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[ Atariscne.org - News ] New IDE for Atari assembly development

PiST - A new cross-IDE (Integrated development environment) aimed at Atari assembler projects.

It includes editor, assembler, emulation with debugger, sprite editor and much more. It is available for Linux, Windows and macOS.

Further description of the software snipped from it's Github page:

• Editor with m68k Motorola-syntax highlighting, error markers and the current execution line, find/replace (Ctrl+F / Ctrl+H, F3 and Shift+F3, match highlighting as you type, match-case and whole-word options, and a hit counter that admits its cap — past 2000 it reads "N of more than 2000" rather than counting on), completion as you type (Ctrl+Space, or Tab on a word: mnemonics, directives, and the build's labels and equates), a Go to Symbol palette (Ctrl+Shift+O), a hover card for any mnemonic, TOS call or label (below), Ctrl+click to open an include or jump to a label, and a searchable 68000 instruction + TOS system-call reference dock that follows the cursor — on a trap #1/#13/#14 line (or a push feeding one) it names the GEMDOS/BIOS/XBIOS call being made and what it is being called with, and every entry carries a worked example and one line on when to reach for it

[ demoparty.net ] New Server, More Self-Reliance & Faster Search

After more than 1½ years without updates to demoparty.net, once Evoke 2026 was wrapped up it was about time to finally show a little bit of love to the site.

Today, we completed the move to a new server! Beyond upgrading the hosting itself, a big focus of this overhaul was greater self-reliance: reducing our dependency on external third-party services and commercial APIs where possible, in favor of running our own lightweight, privacy-friendly tools.

More In-House, Less Third-Party:

• No More Google: We replaced both Google Maps and Google reCAPTCHA. Maps now use fast vector tiles with full dark-mode support (loaded lazily only when scrolled into view), and our contact form is protected by a self-hosted, invisible Cap instance—meaning no third-party requests to Google and no more traffic-light puzzles.
• Retired Foursquare: Since Foursquare put its API behind a paywall, we removed the integration altogether.
• Self-Hosted Tooling: Behind the scenes, we moved away from several external cloud platforms where it made sense—switching from Sentry to a self-hosted Bugsink instance for error tracking, and replacing Zyte’s cloud service with our own local Scrapy setup for automated data imports.

What Else Improved for You:

• Faster, Smarter Search: We moved from Elasticsearch to Meilisearch. Search results now pop up almost instantly, forgive typos (searching for “asembley” will still find Assembly), and support filtering directly by type (e.g., type:event or type:user).
• Snappier Images & Smaller Assets: Party flyers and banners are now processed on the fly via imagor and automatically delivered in modern WebP/AVIF formats. We also trimmed down our icon fonts to only include the glyphs actually used, reducing overall page weight (and maybe sneaking in a few visual details along the way).
• Safer External Links: Our link crawler is now much more resilient when checking external party websites (including Wayback Machine fallbacks), and submitted links are automatically checked against the abuse.ch URLhaus malware feed.

Under the Hood:

While we were at it, we brought the entire codebase up to date—upgrading to PHP 8.4, Symfony 7, and Vite 8, moving from traditional web hosting to a containerized setup, and migrating our repository and CI/CD pipelines from GitLab to GitHub.

If you spot any broken links, missing images, or glitches after the move, please let us know via the contact form.

[ demoparty.net ] Heads up: demoparty.net is moving servers

We are upgrading our infrastructure and will move to a new server in the coming days (probably early next week).

Expect a brief downtime while we flip the switch.

[ Wanted! ] I need hardware help with Sharp MZ-800

Hey hey. Potentially found a way to horizontally scroll on Sharp MZ-800 via hardware trickery but the trick only solidly works on CRTs and professional upscalers; nor on modern LCDs or cheap upscalers. And I only have a cheap upscaler and LCDs. So if you can help me with this problem do contact me! I also speak finnish.

Interview with teadrinker on datunnel.

