Was held in Grangesberg, lots of nice people attended
as usual (with special guest Energizer/Lazer). Coding,
poker, bugs, barbeque were important ingredients.
IMParty 3
The third IMParty is taking place July 19-21 in
Grangesberg/Sweden (as usual). This is a small
party, and if you wanna attend, please make us aware
of that by emailing ae@kuai.se
Stork95.2
is a small Atari party in Finland taking place
in Helsinki/Finland at the beginning of July 1996.
For more info, E-Mail: krlawson@xgw.fi
Impulse
has finally got rid of some bugs, or should I say,
they probably flushed away the alien bugs in a
nuke toilet! (watch the demo.. :))
Impulse managed to win first price in the democompetition
at NAS'96 with a very fine margin to ICE at second place.
Well done guys!
Toys
was active during the party (NAS'96) coding a game
completly from scratch. They managed it, and you got
a very playable PacMan clone under 4kb (unpacked!).
I.C.E.
the coolest crew ever is back!
At NAS'96 ICE really showed us they're still alive
and on the go! The took the secondprice in the
democompetition with their "ICEver" demo. It features
phong+environment mapping, tunnel and some nice
graphics and music. ICE also surpriced us with a
second (YES!) contribution in the compo. It was a
preview of a coming 3D TRON game from them.
Aggression
the finnish supercrew has done it again.
Done what you ask?
Missed a deadline for their "Motion" demo.
Very bad news indeed since it's a fine piece
of a Falcondemo. They did however do a 2kb
intro at NAS'96 called "Panasonic". This intro
includes a blue box on the screen and horrible sound.
If we can belive Wiztom it's 16channel sound done
completly with the 030.
New Beat Development
made a funny little RGB split demo at NAS'96.
First rumours said this was a dreimal demo, which
seem to have been wrong.
New Beat Development
made a funny little RGB split demo at NAS'96.
First rumours said this was a dreimal demo, which
seem to have been wrong.
I.P.I.R.
has striked back in silence, with their worst production
so far. This demo is worse than shit. NAS'96 lastprice
winner.
AnCool
IS BACK! The legendary TCB coder relelased his (as he
says) last demo ever. It's for the Falcon and includes
X/Y disting megascrollers, tunnel, shadebobs, shadeplots
and more. The demo was released at NAS'96.
NAS'96
has been and was a hell of a nice party!
There were several demoreleases, more about this later.
DirecT
68060 and 68040 machines (Atari comptible) are now
ready and shipping, as with the Hades, this is a
PCI based machine.
Hades
68060 and 68040 based models are now shipping! After
seeing the 040 alive, I can only dream of the 060
speed!
Hades
68060 and 68040 based models are now shipping! After
seeing the 040 alive, I can only dream of the 060
speed!
TooNs
is a new Falcon crew built from "Scrap" and his twin-
brother Mickmouse (known for his cult BOUND demos).
They have already released a decent demo named Yepyha
with various effects and cute design.
X-Moon
cheats for the demolevel.
Press in intro, you start in cheatmode.
Press - to increase red, green, blue weapons.
Press for unlimited lifes.
ACF Design Team
is currently finishing their last demo.
It will be finished later in 1996, Jacky
says he's gonna finish the screens in about 2-3
months time. The demo's gonna be for ST/STe only.
X-Moon
is a new impressive shoot'em up for all Falcons.
It's running in truecolour mode, with ALOT of
sprites on the screen. On standard (non fastram)
Falcons it keeps a framerate of 2vbl (25fps),
and Fastram Falcons (such as AB40) 50fps.
Check out the AURA homepage for more info!
DHS/IMP
will release their winning Aggressive II
party demo on monday the sixth of May 199?.
Check this space then!
Reservoir Gods
has released a new puzzlegame for the Falcon
called "Sky Fall". It's a multiplayer game
with up to four players at a time.
Avena
Mr.Pink/Resvervoir Dogs commented on Avenas new
demo with a short word: Amazing. I guess we'll be
sitting on needles now until it's finished. :)
Avena
Tat/Digital Chaos has joined Avena!
Questor/Inter
is working on DSP calculated BSP vector worlds (like EKO's),
to be included in a new demo from Inter.
Avena
is suppposed to be working on a new demo, more about his later..
I.C.E.
did a short demo for Symposium'96, when it'll be released
however, is still a mystery. More about this as soon as
I've got contact with Techwave/ICE.
