Hello World!

Four years have passed after the last release of Fading Twilight. I did mention this for a long time but finally I did move my ass to finish off the FADING TWILIGHT DUAL LAYER DVD edition (no excerpts!). The last few month were full of pretty much work. Who really knows if the result is perfect but I think it’s an amazing effort for over 13 years of work. You should read my DIARY to get a slight feeling how much work I put into it.

Some Facts:
-The archive features over 11000 tunes in many different formats
-We feature over 360 musicians from all over the planet
-More than 200 tools for all the major platforms (Atari, Amiga, Windows, Mac, Linux)
-Nearly all modules size-optimised (That means I removed unused Samples and Instruments)
-OVER 13 (THIRTEEN) YEARS OF WORK!
-A very nice ST 96k-tro in cooperation with Britelite and Bracket from RAVE NETWORK OVERSCAN (RNO)

Mag! - Press release -

Live from the party hall at Sillyventure 2012. We are proud to announce the ill-advised arrival of our latest production. The Mag! Magazine. It's not quite Maggie, but has a strong aroma of it, thereabouts.

It is available in a universally portable 'pretend diskmag' HTML shell format. A 'Classic Maggie' styled ST menu shell version will be available shortly, as soon as Felice has straightened out a few kinks there.

Some of the articles will bring a nostalgic tear to your eye. As they missed their intended publication date for 2008, they certainly did to mine!

However, there is some pristine specially written new stuff in there too.
So read it and quietly enjoy!

CiH/Formerly of Maggie and Alive!

Cerebral Vortex Software Development is happy to give you a 68000 routine for unpacking PNG pictures.
That's not a C portage but a full routine written from nothing with for only support, the only one webpage on Png format.
It can read, 1,2,4,8,16 bits by pixel, interlaced or not, Alpha or not. That's surely not the fastest one, but the smallest one.
Less than 5 kilobytes, and can be surely a core for doing a fast 060 version.

Hope that will be helpful for all 68000 users.

Everything here : http://cerebral-vortex.net/index.php?id=94

(Questions can be asked on Dbug forum in coding section too)

Azrael, GT Turbo and Zerosquare (C.V.S.D.)

The end of last year was one of strange locations and instability for me. This lead to some strange and unstable music :) It was hard to know what to do with this weird batch of four tracks I made, but Evil/DHS knew exactly what to do - make a Falcon music disk!

The instrumental part was 100% produced on my STe in maxYMiser. With the vocal part I wanted to have a grime influence.. but then that turned into something else: Gwime.

Code: Evil/DHS
Photography: Amy Sayer
Music: gwEm/PHF

Enjoy the Falcon music disk, and if you like you can also download the tracks in high quality on my bandcamp page - see link below.

To compliment the recent SNDH 4.0 library we have released a sister program to SNDH-Editor.

Quartet-2-SNDH (first released at Outline 2012)

This makes the process of creating SNDH files from native Quartet files a doddle. Simply load in the 4V patterns and Voice-Set and Quartet-2-SNDH does the
rest.

Coded by Grazey & gwEM of the PHF with graphics by SH3.

The Atari Jaguar Europe Festival, "ejagfest", takes place on November 24th in
Duisburg, Germany.

ejagfest is an annual festival for all Jaguar and Lynx fans, developers and retailers. Open-minded fans of other video game systems are welcome, of course. If you who would like to play Jaguar, Lynx, VCS 2600, 5200, 7800 or a trusty homecomputer of the 80s, thisis the right place.

Retro games, homebrew announcements / presentations, prototypes believed to be lost and demos of all kinds can be experienced. Developers from all over Europe regularly take the opportunity to present their new developments on the festival, and sometimes even have exclusive items for sale. The official European championship in ?Checkered Flag? for the Lynx takes place each year and there are retro game retailers offering Jaguar, Lynx, ST and a variety of other retro game systems and games.

Highlights of ejagfest 2012:

Mr.Coke shows his Atari ST Demo "Yet Another 4KB Intro?, which was the winner of the Outline 2012 compo in October. He will also show some hand-selected demos and intros on his machine and tell us something about the atari scene.

Douglas Little of Black Scorpion Software has kindly allowed an exclusive showing of a playable version of the prototype 'Livewire' for the Jaguar. Shows his new Jaguar game 'Impulse X'. Hopefully ready and for sale.

Jagware shows and hopes to make available to collectors Kobayashi Maru Final CD for Jaguar CD, shows the latest builds of 'Rebooteroids' (playable), SCPCD's Jagtopus flash cart on display, CVSD's Ladybugged and Dance Dance Xirius Space Party latest versions.

