Their story: RATI and Janek of Overlanders
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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...
Thursday, 29th of May 2025
06:50, Germany (505):
It's been 10 years since my last Outline party. A way too long period of missing out the positive vibe emitted by this regular spring event.
This time I am trying to provide a live report instead of a past-event summary. So there may be smaller updates by different contributors flying in right on this page, just as they happen (or not). Let's see how this turns out!
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Read more: Outline 2025 live reportage (part 1)
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The return of Overlanders have been nothing short of fantastic the last few years. Doclands of Overlanders who was active already in early 90's visited the 68k Inside party over the weekend of May 23-25, 2025. To our enjoyment Doclands presented a new Atari ST chiptune in the competitions.
It's an Arkos Tracker 3 composition using pure YM-sound without timers.
Play "Mission Complete" by Doclands of Overlanders
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🔗 Visit SNDH page of Mission Complete
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Recent 68k inside Party also brought a new Jaguar release to the surface. Ggn reveals:
Here we go, we've kept it under wraps for quite a while, but now's the time to announce this:
Adam is Me, the absolutely smashing game for the Atari 800 from 2020 (http://aim.atariscene.pl) finally found its way to the Jaguar (after a brief stop at Atari ST and Commodore Amiga)! Presented last night at 68k inside demoparty in Finland (https://68k-inside.party), it ranked first in the wild compo category :).
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The UK's premier retro computing and gaming event, RetCon, returns on Saturday, May 31st, 2025, at the Barnhill Community Centre in Hayes. The event is organised by the Greenford Computer Club, this year's festival promises an expanded lineup of classic systems, such as the Atari ST, Spectrum, Amiga, etc, engaging talks, and a vibrant community atmosphere.
If you're able, drop it and get hands on with the iconic Atari ST computer! Our friend, Steven Leicester, will be there, so why not say hello!
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Fresh from the 68k Inside 2025 party comes an invite for the Shadow Party 2025 which takes place just over month from now in July. The invitation displays Zerkmans latest MPP techniques for colourful pictures on the ST with as much fullscreen as can be done on the machine.
On STe computers Zerkman enhanced the the intro so it will show the graphics without interlaced palette.
Video of the very colourful Shadow Party 2025 Invitation
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💾 Download and comment on Pouet
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The first beta of SLiXs REminiscence Falcon port was recently released.
REminiscence is a re-creation of Flashback, the successor of Another World. Sadly the game never got an ST or Falcon version back in the day, while a Jaguar version did make it.
The newly released Falcon version runs on a 030 machine with 14 MB memory, RGB or VGA screen and makes use of DSPMOD for audio.
Flashback mixes beautiful backdrops with smoothly animated polygon charaters, similar to Another World
💾 Download REminiscence-F030 v1.0.0-beta.1 at GitLab
🔗 GitLab project page with source code and description
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When Finnish group Dekadence asks people to party with them in their home country, it's very hard to ignore their call for long. Therefore, it was once again time to pack our bags, releases, and sunny disposition and head to Scandinavia.
Frequent visitors of an Atari centric party happening during the summer time in Sweden will find similarities between the two locations. Indeed, main 68k inside organisers Britelite and Ricky Martin have confessed that they chose the location because it resembled Sommarhack a rather lot.
Practically, this means a small party, close to a lake, outside large cities, more laid back then bigger parties. And of course: less mosquitos than its Swedish counterpart, and more sauna!
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Read more: 68k inside from the inside (a party report shall we say)
People who worked on TOS are very clever.
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Read more: Hidden in plain sight: How Dave Staugas got away with hiding a text message inside TOS?
Cases are overrated
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The anual Czech Atari event took place last weekend in Olomouc. While we cannot provide a detailed report Krupkaj/Jaysoft offers gourmet photos on his gallery page.
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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
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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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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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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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