Symposium'96
a new Falcon "Megademo" was started at during this convention,
with parts from several wellknown democrews:
Absence, Inter, Lazer, Digital Chaos and Tscc.
Symposium'96
Has been, and some demos were relased. A bunch of 4kbtros
a few which were really good), three 96kbtros (none of
last years FB3 high quality ones..) and one demo from
Hydroxid. This demo is alot better than their last, but still
feels a little "out of date".
NoCrew
Noring/NoCrew has coded a brilliant MPEG-2 sound decoder for
the DSP. It only uses 5% CPU time!!
DHS/IMP
Rumours says their Aggro demo is very soon to be released.
But havn't we heared that alot of times before? Hmm.. :)
Black Scorpion Software
is developing a lowcost accelerator
for the Falcon. Todays beta versions can clock the whole
system (including the bus!) to 32mhz.
Inferiors
Zynx is working on a phong demo for the Gathering WILDCOMPO.
12mb RAM is needed..
Accelerator
A new accelerator from OXO Concept in france is in development.
It should have a 80mhz 030 and FastRam. More about this matter
later...
Bad Mood
v2.06 is released with complete 030 and DSP sources.
It features full texturemapping and depth shading.
Dead Hackers Society
DHS. offers anyone a free beer or Cola! Just join our Fanclub!
Email ae@kuai.se for more info!
New Beat Development
Have started some sort of "mailinglist" for people that don't
want to miss their comming titles (including the Rayman
clone "Willie"). Mail dhedberg@kuai.se for more details.
Inter
Lucky of ST / Inter has coded and released (!) an invitation
intro for Symposium'96.
Symposium'96
Stallion has sent out the invitations!
Aggression
Showed us alot of effects from their comming demo at Aggro2. VERY
promising one!!
Aggressive II
All demos from Aggressive II was released directly, except
the winning demo from DHS and IMP.
Aggressive II
was a very nice event indeed! Watch out for releases
from this party. Both for the STe and Falcon.
New Beat Development
are telling us a demo of their new Falcon platform
game are just a few days from being released!
Jaguar64
has dropped in price once again! $99 is the current
price in the US.
Independent
has released their new musicdemo for Falcon.
All tunes are 8 channels.
Respectables
are working on a Falcon cargame in the same style
as 'Trash Rally' on the Neo Geo or 'Power Drive Rally'
on the Jaguar.
Aura/NewTrend
are working on a new great Falcon shoot'em up!
They promise the same kind of gameplay as Wings Of Death
on the ST, and loads of sprites etc. Everything will run
in 16bit Truecolour and have 8 channel sound.
Obsession
Merlin software have bought the rights to the
Atari version of Obsession. And they are going to
upgrade it to use 256 colours in a first
Obsession I' version, later to be followed by a
Obsession II' which promises MultiBall and
redesigned tables. Falcon only ofcourse.
Hades
a new Atari clone! It's a PCI based thingy, with
040 or 060 CPU. Should be available spring 1996.
Xtream
have released a demoversion of their new "BoulderDash"
for the Falcon. It's called "Cavemania" and looks
promising.
Absence
has a ProTOS demo version out of their new brilliant
mind banglergame "Confusion" for the Falcon.
NVDI 4
has been released, with support for Type-One fonts
and selection of fonts without the need to install
them into your assign.sys file.
Afterburner
is out! The first Falcon040 board, the speed increase
is told to be fantastic and it should be very much
compatible with older software.
XaAES
a new freeware AES for MiNT. Should be out in a beta
version at the end of November, and a full featured
release is planned in Jan/Feb 1996.
SpeedUp
is a new interesting Atari/Clab Falcon accelerator.
It's maximum speed are:
CPU 68030 - 50mhz
STRAM BUS - 25mhz
DSP 56001 - 50mhz
VIDEL GFX - 50mhz
FPU 68882 - 70mhz
The 25mhz BUS enables 50mhz videl to operate in
Truecolour mode, and with good software (like BlowUp)
800*600 Truecolour is possible on VGA-MS monitors.
FalconFX
is a new multiboard for Atari/Clab Falcons.
Some of FalconFX features are:
CPU 68030 - 40mhz
STRAM BUS - 20mhz
DSP 56001 - 50mhz
VIDEL GFX - 50mhz
FPU 68882 - 66mhz
TT Compatible FastRam!
