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Showing news from 2002-01-01 to 2002-12-31
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Guildford, England - Dec 13th 2002 - RG, a leading developer of entertainment software for the Atari platform today announced the release of a new action game "SuperFly".
You take the role of madcap inventor Dr Snuggles, on a mission to rescue his girlfriend from the evil clutches of Professor Evil. Over the course of the game you will pilot a range of different vehiclees over a variety of different worlds.
The gameplay takes place over a horizontally scrolling playfield. The game mechanic is simple, yet fiendishly addictive. As you progress through the game you gain experience points which allow you to unlock new game modes and different worlds to play in.
The game features super smooth 60 Frames Per Second action, 21 high score tables, saveable replays, a Soul Calibur style gallery with unlockable portraits and 9 pieces of SID music composed by the award winning MSG.
With four different game types, five game worlds, an epic story mode and many secrets and bonuses, there is enough to keep even the hardened gamer flying high for the forseeable future.
The game runs on all Atari machines from the humble STFM through to the mighty Falcon. Where extra hardware is detected, it uses the enhanced capabilities.
"SuperFly" can be downloaded from the Reservoir Gods HomePage:
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» Download for Atari ST/E/TT/Falcon (2MB)
» Download for Atari ST/E Floppy Version (1MB)
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We're a bit late with this, however MC Soft have released 'Power Up' as freeware. Power Up is a car game similar to Super Cars.
Power Up should work with any 1MB ST, TT or Falcon. Power Up uses the BLiTTER if available, STe DMA-sound and 32 colours on screen.
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» Download Power Up 1.03 disk 1
» Download Power Up 1.03 disk 2
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Not exactly Atari-related, but still with high Atari-relations is the new album released by 'AY Riders'. This is a project inspired by the fab 'YM Rockerz' and they are playing on the YM and AY (AY being practically the same as the YM) soundchips.
In contrast to YM Rockerz, the AY Riders are using ZX Spectrum machines for composing. Yes, those old beasts from the 80's. Wonderful to see that they are still alive, and that they are actually looking at the Atari direction to find inspiration.
AY Riders new album can be downloaded in MP3-format from their homepage. Link below.
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Earx of FUN Industries have been busy upgrading the Quick DSP assembler. Some nasty bugs are now gone.
Earx also made QDSP open source, and the full code is included within the package.
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» Download Quick DSP assembler 0.13a
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ST Survivor relased the sixth issue of the Alive diskmagazine today. Featuring nearly 70 articles, tripple new chiptunes by Tao, Dma-Sc and 505.
The mag also sports an ST-intro by MJJ-Prod (it seems like Strider/Supremacy joined MJJ). Tinker/Teenager made a drum and base kind of module for the Falcon and Excocet/Paranoid the graphics for the shell.
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» Download Alive issue six
» Visit the Alive site
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Lots of things has happened in the CT60 development across the last month. Czuba-Tech has solved alot details and the CT60 should be several steps closer to be shipped.
Solved issues:
DSP is functional (recently announced)
Boots into TOS, FreeMiNT and MagiC
Things which currently needs to be solved:
FastRam to work
NVDI to work
The FastRam (which is critical for the CT60) is not yet up and running, and still the CT60 shows 9X (cpu, mp3 decoding) speed over a normal Falcon and 3x over a CT2 in full speed. Seems promising! Noteworthy is that the ST-RAM speed is unaffected, which is good news for those who feared that the CT60 would be equal slow to AB040 in ST-RAM.
More news when we get them..
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The Mekka/Symposium, going on since 1996, has been cancelled for good.
Internal conflicts have resulted in that the largest 'scene only' party won't be held any longer. A replacement party called Breakpoint will be held in it's place by many of the Mekka/Symposium arrangers.
As the new 'Breakpoint' party offer nothing for us Atari people, the choice is easy for the easter holiday, see you in Dresden!
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A new sprite record screen was released today by a mysterious coder nicknamed Gwen. However it seems to be noone else but Chuck/Dune.
The record is supposed to do 360 sprites which is 89 more than Leonards previous record. However, it only lasts for a second before it loops, so a big animation is easy to suspect..
