NEWS? RUMOURS? OR JUST A DIARY OF THE LAST MONTHS?
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AGGRESSION
- There are strong rumours that we might see some new stuff by the finns for the
forthcoming LINEOUT party.
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ALCHIMIE 3
- This mainly Amiga related party was held last year in November in France, but
it was also quite good frequented by the french Atari scene, so over 1o
Atarians, mostly members of MJJ PROD showed up. Those took also part in some
competitions and so WILFRIED has just won the GFX competition while C-REM took
the 4th place. HERRV of MJJ PROD finally took the second place in the Wild
competition, but the demo isn't available at the moment. It's called "THE
BADGER".
Here is WILFRIEDS winning picture...
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ALIVE
- Issue 7 was released in July in two versions, for ST and Falcon. Again a nice
read... check our review here...
>--> ALIVE 7 <--<
- And finally, they matched it to set their magazines online! Horray!
- Grmpf... also Alive 8 was released then, so we have two Alive reviews in one
issue of UCM... Shame on me!
>--> ALIVE 8 <--<
- The future of ALIVE seems to be a bit uncertain now, we heard rumours of a web
based zine.
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CEREBRAL VORTEX
- This long vanished french group turned back with "TILES OSMOSIS", a little
brain terrorising puzzler for the ST. They claim to work on some multiplayer
Falcon game.
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CHECKPOINT
- DEFJAM finally released his winning "4STER" 4K intro from the ERROR IN LINE o3
in a bugfixed and extended version. You can check our review here...
>--> 4STER <--<
- EXOCET, who has left the CREATORS lately, has now joined CHECKPOINT. Maybe he
will blow even more life into the reanimated band?
- DEFJAM has won the DHS 15 KB MUSIC DEMO XMAS COMPO.
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CONSTRUCT CREW
- Are dead... after SUNNYBOY already left their lines, COSMO decided to quit the
bandproject and joined STAX as SCHEMANTIX.
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COOL GIRLS
- We didn't get rid off from them... after long silence after the quarrels about
their cracking activities as well as the dumb things that were thrown into the
discussion, they did something usefull and released another intro that came
along with the latest issue of CHOSNECK. But don't wait for too much...
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CREATORS
- It is quite silent around the Atari section since long times and lately NERVE
stopped the development on the ST demo "SPRELL" and gave it unofficially away.
As it isn't no real "release" you will get it only by detours...
- NERVE lately told us that he will orient his works only on Atari division of
EPHIDRENA over the next time, so possible CREATORS releases seem to be out of
sight...
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D-BUG
- After a longer break they released a bunch of new disx since January that
featuring in parts little rarities.
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DHS
- Freelancing musician NEMO joined them.
- After the successful 15 KB XMAS MUSIC DEMO COMPO with a bunch of nice little
demo releases, they striked back with an update of their last years EIL demo
"ECHOS", that features a new ACE replay and runs only on CT6o now.
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ELITE
- There seem to be some lifesign, as we heard rumours that they cracked PORTHOS
on last years QUAST party. So they seem to be still around, even though the
crack of the last Atari major releases isn't really a thing to bring the scene
and community forwards as cracking that stuff may break the last will to go on
developping software for TOS machines... imho...
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EPHIDRENA
- NERVE has released a reworked version of his Falcon demo "ATARI BEHN" with the
subtitle "Trist Mix". After this the CT6o will be tormented by him.
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ESCAPE
- SPION has released a few more modules for ESCAPE PAINT such as a PNG loader.
- CHARON released a new module for WHIP.
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EVOLUTION
- And they finally did it, to release the first little demo for the CTo6o with
the chaps of DHS, just called "EVOLUTION 1.o".
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IDEMLINE
- It was damn silent around SINE over the last years, lately he jumped back into
the ring for the DHS XMAS compo but didn't hold the deadline, but happily he
released his screens anyway, so we get new strange styled ST stuff from him.
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LINEOUT
- EARX brought us his second demo, called "OUT" on the Falcon. Nice thing and
you will find a review in here.
- HAVOC lately announced an Easter party called OUTLINE 2oo4. Stay tuned for
further informations.
