{"id":2573,"date":"2019-04-18T00:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:00","slug":"sca-archive-call-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"SCA Archive & Call for Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, some exciting news: We received the complete paper archive of the legendary Swiss Cracking Association<\/a>, Switzerland’s most prominent C64<\/abbr> & Amiga<\/abbr> cracking<\/abbr> group from the 1980s. Founded in 1984 by two brothers from Zurich, the group’s most (in-)famous stunt was creating and (accidentally) spreading the first Amiga virus, the “SCA Virus<\/a>“, in late 1987. At that point, however, they already were a well-established cracking and demo<\/abbr> group that put Switzerland on the international crackers<\/abbr>‘ map and maintained contacts all over the world, until one brother went on to become one of the first Swiss game developers, while the other one moved on to the world of live music. We are very excited and grateful that they handed over their archive to us, which is being scanned right now and will appear here very soon. As a small teaser, today we present one letter from a rather unusual sender – the Zurich customs office, which confiscated two floppy disks and demanded a declaration of the value of the software, not realising that it was a pirate sending, despite the “Plutonium Crackers” tag.<\/p>\n