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GERMAN ATARI SCENE REPORT - AUTUMN/WINTER 2k3/2k4
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Here we go again, with another issue of the german scene report, my old idea to
report the things our beloved and damn ooould german Atari scene has done over
the past months and checking out if we still can speak of a local scene in our
country. So let's make a round-up now concerning the german groups still working
with Atari machines and let us see if we survived the out-powering ERROR IN LINE
party...
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CHECKPOINT
DEFJAM and 5o5 are the only members that show activities nowadays, so 5o5 made
its usual contribution to YM ROCKERZ while DEFJAM did a small demoscreen for the
DHS XMAS 15 KB MUSIC DEMO competition, that has won the first place (what else,
errr...?!) Furthermore he kicked out his winning 4K screen from the last years
EIL party, "4ster".
Therefore mOdmate seems to be completely out of the scene and Exocet, who joined
them lately hasn't shown up in a production yet.
current state ....... obviously active
latest productions .. "4ster" 1o/2k3, "Xmiss" 15 KB demoscreen, 12/2k3
Atari projects ...... dunno, a promised Alive intro didn't showed up
members ............. 5o5, Defjam, Exocet, Joe Cool, mOdmate
url ................. http://checkpoint.planet-d.net
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CREAM
It is damn silent around the CREAMies nowadays, is it a good or a bad sign? Only
TAO is popping up regulary, supporting several projects with his outstanding
tunes as well as he supports the YM ROCKERZ still with his codes. ULTRA seems to
work in his chamber on "Heftig" if we can believe the rumours...
current state ....... still around, but quite silent
latest productions .. latest was JAM for Windows in May 2oo3...
Atari projects ...... still the very mythical "Heftig" demo...
members ............. A.t, Abyss, Tao, Ultra
url ................. http://www.creamhq.de
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CROUR
This band is dead now as ZWECKFORM (also known as ZWF) and RAVING MAD (also
known as Ralf) decided to form PARADOX together with PARANOID of PARANOIA.
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ESCAPE
After they ruled the last years EIL party once again silence falls over the band
again. Lately only SPION and CHARON popped up with some stuff, who released both
some modules/plugins for "Escape Paint" and "Whip!", while CHARON's "Whip!"
plugin was shown at first on EIL 2k1 (!). Master NO himself seems to stuck deep
in the Atari Coldfire Project, trying to get MiNT running on the Coldfire
evaluation board as well as he invests much time into his DOpE project.
current state ....... obviously active, but more in the background
latest productions .. just some "Whip!" and "Escape Paint" modules
Atari projects ...... no major projects known atm.
members ............. Charon, No, Shifter, Spex, Spion
url ................. http://escape.atari.org
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FOUNDATION TWO
Even though it is quite silent around them I still count them here as they still
have some Falcon production in their chest that may be released somewhen. As I
wasn't able to join last years UNCON Party I don't know right what happened at
this little party, esp. since nowhere you can get any information about it on
the net as also their homepage wasn't updated since last summer. I tried lately
to catch Mad Butscher but didn't succeded, so the state of this team has to be
mentioned as unknown.
current state ....... ?! maybe active, maybe on 8bit, who knows?!
latest productions .. "DuSau" game for Falcon
Atari projects ...... "Steinbruch" - another game for Falcon
members ............. Artie Stolks, Beetle, Mad Butscher, Moaco, Mr XY, Nine,
RiK, TWH and Yellow Man
url ................. http://www.foundationtwo.com
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PARADOX
Built on the ashes of CRUOR this new team rised up. They spread the rumours to
work on some STE stuff in the past but so far there is nothing announced as well
as there exists no homepage.
current state ....... ?
latest productions .. nothing so far
Atari projects ...... appart from the STE archive unknown
members ............. Paranoid, Ralf, Zweckform
url ................. no group homepage available
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PARANOIA
With PARANOID joining PARADOX this group has lost its driving force to release
stuff for Atari machines and has left the active state on Atari as it will be
more used as team for organising parties and events. So I doubt we can count
them really here in the future :(
current state ....... obviously dead as demo team now
latest productions .. "Paracon 5" invitro for ST 1o/2k3
Atari projects ...... apart from organizing Atari parties nothing
members ............. Der Komtur, Luebke, Marcstar, Mr. Future, Paranoid,
Strange, TNT
url ................. http://paranoia.atari.org (under reconstruction now)
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THE SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION
Yes, prOpaganda times are over as I doubt our team deserves such hype atm :)
With RAY leaving for military service last year and REMO vanishing due to
unknown reasons the band works were frozen completely as all major activites in
demomaking were bound on those 2 coders.
Since the last report only LOTEK STYLE and myself were showing up, releasing
"UCM # 24" and some musix for YM ROCKERZ or the latest "Chosneck" issue.
Furthermore LOTEK STYLE kicked out more of his CD archives just as "Fading
Twilight # 8" and "No Fragments # 1" as well as some ASCII collies.
Now at least RAY is coming back as military service ends up and we all hope he
can blow new life into the team now, releasing the long awaited "Beams" demo and
restart to work on "Wolfenstein" then... Good to see you back, mate!
current state ....... most members sleeping nowadays, no major activities atm.
latest productions .. "UCM # 25" o4/2k4 :) "Fading Twilight # 8" o3/2k4
Atari projects ...... "Beams" ... the neverending story, RAY has more plans too
members ............. Creature, Dynacore, Gizmo, Llama, Lotek Style, Moondog,
Ray, Remo, Scy
url ................. http://www.tscc.de
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...and the rest...
Still a bunch of individuals is supporting the scene as well... here they are...
NEMO
He finally stopped his freelancing works and joined DHS lately.
SIMON SUNNYBOY
He joined PARADIZE last year and I guess his further Atari releases wont run
under the ASM SOFTWARE label anymore.
THE NAUGHTY BYTES
FLASH is still supporting SAGE's work on the Lynx with grafix, such as for his
latest Lynx game called "Push Around The World". Furthermore FXL supported me
with a new tracker music for the current UCM.
THOTHY
The lonely coder striked back with a small intro for the latest DHS compo.
XTROLL
CYCLONE's activities rise more and more as he took over the second editorship
part of ALIVE magazine lately. Unfortunately his works on "Lethal Xcess XL" seem
to be quite low atm.
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Conclusion ... There is still a bunch of people around and our local scene made
some heavy changes in the past months, some teams passed their
active times, were dissolved while their heirs didn't revealed
real activities then, while others are obviously working in the
underground mainly. Unfortunately nearly all left teams have in
common that they have only a very small active core nowadays, but
we still hope for some major releases this year...
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