Peter Hinz has updated Atasm, a Atari MAC/65 (6502) compatible command line oriented assembler for various platforms.
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Paradox and Havoc/Lineout just released an invitro for Outline 2025 party. It works on Atari STf with 1 MB upwards and contains much information on the event in the scrolltext.
💾 Download the Outline 2025 invite by Paradox
🔗 Download and comment on Pouet
🔗 Download and comment on Demozoo
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Originally released on ZX Spectrum Next in 2023, Matt Lacey have just finished a port of Invasion of the Emerald Saucers to the Atari STe.
It's one of the few games that is using the AGT game engine by DML / PIxel Twins. The eagle eyed player will notice that there are some borders open which is a signum for AGT programs.
A couple of menu screens, death of the incredibly bad player and finally the inevitable Game Over screen.
💾 Check out and download the game at Itch.io for both Atari STe and ZX Spectrum Next
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Froggies Over The Fence must be still today my all time favourite ATARI ST megademo so that when Overlanders came back to life in 2021 with the huge FirST Love demo, I was happy? amazed? moved to tears? Hard to tell but their unexpected return proved worth the wait and since then I have been dreaming of putting up an interview with that duet of (twin) coders. Never too late, here it comes and kudos to them for sending back a huge and so interesting interview with loads of photos!
STS: Hi RATI and Janek, shall we start with the usual introduction? Who’s who, occupation, real life and so on.
RATI: Hi Seb, I’m Benoît, a 54-year-old living in Paris. I’m a proud father of two boys and one girl, and I absolutely adore my wife (truly, she’s amazing <3—haha). I love traveling the world with my family, hiking, and indulging in some coding whenever I get the chance. Janek and I are twins, and we both work as executives at a multinational IT company. I’m the Mainframe Modernization Leader for France — a title that might sound a bit dull at first, but trust me, it’s anything but boring! :D
Janek: My name is Hervé, and you might be able to guess my age from RATI’s response. I live in the city of Orléans, France, where I have the joy of being surrounded by the love and care of four wonderful women: my wife and three daughters. I have a deep passion for computer science; coding is pure enjoyment for me, no matter the project—whether it’s creating a demo, building a website, programming a microcontroller, developing a plug-in, or crafting a mod for a game. In the past five years, I’ve also discovered a true love for simracing, especially Assetto Corsa Competizione. And, of course, I enjoy traveling—after all, who doesn’t?
STS: What’s the story behind your nicknames?
Janek: “Silver” was inspired by a superhero comic book I read during my childhood, featuring the character Silver Surfer. When I started playing online in Half-Life, I adopted the pseudonym “Janek.” The name comes from Flesh and Blood, a novel by my favorite author, Graham Masterton. While it’s not his best work, I’ve always loved how “Janek” sounds in French, which is why I chose it.
RATI: Back in 1998, I was playing Half-Life with friends (including Janek) in a crew called FBN (Fragged By Newbies). The whole group was created as a light-hearted joke aimed at a well-known crew at the time called NBF (Natural Born Fraggers). One of their standout players went by the name DEICIDE (all caps), so I chose the nickname RATICIDE in response. Since everyone ended up calling me RATI, the name stuck.
STS: Before serious things get started, I need to repeat how much I LOVE your latest demos. Maybe you know that Froggies Over The Fence is my all time favourite ST demo so that when FirST Love came out 28 years later I almost shed tears of joy!
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Read more: Their story: RATI and Janek of Overlanders
Write comment (11 Comments)GEMTOS organizer Manu has published a nice summary video of the event:
and Thorn recently also published a comprehensive party report with many photos on his Thornsgard page.
All these reports show that this was obviously an awesome Atari event and also with an impressive Atari hardware presence.
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Songbird has just announced that they will publish a new fighting game for our beloved Atari Lynx! New, well not quite as the game was planned for release in the 90s but somehow got shelved away. No release date so far and not so many details but a short trailer to feed on.
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Just a little heads up that our very favourite gwEm of maxYMiser fame has been interviewed in a full-fledged 50 minutes video on "The Bro's" youtube channel, speaking Atari but also other topics.
There can never be enough of gwEm, so enjoy! :-)
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Did you know the ST group "Fanatics"? Me neither! ;-)
Lotek Style/.tSCc. continuously keeps polishing the Atariscene database at Demozoo and has done a major update for this French demo and cracking group, recently. So, a good occasion to dive a bit deeper into the mysterious French Atari ST Scene heritage. Fanatics indeed released quite a lot of stuff and some interesting looking screens!
