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ABBUC
o Unconventional 2005 was held from the 16th to 18th. September 2005 as usual in
Lengenfeld/Germany. You can find some galleries over here:
http://krupkaj.wz.cz/Uncon2k5/Page.html
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ATARI LEGEND
o They have releases several Dungeon Master data disks recently:
-Beastmaster
-Bennis Dungeon I
-Conan and The Mountain of Tor Al'Kiir
-Conflux
[source: atarilegend.com]
o Some more releases including more DM data discs are announced for December
2005. You can grab this stuff from here: http://www.atarilegend.com/
[source: marcer/paradize]
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AURA
o DARK ANGEL has released a new version of his chip tracker MUSICMON. Current
version is 2.1b.
o Another update was announced with following features:
- free sid waveforms with up to 16 steps
- 2 digi channels
- maximum pattern length now 128
- individual speed for each pattern
- new multitimbral MIDI input mode
- up to 100 sounds
- up to 100 patterns
- lame realization of portamento as an extension of pitch bend
- SID Main- and Fine-Tune
- SID intensity modulation
- Pitchbend and PMD can now be applied to SID
- Arpeggio can now be selectively applied to SID
[source: dhs.nu]
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CHECKPOINT
o Suprisingly they were involved in a PC 4k-tro that was released at this
years BREAKPOINT party. SCHEINTAL by MOSTLY HARMLESS & CHECKPOINT can be
found here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=16316
You have to get this one if you don't want to miss another great music by
your fellow Atari-scener 505.
[source: nerve/creators]
o Defjam seems to be in hospital again
[source: dhs.nu]
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CREATORS
o DBUG from former group NeXT has joined them as coder.
[source: dhs.nu]
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CREAM
o A new version of their Atari chip music player for PC "WINJAM" will be
released soon. According to TAO lots of new features have been added.
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D-BUG
o One of the last active cracking crews brings you a new sensation: The U.L.S.
which means Ultimate Loading System. It allows you to install and place
several games to harddisk now if you have the patch for it.
o They have released menu 186 including patches for following games:
- Leaving Teramis (Automation 262)
- Harlequin (D-Bug 39)
- James Pond 2 - Codename Robocod (D-Bug 15a)
- Moonshine Racers (BBC 47 a/b)
- Resolution 101 (Automation 293)
- Robocop 2 (BBC 32)
- Speedball 2 (BBC 36)
- Streetfighter 2 (D-Bug 100 a/b/c/d/e)
- The Untouchables (Automation 223)
- Wizkid (D-Bug 80)
o Some more menus are announced to be released soon with some formerly
uncracked classics again as well as a filed version of the "LIFE's A
BITCH"-demo. So watch out. Get their menus at:
http://www.tphf.karoo.net/dbug/
[source: dhs.nu, cyrano jones & showaddywaddy/d-bug]
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DHS
o On august the first, Toodeloo, musician from DHS passed away. He will be
greatly missed.
o DHS started to organize another online compo. 20 years Atari ST! Find out
more about it here: http://dhs.nu/scene_compo_2005.php
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DROP DA BOMB
o They are going to release a new EP on vinyl. The EP will contain 5-7 tracks
which are all 100% chipmusic! A datatrack will be included as well containing
some players and SNDH-versions too.
CRAZY Q was given the task of mastering. The name of the EP isn't chosen
yet. The EP will be released onhttp://www.retinascan.de on a little 3" CD.
o STream3, another chiptune mix is planned to be released in December.
o Drop da bomb is going on tour too. Please Check out the dates:
http://www.dropdabomb.org/
[source: stu/drop da bomb]
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DUNE
o Their hidden screen from FANTASIA-demo was released as single file finally.
I guess it was to damn hard to find for most of the sceners :)
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ELITE
o Elite have striked with another release of Hddriver v8.15. One of their old
school crackers seems to be motivated again.
o Future release from elite may be ASH Papillon 3.04 in an English version.
[source: marcer/paradize]
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FAIRLIGHT
o MAKTONE from FAIRLIGHT is planning to do chiptunes on Atari. He is looking
for a real machine at the moment. It seems to me that more and more people
from other scene have a growing interest in the Atari scene nowadays.
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FOUNDATION TWO
o The group is dead. Mad Butscher renamed himself to "kRadD" which is an
Acronym for "keine Ruecksicht auf den Durchschnitt". After he he joined the
ranks of The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
o kRadD plans to create some kind of "History of Foundation Two"-website.
[source: kRadD/tscc]
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GWEM
o GWEM goes DMA! The latest version of his chipmusic-tracker MAXYMISER (V1.13)
now features DMA support. I wonder what kind of tracks we will get in the
future with this tool.
o A new version of GWEM's SNDH-CONVERTER-tool has also seen the light of day.
