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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Five Fingers Punching hard at Edison party!

The Stockholm-based and usually more PC and Commodore centered Edison party 2026 brought a surprising release: "Tic Tac Finger" by Five Finger Punch (FFP) for Atari XL/XE with 64 KB of RAM. The demo is a very positive multipart demo supported by catchy Maze music. You will find refreshing ideas and a demo playing a bit with the Atari-Commodore rivalry.

The demo ranked first place in the oldschool demo compo.
Thanks for this lovely surprise, FFP!

🔗 Tic Tac Finger on Pouet

🔗 Tic Tac Finger on Demozoo

 

The demoscene report brings you all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular we take a look at the releases from DiHalt Summer that took place in the Russian woods, then we cover Lost Party that took place in Poland and the small Vammala party in Finland. https://youtu.be/8xJ6cq3GTzE

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Nectarine Demoscene Radio is looking for new jingles - An open call for musicians!

Are you a scene musician who wants to boost your scene cred? Are you a veteran musician eager to have more recognition? Nectarine Demoscene Radio (scenestream.net) -- the first and oldest demoscene radio online -- is looking for new radio jingles, because we got too many old jingles with our old web address in 'em! • THE EASY WAY You can give us permission to use a snippet of your scene music in our jingles -- and our mods and admins will do the rest! Additionally, you can record a brief voiceover...

[ demoparty.net ] Deadline 2026: Remote entries only for executable and wild / animation compos

Good day everyone! 🌴🦩 While we’re slowly starting to prepare the resort for you we have two important announcements to make:

🐠 In order to avoid preselection in graphics and music compos, this year we will only accept remote entries for all executable, wild and animation compos!

🐠 Due to the popularity of the party in the recent years we unfortunately can’t guarantee a table space for everyone anymore. Therefore we advise you to come early if you need a table space for the entire time and would like to kindly ask you to only occupy as much table space as needed, so that other fellow sceners can get a place to work as well.

Thank you for your understanding, dear beloved visitors of the Apocalypso. Keep calm and carry on.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Silly Venture 2026 SE - It’s getting closer!

 

It’s time for the next summer party!

After the small(ish) but perfectly formed Sommarhack party at the start of July, the onset of Silly Venture Summer Edition is crashing through for the end of the month.

I’m going to let the big man himself, Michal M. tell us more.

Here's the link to the main site landing page.

There is also an Atari Forum topic for the party.

Things to take note of especially.

T-Shirt ordering stops on the 22nd July at 08.00hrs. T-Shirts can be collected in person or posted later on.

The link to upload competition entries on the main site is now available, after some delays.

It looks like there is more happening this time around, than at the last summer edition, if rumours are correct?

Unfortunately I’m not going this time around, due to a combination of personal and wider issues, but we’ll see for November, eh!

CiH - For Atariscne, July 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] ExtenDOS 4.11 released

Mikro writes:   When I was working on a new ScummVM release, I realised that its new features would allow users not only run ScummVM on standard TT/Falcon but also to easily play sampled music directly from a CD. So instead of the usual testing setup (Falcon with CT60) I booted into the 030 mode with intention of recording a nice video of me playing The Secret of Monkey Island off my SCSI CD drive.   Imagine my surprise when all I got was a black screen as soon as I started the game. It took me quite a while (and dedusting many of the long forgotten memories of how to set up various CD drivers like ExtenDOS, Spin!, SCSI Tools or Egon CD...) to pinpoint the exact culprit (it would work nicely in CT60, FreeMiNT, EmuTOS, from IDE HDD drive, from USB CD drive, ...) but in the end it was a small but nasty issue in ExtenDOS CD.BOS SCSIDRV driver.   Fortunately, Roger Burrows is still around and kind enough to take a look so I'm happy to announce that he has just released ExtenDOS 4.11 which fixes the nasty issue: http://www.anodynesoftware.com/e4/main.html.  

So I was able to record that Video after all.

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular we take a look at a bunch of small demoparties that recently took place, Sommarhack in Sweden, Black Valley in Norway and Impulse in Portugal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXwr92NtaQE

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Chip 'n Tell by SYNC

At Sommarhack earlier this month Troed of SYNC released a new tool that will be of help to many people.

 

Have you ever wondered which tune plays in a demo screen or cracktro?  Wading through dozens and dozens of SNDH-files before you finally find the correct one.

Well those days are over. 

Send a recording of the music to Chip 'n Tell and it will identify the track in seconds, or it can even work in continuous mode to identify tracks live as they play.

