Tempest has discovered a new musician! And as you can read in the revies, it's a valuable discovery. This collection not only brings some decent graphic by JailBird, smooth coding by Ninja/The Dreams/Tempest, but as far as I know, it's the first release using Dreamload v2.1 which is the most valuable IRQ loader available. Grab the collie from here!

Updated by MacGyver on 8th October 2004, 1:55h CET

Discussion: 0 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

DOWNLOAD! Send your comments & feedback to: jan.boettcher@gmx.de.

CreamD

Another issue of Arachnophobia diskmagazine by the Spiders-Crew and ROLE was released. Get it here! In case you would like to check Arachnophobia site, its here: http://www.arachnophobia.role64.org/.

ROJ

Ever wondered who wrote the first demos? Who was the first to crack a game, or who invented nowadays' beautiful effects seen in demos? When and how was the scene born, and who were the first pioneers to pave the road to nowadays' superproductions?

Ever wanted to see a book about the history of the demoscene?

I mean a printed book, not another website. Not another book about hackers, and surely not another try to explain the essence of the scene for the lame general public. A book about the scene for sceners, covering the story of all platforms: the C-64, the Amiga, the PC and also smaller scenes, like consoles, Sinclairs, the Apple and so on. From the beginning to present days, covering every single bit of the great adventure, a narrative history with interviews, memories, stories, colorful pictures...

A book titled FREAX.

After five years of intense researching, the product is starting to shape. Read more about it on this website; read a sample chapter and perhaps you can even find a way to help me. This is something special, something different: something no one ever tried in this depth.

Surf to www.freax.hu now!

Tomcat / Greenroom

??? IT'S MAGIC 2 ???
Updated by MacGyver on 8th October 2004, 2:01h CET

Thunderblade/PROTOVISION

Finally, a new release of the infamous SDI editor. This version has a lot of bugs removed, many new routines added, the player have been optimized and bugs have been removed.
What you will find inside the zip:
1) The editor v1.3
2) Example tunes.
3) All necessary docs.
4) TurboAssembler with player sources.
5) Relocator.
Shape - Always surpassing -

GRG/SHAPE

I dont know whatever the phat1 organizers did to my and jailbirds compopic, but anyway.. grab the real version here. In the gfx-pack C64 executable picture was not bugged, only PC gif conversion was (actually it only! had too bright colors). Apologies to Raver, the main organiser of Phat01. (CreaMD)

bizk/damage

The 16th issue of Domination was released. This edition is only one side, but has a bonus side of exclusive software. Interviews with ORC/Blackmail and Hugh Riley, huge news section, and other accompanying articles. Also some killer music too :) Enjoy it and give reactions to Jazzcat, please! DOWNLOAD.

MacGyver

A new strategic game by Jan Boetcher of the More Gore Software was released few days ago. Game allows 2-4 players to play a space conquering strategy game where the one with most worlds conquered and most ships produced wins. On first look, it seems that it has a well thought out set of rules and dependencies. Game also features a computer opponent for a single player game and comes with a nice manual written in a style of FAQ. The engine is using simple and efficiently designed system of menus and allows to have a comprehensive overwiev & total control of your strategy. Just check all menus and read faq for more info. I've briefly checked it for the playability and all I can say is that it has a great potential as a multiplayer game, just give it a try. DOWNLOAD (v2.1)!, or directly ask Jan to send the copy: jan.boettcher@gmx.de. You can send your comments & feedback to the same E-mail address.

CreamD

The fourth preview (and it should be the final playable preview) has now been released. This time the game is single-file and consist of four levels. Those deadly switches have been replaced as mines, and the game is slightly more playable. Download the preview here. The game project has been delayed, due to some more work which needs to be done. Major improvements like better scoring, high scores, sound effects. Plus I need to wait for the title graphics to be finished. The full game should hopefully be released in early November. If however any more delays are possible, then I'll let you all know. The project is going well. For more information about the project, go to: The New Dimension Web Site{edited by cmd}

Richard/TND/Civitas

Speccy, C64 & PC releases from PHAT '01, which was held on 21.-23. September 2001, in Riga/Latvia are online. You could already get two C64 demo-releases from the party, now you can complete your archive with missing music and graphic. Not much C64 stuff, (1 great tune by Agemixer and a multicolour picture by Bizk&Jailbird), but a nice ammount of spectrum music, graphics & demos is online for you to leech since yesterday. Just give it a try, & check it here. All files are in native, or PC format (graphics-gif, music-sid, or vtx) so you can easily check how great nowadays spectrum graphics & musics are - get the latest AY music emulator (600kb) ;-).

CreamD

Hey there sceners!

THE BUS has returned and offers you a perfect trip to this year's "THE PARTY 2k1 - Digitally Remastered" for the 6th(!) time in row now! Get off your ass and check it out at the freshly re-opened web-page at: http://TheBus.de - and register your seat online IN TIME there! So have a great time, SPREAD THIS INFO and see ya' in THE BUS and at THE PARTY 2k1.

Yours, Weasel, The Bus - organizer!

