Enemywar is a board-game wich looks a bit like chess, but it's more a science-fiction-game wich has very different rules and a very different gameplay. It's a two-player-game:

First, both players buy different spaceships to reach the other players space station or to kill all enemy ships. A spaceship has 'main-power' to attack another ship and 'defense power' to repulse the enemies force. The ship wich has not enough energy gets lost. The ships vary in the moves they can do, in the energies they have and in there price. To make the game more interesting, some special things may happen:

If you get a tank-field, your ship get's a random amount of extra main power. Note that your ship can be filled up with 300 % main power or more if you like! But remember that your ship's defense-power didn't change and the other player may be able to kill your ship as easily as before.

Sometimes asteroids fall down on the board and make it more and more difficulty for your ships to find the right way to the other players space station as you can't kill a asteroid with a standard ship. To kill a asteroid, you can use the asteroid-destroyer. At the beginning of the game, each player gets one of this ships free of charge, but you can buy some more of them if you like.

At the beginning of the game, you get a tank ship too. If you want to fill up one of your other ships with extra-main-power, simply move the tank-ship on it! You'll be able to buy some more tank ships if you like.

A nice ghost-effect may appear on the screen and perhaps you wonder what happens...

Well, the board has a size of 16 x 10 fields. The space station of the players are on the very left and the very right of the board. The space stations are not moveable.

The game contains a lot of nice sound samples. The title picture and the winners pictures are all done by Michael Friedl, all codings, design of the board and the spaceships are done by myself, Markus Binder, called [Omikronman].

The game is at 95 % finished. I now wait for some more pictures by Michael Friedl. If he's ready with this, I will put the pictures to the game and make some more sounds or music. I hope Michael will be able to make the pictures very soon as I'm waiting for a lot of weeks now...

bye,

- Markus -

Unfortunately I have to inform you that the Reunion Party is cancelled. Because my sister has a serious brain injury, I am now in Peru to support her. At this moment, it remains unclear whether it is possible for me to be back in Holland in time to run the party. But even if I get back in time, it would be on such a short notice that organizing it the way I want it to be organised would be quite impossible. This added to the fact that I really don't feel like a party while my sister is very ill on the other side of the planet, has made me decide to cancel the party for this moment. Maybe I can make it happen some other time, when the bad times are over.

STEtris v0.8
It's now free for everybody to download and have a look, beta-testers and comments badly required, the game is not finished and i need some data what is there left to do better or probably quit the whole project because it isn't worth it anyhow. ;-)
STEtris is a 1-2 player Tetris for the STE and Mega STE, Falcon support is not given yet, should be given later on.
1 player mode is incredibly boring so far, it's just an ordinary Tetris. Playing against a friend means, that as soon as you remove a special amount of lines (this is selectable in the title screen), you can access a Special FX menue to do some nasty tricks on your opponent :
- add some lines to his pile
- speed up his gameplay
- replace his current block with another one
- lock his "rotate"-button
or even switch controls : You have now his window and he has to play on your window. ;-)
In the near futurue, STEtris will also have a computer play against you, so the computer will do nasty tricks on you if you DO not remove a specified number of lines. ;-)
And, as usual, MOD-music, Rasterlines and Interlace graphics. :-)

Anybody who might be interested should please have a look and tell me what errors the program still has, what option should be included or whatever.

Thank you. :-)

Reunion'98 is a party, organised for and by old Atari demoscene people from Holland. It will be organised by Havoc/Giants. As the Atari scene in Holland is quite dead at the moment (only FUN and Sentry seem to do something at this moment), it is logical that this party is mainly aimed at the people who made the Dutch scene a cool one during the 'top years', that is to say 90 to 95. Anyone who feels or felt connected to the Dutch Atari demo scene in these years, or more recent years, is invited to come over to the south of the country for a nice time and a good beer.

The party will start on Friday, 15th of May 1998 at around 1800 hours, and will last upto Sunday, 17th of May 1998 around 2400 hours. The main part will start most probably on Saturday. Entry fees will be very low, just some money is needed to buy a present for the people whose space we're using.

Please do remember that this party is not a computerparty in the narrowest sense of the word. The name Reunion might indicate that the intention is to have some fun with the people you've all met through the years and whom you might have lost contact with now.

Any questions, replies or information requests can be sent to:

bigpete@freemail.nl (Havoc/Giants)

Please allow a few days for reply!
There is also a mailing list for the party, if you want to be on it, please send a mail to me.

WE NEED REPLY! THE PARTY'S THERE FOR YOU, SO YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

The party took place in Cournon d'Auvergne, near the city of Clermont-Ferrand in the french "Massif Central". This year, we were 470 people in a huge room (one of the biggest of the area around Clermont Ferrand). There was a majority of PC, but a lot of Amiga and Atari also came. Some tables were full of Atari computers (St, Falcon, Centurbo, Towers, ...) ! There was also a Commodore 64 (mine !... to be accurate, it was one of a friend of mine) wich showed to PC users that a simple 6502 at 1 Mhz could do almost better than their Pentium II ! (Some PC users were really astonished).

There was a giant screen with two Barco projectors. Why two ? Polarised glasses were given at the entrance, and a 3D animation film was projected (3 days before to be shown at the famous Imagina show, if my memory does not betray me). There was also some 3D pictures. Other classic stuff were projected: Demos, synthetized images, video clips, ...

There was a demo compo, wild compo, 4 channel music compo, multichannels music compo, techno music all the time (... sometimes a bit BORING !). A ORIC demo was presented for the wild compo ! (It was not so bad !).

I did not see Atari demos, but I know that there was not a lot. PC and Amiga demos were numerous and sometimes really good (quality, originality sometimes, and a lot of HUMOUR !). Wild demos were also very funny, with home made films (Strange martians wearing a big Microsoft Windows box attack the Earth !).

And to make things better, the organization was really good (no problems with electricity, food, ...). I did not know parties in others european countries, but I know some french parties, and among all of them, Volcanic party is surely the best. [ The Saturne Party (near Paris) is also a good party, but the last edition (October 1997) was really spoiled because of huge electricity problems].

Well, that is all I can say about this great party !

David.

From the next issue of UnderCover on we like to have a new topic, called "Chatbox" or something like that. In that article, anyone can say anything to anyone. It's just an idea from the PC-mags and there it works fine. So people have to write only "little" notes, like:

mOd of .tSCc. says to evil/DHS
Nice homepage. I guess your's is the best in the net. Keep on going.

and send it to Ucm or one of the contactsmen. And then we release all that. There can be commercials for new products with Ansis and such stuff. At last it is also pretty good for telling your opinion some people you are not in contact with.