Welcome to the WUDSN ursel home page

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Published: Sunday, 16 September 2018 00:00
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WUDSN ursel - or short WUDSN - is a demo group founded in 1991. There is an explanation why the group and the site are named like that, but that's a different story you can find in the FAQ. For the time being it should be sufficient for you to know that I, Peter Dell aka JAC! am one of the members ever since. I have created this web site to offer my tools and productions and to share the fun I have had for more than 20 years now with my Atari-8 bit computer and other classic computers. To learn more about me and what I'm doing, check out this personal interview that I gave for ANTIC - the Atari 8-bit podcast.

Silly Venture 2k17 Invitro revisited

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Published: Friday, 14 September 2018 00:00
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It always very rewarding to see people who like the result of the hard and completely useless demo coding for obsolete machines. So here's nice video from a Polish guy I don't even know.

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"In June 2017 this demo appeared. It is an advertisment for the Silly Venture 2017 party. This demo (or call it invitro) was written by JAC!, Glafouk did music for this demo. It's a 16kb production and it's already loaded here on EPROM. I will keep myself silent 'coz I don't want to make noise. The most important thing is what will happen on the screen in a moment. I hope you will enjoy it. ... .. do, what, how did you like the demo? I am thrilled, call it intro, invitro, Whatever, I am just thrilled. Amazing cooperation of coders, those pals are truly amazing.

Thanks man for these encouraging words! I' consider them a kick in my a... to get my Silly Venture 2018 done and check my hotel bookings asap :-)

Helena's BASIC Games released

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Published: Sunday, 05 August 2018 00:00
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Today I can finally release the two Atari BASIC games which I created together with my daughter Helena in 2016. She had to give away her smart phone for two 2 weeks because she did nothing else anymore than playing with the smart phone. Normal family life wasn't possible anymore. Instead she received an Atari 800 XL with two joysticks, a datasette and later a floppy drive. And we sat down together to dive into the essentials of Atari BASIC and game coding.

Pure computing power

Or as an old friend of mine put it "The Atari is exactly what your parents had to take away from you" :-)
In this video she presents the results of our efforts.

Silly Venture 2k17 surprise

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Published: Monday, 16 July 2018 00:00
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Today I found a very nice suprise in my mail box with neat goodies and my very first physical trophy. I already found the best place to put it :-). Thanks Grey, and count me in for Silly Venture 2k18!

Goooooodies

The right place for my first trophy

Time Pilot for Atari XL/XE released

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Published: Saturday, 14 July 2018 00:00
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In May this year, an excellent port of the classic arcade game Time Pilot was released for the Atari XL/XL line of computers. And as I found out today, it was created using WUDSN IDE. The complete sources of the game are available for download at http://timepilot.atari.pl and also on Github. Thumbs up to New Generation for this master piece and for releasing the source code, so others can learn from it.