News

-Alive 10 is here.
Only three month after the release of issue 9, the alive team strikes back. This issue is about half the size of the last one, we hope you will enjoy it nonetheless. Alive 10 features music by GwEm, Crazy Q / DHS and Marcer / Atari Legend / Elite. The stunning title picture and the menu gfx were done by our star artist C-Rem/MJJ-Prod. Thanks again to the scene for all the cool contributions.

Like last time Machines higher than ST you will have to SWITCH TO ST-LOW RESOLUTION before starting the shell, otherwise it will not start at all. I am sorry for this mess but its better than a crashing shell I think.

So far for the bad news, what's the good ones?

Alive comes bundled with a few releases again:

Crazy Q's - Beatbox Mania vol 2 (including a nice intro by DHS)
Outline Bootsector Sourcecodes by GGN / P01 and Cyclone
Alive Kolour Tagger Sourcecode by GGN / KÜA Software Productions
FCOPY DIM 2 ST Image Converter by GGN / KÜA Software Productions

And for historical reasons Dark Angels MusicMon 1.0 Intro

Grab it: Here

If you want to add some comments of Alive goto this forum:
Alive Forum

Well, nothing news on the ST side at the moment, but we received a great picture from Pepe. He is the chief editor of the french magazine PC Team. Guess what? Here is the bed where sleep the journalists invited by Atari (ex Infogrames). This is the perfect place to avoid nightmares and to have beautiful dreams about Motorola chipsets, noisy floppy drives and lovely carebears! Please note that even the lignt on the ceiling spreads an Atari logo over the room.

Thank to Pepe for the pictures and the Atari goodies he gave us (candies, pin's and fingerband).

The journalists probably don't know how much lucky they are...

Watch and enlarge the [url=../newsattach/bed.jpg]picture[/url].

Finaly an update of this cool ST Conversion!

- up to 15 fps on a plain ST
- wallrefresh completely finished (including doors and pushwalls) and working at 16.16 fixed point accuracy
- collision detection (gliding against walls is possible, too)
- keyboard controls as known from the original version (strafe mode, running etc.)
- graphics from the apple IIgs version of wolfenstein 3d
- 32 colors at once
- high detail mode for faster machines
- resizeable gamewindow to gain speed on slow machines
- static objects (bonus items, bullets, bodies, pillars...)
- moving and animated objects (enemies)
- sample replay/mixing (software on (M)ST, DMA on STE+)
- level/episode processing and loading
- it should run on any 16/32bit ATARI

Download it from http://www.atarilegend.com/games/games_detail.php?game_id=3991

One week without the forum was a very long period... And once again we didn't want this kind of bug occurs. And once again it happens :-(
The domain name of the forum expired on 19th April, 2005. We renewed it on 18th April. Sorry to have not made earlier: the renewal page has been changed and we didn't have find the time to fill it up completely in the last days. Unfortunately, even if we renewed the domain name and we received the order paiement in time, atari-forum.com appeared as an expired name after 20th April. Strange thing happened: we still could log on and see our order about atari-forum.com (so we were still the owners of the name), but there was always that same message about the expiration... Grrrr...
So we contacted last week-end the providers and after two days of messages (as a lack of luck, the main boss of the company was travelling in Birmingham between 04/21 through 04/25), they finally managed to solve the troubles. Thanks to them, but this kind of bug gave another proof we are cursed. Who made that doll voodoo...?

Finally the forum is back. Also this is the first news we post there after a long time. If you wonder what we made while this time, here are some rumours:
. Silver Surfer and ST Graveyard are working on a new part of the site. This is long awaited part, can't say more ;-)
. Marcer is still searching and collecting rare stuffs. He received a lot of image-disks and many CD-Rom in the next weeks. He is in the process to verify them all.
. Dungeon.Master and myself had a pasti-day last week. Also we recently bought many rare stuffs. We met and we archived many rare games. Most of them have been added to the database of the site (download should follow shortly).
. Mug UK has a new job and very happy about it. We all hope he'll still work with us ;-)

That's all for today. So expect for more stuffs in the next weeks. Thanks for reading and don't forget to visit our lovely forum, of course!

As mentioned in the previous message, a new version of the emulator SainT is now available. It fixed some sound issues, so the demos with 50 KHz modules are now played perfectly.
New features are:

. new digisound YM volume boost too high for PC sound hardware. Just reduce it a bit.
. YM register read bug fix ( VU-Meter crash in FOF menus)

Feel free to visit Leonard Website to catch latest version of SainT.

The YM 50K demo, that was produced by Paulo Simoes some time ago, has been updated. It's now included on 5 disks. Here is was LJBK (aka Paulo) wrote :

Well, i have found a small bug in the player that affects sometimes some MODs using the Tone Portamento / Slide to Note commands while producing some more music disks.
The bug is now solved and i am sending to you the complete set of 5 music disks with a total of 40 MODs at 50 KHz that show what an STF can achieve. All disks contain the TOS player, so anyone can choose the disk image to keep if any.
As for disk 5, i have less than 3% of CPU time up to almost 0 for ARTE1, there are no scrollers at all.

Leonard has already corrected the small bug with SainT 1.99c (too much volume boosting for the PC HW) and he should release a new SainT soon.

That's it for YM50K.

Grab 5 disks now: [url=../newsattach/YM50K1.ZIP]disk 1[/url], [url=../newsattach/YM50K2.ZIP]disk 2[/url], [url=../newsattach/YM50K3.ZIP]disk 3[/url], [url=../newsattach/YM50K4.ZIP]disk 4[/url], [url=../newsattach/YM50K5.ZIP]disk 5[/url].