# Scene News

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- English article -

By The Beast

> This new article deals with Atari demo crews. All the crews are displayed in alphabetical order. You will find here a lot of information (members, last prods...) and news about those crews.

Some words for French readers :

> Non, vous ne vous êtes pas trompé de mag, vous lisez bien le Toxic ! Pourquoi un article anglais ? Parce que de plus en plus de lecteurs étrangers nous y incitent et aussi parce que la scène Atari contient de moins en moins de Français. Bien entendu, je n'ai pas utilisé de mots compliqués afin que tout le monde puisse comprendre. Et pourquoi ne pas avoir fait un article bilingue ? Ben... je n'en voyais pas trop l'utilité et puis ça prend plus de temps. Cette nouvelle rubrique, qui va devenir régulière, remplace l'ancien article habituel sur les groupes de démos sur ST/Falcon. Les groupes sont classés par ordre alphabétique, vous y trouverez les infos qui vont bien (membres, dernières productions...).

Last update : October 2nd, 1999
Dernière mise à jour : 2 octobre 1999

AVENA

Country | Germany
Web site | http://www.avena.com
Level of activity | dead
Members | Agent -t- : graphist (kaytennemann@compuserve.com) Tat : coder (tat@avena.com)
Last prods | An intro for Maggie #26 Binliner (unfinished Falcon demo)
News | Avena is now dead and Tat has made all the sources of his Binliner demo available on the Net.

CEREBRAL VORTEX

Country | France
Web site | none yet
Level of activity | average
Members | Hylst : coder, graphist (hylst@caramail.com)
Last prods | Japemo Preview (released at the RTS-Y party) A GFA vector intro (released at the RTS-Y party)
News | The crew has got a project : it's a megademo for ST/STE about Japanese cartoons. Its name : Japemo. Hylst is looking for coders for helping him with his demo. He would like to have screens for his megademo. Some coders such as Sine/Idemline, The Beast/Typhoon and Exocet are working for him. Get in touch with Hylst : Geoffroy STREIT 7 rue Elsberg 67530 OTTROT (FRANCE)

CHECKPOINT

Country | Germany
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | high
Members | 505 : musician Defjam : coder Liebling : graphist
Last prods | Modulation #1 Modulation #2 Sure Trip (ST demo for EIL'99) Aftercover Magascene (an update of Undecover #16)
News | not available

COBRA

Country | Poland
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | going down
Members | Mayonez : coder Vulgar : graphist (vulgar@polbox.com) Winio : coder
Last prods | Generation Gap (Falcon demo) Revertant (Falcon demo)
News | According to Vulgar, Winio will code his last demo and then he will leave the scene. A Falcon demo will be released at the end of 1999.

CREAM

Country | Germany
Web site | http://cream.atari.org (e-mail : CreamHQ@aol.com)
Level of activity | high
Members | Abyss : coder (AbyssOfCream@gmx.net) Agent -t- : graphist (kaytennemann@compuserve.com) Candyman : coder (CmOfCream@aol.com) Tao : musician, coder (tao@atari.org)
Last prods | ...Do Things! Songs of Distant Earth (SID chips compilation made in cooperation with tSCc) Madness (an Amiga soundchip compilation)
News | A new ST demo called Heftig. Strange name for a demo, but let's hope it will be as good as "...Do Things!". Candyman has made VGA versions for Sonolumineszenz and BinLiner Preview. Beware : it uses the 100 Hz mode !

DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY

Country | Sweden
Web site | http://dhs.atari.org
Level of activity | high
Members | Dasse ET : coder (d95ebe@blg.du.se) Evil : coder, graphist (ae@wombat.ludvika.se) Gargamel : musician Gizmo : coder (gizmo@big.du.se) Loke : coder (elias-m@algonet.se) Slitsten Toodeloo : musician (toodeloo@swipnet.se)
Last prods | Sweety (ST demo for EIL'99) A compilation of 4-color online compo A compilation of Sid Sound Designer online compo plugins for Whip!
News | DHS will often organize online competition. They're coding plugins for Whip!, the famous Virtual Light Machine clone for Falcon.

DUNE

Country | France
Web site | none
Level of activity | good
Members | Chuck : coder (chuckdun@free.fr) Mic : graphist
Last prods | Memorial (2nd place at LTP 3 Oldschool Compo) Toxic Mag #18 intro Paradise
News | Chuck and Mic are both motivated to code ST demos.

