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[ Demozoo ] Demozoo Archaeology W15/26: Classic Mac Demos

Last week Ramses shared with us the filebase of his old BBS, Uphold the Law. Being a pure demoscene board and running from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, it hosted many releases that have since then disappeared from the Internet. This includes 37 forgotten demos and intros for classical Macintosh machines from the second half of the 1990s which we now added to Demozoo, as well as a number of previously known Mac productions that were tagged as "lost". As we are not particularly versed in classic Mac emulation, we would highly welcome volunteers to screenshot these newly discovered productions.

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] PCMCIA Flash cards, 8-16MB

[Search] Storage Media · 20€ (by Saga Musix) I'm looking for PCMCIA Flash cards for my Alesis QSR synthesizer. They need to be at least 8MB, bigger also works but the extra capacity will just be wasted. Unfortunately these synthesizers are a bit picky in terms of card compatibility (see https://benweaver.info/alesis/) - I have tried several cards that were simply not recognized at all, other cards were recognized but resulted in some data not being read correctly. Just offer me anything that might be a fit and we'll figure out if it's worth a try. --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/40 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ scenemarket – latest listings ] PCMCIA Flash cards, 8MB

[Offer] Storage Media · 37€/card (by Saga Musix) Nokia-branded PCMCIA Flash memory cards, 8MB MLC. They don't work for my use case so I'm reselling them for the price that I originally got them for. Price is per card, I have three of them. Also willing to trade them for memory cards that I can actually use (I can explain the details if needed) :) --- Interested? Claim this item at https://scene.market/listings/39 — or list your own stuff for free at https://scene.market

[ Atariscne.org - News ] GCC for asm Experts (and C/C++ Intermediates) - Part 5

← Register Allocation and the Cost Model

Fixing Post-Increment Addressing

Some years after high school, me and AiO worked at the same company for a while. I spent a lot of time at his apartment in Vimmerby, watching demos on my Falcon030 and his accelerated Amiga, playing Elite Frontier, and making grand plans for projects that mostly never shipped. I was going to write a Worms clone called Grubs, built around fractal-generated terrain and a neat paralax scrolling trick. In the end the only game released from that apartment was DB Phone Home, a 4K side-scrolling platformer for the Falcon. But the thing I remember most is reading AiO's copy of the MC68060 User's Manual.

The 68060 can not only do a multiply in two clockcycles, but execute two instructions at once!? Motorola called it superscalar, and I thought it was the most exciting thing in the world. I imagined what an Atari with this beast could do, and where the 68070 would take this — even wider issue, more parallelism, the same trajectory the industry was already on with the Pentium and the PowerPC. Of course, the 68070 never came. ColdFire does not quite count for me. Our beloved CPU family ended with the 68060, and the dream of wider superscalar m68k died with it.

But the industry kept going. GCC optimizes for that dream-made-real on other architectures: x86-64, ARM, RISC-V. Independent instructions that hardware can overlap or even reorder to execute over half a dozen instructions per cycle on for example an Apple Silicon M3/M4. This all works, as long as there are no data dependencies between consecutive operations. And this is where it goes wrong for us.

[ Atariscne.org - News ] Atari at the Revision Party?

So you’re thinking that at the big multi-format Revision Easter party, there isn’t anything of compelling interest for us Atari fans? That amongst the system smashing Amiga and PC releases, there simply isn’t anything there for *our* platform?

A first glance may make you leap to that conclusion, but a slower and more considered examination reveals there are traces of Atari and Atarians. We can be found in all sorts of unexpected places!

This is what we discovered for Easter 2026.