[Submitted by friol]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Software Version of Jaguar core for MiSTer

laoo of NG ported the Jaguar core from MiSTer to C++ which gives the first really 99.99% accurate Jaguar emulator. Of course it does not run at 100% speed. In fact the speed highly depends on how much the bus is used as this is the "base-clock" for the system.   He provides precompiled binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS.   https://github.com/laoo/JagMCP   The emulator "speaks" MCP, so it can be used with AI agents to support debugging.   This finally solves the problem many Jaguar developers face as they test their code with BigPEmu or VirtualJaguar and see it fail on real hardware. Now with JagMCP there is no excuse.  

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] 17x FRONTPAGE + 1x SENSE Zeitschriften

[Offer] Print · Trade (by nightmareNCE)

Ich biete 17x FRONTPAGE + 1x SENSE Zeitschriften gegen ein Gebot an.

> Ausgaben:

- 2x Frontpage = 10.93, 11.93
- 3x Frontpage = 01.94, 02.94, 03.94
- 7x Frontpage = 01.95, 02.95, 03.95, 04.95, 05.95, 06.95, 07.95
- 1x Frontpage = 08.95 - The Fusion Issue
- 1x Frontpage = 09.95 - The Trip in Hop Out Issue
- 1x Frontpage = 10.95 - The Far Away Issue
- 1x Frontpage = 11.95 - The Free At Last Issue
- 1x Frontpage = 01.96 - The turbo Issue
- 1x Sense = 01.01 - The Intense Issue

Interested? Claim this item — or list your own stuff for free.

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] 10x ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) Zeitschriften

[Offer] Print · Trade (by nightmareNCE)

Ich biete 10x ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) Zeitschriften z.T. mit Poster gegen ein Gebot an.

> Ausgaben:

- Nr. 02 = Februar 1989
- Nr. 10 = Oktober 1989
- Nr. 12 = Dezember 1989
- Nr. 10 = Oktober 1990
- Nr. 11 = November 1990
- Nr. 12 = Dezember 1990
- Nr. 04 = April 1991
- Nr. 07 = Juli 1991
- Nr. 12 = Dezember 1991
- Nr. 03 = März 1992

Interested? Claim this item — or list your own stuff for free.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari Sunnyvale

Manu fulfilled his dream of going on a road trip in the USA, and he took the opportunity to ask some Atari fans to come on Friday, October 9, to Sunnyvale at the old Atari HQ. Flag unfurled in front of the Google building, Manu showed who's the boss over there ;-) the Atari video starts at 41'.

[ Blog on demonights.ch ] Demonights 021 - Best of 2026

What a year! The demoscene has been a great place of activity again and we gather to celebrate the best, the most interesting, the most innovative and the most entertaining productions of 2026. We‘re back at the hacker space of Chaostreff in Bern, for the almost traditional December edition of Demonights. Welcome!

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Raster Music Tracker 1.36

The most relevant Pokey music tracker software has received a cleanup. After Rasters passing, the source code was fortunately made available, leading to various forks and developments. Unfortunately people lost overview about the changes and so JAC! took the initiative to clean up the sources and make RMT development future more proof.

Most significant measure was to create Java port. RMT runs as standalone package or can be compiled for Windows, Apple and Linux.

The general housekeeping, evaluating and removing unused code, fixing shortcut bindings and revision of the menu structure results in a simple and now graphically scalable interface. JAC! is open to suggestions by musician to increase the usability.

🔗 RMT on Github

[ SceneSat upcoming shows & events ] NRG 2026

23 Oct – 25 Oct 2026

NRG - Retro Games and Demoscene Festival

Listen or watch on SceneSat · Full schedule

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 168. Deadline 2026 Music Highlights