ELITE

Country | various
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | low
Members | Marcer : cracker, musician Scorpio : cracker
Last prods | hacked stuff
News | Marcer's musics are converted in MP2 or MP3 format and available on his site.

ESCAPE

Country | Germany
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | good
Members | Sage : coder, archiver (ftp.uni-giessen.de/pub/atari) (Bjoern.Spruck@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de) Spion : graphist, coder (spion@atari.org) Shifter (shifter@dame.de) No : coder, graphist, archiver (ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de) (nf2@inf.tu-dresden.de)
Last prods | Illness at night (Falcon demo) Invitation intro for the EIL'99 I can do STars (4K intro for EIL'99) EIL'99 Bye-Bye-tro Whip! (a sort of Virtual Light Machine for Falcon) plugins for Whip!
News | More plugins for Whip! are in preparation.

FUN

Country | Netherlands
Web site | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bonus/
Level of activity | nice
Members | Bonus : coder, graphist, public relations Earx : coder, graphist OTM : coder The Match : coder, graphist, musician Wingleader : coder, public relations
Last prods | Men at War (a game) Alive (Falcon demo for EIL'99) Whip! plugins
News | They're working on a game called Neurobotics 2 Bonus, Earx and OTM are working separately on several small projects. It seems that some utilities are nearly to be released. The crew would like to produce some demos and intros too. The Match plans to release some games. They're prepairing a CD-Rom for Falcon. It will contain stuff running directly from the CD : games, utilities, demos...

GREUH! - FALCON SECTION

Country | France
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | average
Members | Blue : coder, graphist (armonia@oxalp.com) Guille : coder
Last prods | a Falcon 4K, a Falcon 64K and two ST 64K intros (released at RTS-Y Party)
News | Blue has got some projects but he's looking for graphists to help him. So, if you're motivated, please contact him.

IMPONANCE

Country | unknown
Web site | http://wombat.ludvika.se/
Level of activity | unknown
Members | unknown
News | They organized IMParty 9 from 2nd to 4th of July 1999. If some could give me more info about this crew, then contact me please !

LOUD!

Country | France
Web site | http://loud.atari.org
Level of activity | good
Members | ST Survivor : graphist, Undercover Magascene's editor (larnac@hotmail.com) Thyrex : GFA coder, Toxic Mag's coder
Last prods | Back in France (superb GFA megademo) Toxic Mag #18 Undercover Magascene #16 Ze Trace (a tron-like game)
News | ST Survivor lefts the Toxic Mag Team. The Beast/Typhoon is now the new editor-in-chief of Toxic Mag. Thyrex will go on coding the interface for each issue. FroST was kicked from Loud! and he joined Sector One. As Moondog leaves the scene, ST Survivor is now the new editor of the Undercover diskmag (good luck, pal !).

MIND DESIGN

Country | Sweden
Web site | http://www.algonet.se/~deez
Level of activity | average
Members | Deez : coder (deez@atari.org) The Viking : coder (viking@atari.org)
Last prods | Modest (Falcon demo for EIL'99)
News | Mind Design is working on Armageddon, a Worms clone for Falcon.

MYSTIC BYTES

Country | Poland
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | nice
Members | Grey : swapper, organizer (grey@promail.pl) MdM : ST coder (robertst@kki.net.pl) Modred : ST coder (modred@ams.ampr.org) Moonwalker : graphist Simon King : ascii painter (simon_k@friko.onet.pl) Sqward : Falcon coder (sqward@promail.pl) XTD : musician (on Amiga)
Last prods | Teardrop (Falcon demo) Breath (ST demo for EIL'99)
News | According to Undercover Magascene, the crew is working on a Falcon game. It may be a "Wings of Death" clone. They are also working on the first volume of a music compil called "On the Edge of the Abyss".

