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[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari legacy

 

This came out of nowhere: a printed Atari magazine in English language, written and layouted on an Atari Falcon 060 with PCI-graphics card using Calamus.

Kroll strikes back, even more professional than before with this surprising piece of Atari press which will be available worldwide and also in some Polish shops (the famous Empik stores). The content seems very interesting, covering games, demoscene and obviously including some deeper research, e.g. "The History of the Polish Demoscene on 8-Bit Atari - It didn’t begin with crackers. It began at the computer markets of 1980s Poland."

This seems to be fascinating work!

🔗 Atari Legacy magazine

[ Atariscne.org - News ] STOS BASIC V5.5 ALPHA — The 1989 Atari ST Language, Rebuilt for Modern Hardware

After more than 30 years, STOS BASIC has been rebuilt from its original 1989 V2.06 sources and brought to modern Atari hardware. STOS BASIC V5.5 ALPHA is out now as a free download.

The original STOS was written for an 8MHz 520ST and tends to break or corrupt graphics on anything newer. V5.5 fixes that: it now runs correctly on the Falcon, EmuTOS, 68030 accelerators and fast emulators, all proven across EmuTOS, TOS 1.04, 2.06 and Falcon TOS 4.04.

It's faster, too. Every trap-based inter-library call has been replaced with direct dispatch (125 sprite and 20 music traps removed) and the compiler emits tighter arithmetic and IF code — around 14% average speedup across the 54-test benchmark suite, with FILL, COPY, sprites, CLS BACK and IF gaining 30–50%. The editor has been patched as well (LIST scroll, file-selector and SYSTEM fixes). Best of all, it's 100% source-compatible with V2.06 — your existing STOS listings compile unchanged.

 

💾 Download

🔗 Release page & older STOS packs

🔗 The STOS Time Tunnel (games, demos, source, extensions, diskzines and manuals)

[ Atariscne.org - News ] CT60 TOS 1.03e has been released

Mikro writes:   I'm no fan of cross-posting news but with the current atari-forum.com issues where many people can't reach it properly I guess I can make an exception. :)   So yeah, I have published a new version of CT60 TOS, the "firmware" for all CT60, CT63 and CT60e accelerators. It has been on my TODO list since forever. Sometimes I was really close, then lost motivation / got stuck, then discovered new bugs, postponed again etc etc... so I'm really relieved and happy to announce a modest update to our beloved CT60 TOS: https://github.com/mikrosk/ct60tos/releases/tag/1.03e
Everything is explained in the release notes, and this time (unlike 1.03d), the release is "real", built from source codes, no binary patching whatsoever. So finally we can start fixing bugs without too much hassle (well, for CT60 TOS image creation one still needs to boot into EasyMiNT 1.70 with its old gcc and mintlib ... a decade ago I had this fixed but that was for a later version and I haven't backported the build scripts back yet).

I encourage you to try it out, if something doesn't work, there's always the easy way to reflash it back to 1.03c.

Opening issues on github is appreciated, too.  

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http://mikro.atari.org

[ Wanted! ] Looking for coders for a multiplatform group

Hi there, I'm D/V / NewLine I'm specifically looking for people that can code for c64, vic-20 and many other computers (if you can code for any of them, please tell me) My group is active and people can still join it I can code a little for c64 and made a few code releases to my group please, if you have a CSDb and demozoo account, also tell me Contact me; Discord: dslashvtrash Email: danielveronski@gmail.com See you there

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular: a look at the releases from NOVA demoparty in the UK. https://youtu.be/8NOWksCkFcQ

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Wanted! ] Looking for Coder ( PC primary, Amiga and C-64 secondary

T.S.A - The Solaris Agency / DevLab T.S.A ( Makerspace Project ) is looking for a Coder / Graphican. We are a project active in both the demoscene and the makerspace community. Notably, we established our own makerspace in Wuppertal, Germany, in 2020. Beyond digital art, our activities include 3D printing, CNC machining, milling, turning, electronics, and upcycling. We are looking for a coder for our demoscene division. While the PC is the primary focus, work on the C64 and Amiga would also...

