{"id":2525,"date":"2019-01-30T23:08:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","slug":"swappers-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"Swapper&#8217;s Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for the cracking scene and the demoscene'>scene<\/abbr> trade &#8211; coders, graphics artists, musicians &#8211; has its tools. Usually, we think about digital tools in this context. Today, however, we present you some physical tools &#8211; the tools of a 1980s <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='member of a scene group whose job was to spread the group&#039;s releases by post'>swapper<\/abbr>. <strong>Skylab &amp; General Zoff<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/csdb.dk\/group\/?id=2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Movers<\/a> provided us with a bunch of original objects that were crucial to maintain software circulation via floppy disk and &#8220;snailmail&#8221; &#8211; envelopes, express mail stickers, a disk hole puncher, customs forms, and many more. Click on the photo below for detailed descriptions, or go to <a href=\"https:\/\/files.scene.org\/view\/resources\/gotpapers\/other\/the_movers_workplace_198x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our archive<\/a> to download a high resolution image. Thanks go to Esther Laurencikov\u00e1 for the photo, and to Spot\/Up Rough for fixing the captions.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-2523 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-2523 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox-free fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-round-full fg-shadow-small fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-2523\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:false},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the_movers_workplace_198x.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2524\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2019\/01\/the_movers_workplace_198x\/2930060073.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='self-referring term for the cracking scene and the demoscene'>scene<\/abbr> trade &#8211; coders, graphics artists, musicians &#8211; has its tools. Usually, we think about digital tools in this context. Today, however, we present you some physical tools &#8211; the tools of a 1980s <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Commodore 64, the most popular 8-bit home computer, produced between 1982 and 1994'>C64<\/abbr> <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='member of a scene group whose job was to spread the group&#039;s releases by post'>swapper<\/abbr>. Skylab &amp; General Zoff of The Movers provided us with a bunch of original objects that were crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,18],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-additions","tag-envelopes","tag-stickers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}