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Recently a new monochrome strategy game emerged. This is the third title besides Nano Cave and Space Zot that appeares under the independent game developer Electric Dreams.
From the author:
"It is an adaptation of the code published by David Ahl in his book BASIC COMPUTER GAMES in 1978.
It was developed on a real Atari MEGA STE in GFA BASIC to run at high resolution.
You will find in the archive the code in GFA and LST format so that it can be read in any PC text editor.
You're free to do what you like with it, if you can find your way around my mess!"
Feel free to check it out.
🔗 Electric Dreams Website: https://electric-dreams.itch.io/super-star-trek
🔗 Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/371948/
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Last Saturday the 3rd of May marked the start of the GEMTOS 2025 convention.
GEMTOS 2025 is located in the lovely village of Saint-Juste-en-Chaussee, north of Paris.
I planned on bringing my 1040STf but since I took out its KAOS TOS ROMs to use in my 520ST+ last year, it didn't have any TOS. And as usual I had ordered TOS 1.04 EPROMS which didn't arrive in time for GEMTOS.
So I decided on taking my CPC 6128 with me, which is also a quite popular machine in France.
With a stuffed backpack of about 15 kilograms probably I was ready for my travels.
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As the Atari fellows over at Ataricrypt report, there is a proof of concept for an ST port of Doom. Apparently Jonas Eschenburg who recently surprised with his new voxelspace engine has now delivered a preview of the legendary shooter running on an ST. Steve from Ataricrypt investigated deeper and also provides a video of the game engine running on his page.
🔗 STDoom - coverage on Ataricrypt
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Wolfgang Kierdorf of "Retro is the new black" youtube channel is reviewing a rare kind of Falcon 030, which was donated to his channel: The combination of a Rocke Tower and the rare Falcon Speed PC card by German company SACK "capable" of running Windows 3.1.
Just in case you hear an incredibly unsympathetic AI voice as video narrator please switch to the original language on youtube (lovely English with German accent)
Both hardware items are hard to find these days. They were like the highend stage of expansion for the machine in the German Atari market, maybe until the Centurbo Cards appeared. The Rocke Tower had a very high standing in the community because of its smart design and quality. And the Falcon speed was one of the most advanced PC cards on Atari.
Ironically, the once strong wish in the Atari user base for catching up with the oh so wonderful PC world by using tower cases, external keyboards (and PC applications) turned around again mostly. At least to my impression retro computing people seem to prefer the classic cases again and are not particularly fond of using Windows 3.11 either. Finally, justice!
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Bare with us while we play with your nostalgia nerve for a little bit here: the very oldskool-platform-friendly Nordlicht party goes into its 13th installment this year - and while doing that, it also took the opportunity to revive an old Nordlicht tradition: changing the party place for reasons.
If you ever wondered what the Fried Bits / SILIConvention / Kindergeburtstag 2000 party place felt like and/or wanted to revisit that special venue spirit - Nordlicht has you covered this year.
The infamous swedish corner at one of the Fried Bits parties - don't ask, we won't tell.
The party known for having a very constant Atari scene attendance (as well as Atari XL/ST/Lynx/Jaguar productions that constantly have been released there over the years) now finally ended up where the whole Bremen demo party thing started in the first place: Bürgerzentrum Obervieland, home of so many Fried Bits and SILIconvention stories nobody dares to tell you.
Here's a quick list of motivational (also: non-paid, we do ads for free here!) sentences to join the party:
- If you are in the vicinity and/or want to meet some of the orga team members liable (well, "indirectly", our lawyers told us to tell you) for above mentioned stories, be there!
- The perfect place to dump your old Atari stuff you did and were/are to afraid to release - just enter the very handy gravedigger compo; and don't fret, people have seen worse in that compo, "someone" personally made sure of that.
- Visit the outskirts of Bremen!
- Train your "social skills" on C64 and Amiga people!
- BBQ!
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Takes place July the 25th to 27th 2025! - [tbd]
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Welcome to this little trip down the memory lane, but maybe not only!
Back in the 90s there was this habit of having a list of web links on web pages. This used to be very helpful to quickly find related websites, even more so in small specific communities, as the Atariscene.
The first remarkable link page I remember was provided by the ACF Design Team. It must have been 1996, that I discovered this page with its numerous links to Atari ST sceners and groups. For me it played such a central role as a starting point to the Atariscene related internet, that I still remember the old URL in parts today, 30 years later :-)
Agent-t's ACF logo - a classic
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Read more: In the Spotlight: Atariscene Link pages - over the decades
Write comment (9 Comments)The GemTos party productions that were already available as Youtube video can now also be properly downloaded on Demozoo. The party itself is taking place this weekend and we hope to be able to provide some insider's knowledge from participants at a later stage.
