Table of Contents Editorial Credits The Bringers of Light GERP Party Report Scene News Good Bye Sweet Sixteen List of Voters Best Demo Best Intro Best 4K Best Coder Best Graphician Best Musician Best Website/BBS Best Party Best Group Best Musicdisk Best Handle Previous page Next page Versus #7 by Nukleus & Void Play "yritys" by hukka/Void Play "what remix?" by Powerslave/Void Mute music ._______ .____ _ __ ___ _____| /____ ___/\ _ __/\ ___| \ _ __/\ \__\\ | // ___/___ \\ _ //___ | \\ _ //___ iSSUE #7 \ / __)___ / _/__ \/ \ \_ \/ \ ___ __ _ \______/_____ /_\_____________/_______/________//__// \/ -------------------------------------------------- Editorial Credits The Bringers of Light GERP Party Report Scene News Good Bye Sweet Sixteen List of Voters -------------------------------------------------- Left/Right mouse button, Up/Down arrow keys ..... Previous/next page Left/Right arrow keys............................ Previous/next article ESC ............................................. Quit Click on an article title above to view it, use top toolbar for charts. Editorial: Only Chartmag 2006-2016 by Browallia Didn't we eat our spinach properly, or why are we still doing this? Shouldn't it come to a time when new generation of Amiga kids could take over this legacy so could just rest....? Dear reader, Dear voter, Dear follower, Dear Amiga stalker.... (no reindeer, X-mas is gone!) We are proud of this legacy, to keep the momentum bouncing. Someone expressed this to me like "a Chart mag belongs to the scene, and the scene is love, and love is AMIGA". For me and the team behind, we do believe in an Amiga scene and the scene deserves a chart mag. This time, we did it on three platforms (A500, OS4 and Android) to reach out as many as possible. A quick check is that we got about 100 positive reactions after the announcements of VS#7, anonymous calls not included. Then every third had the time to vote. So before I forget, thanks to all who voted or positive feedbacks! Statistically, a common voter fills in 65% of the voting sheet, prefer categories like best demo with 97% of interest to fill in it, and 68% could fill in all five fields here. In contrast, very little interest was shown in the best Handle category with less then 50% of voters and a third of these, just wrote a single name. And.. not to forget.. a common voter is a man, eat bananas, like glenz polygons, is mid-age and grey haired. We would gladly see some other magazines out in the Amiga scene again. That's why I was happy to read about about Spaceballs' new diskmag "Irregular Review". That's why I disagree with sentences like it's outdated with diskmags and chartmags in 2016. Reason? Well with that logic, it would be outdated to use your Amiga at all in 2016. But we still do, and Amiga scene is alive. The effort behind this issue, is much more than seen. We started out this autumn with project group consisting of members from Void and from us. In Nukleus we rebuilt the web and in Void a complete new engine was developed (see text from hukka below). We announced in over 20 channels including Facebook, podcasts, web portals and local communities in five languages. It's a vulnerable part the votes but to face the fact, this is mirroring the scene, and amount of votes are the same since we started around 2004 when Eurochart by IRIS was still alive. To wrap up the editorial of the topic: a forced monopoly of the only chartmag for a decade. Let me humbly announce, that we look forward for anyone else to try the art of characters. In the end, it's fun, and it's worth it. I have this wet dream of a researcher writing a thesis about scene culture narrowed to the Amiga. A PHD student just can't ignore the time stamps and voices of digital magazines. Even if the scene is on the Internet, the Internet is not Amiga. Only Amiga is. So it's questionable how a decent research would look like when isolated on