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[ Wanted! ] Looking for C64 and Amiga coders for GRiBFORD

Hello, I am murloc013, founder of GRiBFORD, looking for some people who can help out in making demos for oldskool platforms. We are 3 people in the group right now. We currently make demos on PC, planning to be active on Amiga and C64 as well. If you are interested in joining the group, contact me on Discord: murloc013 We accept anyone around the world.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Last Graphics, not Least!

In previous years, some of the Polish Last Party compo releases turned out to reveal as hidden gems. As I remembered some great Atari XL/XE pictures from last year (have a look - they are awesome!), I was already curious how the compo would turn out this time. And in this year's edition we also got a number of creative and quite nostalgic artwork again, many of them including references to the world of Atari 8-Bit.

Let's have a look:

"Cicho, bo się nie wgramy" by Piesiu (1st place)

Ninja - check, Boulder dash - check, Bruce Lee - check, Frogger - check, little clown on the left - no idea! ;-)

I took the effort and tried to get a translation for this: "Be calm, or we won't get in". Any interpretation of the motive aside, this is obviously another masterpiece by Piesiu presenting a combination of motive, graphical skill and color richness way above the level of graphics that were common during the classic Atari XL/XE era. I would have been blown away back then by the "photo realism".

After having read parts of mOdmate's Graph2Font guide, I suppose the color change of the area around Bruce Lee's chin downwards may be for technical reasons allowing to use the more violet and later green palette from there? Wild guessing, but anyway, amazing!

"Last Museum" by Rocky (2nd place)

A trip to this museum, puts us Atarisceners into perspective. What a hilarious and - somewhat - realistic idea and what masterful execution. Much work went into this picture obviously, with those detailed characters using so few pixels, the lightning and many little details to spot. The image has a great graphic adventure vibe, too (but more like a 256 color VGA one!).

So, dear reader, who do you prefer to be? I think being an industrial human just sucks! ;-)

Anyway, as long as creative pictures like those are delivered in Atari compos, the scene's heartbeat feels just right to me!

 

Spy vs. Spy by Rocky (3rd place)

What an extremely colorful picture reminding us to this odd couple of agents. Honestly, I always loved the original Spy vs. Spy game due to it's great comic like graphics and adventure like feeling but just as honestly, never understood what I was doing gameplay wise! ;)

Anyway, about the many colors, I can only guess: On first view, this looks like straight from an Atari Falcon demo (Absence's Joint Venture comes to mind)! But right, we are about 24 bit away from this platform. I suppose that "interlaced" mode helps to manage to put all the colors on screen? Or maybe it's just an artistic tool, who knows.

 

New Year Disc by Kaz (4th place)

Very nice picture, supposedly done for PPS's new years disk. Can you spot the NYD letters? Original idea and the dithering of the parts looks really nice. Kaz has also published working steps from paper sketching to the full picture on youtube.

 

Frozen Creatures Surprised by the Arrival of Hot FLOP #69 Discmag by Kaz (5th place)

The title says it all. Now there is no excuse to not release issue #69 of the Czech Atari XL/XE FLOP diskmag. And with some smart mirroring, the picture can then be re-used to motivate the FLOP team for issue #96, too!

 

Imaginacja by marduk-pl (6th place)

Rightfully stated, "Last party, not least". Watching this, a lot of memories are crawling back from my foggy long-term memory: Bruce Lee, Alley Cat, Zorro, Pacman, HERO, possibly Pirates of the Barbary Coast and who knows, there are surely more things to discover? A nice homage to the golden past!

Well, the hidden-gem-theory worked out again. And as usual, Last Party brought some releases in other categories as well, such as small size intros, games, musics and more. Feel free to investigate further via Demozoo.

🔗 Last Party 2026 website

🔗 Last Party 2026 on Demozoo

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] STBook gets WiFi

For those who are lucky to own the rare STBook, there’s exciting news: AndresPlaza developed a WiFi module for it. The board fits into the space that was originally intented to host a modem but it was never used for anything until now!

The hardware design and the software drivers are open source with more information available on GitHub.

