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- R E V I S E D H O P E S ?
- by Grey / Mystic Bytes
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- Hmmm Let's go back to the dark days just before the latest edition of EIL party
- in Germany. Single releases, dying disk-mags, vanished hopes... Some ppl who
- travelled to several Atari parties mainly tried to remember the "good old days
- of the scene" sitting somehwere in the corner and watching the "classics" from
- EKO, Avena, EXA, Lazer and other Atari Gods... It seemed that Atari scene has
- no chance to survive any longer and the days of this community are counted.....
-
- So what happens next? We have another Easter convention, the 2nd edition of the
- unforgotten EIL party in Dresden / Germany. People from various corners of
- Europe showed up, not caring about the long distance they had to conquer. You
- could hear many languages, just like French, English, Polish, German or Swedish
- ... But there was one word repeated many times which sounded the same - it was
- "ATARI" Ppl had fun talking about many things concerning Atari stuff, you could
- see them proudly wearing Atari T-shirts. A marvellous picture!
-
- But that's not all! Let's take a look around... Dying disk-mags? Moondog sets
- the "UNDERCOVER real-time punishment" flag. What da hell? A short chat with
- Moondog and Mc Laser says all.. The well known Atari disk-mag is back on track!
- CiH, the main editor from Maggie magazine walks with the single HD disk and ask
- me if he can run something on my Falcon. His smile on the face tells it's worth
- a look at, so..... why not?! Let's see..... It appears to be nothing else than
- another.... disk-magazine! "ASCII Nation", the comedy zine filled with ascii
- artworks. Cool! But wait. Someone tells me that ST Survivor's motivation has
- been resurrected and another "Alive!" issue should be released any day now! If
- you keep in mind that disk - magazines are the most wanted thing in the demo
- scene community then this simply shows that we are far from death yet!
-
- What about demos.....? Did someone manage to beat Sonolumineszenz finally? Is
- there anything planned at all? A lot of ppl sit opposite their computers trying
- to make the final fixes in code, add the latest pixels in picture or pattern in
- tunes.... Ok, cool, but didn't we see it before? Everyone's working but nothing
- shows up during compos... Someone spread rumours at the party that at least 6
- demos should be released for the Falcon! The following groups were mentioned:
- Mind Design, TOYS, DHS and Spice Boys from Sweden, Paranoia and Escape from
- Germany. More than 2 years ago! It warms up the atmosphere before the...
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- Competitions! The most awaited part of the party! Those couple of minutes/hours
- should show us the truth about the Atari scene today. Because demo compos are
- the major ones at the party then I will keep my attention on those.
-
- It's the... FALCON DEMO COMPETITION!
-
- We take a huge breath and ask ourselves: will anyone manage to beat the famous
- Sono? Is there any Tat's follower?
-
- Wowness! The rumours about 6 demos were true! And 3 of those were absolutely
- OUTSTANDING ones! Unfortunately Mind Design renounced from giving their entry
- to the compo. Someone swedish guy told me that this move was tactic 'coz Mind
- Design was scared to be placed under other groups from Sweden. Hmmm!
-
- Did we have one entry less then? Nope. Surprisengly we've seen the demo from
- Remo, the newcomers from Germany!
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- The level of all entries was VERY HIGH which set a new era in Falcon coding!
- Especially the 1st 3 ones from TOYS, Escape and DHS which were very close in
- quality and brought us new effects never seen before on Atari. Thanx to these
- groups we got damn close to other scenish systems and we are not condemned to
- show Sono anymore! THANK YOU FOR THAT GUYS!
-
- The Paranoia's entry was also a very good one, especially if you keep in mind
- that Paranoid did a 1st step in ASM code just a couple months ago.
-
- Remo's entered the scene with the multi-part demo for the Falcon. I know I can
- scare you telling it's 100% GFA code but HOLD ON. It's not a shitty slideshow
- or something! That's a very impressive demo with textured cubes, roto-zoomers,
- plasmas and tunnels... nothing new, but excellent entry for the 1st release!
- And this GFA basic.. Fuckin' amazing!
-
- I wouldn't forget the Spice Boys demo. If you think it's another crap from fake
- demo crew then you are so wrong. In fact this entry shows more potential than
- some serious releases made by real Atari crews! Nice one.
-
- There was a chance to see at least two other demos for the Falcon in what could
- be a record in the Atari scene history! With some luck we could see the Mind
- Design entry and the demo from Mystic Bytes. Both of these crews promised to
- release their demos after the party so there is no reason to cry about!
-
- Falcon definitely ruled at the latest EIL, the same as ST two years ago did.
- By the way - even if there were not too many ST releases these single entries
- were worth to look at! "ODD STUFF", the long-awaited Sector1 and Dune demo was
- finally released and showed what the current ST demos should look like! This
- demo looks simply BRILLIANT, every point seems to be on the right place, cute
- graphics from Edo and Exocet, sweety tunes from DMA-SC and cool effects from
- such pals like Frost, Zerkman, Exyl or ST Ghost. Great work, France!
-
- TSCC managed to release the "Fading Twilight" intro for the ST, a very nice
- piece of work promoting their CD colly with "music from Atari scene". Mc Laser
- has collected a lot of tunes from various musicians and this CD is a MUST HAVE
- production for sure.
-
- What I could add ..? The hopes became revived! Atari scene showed a lot of
- potential and I cross my fingers it won't change after the party!
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- Do your best and fuck the rest!!
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