Internet. The frozen snapshot at this very moment can be read here, in this issue. Voting open: 2016-11-18 Voting close: 2016-12-11 - Versus - you are not the only one! Happy new year! /Browallia signing off 2016 Editorial: help I can't think of a witty title by hukka If you're reading this we actually managed to finish and release this thing, probably! I've always wanted to write a diskmag engine (because I'm weird like that) and now I finally had an excuse to do it. In the end I ended up having to finish the code in a real hurry because of deadlines, but everything should be in a working condition, more or less. I wanted to include more sophisticated features like text colors, inline images and proportional fonts, but maybe these will be implemented in a future release... All complaining aside, this was really fun to do! The Amiga is such a fun platform to code for. Have a good 2017! - hukka of Void/exec/svenonacid OCS credits … Code hukka/Void … Graphics Browallia/Nukleus … Music (intro) hukka/Void … Music 1 (mag) hukka/Void … Music 2 (mag) Powerslave/Void OS4 credits … Code Menthos/Nukleus Android credits … Code Balder & Browallia/Nukleus The Bringers of Light by Puni/Void Goldfish, a user on the Amigaworld.net discussion forum, posted an interesting thread on the 20th of December this year. The topic was what kind of achievements we've seen on the Amiga scene this year. The new AmigaOne X5000 computer got a mention, as well as the new Amiga 1200 cases and the Vampire turbo-cards. There has been a ton of activity on the Amiga in 2016 ranging from new games to solid hardware, so it can be hard to pick just a few to mention. What I missed in the thread though, was the abscence of Amiga and/or Amiga inspired podcasts! These shows are very entertaining (but also informative) and is currently reigniting the Amiga spirit in people who had lost interest years ago. For the folks still into the Amiga, it has become an important venue for information, network exchange and so forth. In this respect it's worth mentioning the many YouTube-channels out there providing Amiga content, like Kuokka's music channel and the Guru Meditation guys. In this text I'll be having a quick look at the three dominant Amiga podcasts of 2016, namely The Retro Hour, Amigos Amiga Podcast and AMIcast. It's Retro Time --------------- In 2016 we've seen the rise of a new show that has gained popularity through the entire Amiga community, but also reaching enthusiasts on other platforms like the Spectrum, Atari, Nintendo or SEGA. This show is called The Retro Hour and is being hosted by two british gentlemen, Ravi Abbot and Dan Wood. Mr. Wood is well known for his YouTube channel (Kookytech) where he does reviews of hardware and lots of other interesting Amiga stuff. Recently he posted a review of the new Prisma soundcard and also of the Vampire for the Amiga 600. Mr. Abbot is using his Amigas for DJ'ing, as well as making various Amiga related videos. He also uploads old recordings he has from Amiga events, making sure history is taken care of. His main music speciality is chip-music. So how popular is this show? According to the official website of The Retro Hour (theretrohour.com) they have an average audience of about 12,000 every week. This is an impressive number and I will not be surprised if they reach out to even more people next year. In each episode they have an interview with a "celebrity", for example a game developer or notable Amiga fan like Trevor Dickinson of A-Eon Technology. I don't know how they manage to score interviews with former CEO's of game companies, but they do it again and again. The interviews are professional and always interesting. Personally I've learnt a lot of new facts through this show, especially about what was going on behind the scenes in various companies back in the days. I can see The Retro Hour growing even stronger in 2017 and I'm sure we have a