Photo by Andres Plaza

🔗 Read more on Atari-Forum

🔗 Project on Github

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 147. A brand new tracked 2026

2026! We made it. DJ Daemon serves up a slew of brand new tunes done on Protracker, Impulsetracker, Fasttracker and other. And many of them were released in 2026. Brand new that is. No tunes older than 2025. Join us for an hour of fresh music that isn't the usual 90s fare. It's awesome really.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon welcomes you to 2026 and promises to play tunes from 2026 (brand new) and some from 2025.
00:31 Sysfins - Happy new year 2026
02:52 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of the show.
03:14 Beyond - Pine
04:48 3zs7i73 - Tousitsu
06:28 Sysfins - Moody music
08:26 DJ Daemon talks about the next tune how it was released in December of 2025.
08:44 Viraxor - Justify moving onward
12:32 DJ Daemon talks about a song long enough to have a coffee break.
13:02 Drakonpod - Goa-ing
22:25 DJ Daemon tells you about the next song it's long development cycle.
22:47 Viraxor - Amarantha
27:40 DJ Daemon tells you that it's time for the second medley of today.
28:16 Lu9 - Bao bao! (Beta mix)
30:56 Low freekwenzee ozzillation - Jingle of a horny transgirl
33:11 Viraxor - The fate of olivera
34:11 Beyond - Think it
36:10 DJ Daemon talks about the station and what's coming up in 2026.
36:59 The Duccinator - Multi universe traveler
41:12 DJ Daemon about Edison 2026 and Revision 2026.
42:01 Starwreath - Underground
45:53 DJ Daemon wonders what "Cratulation" even means.
46:19 Ether audio - Cratulation
49:22 DJ Daemon talks about the last medley out of three.
49:59 Burnt fishy - Speedster
50:59 554 - Fallout 5
53:15 Raposa - Uwa
54:15 DJ Daemon leads you into that good night with...
54:56 Low freekwenzee ozzillation - Ducks make me smile
59:03 DJ Daemon tells you how to keep up with us.
59:15 Bacter, Jeenio and Saga musix - Wandering Visions

Production notes:
The first episode produced in 2026.

Colophon: None.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, Just playing the music, 2026

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Vlak! Take the Atari train!

It’s yet another release for the ‘Dead’ Atari ST scene this week.

This time, it’s a conversion of an old MS-DOS game from 1993, carried out by Baky, who has popped up in previous productions for 8-Bit and 16-Bit Atari. The game itself can be best described as a ‘Worms game, but needing careful forethought.’ There is a soundtrack from Tao, which dates back to 2005.

The basic mechanism is the same as worms, but the ‘worm’ is a train, with ever-adding carriages, as you pick up objects in the play field. The objective is to clear the screen and safely exit the screen. You can imagine this gets somewhat complicated with the later, more involved levels. The usual causes of death, from crashing into walls, turning into yourself, still apply.

This game has already been finished and released, with no changes, unless any really horrific bugs are found, according to Mikro, who has been promoting the release.

There is a link to http://www.atariportal.cz/news_detail.php?itmid=2001368 to download the game.

Also there is a video link from Saberman RetroNews to watch it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRceE8UgtTE

CiH - For Atariscne.org - Jan 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Cavey Taxi An Upcoming STE Game!

Some time since he released his STE-fantastic racer, ‘Faster’, Chicane is now working on a new game for the Atari STE.

This is *not* a racing game, astoundingly, but features elements of ‘Thrust’ and ‘Crazy Taxi’. This is the provisionally named ‘Cavey Taxi’.

The player has to pick up and drop off passengers, threading their way through a mean and rugged looking cave system, battling time limits and fuel consumption. It remains to be seen if the basic premise is expanded upon, but the players rotating and manouvering skills will be heavily tested.

There is heavy usage of STE hardware, as hardware scrolling is there, along with a neat particle system for the engine thrust. The playing area looks fullscreen. There is currently no sound, but STE DMA effects would be expected. 

The target system will be a 1MB STE. The game should be available for free download sometime in February or March 2026. We will bring more news as the story develops.

Link to Youtube to see it in (silent) action.

CiH For Atariscne.org - Jan 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Cream releases SNDH files from the STay4Evr demo

Back in July 2024 at the Sommarhack party, Cream released a massive music demo for ST; playing lots and lots of classic C64 music files on the YM-chip using their very impressive music driver that simulates almost everything the SID-chip can do (apart from filters).  The demo then had several parts and even a complete version of the C64 basic ported to 68000 (yes, not emulated).

 

Fast forward one and half year, and the music from the demo have been transformed into SNDH-files that can easily be played stand alone on your ST: STay4Evr::SNDH Files

As a bonus, Cream have also thrown in all music files without their advanced music driver, playing them on the YM without timer interrupts. It's fun to compare the non-timer versions with the ones made in the 80's. Even with the same level of limitations there's a big improvement.

