

Playlist:
00:00 DJ Daemon and Coreus opens up the broadcast from the hotel lobby.
02:37 CS-Jay - No cpu today
06:11 We talk about Revision that starts tomorrow and what a demo party really is.
12:25 ericade.radio - Do not ask ChatGPT. Listen to us instead
12:33 Alexander Brandon - Menu song (Jazz Jackrabbit Intro)
14:23 We talk about the Jazz Jackrabbit and also how the best plans of mice and men sometime fails. And off course a discussion about the timetable of Revision.
22:56 E!ghtbm - System override
25:18 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
25:26 We talk about the timetable on Sunday for Revision.
30:42 Trackerartist - Dragons lair
33:10 DJ Daemon talks about why some tracks stop abruptly.
38:57 Chris Huelsbeck - Artificial intelligence (mix 1)
42:03 Trackerartist - Megaball
44:44 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
44:53 Talk about the website and DJ Daemon calls himself a 1337 haxx0r. A we call Maf a composor of "piratey tunes".
48:31 Maf - Mafland remix
51:40 We talk about the composers that we have lost. Naming Ben Daglish and Maf.
57:35 ericade.radio - We do not do AI slop
57:42 Hboloid - Tropical pirates
59:06 DJ Daemon talks as Coreus goes to the bar to get something.
01:02:37 Cube of Trauma and SCS of TRC - Scotchman in a skirt
01:06:03 ericade.radio - We loved chiptunes before it was cool
01:06:10 We talk about chiptunes.
01:09:05 Algar - Backpacker chip
01:12:59 ericade.radio - Music from the geeks of the 80s and 90s - The ERICADE Radio Network delivers!
01:13:07 DJ Daemon talks alone while Coreus is away again.
01:13:39 Moby of Sanity - Mobyle
01:16:11 DJ Daemon talks about tomorrow's broadcast and Edison demo party 2026.
01:17:34 Trackerartist - Easy going
01:18:59 ericade.radio - With your hosts DJ Daemon, Coreus and the Baron of dubstep.
01:19:08 Notes that the Baron of Dubstep is not with us today. We also talk about all the possible screw ups we can expect.
01:22:17 Platonist - I will (instrumental)
01:25:48 Talks about monsters... To be more specific, it's "Kreselach". He is a true scare from the DND lore.
01:31:05 BeeZerk - Kinetik
01:37:12 DJ Daemon gets the date of the song we just played wrong. We also talk about the quality of Amiga modules. And also how we add songs to the station.
01:44:45 Karsten Koch - The blue valley.
01:56:33 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
01:56:41 We talk about the Vitamin C D drink from a certain drinking company and what kind of scam that is. Then we talk about the ZEN-mode of ericade.radio. We also talk about the obviosuly fake shroud of Turin.
02:02:19 Xyce - Suaire de turin
02:05:54 What is "Duskpop"? The discussion about it is on!
02:08:54 Jason of Kefrens - Sound of winter
02:10:43 ericade.radio - With music from the Revision, Edison and Shadow demo parties
02:10:50 We talk more about Doskpop.
02:13:49 Trans atlantic 2007 (CDE musix club radio mix)
02:14:23 Lizardking - Compulsion to obey
02:17:17 ???? - ?????
02:22:16 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
02:22:24 Coreus is on his way out to get some food and DJ Daemon spins the disk no matter how much it hurts!
02:25:23 Cheech The Sneech - Summer days turn rainy
02:26:48 ericade.radio - Preserving the glory of the 16 bit past
02:27:55 DJ Daemon mentions Chuck Norris and the Rolling stones.
02:29:04 Psirius - Artificial
02:32:18 Laamaa - After dark
02:34:58 Talks about a scener who will soon talk with us on the air.
02:35:48 Audiomonster of TSL - Lover breath
02:39:51 DJ Daemon talks about the demo group "Eternal" and how lame it was.
02:40:57 Josss of Software Failure - Distortion
02:43:58 ericade.radio - We remember Fairlight, Cracked games and the Amiga
02:44:05 DJ Daemon talk about ericade.radio and how it has supported the demo scene.
02:45:09 Trackerartist - Seeing 2
02:49:57 DJ Daemon talk about how backwards Germany is when it comes to handling cash.
02:51:06 Nighthawk - Thanks for the Fish
02:55:29 Coreus has just come back with the food.
02:55:56 K. Jose - Enemy forces v2
03:03:41 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
03:03:49 Xyce - Lore
03:06:53 We interview Spacie from New Zeeland.
03:33:46 ericade.radio - From a demo party LIVE with your hosts Dj Daemon and Coreus!
03:33:54 Jogeir Liljedahl - Galway is God
03:41:13 We complete the interview with Spacie.
04:04:28 ericade.radio - Powered by the demo scene
04:04:34 Dreamfish - Ocean loader
04:08:40 ericade.radio - We will cover Revision 2026

