Swedish blogger and scene veteran Jani (of the “World of Jani” tech blog) has started to scan and put online his collection of C64 disk covers. Eventually, they will end up at “Got Papers?” in high resolution – but for now, you can view the (continuously updated) collection at http://blog.worldofjani.com/?p=2420.
Early 1990s Amiga Materials
Our faithful contributor S11 sent in another batch of highly interesting scans from the early 1990s Amiga scene. The batch consists of group stickers and copyparty / demoparty invitation leaflets. Particularly the latter are very insightful. Back then, when websites were unheard of, the organisers made sure to cram as much information as possible into the invitation leaflets, which were circulated at parties or spread by mail swappers. Through these leaflets, we can learn about what was considered important about a scene gathering back then, which features were praised as spectacular (such as the amount of prize money), and what sort of behaviour was deemed (in)appropriate. While some parties made piracy a crucial part of their advertisement campaign, others stressed their “legal-only” outlook and appealed to visitors not to engage in any illegal software copying – the differentiation between the cracking– and the demoscene was just beginning…
• Action sticker, early 1990s [metadata]
• Amiga Inc. sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• The Beach Party 1992 invitation leaflet [metadata]
• Birdhouse Projects sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Factor5 sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Hardline sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Hurricane & Brutal Summer Party 1992 invitation leaflet [metadata]
• Infect sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Maximum Pleasure Copyparty 1991 invitation leaflet [metadata]
• Sun’n’Fun Conference 1992 invitation leaflet [metadata]
• Targets sticker, 1990s [metadata]
C64 Group Stickers
Our project welcomes a new permanent collaborator – hedning, who is well-known in the C64 scene for his relentless preservation efforts, saving the contents of old floppy disks from oblivion. As a first batch, he presents us with a number of group stickers found on said disks, as well as a rare scan of a scener-owned Commodore REU. The RAM expansion unit provided the C64 with additional memory and was thus a helpful gadget for swappers for copying disks.
• Active sticker, 1990s (1) [metadata]
• Active sticker, 1990s (2) [metadata]
• Byterapers sticker, unknown (1) [metadata]
• Byterapers sticker, unknown (2) [metadata]
• F4CG sticker, 1990s (1) [metadata]
• F4CG sticker, 1990s (2) [metadata]
• Genesis Project sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Hitmen sticker, 1996 [metadata]
• Nostalgia sticker, 1990s [metadata]
• Commodore REU owned by Walker/G*P [metadata]
Ultimate C64 Scene Mag Archive – Update 10
Our partner site, the mags.c64.org archive, has just released update #10 of its “Ultimate C64 Scene Mag Archive”. The update contains 2 GB worth of C64 scene magazines which Jazzcat/Onslaught, who runs the archive, accumulated over the past years and which were not available on the Internet up to now. A tremendous C64 history preservation effort! Included are several paper magazines as well, some of which have been preserved through “Got Papers?”. You can download the archive update here.