Must visit! Taken from the A.D.A. webpage:
“On this site, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the fabulous Amiga computer. All the demos listed here, are of high quality.”

I usually hang around A.D.A. and Amiga Lemon Games, spending endless hours reading game reviews, demo reviews, coding technique rants, discussions about go’s and nogo’s. It’s a great way to stay in touch with the scene. And the everlasting Amiga.

- Akiko.

Dear friends, dear listeners, dear bearers of the memories of the old times,

the New Year has begun, bringing us one step away from the past we carry in our hearts all these years, and our sweet burden becomes blurrier, dimmer, more vague as we walk with today. For us 2009 was a relatively poor year, bad in almost every aspect. It has thrown us from places to places, detaching us from our friends and families, putting us under growing pressure and nearly breaking us into pieces of unfulfilled ambitions, hopes, wishes, and words unspoken. MODMancer has had very few updates, very few improvements, and we feel bad. If the reality grows easier on us, if we manage to shape and change it, the situation will change – MODMancer will flourish.

Wish us luck, we are trying hard. But sometimes the tide is against us. We wish you the purest dreams in the forthcoming year.
MODMancers.

Check out this link, guys have done a great job porting legendary Sierra titles online! Playable within your browser, it’s an ideal way to workaround your boring time in the office )

http://www.sarien.net/

Hey I stumbled upon this graveyard link a while ago  thought it would be nice to share it with you!

there are apparently some titles, that unfortunately never made it to the market, due to lack of interest, which is kinda natural, considering the fact that Amiga has been quite dead for some time. But nevertheless huge respect to the guys for their enthusiasm!

I have cleaned up a bit Supreme Selection #1 list, and added new contingent of utterly cool mods . I will be focusing on making Supreme Selection #1 really shiny in the next few weeks; yesterday I recalled some very cool mods from the 90′s, mostly from the Amiga demo’s, but now it’s a bit of a trouble to find out which demo’s those were exactley.. I just have flashbacks of images & sounds. But I am not alone in this – there is my A1200 in the corner, and a box full of diskettes Let’s hope some of them survived now almost two decades in garage….

Also, the Modern games list has been extended by additional 3 hours of material.

-sir

Welcome to the MODMancer Internet Radio!

MODMancer is a free, 24/7 Internet radio broadcasting Games & Demo scene music.  Most of the time we are focused on Amiga Game Music and Demo Scene Mods, but we also gladly cover PC Game Soundtracks, console games, Remixes and much more!

Stream URL:
main link [http://www.modmancer.com:8000/modmancer.ogg.m3u]

.. and yes! We play NO advertisments whatsoever, we are completely non commercial, self maintained and 100% dedicated

I know it has been quite a while since my last post, and also quite a while since the last playlist update, but things have been just too edgy on the work, so all the hobby plans got postponed, including the new modmancer webpage design and banners and all the other stuff that was planed a while ago. But, today I’ve decided to come back and continue in small steps (Yes it’s saturday, and I am still working.. and yes it will be sunday, and I will still be coding.. and yes the monday is the shittiest day of them all, but what the.. I won’t notice the difference). Small steps, I said, and courtesy of some of my friends on the work another 4-5 hours of music have landed in the modern games area! some of the titles included are Hitman, Hitman 2 Beyond good and evil, Sacrifice, Divine Divinity, Gothic, Mafia .. and still a whole bunch of them incoming!

But why that Perihelion picture in this post, you ask? Well, it’s one of the merrier days in the past few weeks! The reason is – I finally after 2 years of hunting, found Perihelion the Prophecy for Amiga, in the original box, with the original manual! Wonderful – it’s another beautiful trophey on my shelf of legends, beside my A1200.

I wish you a nice evening.. enjoy it with the beautiful flow of the MODMancer radio station.

-sir_commonwelt

I just returned from Breakpoint 2008 / GE. It was amazing.
I can’t remember attending such an interesting event for years now. The hall was crowded, each and every power slot has been exhausted, xillions of TFT’s and CRT’s were glowing and blinking, and hundreds of sleepless people with those digital wet eyes, crawling around, swarming the place, carrying curry wurst, beer or both, stumbling to reach the warmth of their bunkers and continue whatever they were doing previously – be it coding, watching Patricia Arquette Medium, or playing C64 games – yes c64 games, but not on the emulator..