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» Download the 360 sprite record
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The mag which just will not give up; Undercover Magascene is out in a new issue today. It's a big issue with loads articles, a great intro by Sector one and Dune, intro and shell graphics by Edo, great new chiptracks from Tao, 505 and Nemo. Another nice surprice is that the shell have got some updates (by Mr Pink!) and it does seem to work very nicely from MiNT and all (at least on the Falcon tested here).
Undercover issue 23 comes in two versions; one full and one lite. The full version contains a module for falcon owners and the intro is attached to start automaticly. The lite version have no module and the intro can be removed so it will fit on a floppydisk.
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» Download UCM23 full version
» Download UCM23 lite version
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CT60 news for everyone who's wondering what the heck is going on. Apparently some issues with the new Super-VIDEL (developed by nature) have been solved so it will be fully Videl and TT (256col) compatible. The Nature Super-VIDEL is a Videl-compatible graphics card but with full CT60 bandwidth giving some serious speedbost even for standard Falcon graphics modes.
Below follows the latest CT60 news annoucement from Czuba-Tech.
Hello
After a long delay of silence, I bring the last news...
I modified the SDR & ABE chip's equations to allow the 100 % VIDEL compatibility for the SuperVIDEL developped this time by 2 swedish guys... I precise that the TT 256 colors palette addresses will be too re-routed to the Super Videl chip...
The arbitration problem in on the way to be killed !
I found 3 days ago... why the 060 crashes when running a 'Half' bus mode blitter test.... The 030 tri stating delay may be the cause of the problem...and I seriously think to avoid the 030 as arbiter...but the GAL U68 on the mb needs to receive a 030 arbitration sequence to tri-state and accept an other bus master (the CT60)....
Sure with a small wire connected on 2 pins on the GAL it is easy to do that... But I continue to keep the ' 0 solders' mounting concept...and it is no easy...
This saturday, different concept and tests will be tested.... and I will announce good news next week...
I'm sorry for this long delay to ship the CT60....but I really think some of you will receive their CT60 for ...Christmas...
Regards
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Grazey made a hat-trick into DHS news, the frist ever as far as I know, congratulations. And what an active UK scene we've got all the sudden. Now we're only waiting for the OCWAS data-disk to arrive any day and the UK comeback is cemented.
D-Bug brings us another compact disk with games. A small DHS intro and a nice new chiptune from 505.
Oh and that OCWAS thing above was a joke, in case you thought of holding your breath waiting for it!
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» Download D-Bug menu 174
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The party of all partys will be again. In april 2003 the third incarnation of the Error In Line partys will take place. This is the central meetingpoint for Atari sceners, not to be missed!
The invite intro was released just a couple of minutes ago containing the full invitation text as well.
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Finally, finally!
It's been four long years adding thousands of tunes and loong nights of coding for our favourite music ripper Grazey / PHF. But now he's ready.
The ultimate music demo 8730 (SID 6581 + YM2149 = 8730 for those who wonders!) is now released. It's massive, 4646 tunes collected into 10 disks. But Grazey has been kind enough to supply us with a harddisk version of the demo was well so we don't have to swap disks.
As if this wasn't enough, PHF has added a phenomenal 20 minute long intro, with text, music and sequences thru over a decade of Atari ST chipmusic evolution. A real tour of nostalgia.
The demo is made for ST/e, but 'mostly' works on Falcon as well. Some sound drivers are just not compatible with Falcon.
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» Download from Demozoo
» Visit the PHF site
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Escape has released a small utlity, the description from Charon/Esc is as follows:
Atari 8-bit computers have a great feature, that you really begin to love, when being at an Atari 8-bit focused coding convention: its great loading sound. With POEB there is a similar feature for TOS computer systems available now. Those, who never had an Atari 8bit will love this great new feature. ... and maybe this tool can help those 8bit freaks who never changed their platform to Atari 32bit because of the missing loading sound.
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» Download POEB
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MJJ Prod released a new music demo today, named 'MJJ Player'.
It features sixteen modules and some nice fresh graphics from their new member C-rem (previsouly Mad Vision).
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» Download MJJ player (STe-only)
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Hemoroids have released an old 150K demo which apparently (as far as I can tell) has not been spread before.