As if that wasn't enough, there's a second bonus; a demo to present the SNDH-pack!  Featuring effects from the mythical Heftig demo that was seen already back at Error In Line 1999, still looking spendid!

 

💾 STay4Evr::SNDH Files at Demozoo

💾 STay4Evr::SNDH Files at Pouet.net

📺 STay4Evr::SNDH Files at Youtube

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Babaliba, a ZX Spectrum perfect game conversion for the ST!

We’re barely into the new year and we have some new gaming goodies from a Spanish enthusiast, Carles Orial.

This is an adventure game ‘Babaliba’, made for the ZX Spectrum by the Spanish software house, Dinamic and released in 1984. It has elements of Spectrum Classics, ‘Mazogs’ and ‘Sabre-Wulf’.

The author recalls that this was one of the first games he owned, first playing it on a black and white television and being astounded when he finally got to see it in colour.

He was so enamoured by this game, he set to work to convert it to his equally beloved Atari ST. First attempting this in Assembly language but switching to C coding.

The Author adds  “I hope you enjoy my conversion. It was made with lots of love, lots of flowers , and INCREDIBLY BIG NOSES."

Here’s a link to the Github page:

Github Page:

CiH - Atariscne.org - Jan 2026.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Trumpton Riots, an STE musical treat!

An Atari STE sample demo made in STOS.

This one has appeared without any pre-announcement. Just one guy getting on with stuff and releasing it, I guess.

The functionally named ‘M.Lynn’, who made an STE Outrun music disc a while ago, has created this very ‘UK- Sceners of a certain age group specific’ release.

[ demoparty.net ] On demoparty.net as a wiki

There seems to have been (or still is) some discussion about whether demoparty.net can be regarded as a wiki or not.

My idea has always been a webpage that brings two groups together: those who are organizing a demoparty and those who would like to visit one (or more than one).

But let’s get back to the original point: demoparty.net has never been a real wiki. New parties (and news and images) require manual approval by an admin, which is not how a wiki usually works. Apart from that, most information is editable for logged-in users. Please use this function if you find inaccurate information.

At a certain point, some parties complained about this (for whatever reason), so I added a feature to “claim” a demoparty series. With this, a party is fully responsible for its events on this platform, which is why only they can, for example, add this year’s Revision.

To sum it up: more engagement, adding parties, and fixing mistakes on this platform is encouraged and will help both the demoparties and the demosceners. And in the end, it will help the demoscene.

Love. Poti

[ demoparty.net ] ROMA.EXE 2026: Pre-registration form

Please help us estimate the number of visitors and who is interested in friday’s events (wine tasting, city tour, social dinner) pre-registering here:

https://roma-exe.com/preregister.html

Thanks!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] An interview with Thadoss of Dune (Part one)

Forewords: I have known Thadoss from fame as a Dune member for 3 decades. He has brought us several nice games and demos among others but more recently he has also amazed us all with Taedium Vitae, in my opinion already a classic Falcon demo that was released at the latest Sillyventure winter edition. This is the reason why I wanted to learn more about him in this first part.

As you may have guessed you can expect a second part that will be dedicated to this great demo. I thought it would be cool to invite both Jade (gfx) and Virgill (msx) to join him in this second part to share their thoughts about the making of the demo. 

Before I forget, part one of the interview was carried in French and then manually translated by me, no AI implied here so that I will take full responsibility for my poor English. :) Now let's get started!

STS: Hello Thadoss, first question, an easy one to start with: can you tell us a bit about yourself? 

Thadoss: Hi everyone. My name is Laurent Sallafranque, I am a 51 French man who lives by the seaside near Brest in Bretagne (west coast). I work as a risk manager in a bank company but I have also worked in various IT departments over the last 2 decades first as a coder then later as a project manager. 

[ Wanted! ] Looking for Amiga Coders

Hello! I need some people into my demogroup called The Kingdom. We're starting demogroup, looking for Amiga Coders. My name is Polemic, I live in Czech Republic, UTC +1, And don't hesitate and contact me Discord: pol3mic_

[ Wanted! ] 64klang soundtrack for 64k intro (target: Revision 2026)

Hello, friol from Rome/Italy here. I'm a demoscener since 1997, and also author of 4k presented at Revision 2025. I'm seeking for a soundtrack for an intro at Revision 2026, using 64klang. The effects/ideas for the intro are 90% consolidated, but I need a good soundtrack for it ("demostyle" music or similar in a tempo near 120bpm). The intro would also be the official PC invitation for ROMA.EXE demoparty (https://roma-exe.com/). Let me know if you are interested! Many thanks.

