{"id":97,"date":"2015-05-11T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:57","slug":"c64-anti-freezer-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"C64 Anti-Freezer Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cracking<\/abbr> scene<\/abbr> was highly competetive, and “flame wars” were a common phonomenon. While most of them were fought digitally – through intros<\/abbr> and scrollers, some of them were carried out on paper as well. Groepaz<\/strong>\/Hitmen provided us with a hand-drawn, photocopied comic strip that was presumably spread at one of the legendary Venlo meetings in 1989. It poked fun at German C64<\/abbr> cracker<\/abbr> Spitfire<\/a>\/Action, who was accused of “freezing”, i.e. using a special cartridge module<\/a> to help him doing his cracks. “Freezing” was against the ethics of the scene, which expected of crackers<\/abbr> to be skilled enough to do their cracks “by hand”.<\/p>\n

Download the scan >>>here<\/a><<<.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, Groepaz also provided a scan of the June 1999 members’ newsletter of the German C64 group The Stock International<\/a>, which can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n