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[ Demozoo ] Demozoo Archaeology W14/26: Old DOS Gems

Throughout the past years, the archival teams of Demozoo and Scene.org have been working tirelessly to preserve old demoscene stuff from disks, CDs, tapes, and lost websites. From now on, we will present you with some highlights from the current excavations on a regular basis. This week, we have sifted through half-broken Wayback Machine captures to preserve releases from two MS-DOS era demoscene producers. First, we have Dual Processor System, a two-person outfit from Berlin who made oldschool intros and FM music in 1995-1996. And secondly, Albert Software Inc., who was, despite the name, a solitary coder on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. Happy Easter holidays! We'll be back soon with more preservation updates.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] 30 years of Exocet

The one and only Exocet has published an interesting résumé about his demoscene activities during the past 30 years on his blog 16 coleurs in French language.

In this summary you will find some interesting statistics, views, production examples and demo party photos.

"Vroum Paf" - a hidden gem, first place at Outline 2007, 16 colors

According to the visualized statistics Exocet had two major phases of activity, which might be typical for many sceners. One longer and rather normally distributed episode around the year 2000, when many graphics for demos like Odd stuff, many contributions to other groups like Alive team, YM-Rockerz, DHS, JFF, MJJ etc. were created. This period also originated many of the (bitter-)sweet character pictures in unique Exocet style.

Exocet's "Lapinots" - a classic and editor's all time favorite, among many!

And after a longer multi-year break around the year 2010 we witnessed a less excessive, but highly appreciated constant comeback on many different platforms until today.

"Enemy At The Gate Array" - winning picture at Shadow party 2025 oldschool graphics compo (Thomson T08 16 colors) - as Exocet puts it in the related text file, this one was "rushed with Grafx2 in a single day at the party place"

 

"Rate my ride" - That cat knows how to chose number plates.

 

🔗 30 years of demoscene on Exocet's blog "16 coleurs"

🔗 Exocet on Demozoo

[ Atariscne.org - News ] atrfs - Atari ATR disk image filesystem tool

Peter Kaczorowski published a tool for accessing and modifying Atari 8-Bit floppy disk images (ATR). This can be very handy for extracting, adding, updating or removing files from ATR images, directly via command line. The tool supports different kinds of Atari file systems and can be integrated in Midnight commander as well.   The functionality of atrfs reminds a bit to Krystone's extremely practical online disk image extractor for the bigger brother, the Atari ST with its ST/MSA-images. While the preference of a graphical or command line interface may be a matter of taste, the command line approach could turn out more sustainable regarding availability on the long term?   🔗 atrfs on Github

[ Atariscne.org - News ] FLOP #69 available

The latest issue #69 of the long lasting Czech FLOP diskmag for Atari 8 Bit has been published.

Last year a pretaste of the mag art has been made available at Sillyventure and Last party. The mag itself was supposed to be released last year as well, but as life plays, the issue got delayed. As one feature, a Fujiama party report is said to be included. The diskmag comes as two ATR disk images.

🔗 Visit the FLOP website for download

[ Atariscne.org - News ] In the spotlight: Richard Karsmakers blog

Richard Karsmakers aka Cronos of STNICCC party organisation fame has written a nostalgic reminiscence of the first steps of the Atari ST demoscene on his blog. The articled summarizes a brief initial time span 40 years ago and is arguably a bit boldly, entitled "The Rise of the Atari ST Demo Scene".

A closer look at the blog generally indicates that Cronos, who was also one of the former ST News diskmag editors, still has an occasional inclination to write longer articles.

Speaking of STNICCC, the next party edition is about about 6 years away. So get started with your entries! ;-)

🔗 Richard Karsmakers blog