Ancients

Datastorm party release

2010-03-03T23:45:00.001+01:00

We went to Datastorm C64 party in Göteborg, and released the demo Snowstorm there.
http://www.csdb.dk/release/?id=87983

The past will strike you back, hard!

2009-01-09T02:50:00.002+01:00

The old members of The supply Team, Wizax, Zetrex, 2000 AD, what are now in Ancients, will strike back in hopefully 2010!

Wizz, the hardest coder of all, is brewing something that turns C64 demos into 3D!

And more!!

To make it simple:

WE WERE THE STANDARD, and..

WE WILL AGAIN BE THE STANDARD!!

X-2008

2008-03-17T21:19:00.002+01:00

http://www.scs-trc.net/x2008/

See you there!!!

X-2006

2006-04-05T20:52:00.000+02:00

http://www.scs-trc.net/x2006/register.php

See you there :-)

SID Compo 5

2005-10-14T00:27:00.000+02:00

Today I sent in a tune for the SID compo 5 held by C64.sk
My only hope is that it will end in the top 10 :-)

Devia's eBay Ramblings - A True Success

2005-10-03T22:07:00.000+02:00

So a couple of weeks ago I decided to finally cough up the needed currency for acquiring a much wanted gem for my Commodore hardware collection. The somewhat rare and in it's time quite expensive Commodore SX-64 Executive Computer. For those unfamiliar with this truly wondrous marvel of design and technology, it's a portable Commodore 64 with integrated 5" color monitor and 1541 floppy drive.

While living in Denmark I'm forced to do my C= shopping at eBay in Germany, since there's no real market for it in Denmark. This of course adding substantially to the shipping costs I have been blessed with a colleague living in Germany but working in Denmark who actually is willing to let me buy stuff of eBay and have it shipped to him... Great guy!! ;-)

Searching thru eBay's Classical Computers section I found an SX with a pretty poor description and some standard photo i.e. not of the actual item. This type of eBay ad usually doesn't get as much attention as the ones with great pictures and thorough descriptions and thus the price usually stays within what I consider reasonable. I took my chances and bet on the beast... and won... yeah! After three weeks of waiting for the bank transfer to clear, waiting for the guy to ship the item and for my colleague to return from Venezuela and bring me my long awaited acquisition it was a great surprise to find an SX-64 in almost perfect condition! It only has very minor scratches which after all are to be expected of a computer from 1984 ;-)

The keyboard looks very nice with only a very slight discoloration on the space key. The blue caps on the big handle are both intact and the keyboard cable is intact. These two things are very often missing or broken.

I quickly hooked it up to check out its functional status and to my relief it seemed to work perfectly! Only thing I have found "wrong" with it is its inability to play Rob Hubbard's Lightforce flawlessly... but then again I only have a single SID that can master that task ;-) ...the filter however sounds way better than that of any other SID I have in my collection. Since I haven't yet opened it up to see what lurks inside I don't know exactly which SID is in there, but since the machine is an '84 model I suspect a 6581R2.

It is truly a pleasure to get this kind of positive surprises from the rather anonymous and sometimes slightly suspect eBay dealings.

..oh and the three weeks of waiting DID get the better of me, so I ended up buying two more SX-64 of unknown quality/functionality... but I got 'em real cheap! :-P

Our first greetings

2005-09-25T23:50:00.000+02:00

Today, Ancients, our group - got the first greetings in a C64 demo from another group, Silicon Limited. In their demo "Accumulator".

We are very proud of this! it's a sign that we have not been overlooked :-)

We will try and return the favour in our next production.

Release Feed

2005-09-13T09:15:00.000+02:00

Set up a Release Feed (Atom) for the site.

You can visit the release log here (same format as the main site). Not that we have a tonne of releases at this time, but the ones we have, have been filed.

Enjoy :-)

Ancients - Releases

Ticket sales opened - Retro Concert Copenhagen

2005-09-12T12:32:00.000+02:00

Ticket sales opened today for the retro concert experience of the year, Retro Concert Copenhagen. Hurry up and reserve your seat before it's taken by the guy next to you ;-)

Rob and Ben will be coming, just to name a few.

See you all there.

Site syndication

2005-09-08T16:50:00.000+02:00

This site now operates with 2 different site feeds. Atom and RSS.

If you're new to site feeds or don't know what it is, here's some basics. Syndication is provided for your convenience, so feel free to hook us up in your favorite news reader ;-)

Back In Time - Live - DVD release

2005-09-07T18:51:00.000+02:00

Well just in case you didn't know, the DVD is being released next week. Not seen it myself, but Rambones was there at the concert, and he's not stopped talking about it ever since :-P

Preview is available as well.

Webspace basics in place...

2005-09-06T08:55:00.000+02:00

Right, got the basics pretty much in place. Needing to do further template adjustments and, more importantly, need to lure all of the members into this place :P It's about content after all, and I don't intend to be the only contributor ;-)