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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari ST Dev - Visual Studio Code Extension

The Atari ST Dev extension for Visual Studio Code is making progress.

Regis Cosnier (Dgis), the author summarizes the extension as follows:

"Atari ST Dev is a Visual Studio Code extension for building, running and debugging C, C++ and 68k assembly projects targeting Atari ST/TT/Falcon systems. It integrates a cross-toolchain using GCC/GDB, provides debug-time views for CPU registers, memory and hardware information, and hooks into Hatari's debugger via the cppdbg debug adapter."

🔗 Atari ST VS Code extension at Visual Studio Marketplace

🔗 Atari ST Visual Studio Code extension on Github

Thanks to flav_de for the hint!

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] SpeedDOS for C64+1541

[Offer] Peripherals · Surprise me (by Noctis) SpeedDOS for C64+1541. Pulled from a working system ages ago, so should still work. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/25 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Amiga DB23 Video to VGA converter

[Offer] Peripherals · Surprise me (by Noctis) Simple converter to convert DB23 to VGA. Note: NOT a scandoubler, just a passive converter so your monitor NEEDS to support 15khz and the funny resolutions/sync rates the Amiga outputs on the RGB port. Opened once to check a bad contact, but the issue resided between keyboard and chair. Hence the "warranty void" sticker. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/24 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] GottaGo FastRAM

[Offer] Peripherals · Trade (by Noctis) For Amiga 500/1000/2000/CDTV. Designed to be installed on top of the CPU socket, GottaGoFastRAM provides 8MB of Autoconfig Fast RAM to your Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 or CDTV. It is also an excellent option for the Terrible Fire 534 accelerator, allowing you to get a total of 12MB (4+8) of Fast RAM. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/23 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] [group order] DSpico flashcart for Nintendo DS

[Offer] Peripherals · depends on how many people are interested, but roughly €30 (by porocyon) The DSpico is an open-source and open-hardware flashcart for the Nintendo DS: https://www.lnh-team.org/ . For 39C3, I had already organized a group order for a bunch of Nintendo hacking/homebrew people. This was from before these chips were available on AliExpress. The price in that group order was higher (€30/piece) than you'd find on there, but I selected *hard gold* for the contacts, which the AliExpress sellers often forgo. (Which means, mine last longer while the AliExpress ones wear out quickly.) I did not provide stickers, so the carts have an unlabelled black look. (Condition is "mint-condition handsoldered", but I test each cart myself.) If there's any interest, I might organize another group order like this. You can come talk to me at Revision for details about the flashcart, and I can demonstrate how it works in person. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/22 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

Weekly news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular a look at the releases from Amiparty in Poland, Forever in Slovakia and all of the news leading up to Revision that is happening next week! Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] All your unwanted (audio) cassette tapes

[Search] Storage Media · Surprise me (by okkie) Bring me all your unwanted cassettes for my sampling project and ill pay in drinks or whatever. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/21 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ Atariscne.org - News ] News on the Re-Falcon project

The Re-Falcon project has been put on display at last weekend's Indianapolis Retro Computer Expo 2026.

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Extremely basic RISC-V VGA demo platform

[Offer] Consoles · depends on how many people are interested (by porocyon) I've been working on a 'custom demo platform', with the only constraint that it should be as cheap as possible. This means, you get: * A CH32V003 microcontroller (RISC-V RV32EC, 48 MHz, 16k flash, 2k RAM) * Bit-banged VGA * PWM audio NOTE: **YOU NEED A "WCH WLink-E" TO FLASH CODE TO THE CHIP** It's capable of roughly something like "Craft" by lft (that chip only runs at 20 MHz but it can do I/O operations much more quickly, so it evens out). Unfortunately, other demo projects have taken precedence by now, but I have the parts here. I haven't fabricated any boards yet, but if there's any interest in this, I might make a few and hand them out to whoever is interested. I can bring it to Revision (and show you the code, schematics, etc.) in case you want to know more. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/17 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Z80 CMOS 10 MHz (Z84C0010PEG)

[Offer] Other · Buy me a drink (by porocyon) The venerable Z80, in 40-pin DIP package. Was from an old Mouser order: https://www.mouser.be/ProductDetail/ZiLOG/Z84C0010PEG?qs=ZNtr8jqNHF5GD%2FNES0%2FHWA%3D%3D . --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/16 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Various microcontrollers

[Offer] Other · Surprise me (by porocyon) As bare chips. I have a wide variety of them lying around I'd like to get rid of. There's uh, * STM32F0 * STM32L0 * STM32G0 * NXP LPC8xx * ATSAMS70 [pre-opened bag] * ATSAML11 * ATMega328P * AVR32DB28P * MSP430 (G2, FR2) * GD32E230 [pre-opened bag] * Various Renesas RL78, RX, RA (Arm) chips * Altera MAX-V (CPLD) [pre-opened bag] * MAXQ622 (yep!) see image for details of which chips are available. DIP chips and the SAML11 come in an ESD-safe carton box, others are in a vacuum ESD-safe bag straight from digikey/mouser/... --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/15 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] WinnerMicro W806 devboard