The demo mentions to have been released at some unknown party in france 1993, but it seems to have failed that. It's quite a nice thing as always from Hemoroids, in classic 'multipart'-style.
Thanks to brume from the Pacidemo fame for the tip.
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» Download Phototro
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Czuba-tech sent out a news message that there are 50 finished CT60 cards ready to be shipped. Well, that's what you think when reading the first part. Then it reveals that it's on delay further due to a blitter bug this time. Read the full Czuba-tech message below.
50 CT60 are now ready to be shipped...
But a 'small' problem stills with the Blitter in half transfert mode...
I found some information this week about what may be the cause...
I hope to find the solution at last the week end....
Some of you requested some info...I can't tell more without boring technical details...
I do all my possible to be able to ship a 'perfect' product...
Regards
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The september issue of the online magazine 'MyAtari' has launched and have some interesting articles. The 'Mega STe love' article is a really good one to read, it resembles some great memorys and also takes up some ST game milestones from Thalion.
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» Visit MyAtari
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Now this doesn't happen every day these years: And old cracking crew (you know compact disks..) has awaken from 8 years of long sleep!
Dbug (former Automation) have released a new compact disk yesterday.
It almost feels like it's time to dig up FastCopy again!
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» Download Dbug menu #171!
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Ray of .tSCc. have released another update of the Wolf3D preview. Now hosting hidden doors and everything about the 3d-wall enviornment is finished.
Ray tells us he will be working on static sprites (bonus items etc) nextly.
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» Download Wolf preview v0.3
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We're very late with this news, summer lazyness I suppose.
MC Laser of .tSCc. have released two new CD's in the Fading Twilight collection. Lots lots and lots of Atari scene music collected.
As usual the CD's can be downloaded from .tSCc.'s official site, Elites ftp site and the Atari.Org webmirror.
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» .tSCc. homepage
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Super-active coder Ray, has updated his Wolfenstien routine again.
It now features the graphics from the Apple IIGS-version, new 3d-engine, support for doors and improved controls.
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» Download Wolf v0.2
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Spiceboys have announced the release of their new demoscreen which is supposed to beat Leonards 16x16 sprite record. So, it does seem than someone has beaten the 'impossible' record of Leonard at last.
The sprite record needs 1MB ST (run from autofolder if only 1MB present).
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» Download Spiceboys sprite record
» Visit Spiceboys homepage
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Cooper of The coolest paradise has released a new 'Thematic slideshow' for STe.
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» Download TSS2
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MyAtari magazine has just launched its July 2002 issue. The issue currently features a report from Platariada 2002, Tip of the day and the first in a new series entitled 'Something for Nothing'.
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» To read these and more, visit www.myatari.net
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The fifth issue of Alive, written by former Maggie and UCM bosses have been released.
It has the things you take for granted by now; three brand new chiptracks (I think Tao has outdone himself this time!) module music for Falcon users and lots lots of articles.
A slight trend-change is that Alive 5 comes in two flavours; one Falcon and one ST edition. The reason is that the 1 MB ST version just can't hold all the extended Falcon datas on one floppydisk. The shell should still be the same for both versions.
Intros by .tSCc. (ST) and Mind Design (Falcon) included as well.
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» Download Alive 5 ST version
» Download Alive 5 Falcon version
» Visit Alive headquarter
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The saga of the CT60 is starting to become a bit longsome. After the boards were produced, the manufacturer made an error and put the Falcon-bus pins on the wrong side of the board. Which seems amazingly silly even to an amateur. In any case Mr.Czuba has sent the cards back for correction, and there is a new update on the current status available today.
Below follows the original mail from Rodolphe Czuba:
Hello,
I will get the CT60 with the corrections, next week end...
Last Friday I found a big bug on the SDRAM chip.
It is corrected and I will verify this this evening at 23:30 !.
I know that some people are now thinking that the time to deliver the CT60 is very long, but I spend a very short time on the CT60 because of my job and my travels between France and Switzerland...Hopefully I get a PC notebook to work in the TGV.
During this evening (in the TGV) and the week I will finish the CT60 External arbiter : the one that allows the falcon bus arbitration between motherboard (Blitter/SDMA) and CT60.