CDI from the nexgam forum shoows and sells his 'Atari Jaguar Video 4 DVD Pack Projekt' which is a collection of Jaguar related vidoes and advertising. GroovyBee shows the 7800XM and several XM mandatory games, shows Jaguar - ST Star Raiders port and a new fully playable mystery game demonstration exclusive to ejagfest. Also, he hopes to have some homebrew hardware for 7800 and Jag if
projects can be finished in time.

OMF will be showing his infra red multibank 8 game switcher, filled with 8 homebrews to choose from.

Competitions:
* Checkered Flag European Championship (Atari Lynx)
* Community selected Cup (Jaguar, Lynx or ST)

16 32 bit Systems: Nick Harlow, offers used and new games for different Atari
Systems.
Atari Shop NL: Sells Retro-Games and goodies for different systems.

This list is nowhere complete; every visitor who has something to show is welcome to. Please let us know in advance if possible!

V4.0 (October 31, 2012)

121 new SNDH files (240 sub-tunes).

Well this has been in the works since Outline 2010. I've always wanted to add exotic digi-tracks to the archive.

One such format is Quartet which was used in both demos and commercial games.

So now it arrives, signalling SNDH library v4.

The accompanying SNDH's have a number of advantages over native Quartet files,

+ Each file has 3 built-in replayers for STFM, STE and Falcon respectively. The player will automatically default to superior sound quality.

+ SNDH allows for sub-tunes which drastically reduces filesizes.

+ Library 4.0 updates the SNDH file-format. Both default tune and sub-tune names are now catered for. (see the SNDH 2.1 fileformat page at our main site).

Thanks to gwEm and Evil for testing and fixes.

Hello Atari World!

Yeah, impossible becomes possible - after the latest SV2k12 invitro for Falcon by Extream (and previously for ATARI STe by Paradox), it's time for another, 3rd invitation with 8-bit accent - enjoy the Atari 2600 invitro by Tjoppen, Jakub Husak & Grey.

It's already only a couple of weeks till the biggest international Atari-only party in Poland ! There's over 100 visitors willing to come, from such countries like Sweden, Finland, Germany, England, France, Czech & Poland. Due to planned amount of compo entries for each ATARI platforms (including remote ones), the competitions will be held within two days (Friday - GFX, MSX & Game, Saturday Intro, Demo & Wild).

For more infos about upcoming SV2k12 event in Poland (7th - 9th December, 2012) please check the official website:
www.sillyventure.eu


Or get in touch with ppl coming from your country:

POLAND (Grey / Mystic Bytes) - greymsb(at)poczta.fm
FINLAND (Emphii / Extream) - mika.poikonen(at)wippies.fi
GERMANY (505 / Checkpoint & PDX) - 505(at)atari.org
ENGLAND (CiH / Maggie Team) - cih(at)atari.org
SWEDEN (PeP / SAK) - pep.fishmoose(at)gmail.com
FRANCE (Zerkman / Sector One) - francois.galea(at)cea.fr
CZECH (Jan Krupka) - krupkaj(at)centrum.cz

See You at SV2k12 !

73 new/updated SNDH files (84 tunes).

With Outline on the horizon we bring you a long overdue SNDH pack.

Quite a varied with pack with some lovely new tunes including compositions by XIA, DMA-SC and 505.

We've also updated some files with missing sub tunes, thanks to Pavel Puchala for the info!

Finally, Grazey found he'd criminally missed some Chris Mad tunes from the Overdrive Demo way back in the 90's, this has been rectified!

Expect a rather different release next time!

Remember if you'd like to comment, give bugs or suggest a tune you would like, please feel free to post to our forum.


Grazey-PHF / Evil-DHS

I made a little intro for Sundown 2012:
placed 4th out of 6 :) should run on any 1meg machine, might even run on 512, I haven't checked :D tune by Rhino, Gfx by me (spiny) Code also by me with help from many many people :) hope you like it, it's not much, but was fun to make.

Outline 2012 is coming up! The party takes place in Eersel (near Eindhoven), Holland on October 5th-8th. Full details for the party, including the first two live music events, have been announced on http://www.outlinedemoparty.nl. To give you a quick impression, here's what we have to offer:

- 4 days of quality demoscene fun
- Well organised compos and performances, executed according to schedule
- Complimentary beds, breakfast and shuttle service
- Cheap food and drinks available 24h/day
- Quality in- and outdoor facilities
- Location within easy reach of multiple major airports
- No tl;dr marketing messages ;-)

If you want to order tickets, please follow instructions on http://outlinedemoparty.nl/en/Tickets, and register your intention to
attend the party at http://outlinedemoparty.nl/reg/applicants.

