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Swedish 1980s C64 Stuff

Today, we give you some stickers, disk covers, and paper notes which hedning managed to secure from the collection of Zeta, a cracker, coder and musician who was active in the Swedish C64 scene in the late 1980s. Some well-known and some less-known names from the Scandinavian and international scene. Enjoy!

Disk covers:
• 2000 Volt disk cover, 1988 [metadata]
• Four Danish Dream Line disk covers, 1988 [metadata cover 1, 2, 3, 4]
• Digital Crackers disk cover, 1988 [metadata]
• Flash disk cover, 1988 [metadata]
• Gilbert Turbo Cracker disk cover, 1988 [metadata]
• M.U.S.I.C. disk cover, 1988 [metadata]
• The Digital Force disk cover, 1988 [metadata]

Stickers:
• Spemu/Finnish Gold sticker, 1980s [metadata]
• Zargon sticker, 1980s [metadata]

Letters:
• Creator/Strike Force (Germany) to Zeta, 1988 [metadata]
• Euratom (Germany) to Zeta, 1987 [metadata]
• Mr Lead/CPU (Sweden) to Zeta, 20 May 1988 [metadata]
• Mr Lead/CPU (Sweden) to Zeta, 9 June 1988 [metadata]
• Mr Lead/CPU (Sweden) to Zeta, 4 July 1988 [metadata]
• Nrj/New Aces (France) to Zeta, 1988 [metadata]
• Spirit/2000 Volt (Sweden) to Zeta, 1988 [metadata]

C64 Disk Covers from Hedning

Here we go with another contribution by Hedning/G*P: several C64 disk sleeves from the early to mid-1990s, plus a quite peculiar bonus – a chocolate wrapper produced by two C64 demo groups.

• Atlantis & F4CG chocolate wrapper, 2014 [metadata]
• Black Code Design disk cover by Big Boost, 1994 [metadata]
• Black Duke disk cover, 1992 [metadata]
• Booze Design disk cover by HCL, 1990s [metadata]
• Coma Light 12 disk cover by Bizkid, 1994 [metadata]
• F4CG disk cover by Flash, 1996 [metadata]
• F4CG disk cover by FX, 1990s [metadata]
• F4CG disk cover by Zapotek, 1995 [metadata]
• Genesis Project disk cover by Tronic, 1990s [metadata]
• Jazzgossen Prv. disk cover by Trident, 1997 [metadata]
• Rock ‘n Role 21 disk cover by Kirk, 1996 [metadata]
• Skyhigh 10 disk cover by Earthquake, 1994 [metadata]
• Skyhigh 20 disk cover by Junkie, 1995 [metadata]
• Triage disk cover by Chaotic, 1996 [metadata]
• Visuality 3 disk cover by Mick, 1993 [metadata]
• Warriors of Time disk cover by Brady, 1990 [metadata]
• Wonderland 9 disk cover by Guran, 1991 [metadata]
• X-Rated disk cover by The Beast, 1990s [metadata]

C64 Disk Covers (Fzool Collection #4)

Here we go with the final instalment of Fzool‘s disk cover collection. It features 31 disk sleeves in a broad range of styles, from naïve to sophisticated, from fantasy to science fiction to erotica, from heavy metal to graffiti… It gives a good overview of disk covers that were produced in the 1990s, when swapping on the C64 slowly became less important, and disk covers turned from a necessity into an art of its own. Enjoy!

