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:. news editor: LOTEK STYLE ................ final edits: CYCLONE .'
"Hello out there. This is going to be my last scene news edition for alive.
Personal problems keep me away from writing or any other creative project
at the moment. Maybe I will write some article from time to time but I
won't put myself under pressure again and I'm stepping back for now."
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AGGRESSION
-Setok recently announced new partydates for ALTPARTY. The party will be
held from 2-4 November 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. More infos here:
http://www.altparty.org/
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ATARI LEGEND
-Stratagem (former member of RESERVOIR GODS) has joined them.
-MARCER is working on his second musicdisk atm called ZIK DISK 2.
-Several new cracks have been released by them lately. We have no idea where
they dig them, maybe the code all those by themselves and then fool us by
telling that some uuuh very very rare game was found ;) All their stuff can
be found here: http://www.atarilegend.com/
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CiH
-He is planning to do some kind of FREAX-book about the atari scene.
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CHECKPOINT
-DEFJAM infiltrates ZEUGEN JEHOVAS headquarter in Selters telling them
that his mom is a huge fan and he wanna take some pictures of their
buidling. Totally insane :)
-DEFJAM is working on a new demo for the ST. Let's wait if he can again
beat his previous releases.
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D-BUG
-The fixing machine is still going strong with lots of wellknown titles
finally fixed for Falcon and HD. http://dbug.atari.org/
-A new disc has been released aswell... Number 197.
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DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY
-Atariscene DVD 1985-1988 has been released. Feel free to order it here:
http://dvd.dhs.nu/as1985-1988.php
[src: dhs.nu]
-New online compo is under construction
[src: evl/dhs]
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ESCAPE
-NO recently fixed ESCAPAINT for XAES.
-According to several ESCAPE members there won't be any new production soon.
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EVOLUTION
-There are new plans for another CT60 demo but progress is going slow.
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FiT
-Rumours say that MARQ of FIT got a Falcon again and ordered at CT63 to port
some FIT demos to Falcon060.
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GLUCHOLAZY 2007
-Polish atari party took place for the second time in Glucholazy from
27-29.07.2007.
-There was a 16-colours Graphic Compo for Atari ST. Results are like that:
1: Messy - "Messy"
2: Messy - "Messy4Pin"
3: Yerzmyey/H-PRG - "Interes kwitnie"
4: Jury - "Demon9"
5: Habib/H-PRG - "Krowa"
6: Habib/H-PRG - "Fisza"
7: TDC - "2Terribl"
8: Habib/H-PRG - "Niekrowa"
9: Ryszard - "Go4"
-A new demo by M.E.C. called UNPLUGGED has been released at the party and can
be found here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31494
-party galleries can be found on WELTA:
http://twh.homelinux.org/zope/welta/partyfolders/2007/
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LINEOUT
-They organised OUTLINE 2007. Unfortunatly much less atarians than expected
attended the party.
-EARX is working on a new half-DSP based falcon demo.
-Earx released an invitro for OUTLINE.
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MJJ PRODUCTIONS
-GLOKY has released two single screens which were also shown at OUTLINE with
a couple of more very nice ST effects which might hopefully be turned into
a full demo some day.
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ORB
-A new democrew has been formed by several oldskoolers. The Team consists
of KEOPS, STINGRAY, ULTRA, 4MAT and KENET and they will concentrate on
PC, Amiga aswell as Atari releases.
-They have released their first production which was a pc invitro
for OUTLINE 2007.
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OPIUM
-They released an older falcon game called RAVE which is an eliminator-clone.
Check out the coders website: http://www.olivespace.com/
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P.H.F.
-They released a little screen at OUTLINE called BLACK SHEEP which contains
old code from 1989. Quote from Grazey while presentation: "Oh it's shit!".
-Insaniac GRAZEY has dropped another SNDH archive update:
http://sndh.atari.org/
-Also another PC game called WRIGGLE has been released at OUTLINE.
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PARADIZE
-Rumours say that there is another puzzle game in the making.
-Little is known about their upcoming game which will be called
PARTICLE STORM. We have to be patient a little longer for this
release.
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PARADOX
-While pixeling at paracon the monitor from ZWECKFORM died with a
strange horrible sound. RIP.
-They released a new chipmusicdisc for the ST... music by well guess
who? 505. Checkout 505's BLUBBER SONGS here:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30862
-505 ranked second place at BREAKPOINT's oldschool music compo
-ZWECKFORM really went crazy at OUTLINE and started to destroy parts of
partylocation. 505 took over when he was finished.
-Rumours about a new demo where also in the room but nothing is that
much clear at the moment.
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RESERVOIR GODS
-Stratagem has left the gods due to unactivity of the group.
-They are working heavily on their new game CLIX right now. Rumour?
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TAOS
-New Atari 8bit group has released their second production at Breakpoint
called "Eine Sternengruppe".
-Members of TAOS are involved in an new scene-party portal WELTANSCHAUUNG.
-Future demoprojects are under progress.
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THE CHAOS ENGINE
-THE BYTE is back in business! He recently released a couple of compact discs.
DCD 136-144 can be found here: http://www.mtl-music.de/BSW_DCD/BSW_DCD.html
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THE ULTRA CREW
-They have released two nice little ST intros at BIG FLOPPY PEOPLE. Get
HAPPY BEAR here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31454 and
RARE here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31447
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THOTY
-The latest version of the HATARI emulator is running several falcon
programms aswell as some demos as long as the DSP is not in use. The
development hopefully continues.
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TSCC
-LOTEK STYLE has released another issue in the NO FRAGMENTS series. Archive
seven includes his PARTY ARCHIVE from 02-06. Browse the archive here:
http://no-fragments.atari.org/
[src: lotek style/tscc]
-Fading Twilight - excerpt 12 is under construction. It will be the last
excerpt. The work on the dual layer DVD (no excerpts) was already started.
The archive will be merged onto one huge DVD. This is going to be the
final FADING TWILIGHT as LOTEK STYLE feels very exhausted after working on
that collection for about 8 years.
-SCY is working on a conversion of BALLERBURG for javascript.
-Ray has released an Atari ST invitro for OUTLINE.
-KRADD has started to work on two new games, one will be called "Ausbruch 2 -
Formwandler" and seems to be a sequel to "Ausbruch". The second one is called
"Ueberlegen" and is a puzzler. You have to find words inside a huge matrix
of random characters. Besides hyperactive kradd is working on his next release,
a framework for in game player management called "beeHead".
Rumours also say that he is about to finally release "Grenzueberschreitung" at
this years Milliways.
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VECTRONIX
-SLIPPY is now father of a little son: http://www.vectronixhq.de/wbb/
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X-TROLL
-CYCLONE is doing the codework for the next musicdisc from MARCER which
will be coming up soon.
-A mysterious beta-version of LETHAL XCESS was found in their attic but
unfortunatly it is that much copy-protected that it was impossible to
create image of the game yet that works in real hardware. However there is
a PASTI available which runs on STEem with some tweaks. Perhaps some 1337
cracker will start working on it.
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YM ROCKERZ
-A special hardware edition of their last musicdisc called "WARPTYME" can
be bought now for 9 Euros plus shipping. Check out a screenshot here:
http://www.lotekstyle.de/misc/warptyme_screenshot.jpg
-There are plans for a little "farewell-SSD-musicdisc" which will mainly
be a filler for the waiting period for their real next disc.
-Only little plans are made for the upcoming disc. Only known facts are that
it will be a dancefloor disc and that also a vinyl edition is planned too.
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lotek style for Alive, 2007-08-09
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