Looking forward to seeing you in Eersel!  

"You can never step in the same river twice" - those words always run through my mind everytime I think about breaking this rule. After four editions of the Silly Venture event I've decided to do one more ! The love of lost days of youth, the love of ATARI machines and it's cool community... I don't want to hear anyone say "It's over now" ! Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen and ladies... I am honoured to invite you to the 5th edition of the biggest and most successful Atari event of the last decade - SillyVenture 2k12 ! 100% Atari only spirit, countless competitions dedicated to all Atari platforms - starting with the mystical Atari 2600 machine, through to the XL/XE, Lynx, Portfolio, ST, TT, Falcon and Jaguar ! This year I would like to dedicate this event to the memory of Jack Tramiel, as well as 20th Anniversary of the latest (and greatest IMO) Atari Falcon machine.

SV2k12 is an unconventional event, where real life mixes with the coolest parts of our Atari adventure ! If you like beer, beautiful ladies, visions of many
Atari machines switched on... If you miss the mood of the golden days of the 80s & 90s - it's the right place to be ! Last year the SV party was visited by
over 100 atarians from all over Europe and over 60 compo-entries were shown !
So dear scene-friends - let's keep the dream alive ! You can also enter any competiotn remotely, even if you can't make it to the party itself. Send your
contribution, let's celebrate together the 40 years of Atari history !

The reports of the forthcoming event will be prepared by the biggest national TV station "TVP", as well as "POMORSKA TV", "Radio ESKA" and "CHIP" magazine.

Join us (personaly or virtualy) at SV2k12 !

For more info about the party please, visit the official SV2k12 web-site:

WWW.SILLYVENTURE.EU

Special thanx to all PARADOX guys for the cool Jacktro - ATARI STe invitation for Silly Venture 2k12 ! The official tribute to Jack Tramiel and SV2k12 invite in one - who could imagine better connection !

Elansar is a "Point & Click" like adventure game with high quality raytraced graphics.

I've been working on this game on my spare time since two years, making all the graphics, music, story and programming myself.

My goal is to release the game on old computers and video game consoles, including the Atari Falcon 030, the Atari Jaguar, and others to define. The game will be sold on CD for most of the platforms and in cartridge version for the Jaguar.

The game is available for preorders on Atari Falcon 030 !

Dear fellows of Atari scene !

I am so proud to announce, that "Antiques" demo from Dune/Sector One - the winning SV2k11 entry for Atari ST has been just released ! I have the honour to give You such a great Easter gift directly from french "hares" ! While I am here I would like to thank all ppl involved in this great project ! Your entry for SV2k11 was surely one of the biggest highlights !

Now it's time to present it to larger public :)

Enjoy this eaSTer gift from our french brothers !

Grey / Mystic Bytes, signed off... 

No Name          Coded by        Crew                 Date 

----------------------------------------------------------

1) BIGZ782.PRG   DBUG II         NEXT                 1991

                 DR CLICK        TTZP                 

2) BIS_CD_1.PRG  ANTHARION       BUG IN SPACE         1992

3) DEMOB100.PRG  FRNZ            AVENGERS             1991

4) HEADACHE.PRG  HUMUNGUS        OVERLANDERS          1991

                 DOGUE DE MAUVE                       

5) INVSIBLE.PRG  RICK            INVISIBLES           1990 

6) KEKE.PRG      ZORRO2          MJJPROD              2003

7) DRKLIGHT.PRG  WARRIOR MUNK    poSTmortem           2002

8) NGT.PRG       BLOOD           NEW GENERATION       1989

9) LANDSCAP.PRG  AATEC           ST APOCALYPSE        1990

10)TWSTSCR2.PRG  GRIFF           RESISTANCE           1989



Menu code......................Zorro 2

Loader code....................Maartau/Zorro 2

Gfxs...........................Mister.A

Fonts..........................ripped

Music..........................TomChi

Scrolltext.....................Atomus

Require configuration : Atari STF or STE computer with 1 Mo of memory.

Thanks to Brume, this compilation saw the day through to him !

A special thought for Andreas Wahlin (aka Perihelion/Warrior Munk) who left us much too soon...

To copy this disk : 2 faces - 82 pistes - 10 sectors

In case you've had your head in the sand,

D-Bug and ECG have released some new original intros over the last month.

ECG did a fab tunnel screen with top code by Melcus and PHF released their first ST screen in quite a while, code Grazey, gfx Ukko, zak gwEm.