It's with a sad heart we report that our long time friend and Atari demoscene extraordinaire mOdmate passed away today, March 1 of 2025.
Torsten has been fightning cancer for almost a year while still being active with demoscene projects to the very end.
Our condolences go to his family, wife and children. We wish you all the strength you need.
We are losing a wonderful friend and at the same time one of the most passionate and skilled Atari sceners of the past decades.
He fell in love with the scene as a kid, shared this enthusiasm with all of us and kept on working on scene projects till the very last day.
May he live on in his beautful pictures, musics and programs and let's
remember Torsten for all the good times we've had together.
In the spirit of cross-Atariscene collaboration I witnessed at the Sommarhack party I have been working with GGN/KüA to open source the
maxYMiser replay routine.
Phew, it's been a few days since this years edition of Sommarhack concluded. We didn't have much luck with the weather - however much better luck with nice Atari entries!
Most stuff can now be found at Demozoo with video recordings of the demos.
Thanks to everyone who attended or supported the party with remote entries, you all rock!
At the Psycho Hack demoparty in Hull last weekend I was able to work on some bug fixes and feature requests for maxYMiser. The main changes surround features for game developers. Its now possible to trigger YM and/or DMA sound effects via the replayer. Also, the replayer now allows realtime pattern switching during playback.
GemTos convention that will take place on May 4 and 5, 2024 in France near Paris. A big gathering of Atari machines, from the ST to the Falcon, from the 2600 to the Jaguar and even VCS, 2600+, Gamestation pro, 400... Network games (Midimaze, Lotus with 4 players), Soft,and lots of prizes to be won :-)
In February last year we made our final release of the SNDH version upgrades. It became clear that waiting to clear the que of rips and fixes to do delayed released by years.
From 2024 and onward, we'll release an updated archive early each year, no matter what's in the pipeline.
There are 5589 SNDH files with a total of 11371 tunes.