lot to look forward to. One wish from me is that they'll start doing live shows from time to on Twitch, making it possible to interact in real-time with them. It'll be interesting to see what the next year has in store for fans of this show. West Virginian Amiga Fans ------------------------- Two guys from West Virginia in the USA, Aaron and John (Boatofcar), are behind the Amigos podcast. This is an Amiga only show and focuses on the latest news concerning the platform, reviews of games and much, much more. They started out with an ordinary podcast, but have ended up with video too, so that you can either listen to them in the car or watch them on the device of your choice at home or someplace else. Recently they hosted a Christmas event on Twitch where the fans could chat with them and participate in real-time competitions with various give-aways. This was a success and it'll be fun if they'll do it again some time. After what I've seen on their blog, they will do an event celebrating episode 100 when the time comes. I've read many postings on forums from Europeans that find it interesting and refreshing with an American perspective on the Amiga and I agree with that. Their background is quite different from ours, since the Amiga was more of a graphics workstation over there (big box versions more popular) and the market for gamers being more orientated towards consoles like the SNES and the Mega Drive. Beside the podcast that is aired every week, they are uploading gameplay videos of Amiga games (sometimes other platforms too). Those are fun to watch and it's worth mentioning that John is often playing some of the games he is recording for the first time. They have a good presence on the web as well with the Amigos Amiga Blog (amigospodcast.com). Notable contributors are Chris Foulds and Dreamkatcha ("the gangsta from Manchesta"). Dreamkatcha goes into real depth in his posts and often discover very interesting facts. Well worth reading! Sometimes I suspect him having been a games journalist in the past, but that is just a hunch. Amigos have made major progress in 2016 and I believe this will continue in 2017. They've come a long way since they started out and is gaining fans all over the world. AMIcast ------- Krzysztof Radzikowski a.k.a Radzik is the man behind the AMIcast show. Ever month he does an interview with an Amiga personality. In the last podcast he talked with Hans de Ruiter, the man behind the Radeon HD drivers for AmigaOS 4.1 FE. Earlier he's been chatting with people like Petro, Jim from Gateway 2000, Chris Young (Netstuf) and BigGun of the Vampire Project. All his podcasts are available to listen to from his archive and is thus a valuable source of information on a wide range of topics. AMIcast differs from the two other podcasts, since it has an Amiga NG perspective. Radzik is an AmigaOS 4 users and this is reflected in the podcast. He is very knowledgable and has even written a book about getting AmigaOS 4 up and running on ordinary PC-s through emulation. The other two podcasts are retro/classic shows, so it's great that we AMIcast bringing in some variation. There is a lot happening with Amiga NG these days (new hardware from A-EON, OS updates, MorphOS etc.) and Radzik does a good job bringing this out to people. It'll be interesting to follow AMIcast in the year to come and I hope Radzik will continue his good work. 2017 - Happy New Year and Wishes -------------------------------- In this text we've been looking at the three major podcasts in the Amiga community. Who knows what 2017 will have in store for us? I have a feeling we'll be seeing more from these guys, but we might see new people entering the podcast-scene as well. Maybe some will make an Amiga demoscene podcast where they talk about the latest news concerning groups, new productions and so forth? What we do know is that these podcasts are injecting positive energy and