Deadline 26 ended just a few days ago, but delivers on a promise of good tracker music from the demo scene. DJ Daemon has finally started making those toplist episodes again and this time it's more of a selection than a countdown. Listen to DJ Daemon's picks from Deadline 2026: 13 demoscene tracks spanning Amiga, FastTracker, SID, streaming music and more.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Flashback, track from the past - let the toplist begin
00:06 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
00:36 MonoToni - Oh so happy
04:04 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
04:32 Wrighter - Planefiller
06:39 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
07:07 Crome - Kon kon
09:41 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
10:06 Alysius - Zombie Walker
12:51 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
13:19 JCO - A new slice of funk
16:14 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
16:47 W.O.T.W. - Dots feel love!
19:47 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
20:19 Alysius - Beyond the lightwave (Ultimate)
23:55 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
24:13 Saga Musix - Light wave
27:55 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
28:15 Slaxx - No Nordlicht 2026
32:42 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
32:59 Dualtrax and Artfx - Palmarius
37:48 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
38:14 N4cer - Invasion
42:09 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
42:45 Obolebe - Dawn dance
46:43 DJ Daemon presents the song from the competition.
47:22 Bacter and Jeenio and Saga Musix - Keep running
51:26 DJ Daemon presents the song from Xenium demo party and also thanks the artist.
51:53 Slaze - Anubis revenge
54:32 DJ Daemon presents a song from the Arok competion earlier this year.
54:59 Eivind Sommersten - Delicate
58:13 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into that good night with the last song.
58:42 Fsfreak - Smile!
19:01:01 ericade.radio - With music from the Arok, Deadline and Flash demo parties

Production notes:
It's the first proper demoscene toplist since 2025. And this one was made as a selection rather than a classic countdown episode. It was a good collection that really made it a breeze to make a good selection.

Tags: 2026, Deadline, Host: DJ Daemon, Deadline 26

[ Atariscne.org - News ] DSP Support comes to RG assembler and disassembler

With the imminent release of the Atari Falcon 030, Reservoir Gods have updated their development tooling to support the exciting new DSP 56001 chip in these computers. We can't wait to get our hands on one of these bad boys!   Well, we may be 33 years late to the party - but better late than never! The rg cross-development tools now fully support the Motorola DSP56001.     rg-asm   rg-asm now features comprehensive support for the Falcon DSP: the complete DSP56001 instruction set, dual parallel moves, DO loops, all memory spaces. It can emit in many formats, including standard .LOD, .P56, .OUT, .CLD/.CLN, as well as raw binary.   One of really nice new features is support for mixed mode assembly. You can now write your 68030 code and DSP code in a single file, and seamlessly switch between both.    - Equates & constants: 68k constants are automatically inherited in DSP blocks - Symbol export: DSP routines and labels export back to the host 68k code as equates  - Macros & structs: Share macros and structs between your DSP and 68k code - Flexible layout: You can embed DSP code as either 3-byte per word packed or 4-byte per word unpacked     rg-asm runs as a single executable with no dependencies, simply download and run: 💾 https://rg.atari.org/tools/rg-asm/     rd-dis    rg-dis can now dissassemble DSP binaries!    It has full support for the Atari Falcon030's DSP 56001 chip. It works on standalone binaries (.LOD, .P56, .COFF, .OUT object binaries) - but it can also disassemble DSP code that is embedded directly inside 680x0 executables.   To make reverse engineering as readable as possible, rg-dis marks the boundaries of DO loops, annotates per instruction cycle cost and detects embedded ASCII strings.   With its full understanding of the DSP56001 memory map, it annotates on chip peripheral and control register access - including the host interface, SSI, SCI and interrupt vectors, explaining what each hardware access is doing.   It also automatically detects jump tables in your DSP code, defining them with symbolic labels rather than raw absolute values so your dissassembled code remains relocatable and editable.     g-dis is a single binary with no dependencies. Just download and run: 💾 https://rg.atari.org/tools/rg-dis/   We'll end here with some wise words from a famous scener that rg-dis extracted from his DSP replay routine:   dc $624954,$6D4153,$544552,$202020  ; "bITmASTER   " dc $6E6F20,$445350,$202D20,$6E6F20  ; "no DSP - no " dc $66756E,$202121                  ; "fun !!"  

[ Atariscne.org - News ] MagiC 6.30 released for Atari computers

A few decades ahs passed since we last saw a new MagiC release for Atari computers.

But time of wonders are not past us and today Andreas Kromke (authour of the original MagiC, Kaos and more) released v6.30 complete with MagxDesk 5.

MagiC 6.30 on a Falcon 030 in 256-colour mode

MagiC is now open source under the GNU GPL v3 license.

💾 Download MagiC sources and binaries (see MagiC/Releases for zip archive of binaries)

 

[ SceneSat upcoming shows & events ] Soothing Sounds with Steph

24 Oct 2026, 20:00 CEST – 22:00 CEST

Audio · Channel: main

Come join Steph as we listen to some comfy old favorites for maximum warm fuzzies.

