The 2025 installment of the long running Amiga demo party GERP was held from January 31 to February 2.
The Atari presence has been quite stable over the last half a decade with groups such as Nature, New Beat, Bitbendaz, DHS, SMFX, KÜA, T.O.Y.S., Ephidrena, Istari, Sultans of Sodom present, not to mention all those legendary Amiga crews. The party is located within 100 meters of the train station, three hotels and plenty of restaurants, very handy!
GERP 2025 main hall
At the party place, GERP is packed with people, about 120. It's warm, loud and intense - how parties used to be when we were young. Esau and his compo crew does a marvelous job at running the compos smoothly, with almost everything being shown live from real hardware. From the C64, Sinclair QL, Atari ST, Amiga 500 to the Amiga 1200, and sometimes other obscure machines as well, respect!
This year we saw SMFX returning to the Sinclair QL plaform with another banger. For anyone who's familiar with the platform, those demos seem unreal. Amiga crew Five Finger Punch put up some competition with another QL demo, strangely using the same japanese theme as the SMFX & Joker demo, some espionage going on here? Atari veteran GGN also showed up, however going Amiga - a preview version of the "Adam Is Me" game for the Amiga was shown in the wild competition with big applause from the audience.
In 2025 we didn't get a big Atari release, but Ephidrena and SMFX bravely rescued the situation by initiating a party coded ST-intro called Major Fock, DHS threw in some quickly hacked stuff as well near the deadline and the intro somehow ended up in third place after the earlier mentioned QL demos.
All in all, GERP 2025 continues on a winning recipe and hopefully we'll see some more Atari folks and productions for future events!
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