good vibes into the Amiga community and that is a great achievement in itself. It is not only new hardware and software that makes the Amiga live on, but a healthy, creative and vibrant community. Thanks for reading and please enjoy the rest of Versus. Amiga forever! Please visit my blog, Oldschoolgameblog.com, for more Amiga related news, articles, reviews and more. GERP party report by Malmix/Nature Here's a small report from the Amiga centric demo party GERP 2016 held between the 2nd and the 4th of September. The party was held at 'Kulturhuset Valhall' (culture center) in Skovde and arranged by the groups Traktor and Nature, both having their headquarter's in this otherwise frequently rated as Sweden's most boring town. Around 80 people showed up to the event. A majority of the visitors were Swedes, but some international guests also showed up. Among them were Bifat/TEK who by his presence became the first non-nordic visitor in the close to 15 years old history of GREP/Gerp parties! The demo group Insane was represented with around ten members and scooped nice party ranks and prices in all Amiga-related competitions. Among the visitors, there were also members from groups such as Tulou, Ephidrena, Loonies, Pacif!c, UpRough, Planet Jazz, Focus Design, Scoopex, The Gang and Nukleus. The Friday offered social cozy'ing and creative fiddles on products. The day ended with "fast music"-compo where the goal was to compose a 4-channel module with a set of premade samples during one hour. The result widely spread with quality and funny entries. Winner was Corpsicle/Insane (who got a free beer for his nice contribution). The Saturday started off with breakfast for those who hadn't already filled their stomachs with hotel breakfast. Chucky/The Gang repaired hardware with a glowing and glueing passion so the capacitors rained all over the place. One or two beers were consumed and the nice party atmosphere of course reached its peak during the evening when it was time for music- , graphics- and demo compos. Focus Design defended their Amiga-demo title well deserved with "Aulun Baulund" and for the third time got their name carved (dymo-printed) into the trophy. Bitflipper from Insane and Rebels won graphic compo with a magnificent Amiga 500 picture. The music compo were dominated by a handful of musicians namely Wasp/Pacif!c, Obbe/Traktor, Mygg/Insane, Tecon/Planet Jazz and Alpaidus/Insane who all achieved good ranks in at least two categories. Most successful was Wasp winning chip music compo and also winning the 4-channel compo in coop with Obbe. Two modern demos (even if released on 30 years old hardware) were released in the "other platform" compo. Panda Design won with their c64-demo with social media as topic and Five Finger Punch snatched the second best with a Spectra video-demo with Pokemon Go topic. The Sunday morning also started off with a small breakfast before the prize cermony. After that it was time to go home. All in all it was a great party and it is pretty likely that it will take place again next year. See you then, all demo-maniacs! Malmix News Misc. news ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Viva Amiga, the movie, release 6th of January 2017. Check it out here: https://amigafilm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/vivaamiga/ Accession ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Accession is (slowly, even for Truck) working on a new Amiga Ascii portal. Accession is not dead. Nor are they resting. They are very concerned about the number of releases on Amiga and how few of them are by Accession. The Finnish Amiga folks would like to remind the Ed!son organizers that having the party the same weekend as the Tuska metal festival results in the usual Finnish metal Amiga sceners NOT ATTENDING, which is a shame as we like your party. ArtWay ‡‡‡‡‡‡ We would like to say hello to all active members of the Amiga