[ Wanted! ] Looking for GLSL / shader wizards to create demos

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share the result of my first collaboration with an amazing shaders developer! Check it out here: https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/fhfU3oh5HfaRxiv4KKBDSE During the development of this demo, I also built a custom demo engine that allows me to easily create new demos. It’s fully scripted, so adding new content is a breeze! On top of that, I mixed the music for this demo myself. However, I’m always open to incorporating music from other sources if it fits the vibe. If...

[ Atariscne.org - News ]  A quick trip to Atari.Anides.de

It’s CiH here, with another short(ish) article for your enjoyment.

This text is about another of those long-hidden legacy sites, that still somehow exists and can still be used today, in this case for picture enhancement enjoyment.

I’m writing about the one-stop, multi-formatting image conversion shop which is atari.anides.de. This was created by ‘Anima’, aka Percy of Light, who was also responsible for several arcade to Atari conversions. The most memorable to me personally being Galaga 88 and Cho Ren Sha, but there were several other experimental projects at varying stages. (Will the Sharp 68000 PacMania conversion ever be finished?)

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari themed LED lights offered by retrohax.net

Drygol, of retrohax fame, recently posted on atari.area forum that he is producing and selling 15x14cm plexiglass laser engraved plates that are lit up by a led lights base.

drygol mentions that he could not capture the real vibrance of the colours, so expect even better results up close.

If you're interested,use your favorite translation service on https://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=323978 and read up on instructions on how to order.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Puckman - STe Pacman replica

Puckman, as the same suggests, is a Pacman-like game. In fact, it's more or less identical to the arcade version of Pacman, graphics, sound and all.

Coded by JC-DUSSE it incorporates some demo-techniques such as top/lower border removal and multiple STe PCM-channel sound.

The game was just recently updated to support Mega STe, previously it failed to detect the machine.

 

Puckman video by JC-DUSSE

🔗 Download the game at Itch.io

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 146. Xmas special 2025

It's time for the yearly talk show where DJ Daemon, Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep meet to discuss the retro-, demo- and gaming scene. We are a little bit late due to some technical troubles, but here is your last chance to celebrate christmas 2025. Yeah, we know, it's January 2026 but still... Enjoy tracker music and retrotalk!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Odin aka Sacio - Jeengleballs
00:37 DJ Daemon presents the show welcomes Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep.
02:28 Alexander Brandon - White Hare
07:47 We talk about Spotify and how it has remove half of our Flashback episodes.
13:11 Jeroen Tel - Mountain Breeze.
17:21 What is everyone up to right now?
25:49 Stimul -Thwy.
28:48 Commodore is back in business after 30 years. Are we impressed?
43:02 Mick Rippon - The Final mod.
49:35 Copyright and the demo scene. How much can you sample before getting into trouble and can you use AI?
01:02:48 Selecta Novel - Simon the Sorcerer - Dragon's Winter Cave.
01:07:28 We delve into AI and how to use it in music production. Can it be done without creating more AI-slop?
01:10:49 An excerpt from Baron of Dubstep's AI-assisted song "Juste un fantôme sans demain master_Print".
01:11:33 PHIL.MOD (synthwave) candidate 2
01:15:14 Time to talk about the games that we play during christmas.
01:33:06 Karsten Koch - The Blue Valley.
01:38:17 So we talk about modern games that have that "retro vibe".
02:11:04 Scrap Metal featuring Arachno - Jupiter Girl.
02:15:14 Nerd wars time! people. We talk about retro PCs vs the gaming consoles of the day.
02:36:52 Slash_AtD - 8bit Tatastan
02:40:40 We present the last medley.
02:41:15 Jpk - Christmas silence
02:43:36 Jazz Jackrabbit - Xmas 2
02:45:49 We say goodbye for this time.

Production notes:
A christmas show recorded in December of 2025 via Discord.

Colophon: None.

Tags: Christmas, Cohost: The Baron of dubstep, Cohost: Coreus, Host: DJ Daemon, Talk show, 2025

[ Atariscne.org - News ] zeST New Year release

Zerkmans Atari ST re-implementation for cheap development FPGA boards was just updated with exiting new features.