NEW BEAT DEVELOPMENT

Country | Sweden
Web site | http://home.swipnet.se/newbeat/
Level of activity | good
Members | Daniel Hedberg : coder, graphist, designer, webmaster Thomas Bergstrom : coder, graphist, musician, designer
Last prods | MagiC IDE Patch v2.2 FlexTrax v0.5
News | FlexTrax is a soundtracker for Falcon, like ProTracker and Octalyzer. FlexTrax makes full use of the Falcon's hardware. It features an userfriendly interface in high resolution (640x480) and a built-in sample editor. Besides support for the MOD file format (eight channels), FlexTrax has its own file format. An extended version of the standard MOD file format with support for effects like reverb and delay. The replay routine used in FlexTrax was first developed for the platform game "Willie's Adventures". Willie's Adventures, the platform game for the Falcon, is still under development. Since the 2nd preview (released in March, 1997) a lot of work has been put into it. The game features multiple playable characters, over 20 levels, intelligent enemies, parallax scrolling, a soundsystem with DSP effects like reverb and delay, support for both VGA and RGB monitors, Nemesis hardware accelerator support, joypad support, and much more. Everything running smoothly in full frame rate (50 frames per second) even on a standard 4Mb Falcon compatible computer. Some snapshots are available on their web site. They are coding their next Falcon demo. It will be called "Dream or Reality ?".

NO CREW

Country | unknown
Web site | http://www.nocrew.org
Level of activity | seems to be good
Members | NoBrain NoName
Last prods | EGO-Demo (Falcon demo for EIL'99) Dist (128 byte intro by DHS and NoCrew for EIL'99) MP2 0.999 plugins for Whip!
News | They released a brand new version of their famous MP2 player for Falcon !

PARANOIA

Country | Germany
Web site | http://www.uni-mainz.de/~heuno000/
Level of activity | quite good
Members | Der Komtur : organizer, tester (Amiga, Atari, PC) (komtur@atari.org) Luebke : musician, coder (Atari, Apple PowerMac) (luebke@atari.org) Marcstar : coder (x86 Linux) (stepanov@uni-giessen.de) Mr.Future : musician (Atari) (mrf@atari.org) The Paranoid : coder, graphist (Atari) (paranoid@atari.org) Strange : graphist (Commodore 64, Atari) (strange@atari.org) TNT : rendering, raytracing (Amiga PPC) (tnt@atari.org)
Last prods | Reverse Pong (a game released at the EIL'99) An X-Mas intro
News | According to Undercover Magascene, Paranoid would like to stop STOS coding. He would like to code in assembler.

POETS OF DECAY

Country | Germany
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | dead
Members | MC Laser : article writer Moondog : ex-editor of Undercover Magascene
Last prods | Undercover Mag #14
News | Poets of Decay is over because Moondog is fed up with Undercover diskmag and Atari scene in general. Don't worry about the diskmag because ST Survivor is the new editor-in-chief.

POPSY TEAM

Country | France
Web site | http://popsyteam.rtel.fr
Level of activity | going down
Members | Boub : coder Momo : coder
Last prods | a Falcon intro for the RTS Party
News | Boub had a project called "Total Supremacy". This was a "Command and Conquer" clone but unhappily Boub's Falcon doesn't work anymore due to a failure in his Centurbo II accelerator card... When he will finish his game, Boub will leave the scene.

QUEEN MEKA

Country | France
Web site | http://www.multimania.com/nef/QM/
Level of activity | good
Members | Osmose (osmose1@caramail.com) Rajah Lone (ptonthat@club-internet.fr)
Last prods | STimulus #8 Joe 1.46
News | Joe's resource has been translated in some foreign languages such as Italian or Swedish. Of course, future issues if STimulus are in preparation.

REMOVERS

Country | France
Web site | http://perso.club-internet.fr/sbriais/
Level of activity | good
Members | Seb : coder Stabylo : coder
Last prods | AVI Player
News | New versions of AVI Player are of course in the pipeline.

RESERVOIR GODS

Country | United Kingdom
Web site | http://rg.atari.org
Level of activity | medium
Members | Charles Mr. Pink MSG Ripley Tim D Yoshica
Last prods | The Falcon interface of Maggie diskmag Snowstorm
News | They will surely prepare some games for GBX and GodleNES.

SECTOR ONE

Country | France
Web site | http://deunstg.free.fr/sct1/
Level of activity | high
Members | CosmosH : graphist (cosmos_h@yahoo.fr) Dma Sc : musician (dma_sc@caramail.com) Edo : graphist (p.vanmeenen@free.fr) Exyl : coder (gdecooman@nordnet.fr) Fred 1 : inactive coder Frost : coder (threiss@wanadoo.fr) Hello : coder (inactive ?) (hello@chez.com) Splash : coder ST Ghost : coder (deunstg@free.fr) Zed : coder (vickingf@yahoo.fr)
Last prods | Mr Boomer (a game) Pie Bill Gates (a funny game)
News | Pie Bill Gates has been released. This game is a way to laugh at Bill Gate's ugly face. It was coded by Exyl. Edo would like to create a new game called Bars for STE and Falcon. ST Ghost and Splash are coding an MP3 player for Falcon. It is planned to run on standard Falcons. The crew is prepairing an ST demo and Exyl said it will be an amazing one. Just wait and see ! Cyberfranck/Dizzidence has joined the crew as Zed. He learns coding. Frost/Loud! has joined the crew as a coder. He left Loud! CosmosH/Dizzidence is a new member, he learns painting. Splash would like to code a 800 XL music emulator.

