[ got papers? ] HBH Collection: Lost Mag from 1988
Not only are we back, but we also have exciting news: HBH, a Norwegian C64 scener active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, sent us a full box of letters and flyers. The treasure trove is currently being scanned and will start appearing here very soon. Here’s a sneak peek: Brainstorm, a small C64/Amiga […][ got papers? ] Buenzli/Demodays special
We’re back with materials donated by Unlock, main organiser of the Swiss demoparty called Buenzli until 2010 and Demodays between 2011 and 2014. Included are flyers, visitor brochures, and – a most rare thing – brochures/reports made for sponsors and supporters. Enjoy the high quality design! The images can be viewed in the gallery at […][ Conspiracy ] Blast To The Past
Aside from making intros, we sometimes do the occasional odd venture around the scene: Check out the The Diskmag Onlinification Project, a little restoration / archeology undertaking of some of our formative media from the olden days.[ Demoscene Research ] Polish UNESCO application approved!
One more success for the Art of Coding project: the Polish UNESCO application was just accepted! There’s not much info yet in English, but here’s the project page with the news. Congratulations to everybody who was involved with the Polish application and let’s see who’s next![ got papers? ] Jugger Collection Vol. 2
After a long pause, here we go with another update. We did not run out of materials, not at all – only out of time. Anyway, today we bring you the second batch (see first batch here) from the collection of Jugger/Panic, a well-known early 1990s Amiga pack editor and swapper from Germany. Here are […][ Conspiracy ] Slated For Release
It's been a few years, but we've not been sitting on our hands - we've just been preparing our latest intro: Clean Slate has been released at the online edition of Revision 2021! It also carries on our long standing tradition of breaking 64k competitions![ Demoscene Research ] German UNESCO application accepted!
Following the Finnish success, the German national UNESCO application has just been accepted, meaning the scene is now officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage there too! Read more here: http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/03/20/demoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-germany/[ Slengpung ] PSA: Housekeeping happened
Just a quick news item while we're all suffering from IRL-party-withdrawal: We've finally finished a major server move - thanks D.Fox for hosting us for a few years, and thanks to Fnord and Ziphoid for our new hosting. As a result, it was about time we got rid of most of the old rickety code that ran the site and rewrote it; as such, some of the features may be missing, and we'll be fixing those as we go. Merry Xmas! :)[ got papers? ] Honey/1001 Collection – Final Update
The letter collection of legendary Dutch C64 cracker Honey of 1001 Crew has provided us with a stream of treasures over the past years. Now, after five instalments, this fountain has run dry: Today, we give you the final update. It includes some fascinating materials from 1986-1987, such as letters from fellow compression expert Matcham […][ Slengpung ] Our very first pictures from Vortex, ever
tFt and Teo sent us some very first pictures from the madness that is a Finnish demoparty. Behold, Vortex 2019[ Slengpung ] Rsync 2020
Amidst all this madness, it's good to have a bit of normality. tFt added some pictures from rsync 2020[ Slengpung ] Deadline 2018 + Many 2019 pics
noep))) provided some nice pictures from Deadline 2018 and Nordlicht 2019, enjoy! My own pictures from Revision 2019 are now on the site as well, starting from page 5, and my Outline 2019 pictures starting from page 3. More pics from Under Construction 2019 starting from page 2.[ Slengpung ] Where sofas end - Underground Conference 10
One of the few real-life demoparty events this summer, the outdoor demoparty Underground Conference 10 happened a week ago and TMA provided some nice photos. More to come! Some first pictures from Deadline 2019, Under Construction and rsync 2020 by T$ have also been added. Enjoy![ Demoscene Research ] WiderScreen 2–3/2020 Out
A special issue of WiderScreen, edited by Julia Erdogan, Gleb and me, has just been published with the topic “Home Computer Cultures and Society Before the Internet Age”. We’ll add the individual articles to the bibliography a bit later, but already at this point I can reveal that there’s plenty to read for demoscene enthusiasts […][ Demoscene Research ] Tracker and PETSCII papers added
Just added my own Finnish journal article Trackerit: paradigman synty, kukoistus ja myöhemmät vaiheet (2019), which deals with the history and creators of tracker software, and the text art related paper titled PETSCII – A Character Set and a Creative Platform (Reunanen, Heikkinen & Carlsson 2019).[ Demoscene Research ] Finnish Unesco application approved!
The Finnish application to get the demoscene recognized by the national Unesco chapter as intangible cultural heritage was accepted just this week. Congratz to everybody involved! The scene is the first branch of digital culture to appear on the list, and the Finnish application was also the first of the national applications to be approved. […][ got papers? ] 32 Years of Computer Parties
Today, we present you with artefacts from 32 years of copy- and demoparties – from 1987 to 2019! Quite an astonishing time span, longer than the life span of some current demoscene members. The scans stem from the collections of Acidchild & Bugjam, AD aka Rough, Dipswitch, Goat, Ile, Mike, Moqui, Sir Garbagetruck, Swiss Cracking […][ got papers? ] Rough Archive Pt. 2
We start the New Year with a bang. The archive of C64 scener Rough had been sitting here for almost three years – until last month our heroic student assistant scanned over 400 pages in one go. With this update, we present you 269 letters by 127 individuals from 16 countries. They stem from the […][ Demoscene Research ] UNESCO German & Finnish applications
As you’ve probably noticed, there is an ongoing attempt to get the demoscene recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. Both Gleb and me have been participating in the national applications that need to be submitted first. See here for a news item on the German application, and here to see the Finnish one that […][ got papers? ] Zippy’s Letters: The Cynix P.O. Box
Famous Scottish Atari ST cracker Zippy a.k.a Absu, member of the groups Cynix and The Medway Boys, who was very recently interviewed on Codetapper.com, provided us with photographs from his letter archive. This time, we bring you a very special portion of these documents: The inbox, so to say, of the Cynix P.O. box in […][ got papers? ] SCA Disk Design Compo 1987
Swiss Cracking Association, the legendary Zurich-based C64 group, whose archive we have covered in numerous updates, always loved to come up with something new – be it a spectacular game hack, the first Amiga virus, or a disk designing competition. In their “SCA Competition!” demo from March 1987, they made the following announcement: SEND US […][ got papers? ] More C64 Disk Covers from Goat
We haven’t featured C64 disk covers for a while, so here are some from the collection of Goat/Laxity, which was scanned already four years ago. This big batch features 50 disk covers from the early- to mid-1990s (with one early exception from 1986), including some really extraordinary ones. I won’t make a list here, but […][ Demoscene Research ] June Updates
Finally added two missing papers: Hodges 2018 and Desidério & Rossi 2008. Two interesting books came out recently, and we’re working on getting them read and added as well. The first one is Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy by Gavin Mueller and the other Gaming the Iron Curtain by Jaroslav Svelch.[ Conspiracy ] Full Steam Ahead
Now that there's a second generation of VR headsets, we decided to put Offscreen Colonies VR on Steam - still for free! Enjoy![ Conspiracy ] Ferris Makes Conspiracy Make Demos
Our friend Ferris has a pretty popular Twitch/YouTube economy where he regularly shows off his work process, and recently he asked us to join him and show off our toolchain - and we gladly obliged! You can check out the video here if you wanna see how we do intros, and you can also support him on Patreon if you think his stuff was worth your time!