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.
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News 3/1989 – Another Lost Cracker Mag Resurfaced
After providing us with News #7/1988, Se7en came up with one more issue of this classical German C64 cracker magazine. Issue 3/1989 (May/June) encompasses 36 pages full of news, interviews, copyparty reports and random nonsense. Amongst other things, it features a German translation of the legendary “Crackin’ Comic” by Hobbit/Fairlight.
Download the issue >>> here <<<, or have a look at the details and credits at Demozoo.
Pirates #6 – Another Papermag Resurfaced
We managed to bring back another long-lost paper magazine – issue #6 of Pirates, the Belgian C-64 crackers‘ magazine edited by F4CG. A thousand thanks go to Reset/Transcom, who found a stash of papermags and was willing to scan them and share them with us (more to come in the next weeks). This issue offers, amongst other things, a report on the Australian C-64 scene, an interview with famous game-musician Markus Schneider as a young kid, party reports from Contex Copy-Party (Finland), Crazy Copy-Party (Switzerland), Venlo Meeting, TEC Copy-Party (Australia), and a wild anti-communist rant by Hungarian C-64 groups.
Download the issue >>> here <<<.
S11 Collection – Old Amiga Flyers
Our next batch of papers comes from S11/Desire, who was so kind to scan several party invitation, flyers and magazine votesheets from his active period in the Amiga demoscene in the early 1990s. They are highly interesting artefacts of the early days of the demoscene – particularly the very detailed party invitations, which give insight on how demoparties were advertised and conducted “back in the days”.
• Amega Party 1991 invitation sheet [link]
• Defcon One & Sanity Meeting 1991 invitation sheet [link]
• Prime 1992 invitation sheet [link]
• Chit Chat diskmagazine message sheet (1993?) [link]
• Global News diskmagazine votesheet (1995) [link]
• Global News diskmagazine issue 2 promotion sheet (1995) [link]
• Nordic Report diskmagazine votesheet (1992) [link]
• Midnite Mess diskmagazine issue 1 promotion sheet (1992) [link]
As a kind of bonus, S11 also provided us with a flyer for the (in)famous PainStation arcade machine, which was spread at the Evoke 2004 demoparty where the arcade was exhibited and excessively used by the visitors: [link]