[ Wanted! ] Looking for 6502/Z80 coders

we at alembic (ambc) are looking for coders we're a small international group, we had two productions this year you might've seen/heard our stuff at revision or nova we're specifically dabbling in platforms based on 6502 assembly and z80 assembly AMIGA and MS-DOS coders are also very much appreciated https://demozoo.org/groups/145233/ if you're interested please shoot me a message on discord!! (0pixelated0)

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] men's zip-up sweatshirt without hood XL and XXL

[Offer] Print · Buy me a drink (by MAT64)

"POKE 53281,0" so that's why are black

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

[ Wanted! ] Looking for a logo for the next intro

I'm looking for a logo for use with the intro. Any format is fine, but preferably BMP. This is a one-off project.

All the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community, this week in particular a look at the releases from Graffathon in Finland and X party in the netherlands. https://youtu.be/aI2WgQLFhmQ

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] New Trick And No Treat - A Cautionary Tale

When dealing with hardware like the ST, one of the most valued currencies back in the day were the so-called "hardware tricks"1. The limitations of the ST were so severe, that everything that helped mitigate that, even a little, was very, very welcome. May this be bigger 800k floppy disk formats, mixed resolutions, buzzer/digi-/SID-sound, the various overscan types and of course the king of the playground - hardware scrolling. Especially the last one was very shushed about by the people in the know and if one managed to catch a glimpse of how that specific magic machinery worked - oh boy, it was mind-boggling.

I am sure we all remember seeing the TCB Fullscreen, the ULM Scroller Fullscreen or hearing the buzzer or even YM-SID-sounds for the first time - this sense of the world expanding, like literally, is hard to explain - let alone to reproduce. The fact that this machine still produces new hardware tricks up to this day - like various new YM effects, generalized 4-bit hardware-scrolling, new screen resolutions just to name a few, is simply astonishing and keeps the platform interesting and challenging at the same time.

That's why the idea came up to take you, dear reader, on a small journey to where a new hardware trick gets discovered - and then even further down into it's ultimate culmination in... failure.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] The physical deep-art-ment - Side B

And Lotek Style's excursion in the realms of Atari related physical audio releases continues... enjoy!

 

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/17420488-gadestRing-gadestRing-gadestRing-SYNERGY

All the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week a look at releases from Birdie 36 and Moonshine Dragons 2026. Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari .st .msa MacOS File Manager

Inspired by https://krystone.pl/st/disktools/ and https://github.com/ggnkua/Jacknife, I always wanted a simple proper native macOS tool to open, modify, extract files from, and create new .st and .msa disk images.   So I vibe-coded my own version. Feel free to use it – and please let me know if you find any bugs!   get it here:
https://hangloose.climatics.ch/Emulators/AtariFileMgr-Release.dmg?login=atarist:atarist   have fun Bandit / CLiMATiCS www.climatics.ch  

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Moonshine dragons 2026

Bob_er writes:

There was a party last weekend in Opole, Poland called 'Moonshine dragons' (https://demozoo.org/parties/5427/). That was a Commodore related event, but what was unusual, two entries were made by Atari crews: 

https://demozoo.org/productions/392084/
https://demozoo.org/productions/392144/

On atarionline.pl you can find technical description of both.

[ demoparty.net ] ROMA.EXE 2026: Party System open and Remote Entries now available!

The party system is now open, and you can start submitting your entries whether you’re attending in person or participating remotely. Check out https://roma-exe.com/remote.html for details on remote entries!

[ demoparty.net ] Impulse 2026: Invitation Demo Released

Little invitation demo released, it runs on a browser, you can find it here.

Download the Amiga ADF file of this brand new issue from here:

https://nahkolor.c64.page/NahSpeed76.zip

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106277

intros, reviews, news about melon design and batman group, messages, articles and much much more inside! 