FalconFX can be upgraded separatley, so if you only
want to add FastRam to your Falcon, this is the solution!
In accelerated mode, the 20mhz STRAM-BUS enables the VIDEL
to be clocked at 40mhz in Truecolour, and giving 640*480
truecolour display with VGA-MS monitors.
A full fitted FalconFX should be a bit lower than 2000SEK
300us, 400dem or 180ukp)
New Beat Development
are currently developing a 'Rayman-alike' platform
game for the Falcon called 'Willie the adventurer'.
50fps parallax scrolling and screenupdates promised.
Together with 8 channel high quality sound and music.
EKO/EXA/HMD
have released a new Falcon demo called "Geranium",
which contains realtime phong shading for example.
Get it at ftp.cnam.fr pub/Atari/Falcon/Demos
MagiC IV
with Falcon support is now releassed!!!!!!!!!
Aura
is on the edge of dissapering for good. Stallion has
left, and now only one member is still there. Time will
tell, but we will probably never see another Aura demo,
on any machine. Unfortenly. :-(
Absence
a new team formed by ex. members of Aura and other
Independent crews. Wish 'em luck!
Absence
with the ex. Aura member Stallion, Absence will now be
arranging the Fried Bits 4 party (renamed to
Symposium '96).
Abstract
has been split up. You will probably never hear from
this crew again. Long live their brilliant Xperience
demo!
Fatal Design
is the main part of Abstract in a new shape.
They are now also developing on the Jaguar.
Saturne
some of the old Abstract members (demomaker for
example) started a Falcon edition of the multiplatform
democrew 'Saturne'.
Aggression
promises to release a new 'revolutionary' Falcon demo
called called 'Motion' at the forthcomming
Aggressive II Party in Helsinki/Finland.
New Beat Development
previously never relased any demo on Falcon, are now
planning for three releases at Aggressive II, one 128kb
intro, and two 4kb intros.
Adrenaline
has now been split up, two members has joined
the new crew "EXA". The members still in
Adrenaline are planning three new demos, a
game and some commercial product.
Exa
is the new name of the ex. Adrenaline members. They
have already released a quite decent demo called
Evolution'. This is a crew to watch out for in the
future. Their graphicans deserve a special note, since
their artwork is brilliant.
NPG
are currently finishing their mega-delayed Truecolour
side scrolling shoot'em up game - Icubator.
It features all 2vbl (30fps) update, colourful graphics
by Carnera and high class music by Domm. Also included
are special warp "Wolf3D" worlds.
Imagina
This old STe crew is now dead and burried. It seems
everyone except just a few got hung on drugs and stuff.
Hope they can get on with their lifes sometime in the
future...
Inferiors
The left-over coder from Imagina that didn't loose
himself into LSD worlds. Now back on the Falcon with
sevreal projects on the go! One of which is a
Defender clone (inspired by Jeff Minters update of
Defender) called Stargate. Stargate will feature
wild action, 1vbl (60fps) screenupdates all the time.
No slowdown at any times guarenteed, cool sound,
rendered, handdrawn and perhaps even digitzed 65536-
colour 16bit-truecolour graphics! One to defenitly
look out for.
Uniqe Development Sweden
Unique Development Sweden, seems now to have totally
abandoned the Atari market, after two great games.
This is a big loss to the Atari STe/Falcon games market
since both Obsession and Substation was either
promised or rumoured to be done in a highclass Falcon
only version. Bad luck all gamers, Unique is off.
Dune
has been awfully quiet the last year. No release, or
contribution to any demo partys. However, Dune are
now planning a new Falcon demo for release at
the Aggressive Party 2. The lack of movements from
Dune the last time is mainly because their
head' coder EvilMetal since a year back has started
a new Atari software firm called....
Frontier Software
which has many new Falcon projects on the go.
First out was Digital Tracker, which I suppose hasn't
missed your attention. Second release seem right now
to be a game from EKO called H2O. Later on we can expect releases as: Exodus - A Doom clone for the Falcon in Truecolour.
Promises 320*160 1*1-pixelsize window
updating at 3 50hz VBLs. Featuring staircases
and other nice things. Image Studio - pattern and texture generator for Falcon.
As it sounds from Frontier, this will be
a great piece of software. Wotanoid - A Asteroids clone in Truecolour from EKO.
Fully rendered graphics and full framrate. Start It - A program in the tracks of Seletric and
let'em fly (sounds almost like a Freedom copy).