Atari ST Competition Radar March-May 2025
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You’ve just finished a nice 16 color picture, a YM chiptune or a little demo on your ST and want to present it to a broader
...Did you miss the celebration of the many game creators who keep entertaining us in 2025? Well, it's never too late as you can see the live stream here. Many games released or being under development and for all ATARI machines, what a treat!
Full results can be found at ATARIAGE.
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The amazing traditional Swedish Atari Club SAK celebrates its 40th birthday this year. The club has been organizing many Atari events during the years. Especially the "Nordic Atari Show (NAS)" was a well-known event throughout Europe, with its first installment back in 1995, 30 years ago.
And still today there are annual meetings, such as Slaskhack 2025 in Falköping from 21st to 23rd of march 2025.
What a nice club - Congratulations!
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The 23th edition of this traditional Slovakian oldschool demoscene event is taking place from 14th-16th of March 2025 in Trnava/Sucha Nad Parnou. As usual, it focuses on 8 Bit platforms (Atari, Spectrum, Commodore) and has a topic. This time it is "Jurassic Party", probably refering to the visitors average age ;-) Currently about 50 visitors are registered.
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One could think Atari ST gaming is on the rise. Upcoming Gemtos Party in France is advertising a new gaming competition featuring 4 games: Vroom, Jupiters Masterdrive, Flight Simulator II and Barbarian II. Party visitors can send in screenshots of their score until April 6th and then the finals will be played on stage at the event.
Generally the website of the party is worth a look, there are photos and videos from previous editions and the party seems pretty cool! :-)
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STOT - the ST Offline Tournament is a nice web based competition for Atari ST gamers. Each month another game is played and scores are trustfully documented on Atari-forum. Winner and thus entitled the " best Atari ST gamer" of the 2024 round was spkr/smfx with some amazing scores. Late congratulations!
good old STOT logo by sh3
The previous gaming rounds were big fun. Beside game classics as Rolling Ronny also some recently released ST titles like Faster or Chroma Grid have been played to quite some quite some extend. A nice side effect of the format is gameplay hints are shared and playing "together" adds a lot to the motivation. Please feel invited to join the STOT anytime!
Steve Gregory, author of the "Atari Crypt" ST gaming blog has recently published an interesting interview with the hosts of the tournament, Thorn, ChrisTOS and SSB which is a really nice read.
🔗 Read the full interview on AtariCypt's blog
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Mr. Paint is a tool to create ATASCII texts (40x24) on Atari XL/XE that comes with a number of practical features such as drawing lines and center elements and easy to remember keyboard shortcuts. The archive on Github also contains a comprehensive user guide in PDF format.
🔗 Mr. Paint on Ripjetski's Github page
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The 2024 edition of the Poland-centered game development event Fujicup is about to take place. There are 40(!) submissions with games of different kind and quality. The motivation to contribute is obviously pushed by prize money over 4.000 Euro.
🔗 Fujicup 2024 website (Polish language, check menu point "Lista Gier" for the list of games)
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The nominees for the yearly awards for homebrew Atari games have been decided.
For the ST/e category we see a bunch of well-known Demoscene games;
🔗 PHF Rally 2 - Zero Bitplane by Psycho Hacking Force
🔗 Chroma Grid by T.O.Y.S.
🔗 Tony - Montezuma's Gold by GGN & Monochrome Productions
🔗 Faster by Chicane
The awards are brought by Atari, ZeroPage Homebrew and AtariAge.
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Past weekend Lovebyte Online Party took place and quite a number of small size Bytros has been released.
There have been entries for Atari ST, XL/XE, Atari VCS 2600 and some very remarkable ones on Atari Jaguar and Lynx.
42Bastian won the 512 Byte Oldschool with a nice Lynx entry.
On Atari ST we got "The Cube is A Lie" by Orz and another ST entry called Solid Air was submitted by Tom.
🔗 Download Lovebyte entries on Demozoo
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Zerkman of Sector One just released a new version of his Atari ST clone machine running on cheap Zynq FPGA boards.
The machine is very much compatible with a real ST, and if you have been following GGNs demo streams on Twitch, that's all being run on the zeST computer.
