Missing and Found Department - The Sillyventure 2017 Report.
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Here we are in 2025 and this is the second (third?) of my unseen Sillyventure reports from times past. It finally gets its...
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Wednesday 19th November 2025.
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Read more: Sillyventure Winter Edition 2025 Report.
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Thadoss and Jade of Dune teamed up with Virgill/Alcatraz to release a giant of a demo at last weekend's Sillyventure party.
For many, this 16 Mhz / 14 MB Falcon demo was the climax of the party and the demo is a milestone in Atari Falcon demo history without any doubt. Impressive tech and graphic design and foremost thrilling and yet unseen DSP effects (falling leaves anyone?), great scenery and transitions.
The demo optionally conveys one or several emotional messages (depends on yourself), on the edge between thoughfulness and sadness at times, all perfectly transported by Virgill's intensive soundtrack.
Obviously an incredible amount of work went into making this. Thank you so much guys, it means a lot!
More SV coverage might follow here later on.
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๐พ Download Taedium Vitae by Dune
๐ย Taedium Vitae by Dune on Demozoo
๐ TaediumVitae by Dune on Pouet.net
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Cosmos Amiga has finished the "Romy Falcon TOS 1 MB adapter" which seems to open the possibility to add 512 Kb to the TOS-ROM along with aย test program, that helps verifying that it works.
Being not entirely sure what the use case is, maybe some of our readers do know?
๐ Romy Falcon 1MB TOS Adapter and software
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Logiker has published the results of this years ATASCII competition on the respective website.
"Cybersnail", the winning entry by Odyn1ec
๐ results as video on youtube
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Krystone who recently published a nice browser based Atari ST disk image converter, strikes back with another online tool. ATari CAS Player allows to play, visualize, convert and download Atari XL/XE .cas-files. Export format is .WAV.
๐ CAS Play
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Chaos Inc. has published the sources and original graphics of the game classics Rings of Medusa 2 aka Return of Medusa:
"This is the source code of the original Atari ST/Amiga game from 1991 together with all needed graphics and sound data. It has been published for historical reasons, if someone wants to get insights into former game development. The game is mostly written in C with some assembler routines to speed up the code. Everything was developed and done on an Atari ST, even the Amiga version. I used TurboC and TurboAss for compiling and mostly NEOchrome Master for the images."
Thanks for the hint, Jade!
๐ Rings of Medusa 2 on Github
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Preparations are running for Silly Venture 2025 WE and the time table has just been published.
๐ 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?
Iโm back again once more.
Weโre in the pre-Sillyventure 2025 Winter Edition anticipation period. โThingsโ 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 Iโd 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 ?
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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.
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In my test session i took one of the images, added a font some texts and played with the effects.ย
There are twelve effects - six to bring an image on the screen and six to clear the screen.
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You can set the area for your scroller interactively and link programs like neoChrome which can be launched from within LCK. ย
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Adding legendary scroll-texts is also done in the programs editor:
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Every setting can be tested without compiling inside the LCK.
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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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๐ Pixel Boys homepage
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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.
๐ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ย Retro Computer Dresden e.V. website
๐ 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.
๐ย 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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๐ ABBUC website
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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)ย #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.
๐ย Atari800MacX on Github
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