Listen or watch on SceneSat · Full schedule

Nah-Kolor’s NRG 2026 Amiga AGA Party Invitation got released at Deadline 2026. NRG takes place 23-25 Oktober 2026 in Pozan/Poland! Save the date and prepare your visit and/or (remote) entry now! This is the final call! And now.. enjoy Nah-Kolor’s latest invitation demo!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/NxeZbllalhk?is=bUFqc-C1ZtAykasdPouet page:https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=107076Direct download:https://nahkolor.c64.page/Nah-Running-NRG.lha

[Submitted by magic]

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [News] 11 hot Deadline tracks have just arrived

Deadline has just ended, and it we have the latest and the greatest from the tracked music, old school music and streaming music compos. Put on your headphones and load up the tracks in our webplayer. From Amiga 4 channel modules to Impulsetracker magic, this party gave us all of it.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] ATASCII Compo 2026

Logiker has announce another round of the ATASCII compo. Submissions can be sent in until 9th of November. The entry presentation, voting and publishing of the results is planned for the week after. Last year some impressive pieces have been shown.

🔗 ATASCII Compo 2026 website

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Buxton Bytes 2027 invitation

The invitation demo for Buxton Bytes 2027 (9th-12th of April 2027 ) has been released at the beginning of October. It's a very stylish joint venture prod by Evil, Jade, gwEm and Tronic and also meant as an invitation call to contribute to the various "non-compo compos".

More details on the categories, attendees etc. can be found on the Buxton Bytes 2027 website.

🔗 Buxton Bytes 2027 invitation on Demozoo

 

A brand new issue of Speed pack/magazine with the latest demoscene news, intros and demos (and much more) is now available just for you! Deadline 2026 party releases and news included!

Articles:
• RJ Mical's Amiga Award Show
• Magic's Gerp 2026 & Revision 2026 Party Reports
• The making of Bytes of the Art by Desire

And much, much more inside! Do enjoy!

Pouet page: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=107078

Direct Download url: https://nahkolor.c64.page/Speed80Solitude.zip

Greetz,
Magic/Nah-Kolor

[Submitted by magic]

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week with special focus on the releases from the Deadline demoparty that took place in Berlin this past weekend.

https://youtu.be/WQcD4KOg5gQ

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] HighWire 0.5.0 Beta 4

A quick release, with 68000 and ColdFire builds
This is a quick release with various bug fixes. It is the first release with 68000 and ColdFire support, and those builds have not been fully tested yet. The 68000 build uses software floating point; the 68020–60 and ColdFire builds use the hardware FPU. NanoSVG, which draws SVG images, works in floating point, so SVG is slowest on the 68000. A 68000 build without SSL is also included, for local pages and for HTTP proxies such as WebOne.

New in this release: Copy and Paste for text, animated GIFs, an optional screen buffer, much more complete flexbox and grid, line-height, position: fixed, viewport units, styled buttons and text fields, live :focus styles, resumable downloads and run-time switches for SVG, WebP, HTTPS, GIF animation and the screen buffer.

The next full release will be HighWire 1.0, to avoid problems with another project.

Highwire showing the Wikipedia website, screenshot from the Highwire site

🌏 https://highwire-browser.github.io/

💾 Download Highwire 0.5.0 Beta 4

 

[ Demozoo ] Demozoo API will require an API key from 1st November

Due to an unsustainable amount of bot traffic, unauthenticated public access to the Demozoo API is being closed. From 1st November (or sooner if the bot situation escalates further), requests to the API will need to pass an API key. Maintainers of existing applications can update their code now, in advance of the switch-over - for more details of the change, and to set up your own API key, visit https://demozoo.org/account/api_keys/.

[ SceneSat upcoming shows & events ] The Chip SID Show SceneSat Edition #23 with Max Hall

25 Oct 2026, 20:00 CET – 21:00 CET

Audio · Channel: main

It's time for the twentythird episode of the SceneSat edition of the Chip SID Show!

All tracks recorded from the original 6581 and 8580 SID Chips, directly from the rear end of the Commodore 64 home computer.

Listen or watch on SceneSat · Full schedule