[Offer] Other · Free (by porocyon) It's a weird chip with a Chinese instruction set full of secrets, see https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/11/08/winnermicro-w806-240-mhz-mcu-2-development-board/ if you want a fun reverse engineering challenge. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/14 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] PSoC 4 devboard

[Offer] Other · Buy me a drink (by porocyon) Cortex-M0 with a little bit of programmable logic. See https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/evaluation-boards/cy8ckit-043/ for more info. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/13 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] QuickLogic EOS S3 Feather

[Offer] Other · roughly €25 (by porocyon) A Cortex-M3 + eFPGA chip on a small devboard. See https://www.crowdsupply.com/quicklogic/quickfeather for more info. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/12 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] Toshiba BomBeat 14 '79 Ghetto Blaster

[Offer] Other · Buy me a drink (by wysiwtf) Ive got this late70s bombeat tingamabob lying around (heck that things older than meself...). It obviously needs a lot of love but if you are a lover of polishing up vintage sound hardware you might have it! --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/11 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] tape based camcorders

[Search] Other · Surprise me (by lynn) Looking for videotape based camcorders :) Ideally, i'd love something that takes full-size VHS for my own filming projects, but I would be just as happy with something video8/digital8/hi8/VHS-C/miniDV/etc, both so I can finally properly archive my old tapes, but also to shoot new cool footage :) Preferably working condition, but I'll take "untested" :) any included media is a bonus of course. eBay prices are a bit nuts, i'd like to stay below that and keep the hobby affordable, but you tell me! :) I might have some hardware for trade as well, though I'm in the process of sorting that out, so please feel free to ask me! ^^ --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/8 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

hey friends! 👋

we just launched scene.market: a community marketplace for trading physical items face to face at demoparties.

what is it?
a simple platform where you can post offers and searches for retro hardware, disks, magazines, merch, and other scene-related stuff. no shipping, no payment processing - just arrange a handoff at the next party.

how it works:

• login with your SceneID
• post an offer ("i'm bringing my spare Amiga 500 to Revision") or a search ("looking for a C64 PSU, will be at Evoke")
• pick which demoparties you'll attend
• someone interested? they claim your item, you get their contact details, sort out the rest yourselves

pricing options: free, buy me a drink 🍺, fixed price, trade, or surprise me

upcoming parties synced from demozoo: Revision, Evoke, Assembly, Deadline, Edison, and 30+ more already listed.

the whole thing runs on Go + HTMX + SQLite, and is operated by Computerkunst e.V. - source will be made open soon.

we'd love your feedback. try it out and let us know what you think!

https://scene.market

greetings to everyone who still has a box of old hardware in the attic. time to find it a new home. 🖥️

[Submitted by v3nom]

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] C64 (?) to SCART cable

[Offer] Peripherals · Free (by v3nom) seems to be a C64 to SCART cable. no idea if it works. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/6 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.08.00 released

This is a regression update to the most recent OpenMPT 1.32 release to address a single bug.

OpenMPT 1.32.07.00 contained a fix for a crash in the sample mixer, which unfortunately also caused the duration of some sample loops to be altered. This was most notable in MOD files, where chip samples could suddenly be out of tune.

OpenMPT 1.32.08.00 addresses this regression, fixing both the crash and also keeping chip samples in tune.

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.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari Invasion 2026 is over

The 10th edition of the Dutch Atari Meeting took place past weekend and judging by the photos available this was a great event for all Atari platforms.

According to wildly circulating rumours also some Atari sceners were present, some of them meeting as ripe men, decades after their previous encounter when they were fresh and young.

🔗 Atari invasion homepage

🔗 Photos on the respective Flickr homepage

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 2

What a Compiler Must Get Right (That You Don't)

When you write assembly, you know the context. You know which registers hold what, whether a pointer is aligned, whether the loop count fits in a word. You know because you put it there.

Consider a demo screen where you reserve a6 for the background rasters. You update the pointer in the VBL interrupt and just advance with a minimal (a6)+ in the HBL. All your other code simply does not touch a6, because you wrote all of it. Need to update a screen pointer? Just write the global. No function call, no overhead, no uncertainty.

A compiler has no such luxury. It must be correct for every possible input the language allows. It cannot "just know" that a pointer is word-aligned, or that two buffers never overlap, or that a register is free. It must prove it, or assume the worst. And not all code it calls may even have been compiled by it. Maybe it was built with an older compiler, a different language, or maybe you wrote it in assembly yourself.