demoscene and also to our team mates/friends/followers from ArtWaY / AmiGanS. Depth ‡‡‡‡‡ Curt Cool joined Nah-Kolor as a double member. Ephidrena ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ New mini album from Frequent "Fjernorienteringsreferanse" available. http://frequent.bandcamp.com Focus Design ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Optima changed handle to Turnip. Insane ‡‡‡‡‡‡ Origo (former C-lous^Subspace^Essence) joined. Active memberlist (Dec 2016): ----------------------------- ALPAidUS Musician Bitflippr Graphcian Bjoppen Co-Organizer, Graphician and Musician Bonefish Coder Corel Graphician and Designer Corpsicle Musician Juice Musician Magnus Coder MRK Graphician Mygg Musician Origo Coder Premium Graphician Randy Coder, Graphician, Designer and Musician Skurk Coder Slash Musician Triace Musician Vedder Organizer, Musician, Graphician, Designer and Coder Wiklund Musician Moods Plateau ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ MDS released '80 days in Blender' at Evoke wild compo with TRBL. Active memberlist (Dec 2016): ----------------------------- DaFreak Graphician d!RT!E Organizer, Musician and Webmaster dodge Musician, Graphician and Coder Dr. K. Coder and Musician Falksen 3D and Video Noemis 3D, and Video Novel Musician and editor Raztaman Musician Tripper Musician Nature ‡‡‡‡‡‡ Active memberlist (Dec 2016): ----------------------------- D Vibe Musician Malmix Graphician, Coder Pipe Coder, Musician Pezac Coder Yomat Coder Nukleus ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Cefa changed handle to Cefa68000. Up with new fresh home page, www.nukleus.nu. All not up yet, have patience dear. The party HCH is over! CU this summer! Active memberlist (Dec 2016): ----------------------------- Balder Coder Browallia Organizer, Graphician, Coder and Editor Cefa68000 Web and Editor dIS Musician Gunrider Musician logain Coder Menthos Coder, Musician, Graphician and Web Shoe Web and Coder Sleipner Musician Smaugur Ambassador Spaceballs ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ The last decade, diskmags in the Amiga scene can be counted on nine fingers. So quite a suprise with not just one, but two issues during the second half of 2016. Content based on reviews of releases. Go check it out and get inspired! http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68393 Uprough ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Datastorm is back again in February 2017 with huge amount of compos mainly on Amiga and C64. Party rapidly filled with 220 visitors so sign in the waiting list if interested: http://datastorm.party/ Void ‡‡‡‡‡ Void is currently open for new members and all Amiga enthusiasts are welcome. Visit http://amigavoid.wordpress.com and get in touch if you are interested. Jeano joined Tussejuv Rangers (TRS) as double member. Active memberlist (December 2016): ---------------------------------- Angel Coder (Sweden) Blackbeard Musician, Editor (Greece) Harrison Graphician (United Kingdom) hukka Coder, Musician (Finland) Jeano Musician (Norway) Lonewolf Coder, Raytracer (United Kingdom) NeuteK Coder, Musician (Norway) Powerslave Founder, Musician (United Kingdom) Puni Organiser, Webmaster, AMOS-coder, Swapper (Norway) Rebb Coder, Musician (Finland) Rumrunner Coder, Editor (Norway) Spitfire Coder, Graphician, IRC-master (South Africa) ...That's all folks! ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Missing news or got something wrong? Just send in your news via www.nukleus.nu or mail over to nukleus@nukleus.nu. GOOD BYE SWEET SIXTEEN The final day of year arrive and eons encapsulated in space strive to reach out to major Tom Ground control - where is your Rum? Celebrate a year of fantastic action in center of this an epic attraction Old releases, behind us we leave New magic moments sparkle out the sleeve Fading blue smoke as the year fall apart to give birth of another ready to start So lift your hat and cuddle the cake Leave Titanic and 2017 awake ...and grab what you take ...AND dive in the lake ...OR drink sake ...XOR dont call for the drowning Jake (Leo in Titanic) ...and stop this filler poem for G*DS FU**NG sake! List of voters for Versus #7 Attle Balder/Nukleus Bobic/4sceners.de^BitFellas^Back2roots.org Britelite/Dekadence Browallia/Nukleus Cefa68000/Nukleus Cendron Corial/Focus Design Curt Cool/Depth^Nah-kolor Deadguy/PACiF!C^Up Rough d0dge/Moods Plateau Ghandy/Moods Plateau^Scarab Jazzcat/Ghostown Jimi C Johey/Sys5 kas1e/vague Loaderror/Ephidrena Lonewolf10/VOID Malmix/Nature Menthos/Nukleus Ocean/Desire Powerslave/Gods^VOID Premium/Paradise^Insane Puni/VOID Rumrunner/VOID Sir Garbagetruck/Accession Slayer/Ghostown Smagur/Nukleus Tfardy Todi/Tulou Jeano/Tussejuv Rangers^VOID Virgill/Alcatraz^Haujobb Wayne/ArtWay zChris/FCWATH = 34 scenetroopers BEST DEMO 01 … Dolor sit amet/Lorem Ipsum 23 new! 02 … Neonsky/Ephidrena 20 new! 03 … Starstruck/TBL 18 [01] 04 … Rift/The Black Lotus 17 new! 05 … e255/Bomb^Sanity^Dreamdealers 16 new! 06 … Sushi boyz/Ghostown 14 new! 07 … Gagrakacka Mind Zones/disaster area 13 new! 08 … Last Train to Danzig/Ghosttown^Haujobb 12 new! … Subside/Unique 12 new! 10 … Arte/Sanity 11 [07] … Master control program/Desire 11 new! … Smoke & Mirrors/Ghostown^Loonies 11 new! 13 … Emperor of the Northpole/Spaceballs 10 new! 14 … Aulun Baulund/Focus Design 9 new! … Nexus 7/Andromeda 9 [05] 16 … 9 Fingers/Spaceballs 8 new! 17 … Rink a dink redux/Lemon. 7 new! … Serenity/Elude 7 new! 19 … Data delight/Nature 6 new! … Enigma/Phenomena 6 new! BEST INTRO 01 … Higher state of resolution/Dekadence 43 new! 02 … Everyway/Hoffman^Blueberry 39 new! 03 … Reborn/Appendix 30 new! 04 … Gift/Potion 26 [02] 05 … Elkstravaganza/Spaceballs 18 new! 06 … Omnimetatheorem/Software Failure 16 new! 07 … Darkroom/Stellar 15 new! 08 … Je Suis Rose/Ghostown 12 new! 09 … Planet Potion 11 [07] 10 … Natsu no Gomu/Lemon. 10 new! 11 … nonstop/Dual Crew & Shining 9 [17] 12 … Electricity/Appendix 8 new! … Revolution/Nah-kolor 8 new! 14 … Dubzilla/Spaceballs 7 new! … Tetsuo/Haujobb 7 new! 16 … Thrice/Dekadence 6 new! BEST 4K 01 … Ikadalawampu/Loonies 68 new! 02 … Painter's euphoria/Loonies 49 new! 03 … Octorubber/Loonies^Pacif!c 31 new! 04 … Cubescapes/Dekadence 28 new! 05 … Psylteflesk/Ephidrena 20 [02] 06 … Fourskin/RNO 14 new! 07 … Swirl/Loonies 12 new! 08 … Planet Loonies/Loonies 11 [07] 09 … Painter's frustration/Loonies 10 new! 10 … Alice Copper/Ephidrena^Scarab 9 new! 11 … Noxie/Loonies 8 new! … Peanut/Efreet 8 new! 13 … Figure Four/Nature 7 [06] 14 … Karl/AttentionWhore 6 new! … Spring Onion/Neural^Rebels 6 new! BEST CODER 01 … Blueberry 95 [01] 02 … Britelite 43 [04] 03 … kiero 42 [05] 04 … Slummy 41 new! 05 … Loaderror 26 [03] 06 … Photon 13 [15] 07 … Kalms 11 [02] 08 … Emoon 10 new! … Ham 10 new! 10 … Stingray 9 new! 11 … Jamie 8 new! 12 … Hfr 7 new! … Menthos 7 new! 14 … Bonefish 6 new! … Cahir 6 new! … Corial 6 new! BEST GRAPHICIAN 01 … Slayer 65 new! 02 … Frost 28 [02] 03 … Prowler 27 [13] 04 … Made 24 new! 05 … Optic 20 new! 06 … Razorback 19 new! 07 … Fairfax 18 new! 08 … Malmix 14 new! 09 … Alien 13 new! … Premium 13 new! 11 … Darklight 10 new! … Facet 10 new! … Jok 10 new! 14 … Louie500 9 [01] 15 … Bracket 7 new! 16 … Farfar 6 [05] BEST MUSICIAN 01 … Hoffman 43 new! 02 … Jazzcat 38 new! 03 … Esau 37 [01] 04 … Wasp 15 new! 05 … Virgill 14 new! 06 … Curt cool 12 [07] 07 … Bruno 10 new! … lug00ber 10 new! 09 … Chaser 9 new! … Moby 9 new! 11 … AceMan 8 new! … Jogeir Liljedahl 8 new! 13 … 4mat 7 new! … Chromag 7 new! … Dizzy 7 new! … Heatbeat 7 new! 17 … Dascon 6 new! … Triace 6 new! BEST SCENE SITE/PORTAL/BBS 01 … pouet.net 54 [02] 02 … demozoo.org 40 new! 03 … ada.untergrund.net 20 [01] 04 … bitfellas.org 19 [04] 05 … safir.amigaos.se 11 new! 06 … scene.org 8 [03] 07 … amiga.bbs.fi (jpv) 7 new! … ppa.pl 7 new! 09 … amiga.org 