The internal arbiter that arbitrates between 060 and CT60 slot is finished..
It still a bug on some DSP accesses, but we will work on it when Didier Mequigon and Xavier Joubert will get their CT60, because the cause of the bug (hard or soft or both) is not identified... Maybe the following week.
And as soon this last problem is solved, I start shipping CT60 to you !
I did some nice pictures 3 weeks ago of the new CT60, but no time to modify the web site : I will install the pictures next week end !
It will allow you to positively wait for your CT60 ;-)
Regards
Rodolphe CZUBA
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The latest fashion of open source hits Atari demo world as well.
Earx of FUN have released the (very much used) UCM and Alive diskmag shell sources to public. Available to anyone to use, improve and try.
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» Download UCM/Alive-shell sources
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Now, this has to be the best game idea since Mr Wongs Loopy Laundrette on the spectrum in 1985! Reservoir Gods brings us the game where you're wearing vegetables on your head. And no, I don't know what kind of pills they eat over in U.K. ;-)
The new game from Reservoir Gods features two player arcade-puzzle similar to 'GunPey' on the Wonderswan (what a great name for a console!).
The game technically offers 14 new SSD tunes from MSG (his YM-chip must be on steroids!), 32 colours on screen, 5 game modes, Stereo Sound effects and much more.
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» Download Godpey
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Okey, a short short E-mail today, but it's what so many of you have been waiting to hear or read the past year! Full message below.
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:04:24 +0200
From: Rodolphe Czuba (rczuba@free.fr)
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@free.fr
Subject: The CT60 arrive !!
Saturday, I get 150 CT60 !!
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It's been in the air for a year or so, and today it happened.
YM Rockerz have released their second wave of top-class YM-zaks called 'Spinning wheels'.
The new 'slogan' speaks for itself:
digital warriors
armed with a single chip
they keep on spinning the wheels
and destroying the popshit
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» Download Spinning Wheels
» Visit YM-Rockerz
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It wasn't exactly yesterday that we saw something released from MJJ Prod. In fact is it probably some 5-6 years now (gosh time does fly!).
So, to see a new MJJ release now is rather surpricing. Never the less, MJJ are back with a little slideshow 'demo' for the ST, featuring pictures from the famous gfx-guys 'Niko', 'Wilfried' and 'C-Rem'.
I belive the pictures are both previously unseen and some 'best of' from each of the graphicans. The 'demo' itself is quite simple and is programmed with GFA Basic.
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» Download the slideshow
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Thomas of New Beat has released a demo track from his ACE Falcon DSP synthesizer.
The tune easily outclasses the previous demo tunes we've heard from ACE, and finally we can get a grip of how future Falcon demo music can sound (well, almost ;-)).
The song is using 14 voices and 32kHz output.
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» Download at the New Beat homepage
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Three years too late, but here's a 5 minute videoclip from the Error In Line 1999 party. It's filmed mainly by Spion/Escape and Joe Cool/checkpoint.
The film features short clips from many many well known Atari sceners. Amongst others you'll notice the entire Cream team, Checkpoint team, Nature, Paranoia, Escape, Sector one, Loud, DHS, Mind Design, FUN and many others.
Have fun watching and have some good memories!
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» Download MPEG (VCD quality, 55 MB)
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Just minutes ago, the SNDH-archive with Atari ST chipmusic was updated.
This update isn't very big, but it carries almost only freash scene-tracks. For example the complete Chuchu Rocket soundtrack and the latest Alive and UCM tracks (even the very latest UCM22 and Double Juggle songs)
Included is also something a bit rare: The chiptrack from the unreleased Falcon shoot'em up 'Raiden', which is basicly the same song as in the Jaguar version, only on YM2149 synth here.
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» Download!
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Like a lightning from clear sky, .tSCc. released the twenty second issue of the Undercover Magascene today. This was completely unexpected.
We've not yet had time to check the mag, but I suppose we can find the usual quality from Moondog and MC Laser.
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» Download Undercover Magascene #22!
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We all know that the RG's had an internal kitchen convention some time ago. Less known is that this convention resulted in a game. Yes the 24-hour games are back! It's been a while.