Chip 'n Tell by Troed / SYNC

🔗 Check out Chip 'n Tell!

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] CT60 TOS 1.05 20260715 has been released

After mikro released his updated TOS 1.03e he also bugged me to dedust my old sources.

So here is the current CT60 TOS 1.05 20260715 by tSCc.

Rebased on 1.03e with further 1.05 fixes merged.

mikro ist schuld!

Get it at https://insane.tscc.de/

Changelog at the github link on my page.

-insane/Rabenauge^tSCc

 

🔗 Download at Insanes website

🔗 Sources and changelog at Github

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari Summer in Poland

Krupkaj writes:

There was not only an Atari ST demoparty this summer, but also an Atari 8-bit party in central Poland, held in Licheń Stary.

 

We enjoyed four great days filled with competitions, a barbecue and even two live concerts. Among the released intros, graphics and music entries was Level, an excellent new demo for the Atari 8-bit.

🔗 Lost Party 2026 on Demozoo

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Summer 2026 update

So there's been some slow days here at the site, the editors are clearly dozing off at a beach somewhere... Or?

Nah, we've been busy going to demo parties, of course.

 

Here's a quick roundup of the latest ones!

 

Sommarhack 2026 (July 3-5)

The only remaining Atari-exclusive demoparty in the nordics (as we know of) had it's 18th edition in Grådö, Dalarna, Sweden happen at the usual venue, Malmgården.

For once we were blessed by the weather gods and had a glorious Saturday where the visitors could enjoy the barbecue without being soaked and come back from the Tipspromenad with dry shoes. Amazingly the mosquitos had mostly gone on vacation as well.

Sommarhack late at night

Friendly reminder that if you want to secure the forever bragging rights of being among the first (and maybe only) people to send their entries into the sky, it's time to get going –  the deadline for the drone light show competition is 24. July 2026 23:59 CEST (yes, that's a month before the party). Remote entries are allowed! 

Our compo rules page will set you up for success with everything you need to know, including a template. For infos regarding flying permissions, check out our latest pouet post. 

The sky's the limit – don't miss out!

[Submitted by darya]

All of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular a look at the releases from ze Shadow Party in France. https://youtu.be/1GnFKY0LfYs

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Neural seeking member(s)

(I did a small intro/advert about that topic but it didn't have much success, so...) I'm primarily seeking an experienced/all-terrain musician who can handle multiple sound chips (sid, paula, various YM, etc.) to collaborate on as many projects as possible & on different platforms (no fuss, no hassle, no real deadlines) to join me in Neural. Other kind of artists are also welcome. If interested, contact me via this site or you can also eventually ping me on Discord (hitchhikr). Currently...

[ Atariscne.org - News ] DMA Bliss v0.2

Nearly exactly a year ago, Nerve / Ephidrena released DMA Bliss v0.1 to address the infamous STE DMA problem: https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/ste-bad-dma-atariscne-org-testing-a-software-fix.   Around that time I was playing with the idea of creating something similar for a separate list of issues I had found in HD Driver. Seeing Nerve's work being open sourced was the push in the right direction however I was very busy and additionally, around that time HD Driver 12.70 was released which fixed most of the issues, taking steam from my motivation to look at it again.   Well, one year later still seeing the IDE I/O rate crippled I decided to take a look after all: https://github.com/mikrosk/hddriver-patch/releases/tag/v0.2.   This patch dramatically improves HD Driver's I/O on Atari IDE, adds missing cache flush after SCSI transfers on Falcon with 040/060 CPU and finally, updates the STE DMA fix for recent (12.70+) versions as the original one wouldn't work anymore.   Use at your own risk, as I do. ;)   P.S. I cordially invite HD Driver's author to take my code and adapt them into the official product. New routines are provided in the source code comments, free for grabs.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Sommarhack 2026 News Flash

Juli 3rd, 2026, 05:01 PM:

After a very relaxed start on Thursday evening with take-away food and involving primarily the organizers and the few guests that already made it to Grädo, the party officially started today at 14:00.

People keep coming in, with Doclands of Overlanders, Rapido of Synergy and (potentially) Mr. Pink of the Reservoir Gods making a long awaited comeback. With the game compo already running and people busy preparing their compo entries, the heat is building up - which is much appreciated as its only 16 degrees outside and raining every now and then.

 

Juli 3rd, 2026, 06:49 PM: 

Breaking news from Sommarhack! Due to the unexpected and heavy rain, the barbequeue, that had been started already, is being cancelled. Instead, soup will be served soon...".

