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Preparations are running for Silly Venture 2025 WE and the time table has just been published.
🔗 Silly Venture 2025 WE website
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So what were the very best of the best, of all the releases from Sillyventure past?
I’m back again once more.
We’re in the pre-Sillyventure 2025 Winter Edition anticipation period. ‘Things’ are being made ready for the party, those not quite ready this time around folk are probably getting their excuses in early, respecting the compo entry deadlines, which is nice to see. I thought I’d add to the pre-party excitement by taking a look back at some of the things that transformed our expectations of what the humble Atari was capable of.
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GFA Basic is an unknown term and assembler surely something more related to a factory than an Atari ST to you ?
Still you want to show your own demo screen at one of the upcoming Atari meetings ?
Then the Loader Construction Kit might interest you.
You have to start the application in mid-res to get it to work. Next comes the disabled protection part.
After clicking on the red color in the lower row three times the main menu is loading.
The program uses mid-res to handle all editing and low-res to display the results and effects.
Then the Loader Construction Kit might interest you.
You have to start the application in mid-res to get it to work. Next comes the disabled protection part.
After clicking on the red color in the lower row three times the main menu is loading.
The program uses mid-res to handle all editing and low-res to display the results and effects.
In my test session i took one of the images, added a font some texts and played with the effects.
There are twelve effects - six to bring an image on the screen and six to clear the screen.
You can set the area for your scroller interactively and link programs like neoChrome which can be launched from within LCK.
Adding legendary scroll-texts is also done in the programs editor:
Every setting can be tested without compiling inside the LCK.
While i was not able to go the whole length having difficulties saving/compiling it was nice to play around with the software for a while.
You can get it for free on this nicely designed homepage of the Pixel Boys:
You can get it for free on this nicely designed homepage of the Pixel Boys:
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According to unspecified rumours, Thadoss/Dune is possibly resuming his work on the Falcon game title "The 8 runes of Aerillion" in the future.
A first version of this rather complex Role Playing Game was shown at Silly Venture three years ago and featured yet unseen 3D gameplay, realistic background audio and Dma-Sc music.
🔗 The 8 runes of Aerillion on Demozoo
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Good games deserve a proper unboxing video. Dune's Jaguar shooter Xenowings got treated accordingly. In the video the "ZeroPage Homebrew" channel is presenting the AtariAge 2025 homebrew palette. Among all those games also Dune's game is unboxed and played a good while.
🔗 Xenowings on ZeroPage Homebrew
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The appreciated Dresden, Germany based RCD club held another Retro party last Saturday. Similar to the previous edition it was a very open minded and cosy event with all kinds of oldschool interested people and lots of gaming for young and old visitors. My estimate is 40-50 visitors over the day.
The massive Amiga corner was intimidating, being confronted with a little A1200 fleet and particularly a mortifying lineup of original game boxes presenting the games I always wished for the Atari, but that were only converted to Amiga or available on PC. The mid nineties were rough ground for Atari kids! Feel free to share your memories on that issue in the comments.
Then again, there was a proper shrine for the the most elegant device in the room, a Mega STE in full glory with a twin monitor setup, so I won't complain too loudly.
🔗 Retro Computer Dresden e.V. website
🔗 Report and photos by RCD (in German)
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The Retro Hour - a Retro Gaming podcast - has published an interview with Erik Simon aka ES/TEX about his game career with Thalion and other companies but also about his Atari ST demoscene roots and how it all formed his career in the game industry.
Thanks to Vlad for the hint.
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We all know that the Demoscene has received more recognition as cultural heritage over the last years, France being the latest in the row in April 25. Well, here comes another project led by Alex Pilot known for NoLife, a French geek online and TV channel. He has launched a Ulule campaign to gather money for his new project: a movie dedicated to the Atari and Amiga Demoscene back in the 90s and that should make it to theaters!
At the moment the campaign is very successful and breaks every limits as the first 30K goal is way behind! I doubt the movie will offer any other language but French yet this is definitely a project worth mentioning!