• Also Animals Can Be Cruel disk cover by Junkie, 1998 [metadata]
• Authority disk cover by Serio, 1998 [metadata]
• F4CG disk cover by Sin-1, 1998 [metadata]
• F4CG disk cover by Zapotek, 1997 [metadata]
• High-Tech disk cover by Jak T Rip, 1995 [metadata]
• Ingenious Brain #5 disk cover by Mr. Friese, 1994 [metadata]
• Killing Technology disk cover by Astaroth, 1994 [metadata]
• Leming disk cover by Poison, 1998 [metadata]
• Mad+Bad Group disk cover by Jonn Donn, 1997 [metadata]
• Mail Madness disk cover by Neelix, 1997 [metadata]
• New York Tokyo disk cover by Pixelpunk, 2002 [metadata]
• Padua disk cover by Zapotek, 1998 [metadata]
• Relax Magazine disk cover by Zapotek, 1998 [metadata]
• Resource disk cover by Splash, 1997 [metadata]
• Rock ‘n Role disk cover by Kirk, 1990s [metadata]
• ROLE disk cover by Almighty God, 1998 [metadata]
• ROLE disk cover by Aza, 1998 [metadata]
• Stiff disk cover by Serio, 1997 [metadata]
• The Factory disk cover by Micro, 1997 [metadata]
• The Fist And The Brain disk cover by Lizart, 1997 [metadata]
• Tiger-Disk disk cover by Brainsmasher, 1999 [metadata]
• Tiger-Disk disk cover by DonAlt, 1990s [metadata]
• Tiron disk cover by Skopi, 1995 [metadata]
• Trip 2 Nowhere disk cover by Sundance, 1998 [metadata]
• Ultimat(iv)e Stains disk cover, 1998 [metadata]
• Vandalism News disk cover by Serio, 1998 [metadata]
• Vitality #4 disk cover by Dr. Soft, 1994 [metadata]
• Vitality #6 disk cover by Dr. Soft, 1995 [metadata]
• Xenoglossy disk cover by Taxim, 1999 [metadata]
• Xenoglossy disk cover by Wednesday, 1999 [metadata]
• Zapotek disk cover by Debris, 1995 [metadata]

C64 Covers as Naïve Art

When I visited C64 scener Goat/Laxity to pick up his C64 disk covers collection for scanning, there was one pile that he didn’t want to pass on at first. “Why one would want to preserve such primitive disk covers?”, he objected. Still, I took the covers with me, and here they are. While there had been some amazingly skillful disk covers in the previous updates, the ones presented today are admittedly not on par with them. Nevertheless, they are important to get a picture of the C64 scene beyond its “elite”. For every top swapper with loads of contacts and “0-day stuff”, there were hundreds of kids swapping with a few contacts only, dabbling in PD software and old cracks, and yet seeing themselves as part of the same scene community as the “elite”. Obviously, they wanted to have their own disk covers, like the “big ones”. Sometimes, these covers are the only product they left behind. Their somewhat clumsy designs do not need to be judged on terms of “lack of skills” – these covers can be seen as examples of naïve art, compensating the lack of adherence to any aesthetic rules with a lively will for self-expression. In fact, some of these coves look surprisingly up-to-date, and could just as well be a product of post-modern hipster aesthetics.

• Accept disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata]
• Two Acme disk covers by Hanni, 1995 [metadata1] [metadata2]
• Creatures disk cover by Franco, 1992 [metadata]
• Crossdome disk cover by Madrom, 1995 [metadata]
• Digital Art disk cover by Xonix, 1994 [metadata]
• Dinomania disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata]
• Disk cover by JJ, 1996 [metadata]
• Error 2000 disk cover by S.U.C.K., 1996 [metadata]
• Logiker disk cover by Logiker, 1993 [metadata]
• Nasti Boy disk cover by Nasti Boy, 1994 [metadata]
• Plutonium disk cover by Greenhorn, 1993 [metadata]
• Reiners Public Domain disk cover, 1994 [metadata]
• Secret Lab Productions disk cover by Cosmo, 1990s [metadata]
• Tiger-Crew disk cover by Greenhorn, 1990s [metadata]
• Tiger-Crew disk cover by Greenhorn & Logiker, 1993 [metadata]
• Tiger-Crew disk cover by Little John, 1990s [metadata]
• Tiger-Disk #29 disk cover, 1996 [metadata]
• World D-Sign disk cover by Fan-TC, 1994 [metadata]