Here comes a Codef remake of ST NEWS Volume 6 Issue 1 “Cyclodef” demo screen, by The Lost Boys (Atari STF), released on April 20th 1991.

ST NEWS Volume 6 Issue 1, “the second undead issue”, was almost entirely about the ST NEWS International Christmas Coding Convention (STNICCC), organised by Richard Karsmakers and Stefan Posthuma from December 21st to 24th 1990 in Oss, in the Netherlands. More than 120 demo coders came, and Richard still described it years later as “a monumental gathering that will probably never be equalled on such a level of friendliness”. Its 25th anniversary edition, in 2015, saw the release of {Closure} by SYNC.

The demo screen of this issue was coded by Manikin (Tim Moss) of The Lost Boys, who had started coding on the ST after reading an article by Stefan about scrolling in ST NEWS. Richard calls it “a 3D line character rotato-scroller” and “a brill screen by all means”. Its scrolltext complains that Manikin only drew the letters A to Z and three punctuation signs: “it is much too tireing to write without being able to use commas and quotes as well as brackets. Tim is just very lazy I guess.”

This remake was made for the new ST NEWS website, where the demos of each issue run in the browser (see ST NEWS #stnewsreborn). The scrolling message of this issue was remade by Karl Cullen.

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