This new one is a jugglers game, I wonder can this be the reason for all the 'wear it on your head' comments?
Anyway the game works from the simpliest ST to the Falcon. With enhanced sound on STe/TT/Falcon.
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» Download Double Juggle
» RG Kitchen Convention
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Thanks to Deez / Mind Design for typing this report!
Mekka-Symposium 2002
Mekka.. biggest sceneparty of them all, no gamers, no warez and no leeching. All during easter in a small town in Germany. Is it worth attending? That was the question I think we all asked us before going there.
For me the trip started like a nightmare, SAS (the airline, not the special forces) lost my luggage on my way from UK to Sweden, luckily I was able to borrow sleepingbags and airbeds from other atarisceners at the party.
We had our own table reserved for the atariscene only, room for about 10-15 computers near the entrance and surrounded by PCs and the occasional c64. We had already planned to do some sort of demo so work started immediatly. However, since I didnt bring any sources at all I couldnt contribute very much but in the end we managed to finish atleast a short 96kbtro.
About 1400 sceners had found their way to Fallingbostel this year, mostly PC users and not as many amigas as I had expected. A few c64s and about 20 atariusers.
Personally I expected a lot of sceneactivity with C/asm sourcecodes on every other monitor and I was very disappointed to find the usual 'partyscenario' with porn/warez leeching and drunk/stoned people. Most annoying thing was (not surprisingly) the polish 'sceners', they kept drinking and running around with a polish flag. I spoke to a few other sceners (PC) and they were well pissed off because of them.
1400 is a huge amount of people, stuck in one big hall but a lot of people were interested in atari and falcondemos which was a nice surprise, I wish more atariusers had attended the party.
During the party I was very negativ towards going there again but now I have almost changed my mind, I dont mind attending Mekka again, as long as more of us go there. If we can boost some 50 atariusers I'm sure the organizers would let us participate in amigacompos if we wanted to. This is our chance to show the rest of the scene that atari is still alive!
deez / mind-design
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The game by Mr Ni! presented at the STNICCC 2000 mysteriously dissapeared for a long time. Until today when Grazey of PHF managed to sniff up a copy!
The game is a hotted up version of Stossers Heartland game, but now running att full framerate on plain STs. The game is a platformer and reminds quite heavily on 'Dizzy' from late 80's.
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» Download Heartland 2000
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Stax just released a small intro for any ST. Stax describe it as a 'joke' intro or funny intro, with inspiration from C-64.
Wether it's funny or not, is up to the viewer, but bear in mind you have to be 18 (or 21 in same places) year old to see this! ;-)
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» Download Lost cave by Stax
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Good news today from the land of Falcon accelerators! The long awaited CT60 have finally gotten into production. As of yesterday Czuba Tech made the order and the cards should be back within one month. There are over 130 registred byers, and there are only 150 cards being made, so if you havn't ordered yet, it's your last chance now..
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Okie, forget the April fools-joke below (it did trick a few people though), the real files from Mekka/Symposium are here now.
We actually didn't expect any releases, so it's nice to be surpriced sometimes. Ephidrena, previously only active with music on the Atari, released their first Falcon demo. It's _very_ 'new school' and yours truly didn't fully know if it was working or not while watching. Secondly the never-ending Spiceboys saga continues. This time with something that could actually be seen as a demo (or intro) was presented.
Compatibility-wise it was a bit tricky to get both demos to run. The Ephidrena refused to work on 68mb Falcon (claimed there wasn't enough ram and wanted more tt-ram) and the Spiceboys demo didn't work (locked up after a while) on 16 MHz while it worked on CT2 (although some people says it works on 16MHz now..).
And that's about it. You can download both files below (thanks to MC Laser for posting them).
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» Download Abehn from Ephidrena
» Download Bundestag by Spiceboys
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After all speculation about atari releases at the Symposium or not, we now have the answer; several demos have started dropping in from the compos, from Mind Design, Escape, Checkpoint and some others.
The demos are available from the link below.
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» Go to the Symp2002 download page
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Ray of .tSCc. has been busy to update his Wolfenstien engine for plain ST's.