ST KNIGHTS

Country | France
Web site | http://www.runnet.com/stknights
Level of activity | dead
Members | Alan Parker : musician Aldyn : graphist Creator : graphist Dieu : graphist Jace : coder (only active member) (jace_stk@runnet.com) Joker
Last prods | An intro for Toxic Mag #14
News | Jace is fed up with ST, so his megademo Resurrection will not be released. But he will give all the sources to another crew, maybe Dune or Sector One.

SUPREMACY CORP.

Country | France
Web site | http://members.tripod.com/supremacy_atari
Level of activity | low
Members | - Crash Override : cracker FirST' : coder, rendering (ylecaill@iut.ujf-grenoble.fr) HeadLess : PC cracker KyST : graphist Oldman : swapper Ptif : coder Quest : article writter for Toxic Mag, graphist (wrathchild_@yahoo.fr) Razaac : swapper, compil maker (razaac@hotmail.com) Robin : swapper, compil maker Salamander : swapper (salamander_sup@hotmail.com) Sanshiro : cracker, coder Senser : ASCII and bitmap graphist, swapper Se7en : swapper, compil maker Shurikens : musician SNK : cracker, coder Supernova : coder (szemrot@hotmail.com) Tarzan : cracker, swapper Telsud : coder The Beast : coder, Toxic Mag editor (beast_typhoon@hotmail.com) The Fate : swappeur
Last prods | a Hades demo : DBD ("Deux Balles Demo"), released at the RTS Party
News | Razaac is going to make some CD-Roms full of stuff. A CD with diskmags and Falcon demos is nearly to be released. The CD "Atari ST Anthology #2" is in the pipeline too, but the release date is still unknown. A new member called Shurikens has joined the crew, he's a musician. They plan to release a brand new web site. (For more info about legal activities please read under "Typhoon" and for illegal activities please read under "TLF")

TEENAGE

Country | Netherlands
Web site | http://www.oprit.rug.nl/vannoorden/
Level of activity | average
Members | AntiLamah : virtual member :-) (antilamah@dds.nl) Berserker : graphist, coder (berserk@nthfen.demon.co.uk) Phenomenon : coder (fenomeen@atari.org) Tinker : graphist, musician (tinker@atari.org)
Last prods | H Demo IV (demo released at PMP) Crackman in the search of his dealer (a Pac-Man clone for STE and Falcon) A level editor for Crackman
News | They want to make a Civilization clone. It will be called Politically Incorrect. They plan to create a comedy magazine. They have already find the title : Undertaker Magascene. An addon for Crackman is in preparation. They will code two other games : Looz'R (a Zool clone), and Crackman II

TLF

Country | France
Web site | http://members.tripod.com/supremacy_atari
Level of activity | moderate
Members | Crash Override : cracker HeadLess : PC cracker Oldman : swapper Robin : swapper, compil maker Salamander : swapper (salamander_sup@hotmail.com) Sanshiro : cracker, coder Se7en : swapper, compil maker SNK : cracker, coder Tarzan : cracker, swapper
Last prods | French translation of german softwares (such as Magic 5, Texel 2, CAB 2.6, etc.) Lots of hacked stuff for PC and consoles :-)
News | This crew has opened a new web site. It is called "The Ultimate Atari Warez Site" and you will find key makers, serials, etc.

