Amiga Letters Worldwide

Another addition to our growing archive of swapletters: Jugger of Panic, a well-known early 1990s Amiga pack editor and swapper from Germany, gave us his letters! Here is a first batch with 15 letters from all over the world, from Iceland to South Africa and Paraguay (!). More to come! For now, here are letters from:

• Agnus/JTU (Germany), early 1990s [scan/metadata]
• Chester/Brainstorm (Switzerland), October 1990 [scan/metadata]
• Ciclant/Freelance (South Africa), early 1990s [scan/metadata]
• Cyclone/Questor (Belgium), 15 January 1991 [scan/metadata]
• Cyclone/Questor (Belgium), 31 January 1991 [scan/metadata]
• ICE/Sanity (Germany), 1991 [scan/metadata]
• José M. (Paraguay), early 1990s [scan/metadata]
• Khadaffi/TML (Netherlands), 1990 [scan/metadata]
• Mr Nice Guy/Artemis (Iceland), early 1990s [scan/metadata]
• SOS/Armageddon (Germany), 15 April 1991 [scan/metadata]
• SWAT/Bronx (Turkey), early 1990s [scan/metadata]
• Wild Rage/Grace (Austria), February 1991 [scan/metadata]
• Wild Rage/Grace (Austria), February 1991 [scan/metadata]
• Zibe/Darkside (Finland), 1990 [scan/metadata]
• Zorlac/Fairlight (UK), 1991 [scan/metadata]

Scandinavian Copyparties

H.O from the legendary Swedish C64 cracking group Science 451 gave us a bunch of invitations from Scandinavian copyparties (plus a German one) from 1987 to 1989. These are among the oldest party materials we have here. Expect more from H.O’s collection! Included in today’s update are invitations from:

• Agile & Rebels Copyparty 1988 [scan&metadata]
• Byterapers Grendelparty 1988 [scan&metadata]
• FCS Copyparty 1987 [scan&metadata]
• Horizon & Jetspeed Party 1988 [scan&metadata]
• Ikari & Zargon Party 1989 [scan&metadata]
• Jewels, Danish Gold, Dominators & Upfront Party 1988 [scan&metadata]
• The Silents & Stage 3 Party 1988 [scan&metadata]
• The Silents Hacker Party 1987 [scan&metadata]
• Vortex 42 Computer Meeting 1988 [scan&metadata]

The New Mutant

Once again, some unusual Atari stuff. Lotek Style gave us the complete run of The New Mutant, a photocopied paper zine by his (nowadays quite well-known) Atari ST demogroup The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (tSCc). This very peculiar magazine, published between 1992 and 1994 in German language, features content somewhere between music news, cyberpunk themes, and general teenage sillyness. Not much scene content, though – but hey, it’s an early product of a demoscene group. Here you can download PDF scans of issues #1 (1992) to #8 (1994).

Demoparties – From Argentina to Sweden

After all the 1980s stuff, here are some more-or-less recent demoparty materials for a change. Arlequin contributed a few flyers from the Flash Party in Argentina, which was running from 1998 to 2007 (and is getting relaunched in 2018). Gentleman discovered an amazing graffiti poster from Evoke 1997, the very first Evoke edition. And Hedning contributed some materials from Gubbdata 2016, a cozy C64 party that took place in Sweden – these materials are consciously modelled in 1980s copy-party style. Speaking of demoparties – Outline 2018 is taking place this weekend in the Netherlands, and this is a good chance to have a chat and pass me some scene papers!

• Flash Party 1998 ticket [scan&metadata]
• Flash Party 2000 flyer [scan&metadata]
• Flash Party 2000 flyer (2nd version) [scan&metadata]
• Evoke 1997 poster [scan&metadata]
• Gubbdata 2016 visitors brochure [scan&metadata]
• Gubbdata 2016 visitors list [scan&metadata]
• Gubbdata 2016 votesheet [scan&metadata]