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[ Atariscne.org - News ] New Trick And No Treat - A Cautionary Tale

When dealing with hardware like the ST, one of the most valued currencies back in the day were the so-called "hardware tricks"1. The limitations of the ST were so severe, that everything that helped mitigate that, even a little, was very, very welcome. May this be bigger 800k floppy disk formats, mixed resolutions, buzzer/digi-/SID-sound, the various overscan types and of course the king of the playground - hardware scrolling. Especially the last one was very shushed about by the people in the know and if one managed to catch a glimpse of how that specific magic machinery worked - oh boy, it was mind-boggling.

I am sure we all remember seeing the TCB Fullscreen, the ULM Scroller Fullscreen or hearing the buzzer or even YM-SID-sounds for the first time - this sense of the world expanding, like literally, is hard to explain - let alone to reproduce. The fact that this machine still produces new hardware tricks up to this day - like various new YM effects, generalized 4-bit hardware-scrolling, new screen resolutions just to name a few, is simply astonishing and keeps the platform interesting and challenging at the same time.

That's why the idea came up to take you, dear reader, on a small journey to where a new hardware trick gets discovered - and then even further down into it's ultimate culmination in... failure.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] The physical deep-art-ment - Side B

And Lotek Style's excursion in the realms of Atari related physical audio releases continues... enjoy!

 

gadestRing SYNERGY [CD] - Retronics – PL-99A

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/17420488-gadestRing-gadestRing-gadestRing-SYNERGY

This came into my possession by accident as a prize from Silly Venture. What we have here is an interesting concept album where two different musicians interpreting the same songs in their own way.

All the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene community. This week a look at releases from Birdie 36 and Moonshine Dragons 2026. Watch on youtube!

[Submitted by psenough]

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari .st .msa MacOS File Manager

Inspired by https://krystone.pl/st/disktools/ and https://github.com/ggnkua/Jacknife, I always wanted a simple proper native macOS tool to open, modify, extract files from, and create new .st and .msa disk images.   So I vibe-coded my own version. Feel free to use it – and please let me know if you find any bugs!   get it here:
https://hangloose.climatics.ch/Emulators/AtariFileMgr-Release.dmg?login=atarist:atarist   have fun Bandit / CLiMATiCS www.climatics.ch  

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Moonshine dragons 2026

Bob_er writes:

There was a party last weekend in Opole, Poland called 'Moonshine dragons' (https://demozoo.org/parties/5427/). That was a Commodore related event, but what was unusual, two entries were made by Atari crews: 

https://demozoo.org/productions/392084/
https://demozoo.org/productions/392144/

On atarionline.pl you can find technical description of both.