🔗 GemTos productions on Demozoo
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Chipmusic songs created with version 3 of the Julian Nevo's (aka Targhan) awesome Arkos tracker from the CPC demoscene are now replayable on Atari ST.
The tracker is an open source multi platform tracker (Windows/Linux/Mac) targeting all things AY/YM: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Atari ST, Oric and others and version 3.2.6 has been released few days ago in April 2025.
Ggn enhanced his Arkos 2 player recently, so that some ST related people (well, Doclands is!) can now use this tracker in version 3 to create YM tunes for Atari ST productions. Some examples for productions using Arkos Tracker music are:
- PONG_CRK by Overlanders (Atari ST, music by Doclands)
- LovelYM by KÜA and SMFX (Atari ST, music by XiA)
- Quantum Leap by SMFX (Spectrum QL, music by 505)
There are several advantages of the Arkos replayer replay since a while, such as a very low cpu time footprint (0.5 to 3 scanlines, depending on the modus operandi). There is also a sid voice timer effect implementation (based on routines by Grazey/PHF and Abyss & Tao/Cream), overriding the pure YM/AY standard sound design landscape of Arkos tracker coming with the ST replay.
🔗 Arkos tracker 3 replay for ST by ggn
🔗 Arkos tracker hompage by Julian Nevo
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Laoo/New Generation just published version 0.6.4 of his Lynx emulator on Github, which currently builds only on the Windows platform, but is supposed to work in Wine as well.
Minor fixes and improvements:
- more accurate opcode/operand fetch timing
- making bootrom HLE emulation more compatible
- new feature: sprite dumper (Debug->Sprite Dump, and 'dumpSprites' lua command)
- corrected default values for the attenuation and panning registers.
- adding lua libraries of string, os, math and table
- stability fixes
The Poland based group New Generation has become well known for their blasting Lynx demos during the past years. Maybe the emulator is part of the secret.
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Rajah Lone has updated another of his tools - Iphigénie:
Changes in the 1.5 version:
- mod: GFA source code revamped, with more english names for readability.
- mod: preferences window revamped.
- fix: more explanations in the HYP guide.
- fix: Drag&Drop for IPH and LOD files on the main window for loading.
- fix: VA_START and ARGS for IPH and LOD files.
- del: HYP guide file call routine removed.
- fix: latest routine to get environment $HOME value.
- fix: use of clean revamped EXIST() instead of old Fopen() trick.
Iphigeńie is an accessory (.ACC) that comes very handy when experimenting with or even navigating inside the Atari Falcon sound/DSP matrix jungle. I remember to find it useful in different recording constellations, even in maxYMiser/SPDIF/Sample recording context. Configurations can be saved and loaded.
Very practical, too - you can lock/unlock/reset the DSP, e.g. after watching a demo to keep on working with clean settings. The tool comes with a coupe of presets and .LOD-files. Both ST-Guide and BubbleGem help. Source code is available.
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In a world dominated by the latest technology, there’s something uniquely captivating about the machines of the past, especially for those who see them not as relics, but as valuable tools for creativity and nostalgia.
For 19-year-old musician and vintage computing enthusiast James Norris, the Atari ST represents more than just a vintage gaming system; it’s a bridge to a world of music production, gaming history, and personal discovery.
I first met James a few months ago when he reached out to ask about getting some Atari STs repaired.
What began as an interest in retro gaming, with fond memories of titles like King’s Quest and Doom, evolved into a deeper connection with the Atari ST platform, known for its powerful MIDI capabilities and legendary library of arcade classics. From the unique challenge of finding vintage hardware to the thrill of exploring its creative potential, James shares their journey into the world of retro computing, the beloved Atari ST, and how this retro powerhouse continues to shape their music production and gaming experience today.
Join us as we delve into James's story, their setup, the challenges of working with vintage tech, and the creative projects that keep the Atari ST a beloved part of their daily life.
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The revision party from the past weekend had a couple of Atari surprises in the Oldskool music competition.
First up was a 100 Hz maxYMiser track from Dubmood of D-Bug using STe PCM sounds for drums.
The second track was an Akros Tracker 3 tune by Doclands of the Overlanders, a plain 50 Hz ST composition.
Both of them have been ripped/converted and added to the SNDH archive.
Try our brand new SNDH player, we're crossing fingers it will work!
💾 Download "Had to submit something (might as well be this thing) by Dubmood" at the SNDH site
💾 Download "Private Investigator 4Me! by Doclands" at the SNDH site
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