Continue reading ‘Breakpoint 2008 – last day’s review’

Tip of the lifetime: in case you didn’t listen to DUNE soundtrack ‘Spice Opera’ Exxos (Stephane Picq, Virgin records), you should definitely tune in during supreme selection #1, as we occasionally spin Exxos. In the old games playlists we also have the original amiga soundtrack, but as far as i could get there are only about 3 mods not more. The remastered Exxos is a full length masterpiece cd, which unfortunately can’t be obtained from Amazon or any other online shop any longer.. for years now actually.. but the downloads are hidden somewhere on internet

With the 2008 starting i have decided to pump in as much new music as possible! The promised New Years Eve update brought tens of hours of music mostly Old Games and Remixes! And today i’ve added another update of 6 hours to the Mods Mancer! playlist.

Last but not least – we’ve entered the new year with new contributors which will be introduced soon on the webpage. They are pumping gigabytes of new stuff all across the daily program.

yours, sir

.. modmance with us on MySpace??

No, we are not there to get a date, nor to be attention whor*s! We just want to spread the net and catch as many as possible Good Old Games fans and geeks. Myspace has been proven to work as a good communication platform, so why hesitate. MODMancer crew has uncounted hours of beautiful music and memories to share and revoke, just tune in!

And never forget: we are not doing this for money, nor we charge anything, nor want any donations. We are just doing it because we love it. And if you want to share something with us, if you want to contribute to our huge and growing music archive, please you are just two clicks away from contacting us!

A small reminder for you:
tomorrow night, 31.12.2007. on the last day of this spiraling year, we will switch on another HUGE Old Games playlist update! So.. the fun has just started. There is a plenty of memory just waiting to be brought into life. And we have just started.

Yours,
MODMancer Crew

It is now for the second time that the Modmancer Crew is wishing you one hell of a merry Christmas!! Thanks to one of the nerds around me, i was able to upload the Donkey Kong (SNES) soundtrack today, which is a must hear for every one, who hasn’t heard it before
Save for that, there is  a New Year MOD Pack on its way to be uploaded in the night between 31.12.2007. and 1.1.2008. This time we’ve focused on the old school games, and made a careful selection of titles that we didn’t cover so far.

Once again, we wish you a good, peaceful night, and give you a sad bed time story to read – Prologue – the last day

- sir

 

Amiga Music Preservation
this is just one of all the wonderful places that i gladly visit nowadays. My favorit part is its huge library of interviews with famous demo scene composers.

The link is added to our hall of fame section, on the right.

enjoy the Fall, the winter is coming.
- sir

5 more hours of various remixes added to the remix mania playlist.

-sir

Dear, dear friends, I can not express the feelings I’m having right now. I’m searching for the right words alas I can not find them. It’s been a year of MODMancing as  I speak.  One year of data flowing and sound sharing accross the Network. One year od ups and downs but mostly ups.:) One year of pure passion and dedication. One year of you being loyal to what we do. For that we thank you. We thank you and  we make a promise that 365 days that are to come will be filled with even more enchanted tunes from the time before and the time to come. My feelings are mixed as I type yet I remain speachles. I suppose our music tells all the things I’d like to tell you. Thank you for the support and for listening to MODMancer radio.

We carry on our march into the days to come aware that what we do in present echoes in eternity…

~night

.. it went MAD! another 3 hours  of carefully selected music deployed to the SS#2 playlist. I have restrained myself from adding some more of the modern highly produced mp3 remixes, and instead i opted this time for mods only, mostly targeting the good old 90′ sound. might sound a bit synth-poppy though 0:)

Update#2

Old Games playlist extended for additional 5 hours of music including collection of aliester brimble’s mods, lemmings, iron lord, pinball dreams, terminal velocity, turrican 2 etc..

-sir

ps

hey hey join us on myspace http://www.myspace.com/modmancing

The picture above says it all – additional 7 hours of old games music added to the nostalgic playlist (another world, dreamweb, outrun, zak mckrake, inca and a dozen more)

-sir

Modern Games & Remix Mania lists updated!

we are also very proud to announce that we got ourselves a new contributor, lady Killy!