...The Scene Must Live On! And *YOU* are a part of it to help!

Weasel / Padua / Hitmen / Genesis Project

First shown at the Flag 2001 party (6th - 7th July, Budapest/Hungary), "Purple" by Coma now got released. Download it here.

MacGyver

Nobody expected that this Polish party would have a weak C64 support. After the cancellation of this year's North Party one could expect this one to be a nice backup, but it seems, Polish demomakers are saving, or just exhausted their infamous creative resources. DOWNLOAD the releases (if you didn't already) and read an exclusive interview with the 2 (and only) foreign visitors of the party: MacGyver of Dmagic & Svan.

Discussion: 2 reactions   |  Written by MacGyver, Svan & CreaMD

It's no secret that the quantity of demos has decreased, but what about the quality? To answer this question, The Dark Judge has decided to check out today's demos and rate all of them from 10 (very bad) to 99 (near-perfect). What do today's demos look like? Are they worth watching? You will learn in the first of this series of articles written by The Dark Judge of Focus.

Discussion: 71 reactions   |  Written by The Dark Judge

http://scrapdog.freeservers.com/cunei.html Anonym/Padua sent me that one on irc, looks quite neat, although I don't see much sense in a char creator that uses one bitmap, the fun when creating chars is that you copy and paste half of it :) Let's all go back to ultrafont. Hey! You've posted it sooner than me ;-). Thanx. This editor is singed v0.1 but it's far better than many v1.0 c64 tools I've seen. I reccomend it to everyone interested in a convenient font(fontlogo?) editing in PC/Windows environment. Btw. it has a well-working copy and paste.(CreaMD)
Download latest Cuneiform 0.11 Beta - October 15, 2001 294 K (CreaMD) (Broken link corrected on 3rd of November 2001)

Cupid/Padua/Hitmen

Please note, this is not the Melbourne House version.
The original cartridge has been available on internet for some time,
but this is the disk version.
Visit: NOSTALGIA for a nice download.

6R6/Nostalgia

At Willow Party 2001, the demo "Demonstration 1" by Welle: Erdball was released. Now available is an updated version with some bugs fixed. The music in the endpart plays fine in this version, unlike in the party-version. Also a note-file was added (in German). Get the fixed version here.

All download-links at the Willow Party News have been changed to the new version, too.

Updated by MacGyver on 22nd February 2005, 22:43h CET

MacGyver

The very active Samar just released RIGID, a 6-sided Samples-Collection by Ramos/Samar. Download.

Updated by MacGyver on 8th October 2004, 2:06h CET

MacGyver

The group Smash Designs kind of ceased to exist. AEG and Sonic who are most responsible for the Smash Demos of the last years, unfortunately don't have time for the C64 any longer due to their work at Similis. Also the work on Turrican 3 was put on ice.
People who would like to continue the project should contact AEG. Unfortunately the source code, graphics and music take over 100 (!) discs at the moment.

Whether AEG will code demos or games for the C64 ever again is unsure. For sure Sonic will completely stop all work on the C64 in the new year.
If you would like to persuade Sonic or AEG to the continue on the c64, you can write to tufan.uysal@similis.com for Sonic and andre.buerger@similis.com for AEG. No unnecessary spam please, thank you.

Also me (Fzool) would like to announce that I won't have a "Smash Designs" in my nick any longer. From now on I'm just a member of the group Salva Mea which can be reached via the following address: http://www.salva-mea.org.

Of course you may contact me for questions, productions etc. about Smash Designs and Salva Mea. My email-address is F.Zool@salva-mea.org.

Fzool (translated by MacGyver)

Mr.Alpha decided yesterday to leave the c64 scene ! He posted that himself here,but this news got deleted ! Quite lame behavour ! {His news about him leaving is in the "Less related news araticle". It has been put there by - me - CreaMD. All articles with the less importance (which e.g. doesn't anounce releases, parties, competitions and so on are placed in thish article.) Just read About c64.sk article carefuly and you will find that we don't want c64.sk to be stuffed with idle news. We try to keep it as interesting and as strongly C64 related as possible, so please don't be upset if your news won't stay on top. The creative activities supporting the software, hardware, or the creative artistic community around the C64 machine has the highest priority on c64.sk. Well, I think Mr. Alpha has done enough for the C=64 in the past years, so if we could announce Cadaver's "farewell", I (Wotnau) think we should do the same with Mr. Alpha then - but about that we'll have to argue inside the c64.sk editor staff. Meanwhile, the only sad thing, which now is in the news, is: Mr. Alpha is out. We'll miss one of the most dedicated SID music fans and an extremely capable relocater.

Anonymous

Hello from the RADWAR Team, after the great success of the RADWAR PARTY 2000 many people have asked for another one. Well, we finally decided to agree and you can actively take part in the party organisation. This Bulletin Board System (BBS) will be the discussion forum for our upcoming PARTY in 2002. So please visit the page and register on the board :) The motto for the party is: Get Excited! It's more than a party. thx for your attention, mws

MWS

From 23 to 25 november, X2001, the ultimate 64 party will take place. X2001 is the purest c64 party for new and old sceners.
No pc's, No internet linkup, No Quake but free beer&other drinks, ik+, free dinner on friday and saturday, clean&enough showers and a bed make the ultimate environment for a 64 weekend you will never forget.

