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GERMAN SCENE REPORT v.WINTER/Y2K+1
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Yeah! It's long time ago that I tried to check up what's going on in Germany and
since I'm back on track with "my" magazine I'm going to continue some of my
traditions in UNDERCOVER. Today it's time for a closer look in our surroundings
again because something changed again...
So here comes a round-up of what is left of the german scene, who left us, who
is still here and who has joined our forces... Ofcourse all those bands who're
sleeping since many years are kicked out of the list and will just be mentioned
with one or two lines if there are some activities left...
Ok, even if its called "v.AUTUMN" it's more or less an overview about all the
changes of this nearly ended year.
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CHECKPOINT
At first it seemed that they were fallen into deepest inactivities, later on the
band came back to life again, with DEFJAM who opened a special CHECKPOINT page
again as well as a new demo project. The demo was planned to be released on the
STNICCC party but was hold back because of a bunch of bugs. So it will surely
come in the next weeks or possibly (at last) on the ERROR IN LINE party.
There were some rumours about a music demo with 5o5 zix as well.
Members .......... 5o5, Defjam, Joe Cool, mOdmate
Status ........... active
Latest Release ... SURETRIP demo on ST
Projects ......... another demo for ST, working title "MONOSTYLE"
homepage ......... http://www.8ung.at/checkpoint/
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CREAM
At first I wanted to call them the rulers of the nowadays german Atari scene,
but due the fact that they didn't released anything for months now, I decided to
call them just as sleeping atm. Even if the team got 3 coders nothing new was
announced. Rumours came up about "HEFTIG" but nothing more. Since they don't
even attended to any party lately it is very difficult to say something about
their ways. The last guy who was showing up, was TAO with his works for the
YM ROCKAS demo...
Members .......... A.-t-, Abyss, Candyman, Tao
Status ........... sleeping
Latest Release ... "JAM" player for Atari machines
Projects ......... "HEFTIG" demo for ST
Homepage ......... http://www.creamhq.de/
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ESCAPE
There happened not much on the ESCAPE front. They're organizing together with
the CHECKPOINT chaps the ERROR IN LINE 2k1 but there isn't more know. SPION did
some gag program that brings the Windows Alert boxes to Atari.
Later on SAGE has left the band because of inactivity and no time for Atari and
CHARON, former member of the STUNE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, joined as coder.
Members .......... Charon, No, Shifter, Spion
Status ........... active
Latest Release ... some VLM modules, a joke program, the "EIL REMINDTRO"
Projects ......... unknown, maybe some demostuff, and VLM modules for sure
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FOUNDATION TWO
The reason to mention them here is simple, they organized the UNCONVENTIONAL
PARTY in September, the only german Atari scene party this year so far. It was a
very small party but a nice and strange one anyway. Unfortunately that's all
because they're mainly active on the 8bit sector nowadays. The public release of
all SOLUTION SOFTWARE games is still not in sight even if it was announced many
times so far... Another UNCONVENTIONAL PARTY is planned for next year.
Members .......... Beetle, Mad Butscher
Status ........... sleeping on 16/32 bit
Latest Release ... oh... I can't remember
Projects ......... unknown
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PARANOIA
It was quiet for a long time around them and the UNCONVENTIONAL PARTY showed us
why... PARANOID was checking out the deep secrets of Assembler programming in
the last months, and because the most parts of the band worked on their first
Falcon demo too we have to call them active, no question...
Finally another small intro appeared in December.
Members .......... Der Komtur, Luebke, Marcstar, Mr Future, Paranoid, TNT
Status ........... active
Latest Release ... HERESY demo for Falcon, Xmas 2ooo Intro for ST
Projects ......... another Falcon demo for EIL PARTY
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RD DEVELOPMENTS
Suddenly this new team (?) appeared on the screen, announcing some big projects,
such as ports of "WOLFENSTEIN 3D" and "DOOM" for the ST. I don't know anything
about those people so far but I hope I can bring some light in this question in
short time... Anyway, they seem to be the most interesting newcomers (?) in the
german scene at all.
