{"id":73,"date":"2015-05-04T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2015-10-11T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:23:05","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listed here are the most crucial resources on the history of the cracking<\/abbr>– and demoscene<\/abbr> – repositories of digitised materials as well as databases on involved individuals and digital artefacts. This list is constantly growing – please feel free to get in touch<\/a> if you think anything is missing.<\/p>\n

DIGITISED MATERIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

got papers?<\/em> @ files.scene<\/abbr>.org<\/a> – Here you can browse the artefacts that are digitised in the course of this project – complete with useful metadata.<\/p>\n

Scene Letters<\/a> – Over 1500 scanned letters written by sceners<\/abbr> while mailswapping – from the collection of Australian ex-swapper<\/abbr> The Heavyweight\/Affinity.<\/p>\n

mags.c64.org<\/a> – Our partner site, run by Jazzcat\/Onslaught, featuring the probably most complete collection of C64<\/abbr> magazines, including many on paper.<\/p>\n

Paper releases @ demozoo.org<\/a> – Paper releases (flyers, magazines etc.) at our partner site Demozoo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Retro Commodore<\/a> – A site offering a large selection of high quality scans of magazines and other materials related to Commodore computers, also featuring a small section of scene-related stuff.<\/p>\n

Computer Magazine Archives @ archive.org<\/a> – A large collection of scanned computer magazines from the early days of home computing.<\/p>\n

World of Spectrum<\/a> – Features a vast archive of ZX Spectrum<\/abbr>-related magazines and game adverts.<\/p>\n

The Finnish demoscene badge collection<\/a> – Scans of badges from the Finnish demoscene, assembled by the group Byterapers.<\/p>\n

Byterapers’ Historical Photo Archive <\/a>– Photos from old Scandinavian copy- and demoparties<\/abbr>, assembled and scanned by Byterapers.<\/p>\n

Cpcrulez.fr Fanzines Papier <\/a>– Large collection of (mostly French) scanned fanzines\/scene-mags\/usermags from the Amstrad CPC platform.<\/p>\n

World of Jani – C64 Disk Covers<\/a> – C64 disk cover collection of Swedish blogger Jani.<\/p>\n

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SCENE DATABASES & ARCHIVES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Demozoo<\/a> – Our partner site – a new demoscene database featuring entries on individuals, releases and events.<\/p>\n

Scene.org<\/a> – The largest demoscene archive, covering over 25 years of scene history. Hosting the got papers? <\/em>files.<\/p>\n

Pouet.net<\/a> – The lively demoscene database and forum, a heartpiece of contemporary demoscene discussions.<\/p>\n

Commodore Scene Database (CSDb)<\/a> – The most comprehensive database of scene releases and activities on the Commodore 64 – from the very early days until today.<\/p>\n

Scrolltexts.com – The Blogs of the 80’s<\/a> – A fulltext-searchable database of scrolltexts extracted from over 90,000 Commodore C64 releases.<\/p>\n

Amigascne.org<\/a> – FTP server hosting the most comprehensive collection of Amiga<\/abbr> scene releases, including a collection of extracted scrolltexts.<\/p>\n

Demotopia \/ Zxdemo.org<\/a> – Database of ZX Spectrum scene activities and releases.<\/p>\n

SpeccyWiki<\/a> – Comprehensive encyclopedia of individuals and groups active in the ZX Spectrum scene (in Russian).<\/p>\n

Break’s Amiga Demo Scene Collection<\/a> – Database built by Finnish demoscene veteran Break.<\/p>\n

Kestra Bitworld<\/a> – Comprehensive database on releases and people active in the Amiga cracking- and demoscene.<\/p>\n

Icebird Acorn Demo Archive<\/a> – Archive of demoscene productions released on the Acorn platform.<\/p>\n

Game Boy Demospotting<\/a> – Database of demoscene productions released on the Game Boy handheld console platform and its follow-up models.<\/p>\n

CPC Crackers<\/a> – Resource on crackers<\/abbr> active on the Amstrad CPC platform.<\/p>\n

Slengpung<\/a> – Photo site of demoscene events, going from the late 1980s until today.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Demoscene Research Blog<\/a> – Blog run by scene researchers Markku Reunanen, Antti Silvast, and Gleb J. Albert. Here you can find out about the latest books and papers published on the crack- and demoscene-related subjects, a list of former and current researchers working on the topic, and a comprehensive bibliography of scene-related publications in several languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listed here are the most crucial resources on the history of the cracking<\/abbr>– and demoscene<\/abbr> – repositories of digitised materials as well as databases on involved individuals and digital artefacts. This list is constantly growing – please feel free to get in touch if you think anything is missing. DIGITISED MATERIALS got papers? @ files.scene<\/abbr>.org […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}