So you’re thinking that at the big multi-format Revision Easter party, there isn’t anything of compelling interest for us Atari fans? That amongst the system smashing Amiga and PC releases, there simply isn’t anything there for *our* platform?
A first glance may make you leap to that conclusion, but a slower and more considered examination reveals there are traces of Atari and Atarians. We can be found in all sorts of unexpected places!
This is what we discovered for Easter 2026.
I’m firstly going to go to the most blatant and in-your-face example, namely the oldschool demo competition winner, the Atari 2600 expectation transforming entry ‘Triplet’ by Otomata Labs.
Original Image borrowed from Pouet.
On viewing this, it feels like a little slice of Sillyventure has been transported to Revision. This entry should be smashing the competition in downtown Gdansk, you feel, but I suppose that the greater number of plaudits from the Revision and Pouet audiences proved an irresistible temptation.
Anyway, it’s incredible what you can squeeze from an Atari 2600. It’s as you were watching something on a system made more than half a decade later.
Well we’re going to take a close-up view of our next unexpected bonus item, with the miracle of emulation. Namely the crusty but still viable X128 ZX Spectrum emulator. Cautionary note, a CT60 or something else similarly powerful will be needed to run this one meaningfully.
This is my desktop running X128.
‘In 3D’, by Darklite and Offence, is a pocket-sized miracle of a Spectrum 128 4k intro, the winner of its Oldschool Intro category. Green monochrome dots have never been so effectively deployed (outside of a Commodore PET demo?)
We’re staying with the higher end Atari for the moment, as one of the more obscure Revision competitions, animated GIFS, features next.
The ‘tool-de-jour’ happens to be zView and here’s a screen grab with three of my personal favourites, downloaded and cajoled into view on my CT60 desktop.
Animated GIF's are go!
I did make some adjustments to the images beforehand. Namely to resize to half resolution from their original 640 x 360 pixels worth, which makes file sizes and displaying multiple images on restricted resolution desktops much less challenging.
We have an entry in the ANSI/ASCII competition from classic automobile and occasional Atari botherer, Spiny. His entry, ‘Blue and Red’ managed a creditable fifth place, out of nineteen entries. Well done that chap!
It remains to be seen if his very deep vertical resolution entry breaks the Atariscne picture displayer? If it does work, you’re only seeing part of it now!
We can consider that most of the still image categories, artwork and photos alike, can be generically displayed on most generations of Atari with a suitable picture displayer. So pretty much all of those image categories are open. I’ve chosen the Oldschool Graphics competition winner, ‘A boy and his Capybara’ as the shining example to show off here.
A Boy and his Capybara.
We’re digging down deeper now. Nothing so much to run or display on Atari hardware anymore, but if you care to look more closely at the creator credits, there’s even Atarian involvement with the PC demo competition winner ‘Razor1911’.
A huge list of involved personnel includes Atari people, such as Dubmood, TinKer, and Exocet. It shows that sheer talent can appear and express itself practically anywhere.
We’re saving this little unexpected treat until last. A music disk entered in the Wild Competition, the triple format ‘Chipo Django 3’ by Rabenauge and Bitshifters.
Chipo Django 3, as close to system agnostic as possible.
This is continuing the multi-format music disk series, the Atari STE is included, along with Amiga 500 and Acorn Archimedes. I’m sure 505 would be upset if we didn’t mention the Revision production that he was involved with!
So in conclusion, we find that for this non-Atari party, there are a number of treats you can meaningfully enjoy in a variety of different ways, from emulation, image displaying, even discovering the hands of Atari people in some of the most outstanding entries, I almost forgot to mention Leonard, who was wearing his Amiga coding gloves to create the Amiga intro winner ’64k-Silhouette’. We’ll have to tempt him into making some more Atari productions soon.
Not to mention the couple of actual physical releases for Atari 2600 and Atari STE that we got.
Hope you enjoyed some of these, because I certainly did!
CiH - For Atariscne.org - April 2026.
Comments
https://demozoo.org/graphics/389870/