Members .......... Reimund, Dirk
Status ........... dead
Latest Release ... first test engine for "WOLFENSTEIN 3D" on ST
Projects ......... check out .tSCc.
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RUNNING DESIGN TEAM
It was very quiet around them too the last months... At first there was the
release of a demoversion of the game for MILAN announced for April, but nothing
happened. Now they announced the MILAN version of "RUNNING" for December and
since the MILAN was cancelled they cancelled the project as well. Later on they
dissolved the RDT label and started under MAGIC FOUR, but now PC only again.
Members .......... Volker, Mike (Stax), Michael, Holger and several others
Status ........... dead
Latest Release ... "RUNNING PLATIN VERSION" for Falcon
Projects ......... no Atari related stuff anymore
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STAX
Hmmm... if there will nothing happen on this sector I have to delete them from
the big list again... It seems as the three last survivors of this band, all
coders btw, are working alone for themselves instead of joining their forces...
Furthermore their latest release came from their british member and as MIKE
told me he's too busy with other things than going on for his old label...
Members .......... Bod, Matt, Mike
Status ........... sleeping
Latest Release ... "DAWN OF THE DEAD" demo for ST
Projects ......... maybe some compiles by MATT again?
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STUNE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
The people behind this label broke through the limit of doing just a game this
year, 'coz THOTHY released a 128byte intro at the UNCON PARTY for Falcon. Also
some update of "STUNE" was released again but atm. this project seems to be
laying on ice. Atm. it seems as THOTHY is the only active man, but I'm not sure
if his productions are running under the SDT label too... CHARON left lately the
team to join the forces of ESCAPE.
Members .......... Thothy, ?!
Status ........... active
Latest Release ... "BURNING BEE" intro for Falcon
Projects ......... unknown, surely further versions of "STUNE"...
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THE SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION
My band has doubled its members within a year since Gizmo, Ray, Unseen Fate and
Creature XL joined our forces. Furthermore the band was slowly coming back to
life with a bunch of releases of any kind. For more information check the files
in SIRIUS.DE.
Members .......... Creature XL, Dynacore, Gizmo, Llama, MC Laser, Moondog, Ray,
.................. Scy, Unseen Fate
Status ........... active
Latest Releases .. CENTAURI Intro, fixed SIRIUS PLAYER and UNDERCOVER # 21
.................. FADING TWILIGHT CD ROM, FADING TWILIGHT intros for Atari & PC
Projects ......... some more UCM's and ...?
Homepage ......... http://www.sirlab.de/
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That's it for the people who're still contributing to the Atari scene with some
releases from time to time. Not much left and sometimes you can feel a bit
lonely here, no newcomers in sight at all.
THE REST...
ABSENCE ....... THE INNOVATOR has organized a new KINDERGEBURTSTAG party in
December, mainly for ex-Atarians, but as rumours said, it was a
flop due the fact of the bad information stream and that the
STNICCC party happened just one weekend before.
ANIMAL MINE ... MC is appearing here and there, releasing some old stuff from
time to time or working mainly as SLIPPY of VECTRONIX...
LIGHT ......... Since MEGA TRI isn't going to Atari parties anymore, MR XY has
taken over his job to appear everywhere. Maybe some homepage
featuring the GOREZONE files will see the light someday, but I
just believe only in the things I can see.
RISK .......... Yep, another sleeping band popped up again, DANNY O. created a
homepage featuring all RISK releases so far as well as some new
musicworks by him.
TCE ........... Since this band lost all their coders nothing happened for years
now, just a few people, mainly of the former band BLUE SOFTWARE,
are left just as SECRET TOP and THE BYTE. They upped a homepage
and some more CD ROM is planned. Nothing more...
.tnb. ......... FLASH just reworked their homepage but that's all since the EIL
party, DRIZZT's destination is unknown as well as FXL's. LOT
went to the United States and moved his home later to Munich and
lost all interest in doing "scene music"...
moondog / .tSCc.
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