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Krystone is offering a nice browser based service to convert Atari ST disk images to .ST/.MSA or alternatively extract and download image content. You can also create blank images or insert files into an image. It works like a charm. According to the author the tool runs in a single client-side HTML file, so no data is sent to the server side.
Apart from the obvious converting use case, we can see this coming very handy, thinking of reducing work steps via emulators when dealing with disk images.
🔗 Atari ST Disk Image Extractor and Converter
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The annual JHV meeting of the ABBUC e.V. club took place over the weekend. It was also the 40th birthday of the German Atari 8-Bit club. Happy birthday ABBUC!
photos by Cas/ABBUC
There also the results of the software and hardware contest were published:
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The Polish development team KTZ and Hospes are working on a conversion of the Atari 8-bit game "Rogul" for the ST/E. A first intro trailer is available on youtube.
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Ronald Hall has published some nice videos from the US based VCF Midwest 2025 computing show.
Some cherry picking: The classic Atari ST demo "Ambience" by Digital Chaos put on display on a Stacy with color screen.
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Version 6.1.0. of Atari800MacX has been published on Github:
Features Added:
- Added Beta Version of NetSIO/FujiNet support
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed issue Won't paste the letter "J" (among others) #28
- Fixed issue where system Coldboots after entering Preferences when nothing has changed.
- Fixed issue where the user was unable to select an 800 system with either Axlon or Mosaic RAM.
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Better reported late than never:
Buddy, PPs and Vasyl released the Atari 8-Bit invitation for coming Silly Venture at Deadline party in October. It needs 48 kb of RAM and is both mono and stereo friendly.
🔗 Silly Venture 2025 WE invite
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Few days left to join the amazing ATASCII competition. You can submit entries for the 5th round of this competition until 28th of October 2025.
🔗 ATASCII compo entries from 2024
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Rome wasn't built in a day and the earlier announced FreeMint OS Distro neither. The distribution image is now finally available for download including a demo version of HD Driver. Great that these concerns could be resolved.
🔗 FreeMint OS Distro on Github
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Apparently two french chip music heros will play at upcoming Sillyventure party. Jess/Overlanders and AD/HMD are going to support the event with their show on Friday, the 21st in the evening.
announcement poster by Hospes
Speaking of Sillyventure, so far about 113 visitors have registered there coming (in presence or online). Let hope for a fruitful Atari demo autumn!
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The STC Archiv has been updated and now also runs under the name "Computer-Magazin-Archiv". The website is an online representation of the manifold Atari magazine landscape in Germany from 1984 until 2004 and also features the more recent issues of the ST Computer (up to 2025!).
You will find background information on the well known magazines and of course issues from the ST's climax such as TOS, ST-Computer, ST Magazin or Atari Inside, just a bit like when you went in a local German newsagent "few" years ago. There is much high value content of this great home computing era and it also allows for a nostalgic read about the phase of early Falcon rumours or the high hopes for the survival of Atari computing in the very late 1990s and early 2000s.
Beside this, there are also early Atari 8-Bit related magazines like Atari Magazine, Happy Computer and Computer Kontakt.
The overall presentation of the OCR-ed content is well organized and browse-able per magazine, issue and year and the actual table of content to jump to the articles.
An amazing effort by Mia Jaap who is also main editor of the still occasionaly published ST Computer magazine and who is also responsible for the great AtariUpToDate pages - which themselves received an update recently, too.
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We all remember those absolutely crazy videos posted by DML some years ago, the Falcon was rendering Quake 2 and even Half life levels in a way that made many jaws drop.
Quake 2 level running on a Falcon 030, screenshot by DML
After some wait the binaries are here for us to enjoy, and all those who doubted can see that it was for real all along. We get binaries for plain 16 MHz 030 as well as the DFB1 030/50 accelerator.
Together with DMLs recent SVO 30 release, it's starting to feel like the early 90's again when the Falcon seemed to be invincible, thanks Doug for these incredible masterclass showcases!
Falcon 030 Quake 2 sample video from DML
🌏 Get the Quake 2 BSP Explorer from DMLs site!
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