TORMENT

Country | United Kingdom
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | good
Members | Gnd (gnd@torment.freeserve.co.uk) Rhino (rhino@torment.freeserve.co.uk) Spiny (spiny_uk@hotmail.com)
Last prods | Accident (an ST intro) Flannel (an ST demo for the PMP)
News | Torment is back after years of sleeping ! Remember their screen in the Pete Megademo, for example. Are they going to release new stuff for ST computers ? More information about this crew as soon as possible. I have to contact them first :)

TOYS

Country | unknown
Web site | unknown
Level of activity | good
Members | AIO : musician, coder Peylow : coder, graphist TAM : coder
Last prods | A 4K Pacman clone
News | Grubs is a commercial game. It is planned to be released as a shareware before the end of 1999. It features nice stuff such as parallax scrolling and multiplayer mode over the Internet. A module compilation is in the pipeline. It will include about 12 musics made by AIO. STiRC is a project for Internet surfers : it's a GEM-based IRC client for all Atari compatible computers. A new Game Boy emulator is born. It will run on ALL Atari and clones, both in TOS (fast) and GEM (slow) modes. A new STe demo will be released soon. It's called Project Blue for the moment. The coder said it runs at 50 fps on MEGA STe and 50/25 fps (depending on effects) on normal STe's. It features a multitasking demo kernel, a 12 bit truecolour video mode, a 12.5 KHz module player and a lot of effects : tunnels, bumpmap, texture mapping, motion blur, descent 3D engine and more. An STe STOS megademo is going to be released very soon by TAM.

TRIZOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

Country | France
Web site | http://www.chez.com/zrk/
Level of activity | low
Members | Alriad Kor : coder Melkor : coder Pozzi : coder Sonix Soyus Zerkman : coder
Last prods | Alpha View 1.2 (utility) Dirty Sound Machine (utility) Videl Inside 2.04 (utility) XBM View (utility)
News | Zerkman is coding CD-Lab, a CD recording software for IDE/SCSI drives. Of course, it will be cheaper than CD Recorder :)

TSCC

Country | Germany
Web site | http://tscc.atari.org
Level of activity | low
Members | Dynacore : coder (andreas_john@tesla.inka.de) LLama : coder (martin_schwalb@gi.maus.de) MC Laser : swapper, musician, article writter (mc_laser@atari.org) Scy : coder, musician (uno4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Last prods | Module Compilation 15 (STE/Falcon) Songs of Distant Earth (SID music demo in cooperation with Cream, released for EIL'99)
News | MC Laser seems to be the only active member of the crew.

TYPHOON

Country | France
Web site | http://www.multimania.com/toxicmag/typhoon.htm
Level of activity | good
Members | FirST' : coder (ylecaill@iut.ujf-grenoble.fr) KyST : graphist Ptif : coder Quest : article writter for Toxic Mag, graphist (wrathchild_@yahoo.fr) Razaac : big boss, swapper, compilation maker (razaac@hotmail.com) Senser : ASCII and bitmap graphist, swapper Supernova : coder (szemrot@hotmail.com) Telsud : coder The Beast : GFA coder, Toxic Mag editor-in-chief (beast_typhoon@hotmail.com)
Last prods | Kineton (ST demo presented at the Volcanic Party 5) Toxic Mag #18 in cooperation with Loud!
News | The ST Collection #13 will be released during autumn 99. The Beast is participating to Hylst's megademo. Ptif is prepairing his next ST demo for Volcanic Party 6. QueST would like to release a special issue of Toxic Mag. Others issues of Toxic Mag are planned.

WILDFIRE

Country | Sweden
Web site | http://www.canit.se/~baggio/wf.htm
Level of activity | good
Members | Baggio : coder, graphist, musician (baggio@canit.se) Gemmi : coder (juha.m.rasanen@lut.fi) Winter : coder (peter_ronnquist@hotmail.com) Zounds : coder (d98-fsj@nada.kth.se)
Last prods | Immortalize (an STE demo)
News | A demo is in preparation.

YES CREW

Country | various
Web site | http://yescrew.atari.org
Level of activity | good
Members | artTBL : MiNT/ASM coder (arttbl@yahoo.com) Draco : MiNT/ASM coder (draco@mi.com.pl) Entuzio : GEM GFA coder Fn : MiNT coder, MiNT support (fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de) Kellis : GEM coder, MiNT support (kellis@primenet.com) Soundman : MIDI musician, MiNT support (gaber@yes.kibla.org) SWE : GFA and ASM coder, MiNT support (swe@atari.org) Toodeloo : musician (toodeloo@atari.org) Vido : GFA coder, graphist (vido@atari.org)
Last prods | Softer Side of Toodeloo (a music disk) Capy (a game)
News | Future versions of Capy MiNT support

>   Information compiled by The Beast

>   sources :
>     http://dhs.atari.org
>     http://rg.atari.org
>     #atariscne & #atarifr channels on IRC
>     Undercover Magascene