The last tickets can be booked on: www.scs-trc.net/x2001

CBA/SCS TRC & Oxbow/Xenon

New HVSC Update released at http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

Warren Pilkington

C64, Spectrum, CPC and Atari platforms all together in the most successful crossplatform compo ever. Now it's up to you to decide on a winner... Download the voting game pack (72K) The pack includes all the entries, with detailed instructions, and a vote sheet to fill in to decide on winners for the two categories (2K and 512b). For your vote to count, you'll need to check out all the entries. For other platforms you would have to use emulators. Links to all recommended emulators you can find at Mini Game compo page. (Updated a few minutes before this news message.) Don't be afraid to use other platforms emulators. There is a greatly written "idiot guide" for every plattform and every game in the voting pack. Funny is, that I was able to run all the games, except of two C64 games ;-).

CreamD

GOAT TRACKER COMPO 8.-22.october 2001
39 votes collected, results comming soon.
GET C64 EXECUTABLE PACK - GOATTUNES.PRG!
ENJOY THE TUNES, READ YOUR COMMENTS HERE!
Thanx to Lasse ??rni for the C64 executable. Enjoy.

Discussion: 23 reactions   |  Written by CreamD

Commodore meeting coming to Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland, running from 10:00 to 16:00 on Saturday the 20th of October. There'll be demonstrations of Wheels and The Wave, plus the release of Schaikdash 5 and Arachnophobia #22. Last time we had almost 100 Commodore fans together from Holland, Germany and Belgium!!!

Ron van Schaik

A new onefile demo by Triad! You will fall in love with Triad/Lucy, I'm quite sure! Download!

CreamD

Willow Party 2001, held on 5.-7. October 2001 in Wellentrup/Germany is over and was a big success! There were a bit more than 20 visitors and 10 entries in the competition.
You can download the releases as follows:

Demonstration 1 / Welle: Erdball (demo)
The other stuff from the competition (with note-/result-file in German)
Digital Talk #51 (magazine in German)

Thumps up to the organisers (Doc of Desire, Floyd and Scorpe) for the great work!

Updated by MacGyver on 3rd March 2009, 17:50 CET

MacGyver

Onslaught gained a new member called DaFunk, a musician from Yugoslavia and personal friend of Jailbird (also member of Onslaught). Vandalism News #36 is planned for sometime in November, Domination #16 should be released before then.

Jazzcat/Onslaught

We are pleased to say that although the summer turned out to be unexpectedly productive, it was beaten by September! In this article you will not only find a brief recapitulation of all the September happenings, but also surprising updates of those events! Do you know that Cadaver (Lasse ??rni) is back?! Did you wonder which group would Sad and Lord Hypnos, formerly of Anubis, join in the end? Just read and learn.

Discussion: 2 reactions   |  Written by Wotnau and CreaMD

Welcome DaFunk as a new member of TempesT and the C64-Scene. We present you his first music-collection called 'Reincarnation'. 30 fresh tunes for all of you (even NTSC users :))! Grab it from here.

Updated by MacGyver on 8th October 2004, 1:52h CET

Ninja/The Dreams/TempesT

The BCN-Party is a scener party held in Barcelona on October 12th-14th. Watch out for lots of c64 action, with special dedication to the SID. More at: bcnparty.org Get C64 invitation file in spanish here?(CreaMD).

finnr

Blues muz' the label know for it's creativity and quality and artistical dedication to SID composing. Today we bring you the latest collection by Kjell Nordbo, called: A NEW LIFE. Download! All in all a worthy addition to your C64 music collection. Thanx for audial and visuall delight Kjell. (thanx to Jazzcat/Onslaught for sending).

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This cute 3 part 0nfiler dem0 was c0mpletely created by the multitallented Mermaid 0f Creat0rs. D0wnl0ad 0ldsk00l here, if you already didn't get it from her by E-mail ;-). Welcome back in bizness and have nice days in your new home, Mermaid. Creat0rs page is here: mermaid.c64scene.org/creators/.

CreamD

GoatTracker is a C64 music editor running on PC (win32) platform using reSID engine by Dag Lem. Features include Protracker-like music editing with some similar commands, direct packing/relocation to SID format (as well as PRG and raw binary formats) and a player that takes 12 rasterlines. Available under the GNU General Public License at: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~loorni/software/goattrk.zip

Lasse ??rni

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Latest - 8^th issue of The Beergarden have been spread in the mail-swap scene some since month ago and finally you can get it from the internet. Here you are. Enjoy the decent musics by Stryyker and read the interesting articles. Believe me you will be so lost in an interesting reading that you will even forget to switch to another tune when listening. Good issue! For the complete Beergarden magazine archive and other goodies check: http://stryyker.cjb.net/.

CreamD