{"id":1551,"date":"2016-06-15T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:12","slug":"commodore-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Commodore Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the mid-1990s, the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> market was basically dead, yet there were enough enthusiastic users left who were coding demos and software, and were interested in exchange. With all big commercial magazine being defunct, some of these enthusiasts tried to set up their own C64 periodicals &#8211; like <em>Eagleware International<\/em> from the Netherlands, a small C64 PD company. Their photocopied paper magazine, <em>Commodore Tribune<\/em>, sold for 10 guilders and featured the latest news on the shrinking C64 software market as well as about the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='global community of realtime graphics programmers and computer artists, born out of the cracking scene'>demoscene<\/abbr> on the beloved hardware platform, alongside with a cover disk. Very little is known about the magazine which left almost no traces on the internet. Thanks to <strong>Goat<\/strong> (who also rescued the coverdisks and uploaded them to CSDb), we are able to present you with scans of the first (and only?) two issues from late 1996 and early 1997. The first issue features, among other things, a report on the C64 <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for the cracking scene and the demoscene'>scene<\/abbr> in Yugoslavia!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Commodore Tribune #1 (November\/December 1996) | [<a href=\"https:\/\/files.scene.org\/view\/resources\/gotpapers\/magazines\/commodore_tribune_1_1996.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scan\/metadata<\/a>] | [<a href=\"http:\/\/csdb.dk\/release\/?id=148839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover disk<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Commodore Tribune #2 (January\/February 1997) | [<a href=\"https:\/\/files.scene.org\/view\/resources\/gotpapers\/magazines\/commodore_tribune_2_1997.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scan\/metadata<\/a>] | [<a href=\"http:\/\/csdb.dk\/release\/?id=148840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover disk<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1990s, the <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> market was basically dead, yet there were enough enthusiastic users left who were coding demos and software, and were interested in exchange. With all big commercial magazine being defunct, some of these enthusiasts tried to set up their own C64 periodicals &#8211; like Eagleware International from the Netherlands, a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-additions","tag-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}