HBH Letters Collection Vol. 1

Finally, we managed to put up the first installment of scans from the collection of Norwegian C64 & Amiga scener HBH (a.k.a. Sorry Morry, a.k.a. ZTH), who had kindly sent it to us back in 2023. Spanning from 1987 to 1989, this batch includes a couple of party invitations, an advert for the German “News” papermag, and a bunch of letters from all over the world. Highlights include a detailed latter from US-American C64 sysop John a.k.a. Mad Hatter of Purple Dragon BBS, in which he describes copy parties in the USA, as well as a swapletter from Switzerland written on the back of a flyer from a fishmonger which still exists and which the editor of this website walks by every day. :)

As always, the images can be viewed in the gallery below, and the hi-res scans, complete with metadata sheets, can be accessed from the links in this list:

Letters from:
• Challenger (unknown country), [1980s]
• Conan/The Stack (Finland), [25/06/1987] [13/09/1987]
• Glerc/Science 451 (Sweden), [1980s]
• Harry/711 (West Germany), [1989]
• JKA (USA), [1980s]
• John a.k.a. Mad Hatter/Purple Dragon BBS (USA), [24/06/1989]
• Metal/Unitech (Denmark), [1989]
• Nick (UK), [1980s]
• Nigel (UK), [1980s]
• Pierre (France), [30/04/1987]
• R. & M. (Netherlands), [1987]
• Razor/Oneway (Sweden), [1980s]
• Romeo/DACHE (UK), [1987]
• Sin/MJM-S (Finland), [1988]
• Stefano (Italy), [10/03/1987]
• Surfer/Active (Sweden), [05/1989]
• The Duke/NFC (unknown country), [1980s]
• The Famous Loser/TLG (West Germany), [30/01/1988]
• The Smurf (UK), [10/06/1987]
• Zadex/NFX (West Germany), [1980s] [14/04/1989]
• Zorlac/Stardom (Switzerland), [15/05/1989]

Party invitations & adverts:
• Helloween Party 1988 [invitation]
• JOY-MGF-WWE Copyparty 1988 [invitation]
• Radwar Party 1989 [invitation]
• TDB Party 1988 [invitation]
• News papermag [advert]

Old Papermags from AVH, Part 2

It turns out that we forgot to put online some of the C64 papermags that AVH/Radwar generously provided to us back in 2019. And what a treasure trove this is! A completely lost issue of CCCP (#3), a better scan of another CCCP issue (#9), and a whole bunch of Illegal issues that had been preserved only as type-ups before. Now you can enjoy the real scans, featuring lots of graphics and the famous Cracker Map of 1988!

• CCCP #3, 1989 [PDF]
• CCCP #9, 1991 [PDF] [Demozoo]
• Illegal #22, 1987 [PDF] [Demozoo]
• Illegal #24, 1988 [PDF] [Demozoo]
• Illegal #33, 1988 [PDF] [Demozoo]
• Illegal #36, 1989 [PDF] [Demozoo]

Mixed Bag of Parties, Feb. 2023

Enjoy the Sunday while browsing demoparty-related materials: flyers, wristbands, votekeys, posters etc. from over three decades! The oldest object is from 1992, the latest is just one day old (from Mountainbytes in Switzerland which took place this weekend). Contributions this time stem from Cthulhu, Dipswitch, JAL, and Moon. A particularly special document is the internal organiser info sheet from Takeover 1999 & 2000 (in Dutch). Here’s a list of high quality scans for download, and below you can browse the goods in our gallery.

• Bizarre 1998: [network key] [ticket]
• Deadline 2021: [pin]
• Energy & Cosmos Design Party 1992: [ticket]
• Mountainbytes 2023: [sticker (cowee)] [sticker (logo)] [votekey] [wristband]
• Revision 2013 [votekey]
• Revision 2015: [votekey]
• Revision 2022: [wristband]
• SEMI Easter Conference 1993: [invitation]
• Sun’n’Fun Conference 1993: [invitation]
• Takeover 1998: [poster]
• Takeover 1999: [entrance pass]
[flyer] [organiser info sheet]
• Takeover 2000: [entrance pass] [mousepad] [organiser info sheet] [visitors pass] [wristband]
• Takeover 2001: [flyer] [mousepad] [poster] [visitors pass] [wristband]
• tUM 2004: [c64 invitation disk] [flyer]

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 paper zine published in 1988 by the Dutch C64 group Fire-Eagle. Only an advert demo for it has survived, the mag itself was considered lost. You can download a high resolution PDF here or browse the pages in the gallery below.