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We are just coming to add one more interview on the site. This time, we meet a real legend in the hacking scene: Hal took part to many crews projects, and helped most of the famous teams (such as Automation) to spread their work. Long awaited interview, it finally arrives on the site today. Thanks to Punkrulesok for his precious help.

So click on Hal's interview and enjoy the reading!

November 2004: the famous contest organized by Leonard was over. The main coder of Oxygene managed to display 268 sprites on the screen (see the 16x16 sprite record page for the complete story).
February 2005: the record is beaten with one sprite more! Scum Of The Earth spread a new screen with 269 sprites on it. We had a short discussion with Leonard, this demo doesn't seem to be a fake like some previous one by other coders. This is a real thing! Brillant job.

So go on. Download the new 269 sprites screen by Scum Of The Earth and discuss about it on the forum.

Remember Mangamania 2004 published some weeks ago? The Byte of BSW and TCE strikes back, so here comes the 2005 issue!
The demo features a slideshow with 43 pictures on it and a protracker tune is played while they are displayed. Paradize coded the coldfading and the linkfiler was written by our own member Mug UK (yeah!). Like the previous issue, that is worthwhile to grab!

Download directly Mangamania 2005 or feel free to visit TCE webpage.

With the help of some friends, we managed to find most of the games released by Harald Breitmaier and Heinz Munter between 1987 and 1992. We obtained then the rights to upload on the site all the games that they created under the labels of Motelsoft and Softwave. Both editors released sharewares and freewares mainly in german language. One of the games was translated in english by Grazey of PHF himself. Fans of RPG will probably appreciate most of the titles, but the duet also made some mind games.

Also please note we haven't uploaded Dark Stone Ritual since it contains damaged graphics. We are working on a fixed version at the moment. Of course, whenever you'd own a missing title, feel free to get in touch with [email=pacidemo@planet-d.net]us[/email] (every contributor is credited in the box of download).
Thanks to everyone who helped us: Purpleeagle01, Shredder, Marcer, Heinz Munter, Thothy and Lotek Style. Greetings to you, guys!

Visit the Motelsoft and the Softwave listings on the site, and complete your collection. Also a few more disks will be uploaded soon.

Three disks has been uploaded by The Byte of BSW (and TCE). As always, they contain codes by Secret Top, graphics by PixelBrother and packed stuffs by The Byte.

BSW 131 contains:
- Justice Demo by Digital Justice
- Cointro by HMD
- ST TRI Interlace Demo
- Strange World Dentro by Arsenic
- 15Ko or 25Ko Intro by Idemline

BSW 132 contains:
- Checkpoint Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- DHS Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- Kua Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- MJJ Prod Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- Thothy Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- Torment Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- Yes Crew Xmas Compo 2003 Entry
- Paradox Xmas 2004 Demo (2mb Needed!)

BSW 133 contains:
- 1999 By Tobe / MJJ Prod
- Badger Demo by MJJ Prod
- The Debut Intro by Simon Sunnyboy
- Pirate Gold CD Intro from ICS
- Siurek Intro by Satantronic
- Anthology CD Intro by Supremacy
- Wanny Tan Ban by Torment

Download directly disks 131, 132 and 133 from our site. Or visit the BSW page.

Ten years after the first release he coded, Leonard of Oxygene is just coming to publish the source code of the famous ST-Sound. ST Sound is a sound emulator for Windows, MS-Dos, Linux and Be-OS. The program can also emulate Amiga FC musics, CPC tunes, etc.
After a clean up, a full package is so available on Leonard website. It contains all descriptions and also the full code to play .YM files on the PC. So everyone can now use it in his own application/demo/game
Looks like ST-Sound won't be updated by Leonard anymore, unless someone else brings the the project back (we recommend actually to use WinJam to replay ST musics in high quality).

Feel free to grab the ST-Sound on the Leonard website.