• GEMDOS harddrive; similar to virtual harddrives in emulators, you can use a folder in the underlying Linux OS as a harddrive for the ST.
• Mega ST realtime clock
• More drivers for WiFi and and ethernet networking
• Better compatibility with USB and Bluetooth mouse/joysticks
• Bug fixes in the extended fullscreen graphics modes

🔗 Check out the zeST project page

[ Demozoo ] ❄️ Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025 – Results & Releases! ❄️

All 190 entries from the Size Coding Challenge and 18 entries from the Wild category are online. Enjoy the incredible code and the creative snowflake-themed demos!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] SNDH Archive 2026 is here

The annual SNDH release schedule is on point and the 2026 archive is ready for download. 222 new or fixed files.

The 2026 release also brings the SNDH specification up to v2.2 with a couple of improvements;

• The TIME tag is replaced with FRMS. TIME was always a bit inaccurate, while FRMS measure exactly how many calls to do before loop/end. Almost all files have the FRMS tag, while only a small subset had the TIME tag.
• The FLAG tag is finally official which detail what hardware the track in question is using (MFP timers, STe PCM sound and so forth)

Furthermore many SNDH headers have been cleaned up with more uniform names.

 

As a bonus, here are some Atariscne.Org picks from 2025!

 

🎼 Get the archive and read about format upgrade at the SNDH site

[ Wanted! ] Looking for some talented coders, musicians and graphicians for my demogroup "GRiBFORD"

Hello, I'm murloc013 from Russia, living in the UTC +5 timezone. I'm looking for some talented coders, graphicians and musicians (I am one myself) for my demogroup "GRiBFORD", named after a goober that pops up in Zane Little's YT videos. Right now, we are 3 people. If you are interested in joining the group, you can send me a message here or contact me on Discord: murloc013 You can message me regardless where you're from, I am absolutely OK with having partners and members around the world...

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 145. AmigaOnly

For the third time, we give you an hour with just Amiga modules. DJ Daemon presents some really good examples of tracked music created on trackers such as Noisetracker and Protracker on the Amiga. Four channels are what is on the schedule for today.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces a brand new episode with only Amiga tracked music.
00:22 Porno productions - Falling in
03:07 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of today.
03:30 Dsx - Nike
04:08 WOTW of Gothic - Intro number 33
05:08 Dalmet - Glory
06:29 Dna - Game 1 introtune 1
07:47 DJ Daemon mentions the Xmas talkshow coming up in a week from now.
08:24 U4ia - Dr facts tripmaster
11:36 DJ Daemon talks about "Amy the squirrel" (as seen on the episode cover artI)
12:31 Protas - At the sunrise
15:37 DJ Daemon talks about where he is right now.
16:09 Doh - Indian ague
19:16 DJ Daemon reminds you that we only play Amiga-songs today.
19:46 U4ia - Astronaut's requiem
26:52 DJ Daemon talks about future episodes on this podcast.
27:37 Arpegiator of Imphobia - Far from earth
30:50 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today.
31:22 Dune - Fat mystic
33:53 Ascender - Overscan
36:43 Trackerartist - Axkold
39:24 DJ Daemon tell you to join us on ericade.radio/discord
39:49 Dr Vector - Auto rock
42:58 DJ Daemon metions Virgill's "Cheesy listening" and the Pretracker format.
43:37 Gladiator - Solution
47:10 DJ Daemon talks about the new Commodore company.
48:04 cTrix - Demo disco partee
51:36 DJ Daemon reminds you that ericade.radio exists (go there!)
52:10 H0ffman - Calm to be the storm
55:55 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into that good night with....
56:27 X-Ceed of Scope - Galaxy
01:00:17 DJ Daemon tells you to go to ericade.radio.
01:00:24 C-quence of Impact - In orbit

Production notes:
The third episode with only Amiga tunes.

About the squirrel girl on the cover:
For anyone not seeing the retroconnection, Eric W. Schwarz did most of those characters on his Amiga. And the short films he made used Moviesetter. All us nerds were amazed that they could be made on an Amiga. It was during the waning years of that platform and we were happy to be able to prove the Amiga still "had it". Amy the squirel was as close of an unofficial "mascot" the Amiga had. But he made many more characters like talking airplanes, angry lemmings and even..,. Saddam Hussein.

Colophon:
It's a take on adult entertainment site "OnlyFans". But I got it wrong. Due to stressing out a bit during post production, I erroneously switched the title from "OnlyAmiga" to "AmigaOnly". So that's the name of the episode now.

Tags: Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, Eric W. Schwarz, Amy the squirrel, Amiga only, 2025

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] More madness: making Flashback in 2025

How we make the podcast episodes in 2025. A crazy story, really.