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[ Demozoo ] Console Cracktro Preservation Taskforce

To preserve console cracktros and trainer menus is a highly complicated matter: One has to extract the scene-generated content from the patched game in a way that no proprietary game data remains, while turning the intro into a standalone ROM image. As you might have noticed, the numbers of archived GBC, GBA, SNES, Dreamcast, PSX, PS2, NDS, N64 and even Wonderswan intros and trainer menus have been skyrocketing recently. This is thanks to a dedicated and skillful team of console enthusiasts within the Demozoo orbit, currently consisting of Xylitol, NewOtzelot, ps1ch and SiZiOUS, who locate console releases with intros and trainers, extract those using sophisticated tools and handcraft, and put them on scene.org and Demozoo for everyone to enjoy. More and more intros are coming online on an almost daily basis. If you are a console enthusiast who would like to contribute to these efforts, contact the Demozoo team on our Discord server.

Bringing you all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week in particular covering the releases from the ROMA.EXE demoparty that took place in Rome and also @party that took place Boston, both of them this past weekend. https://youtu.be/FZFH3KfE8I0

[Submitted by psenough]

Temperatures are rising, so we thought we‘d bring you the coolest news: Our website is online!
The next steps towards your happiness (and ours) couldn’t be easier: Have a read through the compo rules, write your name on the visitor list to tell us that you’re coming and treat yourself to a ticket and a shirt!
We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Abenteuerhallen and see what you got! ☮️🫰

[Submitted by darya]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Floppyshop Online - The Atari ST & Falcon Public Domain Library, Reborn

Back in the day, Floppyshop was one of the largest and best-known public domain libraries (PDLs) in the UK - a mail-order institution that supplied Atari ST and Falcon users with disk after disk of games, demos, utilities, music, fonts and art, long before broadband made everything a click away. For countless Atari owners, the Floppyshop catalogue was how you discovered new software.

Collections like this usually meet a sad end: boxed up, shelved, turned into shelf-ornaments and slowly forgotten. I didn't want that to happen here. So my girlfriend and I spent many days painstakingly reorganising the entire Floppyshop Gold series into a fully online, searchable database - every disk catalogued, every file downloadable, and all of it completely free to browse and grab. Thousands of programs and PD titles, preserved and back within reach.

It's all sorted into easy-to-browse sections: Art and Graphics, Astrology, Clip Art, Communication, Demos, Disk Magazines, Educational, Fonts, Games, Programming, MIDI, Music, Product Demos, Sound, Utilities and Word Processing. Buried in among it are plenty of "lost" programs - tools and titles that are still genuinely useful today, not just curiosities.

The originals weren't perfect, and neither were the catalogues. There were many discrepancies between what the Gold collection listed and the disks themselves, and I've corrected as many as I could find - including a few disks that never made it into the supplied (and probably older) catalogue at all. The separate ST and Falcon catalogues have been merged into single sections to keep things simple, with Falcon disks clearly renamed FALC-xxx so they're never confused with their ST counterparts.

Search it, browse it, download it - all free. And if you'd rather grab the whole lot in one go, the complete archives are available over on the exxos forum.

🔗 Browse the Floppyshop libary

 

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari legacy

 

This came out of nowhere: a printed Atari magazine in English language, written and layouted on an Atari Falcon 060 with PCI-graphics card using Calamus.

Kroll strikes back, even more professional than before with this surprising piece of Atari press which will be available worldwide and also in some Polish shops (the famous Empik stores). The content seems very interesting, covering games, demoscene and obviously including some deeper research, e.g. "The History of the Polish Demoscene on 8-Bit Atari - It didn’t begin with crackers. It began at the computer markets of 1980s Poland."

This seems to be fascinating work!

🔗 Atari Legacy magazine