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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

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Versus #7 by Nukleus & Void

Play "yritys" by hukka/Void

Play "what remix?" by Powerslave/Void

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 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That's  why I  disagree  with sentences  like it's  outdated  with diskmags  and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 Well with that  logic, it would be outdated to use your  Amiga at all in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.