[Submitted by magic]

Norway is leading a multinational UNESCO ICH-02 nomination for the demoscene, with Germany confirmed as co-submitting State Party.

As part of the documentation of community participation and free, prior and informed consent, practitioners are invited to complete the consent form below.

Deadline: 31st of May 2026

Link: https://forms.gle/FzwVd7ovndev3VrP9

Yoghurt

[Submitted by Yoghurt]

Latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular a look at the releases from the 68k inside demoparty that took place in Finland this past weekend. Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] oldskool games

[Offer] Other · Surprise me (by frostpfote)

i'm selling off most of my oldskool games collection (mostly Atari ST, some Amiga, some C64, some PC DOS) on ebay where i charge hefty prices; sceners can contact me directly here on scenemarket and we negotiate better prices; i can also bring stuff to evoke, deadline.
https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?item=306964123071&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=frostpfote

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

[ Atariscne.org - News ] 68k Inside 2026 roundup

The weekly Atari party heartbeat continues. This weekend 68k Inside took place in the woods of Finland, rather Amiga focused, but still brought three new Atari ST/E releases as well.

Marquee Design released a stunning 256 Byte intro named "Ground Zero" for ST.

Amazing what Superogue did there again.

For those interesting in the magic behind the intro, Superogue just published a writeup about the making of this entry on his blog.

Also PO1/Ribbon is Back which is always are reason for excitement. This time he teamed up with HOffman who contributed music sample sequences for the little production "Maximum Joker". This is yet another episode of the cross platform Batman/Joker/Rotozoom battle. In the Atari realm this challenge has been massively pushed by Django the Bastard and here we find another interesting variant. As to expect, the music sounds great, very great actually, and also the new zoomer looks good. But the technical finesse has to be judged elsewhere. The demo ranked a proud second place in the demo compo.

There is a little aftertaste to "Maximum Joker", as the demo is reported to only work on emulators and not work on real hardware (yet).

Furthermore DHS, smfx and Paradox teamed up for a quick Atari STE Sommarhack 2026 reminder featuring a nice new oscilloscope 3D effect. So, if time between BBQ and beergardening allows, sharpen your Atari tools and get ready to bake something for Sommarhack 2026 in July 2026!

Similarly to "Maximum Joker", this is one of these kind of screens that make your STE feel more confident.

Finally, as an honorable mention, a remarkable piece of pixelart has been published on 68k Inside. This both expressive and mysterious picture by Jok/Dreamweb just hit.

"No Rest for the Wicked", great pixelart by Jok/Dreamweb

🔗 68K Inside 2026 on Demozoo

🔗 68K Inside 2026 on Pouet

[ got papers? ] HBH Letters Collection Vol. 1

Finally, we managed to put up the first installment of scans from the collection of Norwegian C64 & Amiga scener HBH (a.k.a. Sorry Morry, a.k.a. ZTH), who had kindly sent it to us back in 2023. Spanning from 1987 to 1989, this batch includes a couple of party invitations, an advert for the German “News” papermag, and a bunch of letters from all over the world. Check out the list & images here.

All the latest news, links and releases related to the active demoscene community. This week in particular a deep dive on the releases from the Outline demoparty that took place in the netherlands last weekend. Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] New zeST update!

Yesterday Zerkman released a new version of the zeST Atari ST FPGA replica machine.

 

Brief list of  zeST 2026-05-18 improvements:

• Blitter chip support, with help from Thadoss / Dune.  One step closer to STe chipset compatibility!
• Optimized DMA-chip, the new DMA uses us far less FPGA resources
• Audio out, you can now get analogue audio out with the help of a I2S-based audio DAC
• And various Linux-host improvements, such as bugfixed GEMDOS harddrive (fixes some programs that didn't work previously), new kernel (6.12), improved keyboard management, more drivers for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices.

🔗 Check out the complete zeST release notice

💾 Get the latest zeST at the Download directory