6 new! 10 … aminet.net 5 new! … ftp.modland.com 5 new! … ultimateamiga.co.uk 5 new! 13 … amigaworld.net 4 new! 14 … janeway.exotica.org.uk 4 new! 15 … oldschoolgameblog.com 4 new! Less than 4 pts filtered out. BEST PARTY (2015-2016) 01 … Revision 2016 48 n/a 02 … Revision 2015 21 n/a 03 … GERP 2016 20 n/a 04 … Solskogen 2016 18 n/a 05 … Edison 2016 15 n/a 06 … load error 2015 14 n/a 07 … GERP 2015 10 n/a 08 … Compusphere 2016 8 n/a 09 … trsac 2015 7 n/a … Sundown 2016 7 n/a 11 … Decrunch 2015 6 n/a 12 … High Coast Hack summer 2016 5 n/a … Silesian Amiga Classic Party 5 n/a … Solskogen 2015 5 n/a … Trsac 2016 5 n/a 16 … Edison 2015 4 n/a … FAP 2015 4 n/a Less than 4 pts filtered out. BEST GROUP 01 … Ghostown 49 new! 02 … Spaceballs 43 [06] 03 … Loonies 28 [02] 04 … The Black Lotus 27 [01] 05 … Elude 21 new! 06 … Ephidrena 20 [03] 07 … Scoopex 20 [08] 08 … Dekadence 18 new! 09 … Insane 16 new! 10 … Focus Design 11 new! 11 … Andromeda 7 new! … Desire 7 new! 13 … Haujobb 6 new! … Moods Plateau 6 [08] … Nukleus 6 [18] … Unique 6 new! … Tulou 6 [08] BEST MUSICDISK 01 … Chiperia 6 27 new! 02 … Chiperia 5 19 new! 03 … Retrofit EP/Traktor 17 new! 04 … Extravaganja/Nerve Axis 15 [02] … Stuck somewhere in time/Up Rough 15 new! 06 … Coolism/Depth 14 new! … Chromagic/Rebels^DCS 14 new! 08 … chiperia 1 9 new! … Kiss My Jazz/Appendix^PSL 9 [03] 10 … Mirror/Andromeda 8 [09] … Chipchop 16/Desire 8 new! 12 … Chiperia 4 7 new! … Virgill Dreams/Essence 7 [04] BEST HANDLE (fun category) 01 … Sir Garbagetruck 02 … Loaderror 03 … Stingray Rest of list in alphabetical order (all names): Alien, Antibyte, Bald Horse, blind_IO, Boo, Britelite, Devistator, DJ Arvy, DJ Diskmachine, doom, dr analfreser, dr Octopus, dr Zulu, eatdrinkfuck, Gayfalcon, Jazzcat, Jesper Kyd, kusma, Laxity, Luvtoy, m a m, Magic, mahoney, mmcm, mofobaru, mordillo, Mortimer Twang, Nutman, origo, Photon, putevar, romeo knight, Rubber duck, santa, skinkehitler, Skjeggspir, Slayer, Slummy, Squarepusher, Stratos, Supernao, vikeplikt How many kings are left? ....BOOM and finally checkmate mate! Finally another issue arrived and we are happy to announce another coop. On the final day of the year, what could be better to write about than the complete hardware reference manual in this scroll text? haha just kidding. Or? Are you curious about which demo grabbed the first place, or if your favorite coder made it to the top? Well, I more or less wonder what to cook for dinner to the new years party tomorrow. After some work with this production from Nukleus and VOID, I must say, that I now more or less look forward to the masqerade party tomorrow too! haha its gonna be a freaking party in best burlesque or twenties style.. Ok, time to end text here, but happy new year and cu in 2017! ..... Versus - you are not the only one! Browallia on the keys. just want to send out a huge thank to the Versus team... Puni, Rumrunner, Powerslave of VOID for great support! Then Menthos, Cefa68000, Smaugur of Nukleus. And last to hukka for this cool intro and the OCS version! Thanks guys! Boom! Suddenly it's hukka typing! Did you ever ask yourself, "Am I keeping up with the Commodore? 'Cause the Commodore is keeping up with me"? Whatever your answer, it is irrelevant. I will now tell you the beautiful story of Commodore. It all started in 1887, when Commodore Jackson made the first mechanical pet. He called it the "Sega Master System". 100 years later, he invented the first computer. 37 years later, he invented the second computer. This computer contained so many bytes and punchcards that it was almost disgusting. However, around this time Commodore's worst enemy, Atari Jackson, released his own mechanical pet/computer, which he called "Atari Jackson's Atari Computer". It was a very fast computer but a bad pet because it could not move. That's it. That was the story. If you didn't like it please hex edit this file and provide your own.