This new release features rewritten c2p to gain extra speed, wall collisions, rasters, and more graphcis from the original.
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» Download!
» Watch a screenshot from the new version
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Czuba Tech has announced some interesting news about the CT60. The card will be delivered with oscillators for 66 MHz operation if you own a 50 MHz 060, and a 72 MHz oscillator if you have a 60 MHz processor.
Well, that's not really new as we reported something similar before. However, the new thing is that the CT60 will be shipped with a bus-speeder as default! Although not actually needed for installation, this device will greatly improve speed against ST-Ram. The bad side of course being soldering is needed if one chooses to use the bus-accelerator part.
The CT60 will be produced in 150 units, and a second run of cards will be produced later if there is interest.
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Due to some problems with certain keyboards, ACE has been updated with bugfixes and new sound patches.
There is also a new demosong my Tim Conrardy available, which demonstrates ACE is sample mode.
All available from New Beats homepage (link below).
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» New Beat webpage
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At last, after very long impatient waiting, it has happened. New Beat has finished the MIDI version of the Falcon DSP synthesizer called ACE.
The tracker-version will follow later this year as well. ACE comes with the following specifications:
Up to 16 voices on a standard Falcon030
256 sounds in memory
2 oscillator modes:
Sample mode: 16bit, maximum 256 samples in memory, 20Mb each
Synth mode: 2 oscillators per voice:
First oscillator: Saw ramp up/down, Noise, Square
Second oscillator: Saw ramp up/down, Square positive, Square
3 modes to mix the two oscillators; normal (add), merge (xor) and ring modulation (multiplication)
VCA (amplifier) with ADSR envelope
VCF (low-pass filter) with ADSR envelope
LFO (low frequency oscillator) with 6 different waveforms. Can be connected to frequency and/or filter and/or volume.
Step modulator. A 32-step 'sequencer'. Draw individual curves for frequency, filter and volume
Velocity curves. Seperate curves for volume and filter response
Internal postprocessing effects: reverb and stereo (ping-pong) delay
Further informations and download of ACE demo version on the url below!
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» New Beat webpage
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A new issue of Alive, namely number four was released today. The new issue is a couple of days late to do the wait of an intro from the Creators, which unfortenly never made it to the mag in the end.
The magazine features the usual things we're gettings used to, and also including intro graphics by Exocet, shell graphics by Edo and music by Tao, Dma-Sc, 505 and Toodeloo.
There are about 70 articles to enjoy, including a big Alternative Party 3 report from CiH (his party reports are always good to read).
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» Download Alive 4
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Czuba-Tech has annouced that the CT60 is going to production in the next week, with a production time of three weeks. This does indeed indicate that we can have the CT60's before april as previously annouced.
The latest specification information tells us that the CT60 will be able to run both a 66 and 80 MHz clock, depending what CPU-type is used (60 MHz chip can do 80 MHz and 50 MHz chip 66 MHz).
Rodolphe also annouces that the first benchmarks of the CT60 will be made available next week. We'll be back with more information then.
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Very quickly after the previous Graoumf Tracker update, here's a new one!
Graoumf have some vital bugs fixed (eg, module save works as expected now!) and it's possible to drag/drop files onto the tracker while it's running thru va_start protocol.
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A couple of weeks ago we reported that the C-64 crew 'Creators' have had an Atari division started, and we're now presented with their first release.
It's an ST/Falcon game mainly made by Exocet/Creators. The title is 'Mem' and should remind quite much of the 'Memory' game.
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» Download Mem by the Creators
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A new version of Chuchu Rocket (v1.18) was released today with some interesting changes.
The graphics routines have been rewritten to add support for non-blitter Ataris, which means that it's now possible to play Chuchu on ST/STf/STm/STfm and TT machines as well as STe and Falcon. Naturally owners of plain ST machines won't get the DMA sound effects.
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» Download Chuchu full (STe/TT/Falcon)
» Download Chuchu lite (ST/f/m)
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About one year after the xTOS project was annouced, we have been served with.. Ahm, nothing. Until now. Yesterday xTOS released the first schematics of the machine.