-sir

Dear friends,

devil seldom comes alone. We have put MODMancer on myspace to get to more people than we could have done by other means of shouting. we are happy to invite you to befriend MODMancer on myspace!!

www.myspace.com/modmancing

- sir

ps
i was very sad when i found out that the wikipedia editorial has deleted the link to modmancer radiostation website after two months on the Video Games Topic. if it’s bad to share joy with people ..

Almost a decade ago, Henry Lowood at Stanford University started an initiative to preserve video games from slowly sliding into oblivion. I am free to assume that everyone visiting this site or any other site about the “retro” aspect of computer gaming will agree to this being a great idea. No need for justification there. The “Why?” page of this site offers a great explanation of the reasons for keeping those old acoustic sensations alive (that’s what this page is about, after all), the same reasons of course apply for the games as a whole.
Mr. Lowood even managed to get The Library of Congress to take hosting a canon of games into consideration. Ten games hosted by the guardian of the spiritual heritage of the United States.
Wait a second, only 10 games? Well, that’s what a canon is about, isn’t it? It has to rule out stuff according to specific criteria. There are already candidates: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), the Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994).

Continue reading ‘Does the computer games world need a canon?’

Our dearest sir_commonwelt will be leaving us in less that 24h. He’ll be away for a while yet with us all the time through the digital signal of the Internet. Our old MODMancer will be missed dearly…I wish him pleasant and safe journey, lots of geeking, new playlists and tons of beer! May the Great MOD guide your ways, sir.:)

miss Hellsing has contributed us a new playlist of modern game soundtracks, and this time it’s strictly crossover/industrial!

stay tuned from 12:00 to 14:00 every day!!

enjoy the antiutopia.

-sir

i thought you could find it interesting as well

http://www.acparadise.com/

“i wish i was a girly just like my dear papa”

another cute update to our Games – the Old Ways playlist!

* colonization, assimilation, aerial racers, marathon, mortal combat, robocop3, subwar 2050, shadow of the 3rd moon, warzone, thunderbirds, terminator 2, schockwave, predator 2, risky woods, overdrive, the lion king, streetfighter 2 and a dozen more ..

btw,
i think i will have to reschedule the old ways play list, it is a bit out of proportion! only 2 hours for such an musical arsenal (20+ hours of old games soundtracks at the moment).

- sir

“As a new day dawns..”

Terribly sorry for the long-time-no-update, all modmancers were quite busy. But i finally got some time to update the Supreme Selection 2 playlist with few more hours of specially chosen mods

Now, i must admit: we did a little experiment enriching this playlist with chip mods.. :X hopefully you won’t find it disturbing?

-sir

Remember those lonesome nights you’ve spent playing good old Resident Evil 1? Alone with only light coming from you screen…you hear footsteps…they are comming and they are hungry. We bring you the sound of the ultimate terror – Resident Evils Soundtracks. Our playlist will be updated very soon (probably tomorrow) with these new sounds of pure terror. Stay tuned if you dare.|

~night

Frogster Interactive Pictures AG – publisher from Berlin – has announced two stunning Bitmap Brothers remakes for this year:

 

References:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=20065 

http://www.speedball2.de/ 

and of course, the legends themselves:

http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk 

-sir

Haven’t I told you it won’t take long? We’re on our own server…I can’t express my happiness. IceCast server has been up for quite some time and we’re very satisfied the way it works. Today we decided it’s time to move the site too. We had a short downtime during DNS updating but all went well so we’re back mancing. Enjoy the MOD!

~Nightweaver

I bet this sounded as if we’re shutting this project down. No need to scream, jump though windows etc. We’re just moving this site to a new location..our own server. As you may have seen before there is an alternative address for listening to our tunes..well, now our site will be moved to this new location. This may result in very short downtime…music will be broadcasted normaly.

~
Nightweaver

February 25th, 2007. It’s cold, it’s windy, nothing unusual for this time of the year – it’s winter. To warm themselves up SirC and Nomo built a huge fire in their hearts, and started a conversation they had so many times before, but had never brought to an end. It was about picking out of a hat 10 best, most fascinating, most original, most tempting games ever:

1. Chaos Engine
   
2. Ambermoon
   
3. Ishar 1
   
4. Shadow of the beast 1
   
5. Perihelion the Prophecy
   
6. Ishar 2
   
7. Syndicate
   
8. Gods
   
9. The secret of Monkey Island
   
10. Transarctica
    

Continue reading ‘Sir & Nomo’s Top 10 Games Ever’