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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...
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!
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!
Do your best and fuck the rest!!
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CHOSNECK team contact us:
people faithful 2 da roots! atarimsb@wp.pl
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