 

 

Bringing you all the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular, a look at the releases from Posadas Amiga party that i attended in person this past weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX6IL2Jhgrs

[Submitted by psenough]

- The latest news from around the scene!

- Nah-Kolor's 1st place in the Roma.exe graphics competition!

- How Cosmic Orbs went MSDOS!

- The Making of Book of Air by Darkage

- Roma.exe Party Report

- NRG 2026 Party Invitation! - Intro’s from Roma.exe & Posadas packed!

And much, much more inside!

Pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106574

Direct download link: https://nahkolor.c64.page/NAH_SPEED77.ZIP

[Submitted by magic]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari treat: Atari ST video being fed by SidecarTridge's Rasperry Pi pico.

Diego from the SidecarTridge project realised a couple of tech demos, showcasing how a video stream generated on the respective Rapsberry Pi Pico is displayed on the Atari ST video output. 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari800 emulator - Version 7.00 available

The Atari emulator Atari800 is catching up with real hardware (Fujinet) and now offers built-in Internet downloads for OS/BASIC ROMs as well as zipped disk images.

🔗 Atari800 Emulator webpage

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Early stages of Arcade conversions for Atari Falcon

Anima/Light has published a work-in-progress video of a number of classic arcade ports for the Atari Falcon, both basing on Anima's previous code framework and applying AI assistance.

The video clip shows the early stage of a "The King of Dragons" port running on an 68060 processor. Another clip is presenting an early stage of Street Fighter II.

 

[ Demozoo ] Console Cracktro Preservation Taskforce

To preserve console cracktros and trainer menus is a highly complicated matter: One has to extract the scene-generated content from the patched game in a way that no proprietary game data remains, while turning the intro into a standalone ROM image. As you might have noticed, the numbers of archived GBC, GBA, SNES, Dreamcast, PSX, PS2, NDS, N64 and even Wonderswan intros and trainer menus have been skyrocketing recently. This is thanks to a dedicated and skillful team of console enthusiasts within the Demozoo orbit, currently consisting of Xylitol, NewOtzelot, ps1ch and SiZiOUS, who locate console releases with intros and trainers, extract those using sophisticated tools and handcraft, and put them on scene.org and Demozoo for everyone to enjoy. More and more intros are coming online on an almost daily basis. If you are a console enthusiast who would like to contribute to these efforts, contact the Demozoo team on our Discord server.

Bringing you all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular covering the releases from the ROMA.EXE demoparty that took place in Rome and also @party that took place Boston, both of them this past weekend. https://youtu.be/FZFH3KfE8I0

[Submitted by psenough]

Temperatures are rising, so we thought we‘d bring you the coolest news: Our website is online!
The next steps towards your happiness (and ours) couldn’t be easier: Have a read through the compo rules, write your name on the visitor list to tell us that you’re coming and treat yourself to a ticket and a shirt!
We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Abenteuerhallen and see what you got! ☮️🫰

[Submitted by darya]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Floppyshop Online - The Atari ST & Falcon Public Domain Library, Reborn

Back in the day, Floppyshop was one of the largest and best-known public domain libraries (PDLs) in the UK - a mail-order institution that supplied Atari ST and Falcon users with disk after disk of games, demos, utilities, music, fonts and art, long before broadband made everything a click away. For countless Atari owners, the Floppyshop catalogue was how you discovered new software.

Collections like this usually meet a sad end: boxed up, shelved, turned into shelf-ornaments and slowly forgotten. I didn't want that to happen here. So my girlfriend and I spent many days painstakingly reorganising the entire Floppyshop Gold series into a fully online, searchable database - every disk catalogued, every file downloadable, and all of it completely free to browse and grab. Thousands of programs and PD titles, preserved and back within reach.

It's all sorted into easy-to-browse sections: Art and Graphics, Astrology, Clip Art, Communication, Demos, Disk Magazines, Educational, Fonts, Games, Programming, MIDI, Music, Product Demos, Sound, Utilities and Word Processing. Buried in among it are plenty of "lost" programs - tools and titles that are still genuinely useful today, not just curiosities.

The originals weren't perfect, and neither were the catalogues. There were many discrepancies between what the Gold collection listed and the disks themselves, and I've corrected as many as I could find - including a few disks that never made it into the supplied (and probably older) catalogue at all. The separate ST and Falcon catalogues have been merged into single sections to keep things simple, with Falcon disks clearly renamed FALC-xxx so they're never confused with their ST counterparts.

Search it, browse it, download it - all free. And if you'd rather grab the whole lot in one go, the complete archives are available over on the exxos forum.

🔗 Browse the Floppyshop libary