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MJJ PROD
- Their little MJJ PARTY 3 brought us a little bunch of releases, such as the
"ACID DEMO" and the "LOVE MACHINE", both no breakers, but read by yourself:
>--> MJJ PROD releases <--<
- They released a compile of older MJJ screens that weren't released so far in
last December, called "COMPILE DE MJJ 1o ANS + 1".
- Furthermore they took part at the DHS XMAS compo.
- In February lately MR NOURS released the "JENTRO", some small slideshow for
the STE.
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MYSTIC BYTES
- CHOSNECK # 2 (the 4th issue at all) was finally released!
- They finally launched their own website: http://msb.neostrada.pl/
There you can find an online version of the latest issue of CHOSNECK as well.
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OXYGENE
- Spiral of Oxygene (former member of Diamond Design), graphician for such
brilliant demos as "BRACE", died on the 30th of december 2003.
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PARADIZE
- A new little game called "SPACE BATTLE" was released for ST by SIMON SUNNYBOY.
Check our review here...
>--> SPACE BATTLE <--<
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PARADOX
- This new label was found out of the remains of CRUOR together with PARANOID of
PARANOIA. So far there is nothing really in sight.
- ZWECKFORM is working hard on his STE support page on the net, offering a wide
range of informations about the STE and software using its special hardware.
Check it out at http://www.atari-ste.com
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PARANOIA
- They did it again... they organised the 5th issue of their PARACON parties in
late November. And again they created a little invitro to announce their
party. Check our review here...
>--> PARACON 5 INVITRO <--<
- Since PARANOID joined the new team PARADOX it seems as PARANOIA will step out
of being a demo team on Atari. As PARANOID told us the band wont be dissolved
but will mainly organize events in the future.
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RESERVOIR GODS
- Their latest game FAIRY LANDS will be delayed up to 6 months regarding to
STRATAGEM.
- SRATAGEM wants to extend his manual-project with game manuals.
- DAMO did a very exciting intro for Falcon for the latest issue of CHOSNECK!
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SATANTRONIC
-They organized the FOREVER 5 party from 19.-21.3.2004 in Trencin/Slovakia.
>--> See the results here <--<
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STAX
- BOD, maybe their only surviving member, has released a little game for the ST,
called "ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE". Check our review here:
>--> ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE <--<
- Lately SCHEMANTIX (ex COSMO of ex CONSTRUCT CREW) joined them as musician.
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ST KNIGHTS
- Suddenly JACE turned back into the ring with a little intro for ALIVE 7.
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SYNTHESIS PARTY 4
- Again some Atarians showed up at this french party, DMA SC of SECTOR ONE took
the second place at the musix competition as well as the 2nd in the fast gfx
compo while HELLO of SECTOR ONE did a 4KB Flash demo that finished 2nd as too.
Furthermore C-REM of MJJ PROD reached the second place at the gfx compo (watch
his entry below) while STRIDER finished at the 5th position in the fast gfx
compo... No real Atari releases showed up...
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TAQUART
- JASKIER released new version of his great Theta Music Composer for the 8bits.
Now it is possible to download a first alpha version of this tracker. This new
version is incompatible with latest version 1.11!
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THE BEASTS
- This old spanish crew "came back" to life and are flooding the scene with a
load of small old schoolish intros. A bunch of them was reviewed in this UCM.
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.tSCc.
- LOTEK STYLE has released the second CD colly of NO FRAGMENTS as well as the
8th CD of the FADING TWILIGHT series.
- RAY is back from the army and released some
- UCM 25 is out?!
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YES CREW
- SWE did some demostuff since years again, with a small screen for the DHS XMAS
compo that was "disqualified" and released apart from the competition...
- Development on the game "BARS" still goes on, we heard lately that STS took
over some grafix works.
- SWE lately updated his GEM Graumf Tracker Player to vo.91.
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YM ROCKERZ
- They striked back with "WARRYORZ" a concept demo with the known shell but
tunes by 1o different (!) composers. Check the review here...
>--> WARRYORZ <--<
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ZUUL
- No real news, just added to complete things, the preview of their CASIMIR PARK
demo from the early nineties was released. Check our small review in this mag.
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