Production notes:
Live broadcast from our hotel in Saarbrücken.

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

You are all cordially invited to the 5th Black Valley. For the big 5, we're bringing you a bossa-nov'ing kickass invite!

So start doing that springtime checking of your tents and sleeping bags, plan your travels and start poking at your entries. See you 10-12 July in Blaker, Norway!

Get your tickets!

[Submitted by susencrusen]

Amiga Pack and Magazine for you to enjoy! Including bonusdisk!

Download here: https://nahkolor.c64.page/Speed75Revision.zip

[Submitted by magic]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Whack a Virus - bug fix

YesCrew has released a bugfixed ST/TT version of their "Whack a Virus" game, fixing some minor issues (clean return to desktop).

🔗 Whack a Virus website

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Spectrum 512 Painter

Anima aka Percy/Light, proven specialist for Atari image online conversion tools also published "Spectrum 512 painter", a painting and conversion tool for Spectrum 512 pictures in a nice GEM appearance.

GEM layout in your browser (and yes, I know, the dull screenshot doesn't cover the colorfulness possible with this tool)

🔗 Spectrum 512 Painter

🔗 Spectrum 512 Painter on Github

[ Wanted! ] Support organizers wanted for Network & Partymeister / Compo Team / Infodesk @ NORDLICHT 2026

Nordlicht 2026 is cancelled - or is it?? Unexpected real world events forced us to give up our initial schedule for Nordlicht Demoparty in July 2026. The location owner has since offered us an alternative date to host the party, just one weekend after the one we had originally aimed for. This would be Thursday 30th July to August 2nd 2026. While the current orga staff cast their votes to decide whether or not to go forward with planning Nordlicht for this year or skip until 2027, we're also...

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[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 4

Register Allocation and the Cost Model

The m68k has 15 usable registers: d0-d7 and a0-a6 (a7 is the stack pointer, and sometimes a6 is also reserved as a frame pointer). For a CPU from 1979, this is actually quite generous; the 6502 has three, the Z80 and 8086 have seven or eight. So 15 should be plenty, right?

Not so fast. We have two register files with different capabilities. A pointer must be in an address register to dereference it. Most arithmetic must happen in data registers. For many use cases, we effectively have 7 or 8 registers to choose from, not 15. And if our function calls others, the ABI reserves the caller-clobbered registers, effectively leaving only ten registers: d3-d7/a2-a6 for free use with fastcall. When we run out, the allocator spills to the stack: on 68000, each 16-bit spill costs at least 16 cycles (8 to read, 8 to write back), and 32-bit values adds another 8. In a tight loop, it adds up fast.

When you write assembly, register allocation is intuition. You look at a routine and think: I need this value for the next three instructions, then I can reuse the register for something else. You juggle lifetimes in your head, naturally overlapping short-lived values. Teaching a computer this intuition is the fundamental challenge. The answer is to build a graph of which pseudo-registers are live simultaneously; two pseudos that overlap in lifetime interfere and cannot share a register. Then color the graph with K colors, one per available register, starting with the cheap caller-clobbered regs. When 19 pseudos from put_pixel compete for 15 registers, some will not fit — especially once you account for the data/address split — and those get spilled.

So how does GCC make the best of a difficult situation? 

[ 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.