However, the schematics seems like something drawn up in an afternoon with Truepaint. I'm not hardware guru, but this seems a 'bit' sparse after one year of development?
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» View the schematics
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Good news everyone! (yes I've been wathing too much Futurama lately..)
The CT60 accelerator development is going well. So well that Mr. Czuba plans to start the production at the end of this month! Anyone interested to buy one should register NOW, as there will be as many cards made as there are orders (with a little margin though).
Bad news everyone! It would also seem the 060-chip itself have problems running at the claimed 80 MHz, but in 66 MHz it is fine and the memoryspeed is:
SDRAM : READ (page Hit) : 133 MB/s - WRITE (page Hit) : 176 MB/s
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YesCREW, recently known for doing a GEM Graoumf Tracker player have now started digging into the Graoumf Tracker editor as well.
The result is a bugfixed, faster and more compatible version of the editor.
YesCREW has also been busy adding new functions, such as FastRAM compatibility, FAST-Mode for pressing out some more channels, a backdoor to GEM, where you can control replay frequency, load and save modules and much more.
Definitly a 'must have' for any Graoumf musican.
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EIL2 winners Escape have been a bit silent lately, but today they annouced some new plugin modules for EscPaint.
The new modules are called 'Blender', 'Lighting' and 'Spray'.
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Anohter huge update of the Fading Twilight compiltation is now available from the main .tSCc. ftp-site and all the mirrors.
The new compilation, number four, includes artists such as BabyDee, Baggio, Drax and Bern, D-Force, Gmx, Ice, Iso, Ryan, Simon, Derek, Mr Future, Scavenger, Sh3, Tarzan Boy, Toodeloo, Tyan and Xtream.
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For the first time since 1996, the Mekka/Symposium party is supporting Atari with competitions. Eagerly supported by MC Laser of .tSCc. this could very well be 'the' party for Atari this year.
As every easter, there seems to be some major Atari releases planned. More on this subect later, in the mean time, visit the link below!
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This is a clear surprice: An old commercial ST-game from 1992 has just made a re-appearence as Cyberdrome v1.2 with new features. It's now sold as shareware and running on any ST, TT or Falcon with a colour monitor and 1mb free memory.
The game is fully in 3d and is described as simulation/action game that can also be networked for multiplayer games!
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As the ACE DSP-Synthesizer for the Falcon is getting nearer, we've been receiving a new demo-track made by one of the ACE beta testers (Tim Conrardy).
The track is very experimental and made with algorithmic midi programs.
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» Download Spaceace by Tim Conrardy, ACE demotune
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It would seem as a new ST demo crew is about to rise. The classic C-64 team 'Creators' have aquired a couple of Atari members, including Blind-Io and Exocet.
We're looking forward to releases!
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The popular DSP SID-Emulator from Sector One have just had an update. Or actually it's the internal beta version of FlaySID v3.02 that has been released to public together with the new FlaySID homepage.
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» Download FlaySID 3.02beta
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.tSCc. with superactive coder Ray has released a new intro for the TT and Falcon.
This time .tSCc. introduces the '512-byte' intro to the Atari. The effect is a nice 3d-vector fire.
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» Download Glasstro
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A game due for release on the ST in 1995, was put back from release. Now almost seveen years later, the game has reappeared and is released.
The game is called 'Artic moves' and is available for ST and PC.
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» Download Arctic moves for the ST
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505 of Checkpoint have recently (well, some months ago) quietly opened a new website dedicated to Atari music tracking. The site features alot of links and it's slowly but surely filling up with interesting articles.
The latest addition, a big very good interview with Jess of the Overlanders can now be read on the site.
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Atari XL/XE veteran PG has released a new version of the popular Pokey music archive. The new 2.3 version reaches nearly 1400 songs.
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» Download ASMA v2.3
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Long-silent polish demo crew Mystic Bytes are approaching a new release with the second issue of Chosneck magazine. For those with a good moemory, the first issue of Chosneck was a nice surprice baked into the 'Abyss' music demo.
Tune back here in the next few days,and we might have a copy up for download!
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The last week of 2001, Satantronic released a little ST-demo called 'Planar intro'. Again coded by Jookie of Satantronic.
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» Download Planar
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