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[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 163. A chiptune summer

The demo scene is still doing good stuff during the summer, but we are taking it slow today. DJ Daemon presents a slew of brand new chiptunes, or maybe we should call it tracker music. We also talk about Commodore's latest weird phone and mention some of the upcoming demo parties.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:05 DJ Daemon introduces the show
00:24 Vince Kaichan - Romanian winter
04:57 DJ Daemon presents the first medley of today
05:26 Moody music - Gooke bake toons
06:43 Ray Hamilton - Egg adventure, lava
07:56 Toppy - Scortia terania
09:05 DJ Daemon talks about what's up in the summer.
09:40 Nighthawk - Trapped in a bottle
12:16 DJ Daemon gives you what you need to know about Edison 2026.
13:18 Nightbeat - Astral dreams
17:40 DJ Daemon explains the new searchable tags and artist information that is now available on the site.
18:24 Beyond - Repetitive
20:55 DJ Daemon has very little hope for Perifractic's Commodore.
21:58 Jayster - Foreign grove
24:04 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today
24:40 Moody music - If you happy remix
26:39 BST - Piano bar
28:15 Retro104 - Brain space voyage
30:01 BST - Ingr
31:54 DJ Daemon brings up the discussion on Poeut that has taken fire.
32:54 Fallen heroes - Nightfall and DeBoer
39:21 DJ Daemon talks about the demo parties that are coming this summer.
40:19 DJ Incin - Sunrise
42:53 DJ Daemon presents the third medley of today
43:28 Beyond - Life isn't easy
46:14 Beyond - Day of meditation
48:57 Guwnogryzarka - Morning jogging hamster style
51:47 DJ Daemon talks about the slow part of summer.
52:28 Blue orian - Moon gate
55:22 DJ Daemon leads you into that good night with...
55:48 Kluris - Falling upwards
59:15 DJ Daemon tells you to go to ericade.radio or ericade.radio/discord
59:23 Warder - Tyhjan pirtin valssi

Production notes:
Just a show with new music and some information about what's going in the demo scene and the station. Nothing special.

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

[ 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)

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Graffathon 2026 – Coding becomes Art

On 29 August 2026 from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm at the altes Loeblager, Ziegelackerstrasse 10, 3027 Bern, in the studio on the first floor. The Graffathon is a one-day open workshop or hackathon for people of all ages interested in multimedia and visual effects… Weiterlesen

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[ 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!

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Farewell, memdmp

“small random idea i had for MB27: meshnet-based voting over a device handed out with your votekeywuhu or whatnot would also work, but communicating the votes as well over that for the current entry (or, if a screen and up/down buttons are added, for any… Weiterlesen

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[ 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!

[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Exhibition: Between Steps

The Revision Demoparty 2026 offered something truly special: Last year, Steffest reached out to us after seeing the exhibitions we had already had the opportunity to create. His idea? An exhibition at Revision Demoparty that offers insight into the inspiration, process, and tools behind graphic… Weiterlesen

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[ 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

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] MountainBytes 2026: Successful Demoscene Gathering

February 27 to March 1st: 150 visitors from more than 10 nations bring more than 50 brand-new releases to our new location in Steinhausen. The quality of the competitions, the many participants and outputs from our integrated Demolab, and the overall spirit of the event… Weiterlesen

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[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] Winterkongress (Winter Conference) Digitale Gesellschaft 2026

As has been a lovely tradition for a while, we got to join the Winterkongress of Digitale Gesellschaft again on February 20th-21st. This time with two presentations: an exhibition of our formidable horror movie pun-posters for MountainBytes (taking place only a week later) as well… Weiterlesen

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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]

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[ 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

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 162. A late night in the studio

Sitting in a dark studio in the middle of the night, DJ Daemon keeps spinning the tracker disks with the latest in chiptune, demoscene and tracked music.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:05 DJ Daemon presents the show and welcomes you to an our of chiptune music.
00:24 Dr. Justorb - The stars revolt!
05:35 DJ Daemon gives you the first medley of today.
05:57 Heatbeat of Carillon - Matkamies
07:05 Trackerartist - Mario at home
08:20 David Hennigan - Space level
09:33 DJ Daemon tells you about a new function on the Best of Ericade.radio.
10:06 Dj Dark - The voyage
14:13 DJ Daemon adds a song that has previously been removed by mistake.
14:41 Slash_AtD - ZauberwalD
17:49 DJ Daemon talks about the newest feature on the website.
18:28 Jophish - Young RMX
23:32 DJ Daemon presents the second medley of today.
24:10 C512w - Sun lol rai
25:44 Ether audio - Squareway act 2
27:23 Marie2 and 4-mat - This pattern go way up alt ver
29:14 C512w - Gamer's most fear
31:08 Clearwater - Jasmine
33:00 DJ Daemon about an upcoming episode of the podcast that talks about evil organisations in games.
33:44 Thrawn - Mood 481
40:17 DJ Daemon wants you to tell us what they want to hear on the podcast.
40:55 Dj Dark - The lost woods
45:51 DJ Daemon talks about the third medley of today
46:29 Virgill - Schmoddermann cut
48:40 Marie2 and 4-mat - Calendar (novocals)
50:45 Shadowsight - It's not that easy
52:49 DJ Daemon talks about the YouTube and Twitch and our new stream design.
53:39 C512w and Viraxor - Fancy chase
56:19 DJ Daemon leads you into the good with...
56:48 C512w and Viraxor - Your new friend (old)
59:35 DJ Daemon thanks for listening.
59:47 Ducc - Our great minds

Production notes:
Just a show with new music and some information about what's going on at the station. Nothing special.

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

[ 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]