SNDH v2 format is now supported by all the converters.
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MJJ
PROD
o One more slideshow has been released called "TELETUB LOOKS FOR C-REM". I
think the title says it all and you can imagine its another one in a row
of those fun-prods from NEO-MJJ ;)
[source: dhs.nu]
o TOBE/MJJ won the ALCHIMIE intro compo with an Amiga 1200 intro.
[source: dhs.nu]
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NEW
BEAT
o ACE TRACKER was once again updated. Check it out at:
http://nb.atari.org/
[source: dhs.nu]
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PAZA
o Paza, an active ATARI ST musician from Sweden, is going to release his first
full CD album from NinjaniDiskus on Sep.22nd. It includes nine chip electro
pops cooked with his cute and funky spices + a remix by Psilodump. The price
is 10 euro. You can preorder it or download example mp3s from the whole
album at Releases section. A new music clip of his "Hopefoolia" is also
available at Video section.
o Incidentally, Paza will be performing live in London on 27 October.
http://london-hq.lektrolab.com/
[source: vorc.org]
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PARADIZE
o MARCER joins their forces as musician.
o PARADIZE finally released POOZ, their game from OUTLINE 05. The game ranked
first place. Code by Cooper, Gfx by Exocet and STS, Musics by DMA-SC.
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=19690
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PARADOX
o Finally their Outline 2005 winning demo PACEMAKER was released. You should
check out this very nice STE only production. You can download it at:
http://paradox.atari.org/
o An update of PACEMAKER was released as well.
o A new PARACON-party was announced. The party will take place from the
25th to 27th of November 2005 at the usual place in Selters/Germany.
[source: dhs.nu]
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P.H.F.
o GRAZEY is working on another music demo. Nothing more is known right now.
[source: grazey/phf]
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SATANTRONIC
o SATANTRONIC & MYSTIC BYTES are going to organize next years easter-atari
event. This time in Slovakia. Find out more about it here:
http://atari.sk/noise/
[source: dhs.nu]
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SYNDICATE
o BEAST is going to start his own chipmusic-label. The release format will be
3.5" disks for Atari systems. Groovy idea ;)
[source: crazy q/dhs]
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T.B.C.
o THE BEASTS/BITS/BANDWHODONTKNOWHOWTHEYCALLTHEMSELVES CLUBCREW have striked
with some more releases. TBC #20 was their final release.
[pouet.net]
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THE
SIRIUS
CYBERNETICS CORP.
o kRadD (formerly known as Mad Butscher) joins their forces.
o LOTEK STYLE and his fellow ripper team is also still busy with another issue
of FADING TWILIGHT(http://fading-twilight.atari.org). There will be at least
two more CD-Rom's before the giant DVD-project will be started.
o They held a little tscc meeting in Wiesbaden from the 14-16th October.
o kRadD is still working on GRENZUEBERSCHREITUNG. It was the falcon game that
entered the OUTLINE 2005 game compo and is a tron-clone for falcon supporting
two Jaguar TEAM-TABS for 8 player tournaments.
o RAY has finally finished converting Wolfenstein 3d to the ST. Well ok there
is now a first fully playable release available which still seem to have a
few bugs. According to RAY there will be a fully fixed version when all the
bug reports are popped in. You can download the latest release from here:
http://people.freenet.de/ray.tscc/wolf3d.htm
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VeCTRONIX
o Former Atari cracking crew now seemed to have formed a new team on PC doing
PC demos now. Unfortunately the only true VeX member that still is active is
SLIPPY who coded the well known SID SOUND DESIGNER that is still used very
often. The new team is composed of:
3dino gfx
Bionic gfx
CybeREX gfx
Dafunk music
KK code, gfx
Quickyman02 music, gfx
Slash_AtD music
Slippy org, gfx
Unc gfx
wiCkeDz gfx
o They have released a PC-64-ktro called P.O.S.T. which ranked first at
STREAM party 2005.
[source: pouet.net]
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YESCREW
o YESCREW are working on a new replay called GEMplay. It features a gfa
wrapper containing the bitmaster 3.4 replay.
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ROCKERZ
o Some of the rockerz performing live at Microdisko in Sweden no the 19th of
November 2005. Find more about it here. Support your local chippers:
http://www.microdisko.net/disko.php?disko=2005-11-19
[source: crazy q/dhs]
o A new demo is under progress which will be called "warptYMe". The planned
release date is the beginning of 2006.
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ZELAX
o Swiety of Zelax has released the pre alpha version of his new Atari 8-bit
sound tracker called SYNTHTRACKER. The package contains 10 example songs as
well as the executable program and user manual in Polish language.
[source: gRzEnIu/atari.area]
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Lotek Style for Alive, 2005-11-08
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