Atari Scene Gallery
Some demo screen highlights of the Atari ST family from 2001 to now..
This is a companion to the Atari scene report, which can also be seen in this issue of Hugi mag. I thought it would be nice for you all to have some eye candy as a relief from all that heavy reading.
'Odd Stuff' (ST - 2001)
This is one of the ultimate French oldschool 'design' demos. It is really nicely done and flawlessly put together. The French school happily lives on, still producing some significant works today.
'Don't Break the Oath' (CT2 Falcon - 2001)
Before the CT60, there was the Centurbo 2. The Dead Hackers Society produced this, which will probably remain the best demo to exploit the possibilities of this 50mhz cpu booster, which was widely adopted, but not so much by the Atari scene as the CT60.
'Hmmm' (Falcon - 2001)
One of the all-time great demos for the basic unexpanded F030 made by No of Escape. It made brilliant use of the combined cpu and dsp resources of the Falcon. It was also a huge leap, both in the complexity of effects, and overall coolness of design.
'Underscore' (Falcon - 2003)
The sequel to 'Hmmm', not quite such a leap forward, you might consider this as "Hmmm v1.5", but it has possibly even faster dsp routines than before, coming courtesy of Charon of Escape.
'Darkness' (ST - 2003)
Even Falcon fanatics like the Dead Hackers Society like to return to their roots now and again. This effort from the Error in Line party shows the ST being comfortable with newschool 3D effects.
'Out' (Falcon - 2004)
This quick and refreshing dsp killer from Dutch coder Earx appeared last year, he joins the top rank of Falcon coders!
'Moai' (Falcon - 2004)
Misting is a relatively rare effect, only done twice before on the Falcon '030. We have been promised more from this particular dsp-powered 3D engine in the not too distant future! A combined team of Mystic Bytes and Satantronic were implicated.
'Eskimeau Experience' (CT60 - 2004)
This neat CT60 intro shows some nice early steps with the Falcon '060 concept. Our old friends, the Dead Hackers were responsible.
This mini gallery only offers a glimpse of what has been done on the Atari 16/32 bit computers in the last few years. There are many more demos which could have been included too, but I've really had to be ruthless on the final shortlist, to save some space in there.
We are looking forward to more to come in 2005, with some unreleased works soon(?) arriving, and brand new demos written both for the Falcon '030, and CT60.