New stuff in todays release includes CRT scanline emulation in the scandoubler part, improved reset, network support for easy uploading of data and bluetooth mouse/joystick support. Furthermore the colour conversion from ST 9-bit to 24-bit have been improved to use the full colour scale (earlier it was a bit dim at peak colour values).
Scandoubler comparison - standard vs scanline emulation
🔗 Read the full release information from Zerkmans zeST site
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Awards are always a controversial topic. How was the selection done? Was it a fair process? Are productions who "are worth it" included? Or the opposite?
The discussions about this will never end, but the fact remains that two wonderful productions for the Atari ST from 2024 have been nominated for the Meteoriks 2025 awards:
- A series of raster effects by SMFX (Demozoo, Pouet) in Best midschool production category
- Ika I Compofylla by Newline (Demozoo, Pouet) in Outstanding technical achievement category
Hearty congratulations to all people involved and wishes for winning! (If it means anything to them, or the people!)
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Never too late they say and Reboot is so right about it! While planned for a late 90s release, Livewire: Archival Project is a horizontal shoot'em up that never made it due to financial difficulties... Feel lucky now since DML who was back then part of the develoment team will not only will release the game with the help of the Reboot fellows but also as a cartridge present! The wait should not be too long now and the trailer looks really hot!
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A project which aims to reproduce and extend one of the most legendary externsions for the Atari ST range of machines, that has been simmering for quite some time now is getting really close to shipping.
The ATW800/2 is not going to be an exact reproduction of the original ATW/800, but as the man behind the project puts it, "Whatever way, it’s the Atari Transputer Card as it was meant to be."
There's a wealth of information in the project page (https://www.geekdot.com/atw800_2/) that people should read just to be brought up to speed with the project goals and what's on offer here.
If after reading all that you're convinced that this is something for you, head over to AtariAge (https://forums.atariage.com/topic/379482-atw8002-preorders-kind-of/) or Atari-Forum (https://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=44677) to declare interest for a first batch. Currently, only one board per person can be reserved, but future batches are promised.
You know what to do!
Demo video:
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Some time ago a quite old and vintage video popped up on social networks. What about rolling back in time and witness the making of some classic ATARI arcade cabinets? Full nostalgia coming in!
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Back in 2017 Bionic Nerd released a music demo with updated Out Run tunes (YM2149) using his own driver.
Today Mlynn made a new version using most of the graphic assets from Bionic Nerd but replacing the YM2149 tunes with Protracker versions.
It's playing on the STe PCM-chip sound using Lance/Impulse 50 kHz replay routine.
💾 Download Out Run STe Music Demo 2025
🔗 Check the announcement on Atari-Forum
🔗 The original demo by Bionic Nerd at Demozoo
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KtZ has published a nice little Tetris clone (work in progress) for Atari ST called "Fuji Tetris 68k" on Atariage. It is a port of the game "Neo Tetris 6502" originally coded by Bocianu and graphics by Hospes. The ST version comes with several lovely new musics by Dma-Sc. The Atariage forum thread also lists a new work in progress ST Port of Defender by sark02.
💾 Download a WIP version of Fuji Tetris 68k (20250116)
🔗 Read more on new work in progress ST games on the Atariage forum thread
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Keith Clark has created two web applications for viewing planar image formats used by Atari ST and Commodore Amiga computers called dejaview and an online graphics ripper for viewing and extracting planar graphics data from binary files.
🔗 Dejaview
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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!
🔗 Get all releases from Demozoo
💾 Download and comment Major Fock by Ephidrena, SMFX and DHS at Demozoo
💾 Download and comment Major Fock by Ephidrena, SMFX and DHS at Pouet.Net
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French graphic artist Pandafox aka Imperator has published an interesting website about his graphical work in his long scene history from 1989 to 2024:
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The democrew Dekadence just announced a port of the awesome modern classic Yoomp! to the Atari ST. The game originates from the Atari XL/XE line of computers, released in 2007.
Yoomp! title screen on Atari XL/XE
A teaser video was just made available and the release date is set for May 23rd at the 68k Inside party in Hämeenlinna, Finland. One more reason to visit!
🔗 68k Inside demoparty website
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