A new tool for composing bytebeat has just been published: DawBeat, an experimental browser-based DAW designed to arrange bytebeat formulas on a timeline rather than writing a single monolithic expression.

https://dev.eypacha.com/dawbeat/

The idea behind DawBeat is to approach bytebeat composition more like working in a traditional DAW: formulas can be placed in clips, arranged across tracks, and modulated over time.

Current capabilities include:

• timeline with tracks and clips
• drag formulas from a library
• real-time bytebeat playback in the browser
• variable tracks and value trackers
• automation lanes for parameters
• formula effects and audio effects
• MIDI input for controlling parameters and writing automation
• MIDI clock synchronization
• phone or tablet controller via QR (automation companion)
• undo / redo and multi-clip editing
• export compositions to WAV or MP3 

The project explores a different way of working with bytebeat, focusing on composition and arrangement over time rather than a single standalone expression.

[Submitted by eypacha]

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 155. Chuck Norris superkicks death into submission

Death once asked Chuck Norris to go gently into that good night, but Chuck Norris kicked the living daylights out of death. Today's episode covers the C64 game "Chuck Norris Superkicks" and off course the living legend himself. DJ Daemon pays some respect, but also notes how cheesy the actor was. A kickass (literally!) martial artist, but also a rather bad actor.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introducest the show and tells you it covers a Chuck Norris game.
00:36 Zantac of Smeuch, Euphorbia - Kicked by Chuck Norris
02:13 DJ Daemon presernts the first and only medley for today.
02:43 Enacostione - Till raining
04:21 Retro104 - Moon crater circuit
06:18 Substance - Pattern zero
07:47 DJ Daemon tells you the history of Chuck Norris.
09:15 Cyclar2 and Luna197 - Melt
14:21 DJ Daemon tells you about the cool guy, but weak actor he was.
15:36 Enacostione - Another life
17:35 DJ Daemon remenders when he first learned about the "Chuck Norris" facts.
18:15 Arcane toaster - What else is there?
20:39 DJ Daemon talks about the game "Chuck Norris Superkicks" for the C64.
22:21 Beyond - Kundalini torture
25:10 DJ Daemon tells you why the graphics of this game was so bad.
25:52 Fnx - Surpass
30:01 DJ Daemon talks about the reviews the game got.
30:50 Viraxor - Zangered alia
34:47 DJ Daemon discusses why we're behind in covering the big retro game.
35:24 Beyond - Offer
38:11 DJ Daemon ask you to submit your own suggestions for retro games to review.
38:45 Platonist - Eight 8-Bit sized bytes
43:36 DJ Daemon looks at upcoming demo parties for March and April of 2026.
44:51 Beyond - Harsh
47:43 DJ Daemon tells you what apps people use to listen to the station.
48:34 Trackerartist - Demo no1
51:40 DJ Daemon talks about a failed experiment that annoyed the listeners a lot.
52:44 Retro104 - Reluctant breeze
55:55 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night, albeit not gently, with the last song of the day...
56:29 Turtle of Frantic - Multiplex remix

Production notes:
Colophon: it's just a reference to that meme that makes its rounds on the Internet. You know how even death is afraid of Chuck Norris. Hillarious!

Tags: 2026, C64, Commodore, Host: DJ Daemon, Retro gaming, Chuck Norris

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Sopwith - A 40 Year old MS-DOS game finally comes to the Atari ST!

Some more old ‘new game’ news is heading our way.

This unexpected gift comes courtesy of Neil Rackett of Mesmotronic, who created the 3D model of an ST running in a browser window.

This time, he’s ported an ancient MS-DOS game ‘Sopwith’ to the ST. 

It features intense biplane action through charmingly retro vector style graphics and arcade style gameplay, with characteristic MS-DOS beepy early PC sound. Interestingly, this game was going to get a dedicated ST version back in the day, but this did not happen, until now.

It can be downloaded from his Github repository. Good luck figuring out the controls!

CiH - 22.3.26.

[ OpenMPT - Open ModPlug Tracker ] OpenMPT 1.32.07.00 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:

• Plugin editors can now receive SysEx messages from OpenMPT's MIDI recording.
• Choosing "Copy Pattern" from the order list context menu always copied the currently displayed pattern, not the one on which the context menu was invoked.
• Work around apparently broken channel negotiation in MaxSynths DR-910 plugin.
• Small playback fixes for MOD and ULT files.
• On recent versions of Windows 11, MIDI recording stopped working after receiving a SysEx message.
• MIDI export from MOD or S3M did not correctly export implicit note-offs when playing a new note on the same channel.
• The instrument note map category was missing in keyboard settings.

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.