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Checkpoint releases 4z!

2011-11-30T23:00:00.004+01:00

At Silly Venture party this November we entered the Atari ST intro compo with 2 x 4 Kb intros. The serious entry is called "4z" and was coded by Defjam, music by 505. It includes new or 100% recoded effects as well as a new music routine with SID-effects. The soundroutine bases on a new sequencer and instrument approach which computes Sidsound Designer pattern & instrument data as input files.

The second intro is a lame turnaround of our duties, code by 505, music by Defjam. Music routine here is the Insignia Trisound format. We recommend to not watch this one ;)

YM2149 4 bit sound experiment - 1 channel, 4 bit madness

2011-09-30T12:31:00.006+02:00

Related to the experiments by Viznut & Visy (see the discussion Defjam made some experiments of the method on Atari ST. Download the 128-byte intro there.

Morphonic Lab Invitation for Atari ST

2011-09-30T12:27:00.001+02:00

Checkpoint released an Atari ST invitation for the audio-visual performance Morphonic Lab 10. The event is going to take place in Dresden, Germany on 8th of October.

Fresh stuff from Sommarhack!

2011-07-06T01:17:00.008+02:00

Sommarhack party is over and XiA even finished two prods for it!

Word is a slideshow of the many logotypes XiA created during the last erm.. decades. Have a glance at XiA's longterm output, the programm works on Atari STE.
Report 2011 is the party report for the recent Sommarhack party. With this prod, you can have a small share of the awesome Sommarhack experience by having a look at party photos and more. A video is over there.

See you next year hopefully and may the pig be with you!

Outline releases: 128 synced bytes and more

2011-06-20T01:16:00.011+02:00

The traditional Atari party Outline 2011 in Netherlands is over. Some of us entered with an entry in different competitions. For the code, Defjam contributed with a little 128 byte intro for Atari ST called "128SYNC". Have a look how 128 bytes can be used efficiently to create much of joy :)

Apart from this, 505 ranked first in the tracked music compo with the Atari STE chiptune "Hushrush" and Exocet won the 16 colors graphics compo with this refreshing "6 Legged Freak":

Oops, forgot to mention ...

2011-02-18T01:06:00.004+01:00

last Christmas, we brought you the Nintendo-DS version of the more or less famous Snowman-Demo. It is a slideshow converted from the original the Atari ST release. Download it over there.

Checkpoints latest victim: Nintendo DS

2011-02-03T18:31:00.004+01:00

Finally lsl has finished his sample sequencer for Nintendo DS. It includeds nice filtering, some Kaos-Pad functions and lot of heavy stuff. You can get an impression of its capabilities with this live recording of a Hardcore techno NDS-j set by lsl here.

Get the software release for your Nintendo DS at Pouet.net and enjoy.

Back from Poland - Visualized

2010-12-13T22:11:00.004+01:00

As a spontanous project we decided to contribute to the Silly Venture Atari demo compo with a new Atari ST release named Visualize. It was done in a hurry, using some new approaches (no, not quitting cleanly to desktop for a change!).
Enjoy our first attempts in more advanced syncing of stuff - using gwEms outstanding maxymiser routine with the zync-byte. The demo loops endlessly with delays of visuals and music, so the synchronisation should be differing each round.

Code was done by Defjam, music by 505.
Thanks to gwEm & Grey, for the Zyncyventure!

The noiST generator

2010-11-08T15:48:00.001+01:00

There is not much to say except, we also can do noiST.

Outline 2010 invitation

2010-04-08T00:29:00.001+02:00

We released the invitation intro for this years edition of the Outline party in the Netherlands. The intro runs on Atari ST/E and Falcon and it's also the Checkpoint debut of our new member Excellence in Art (music). Check the recording at DHS video database or be a true hero and download the executable.

New member!

2010-03-19T19:12:00.002+01:00

We are very happy to welcome multifunctional Excellence in Art (XiA) as a new member of our group. XiA has created quite a couple of STE-specific demos in the beginning of the nineties. So welcome on board and let's see what we will work out together!

Checkpoint brings you the Snowman 2009 demo

2009-12-25T17:38:00.005+01:00

Just around Christmas 2009 we released a little production. The Snowman 2009 is a remix of the classic Snowman demo. Enjoy and see you next year.

Checkpoint-log is on

2009-12-15T23:08:00.001+01:00

Ok, so our old website got hacked and we don't feel like continuing it the way it was. A lot of thanks go to untergrund.net for beeing such a great host all those years. Let's see if we can keep up the one update per year ratio with this checkblog as well.