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https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=268
The arcade was a place to play games, meeting point. In the german part of switzerland there were almost only males (you could also gambel). They were dark in the most of cases.
In the ‘westschweiz’ there were a lot more women in also in the arcades and younger people (for example in Lausanne). 
In the arcades there were always different types of arcades (older and the latest), than ‘table football’, flippers and so on. 
Fantasy Consoles
2022-05-25 23:45:26
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=650
Consoles inspired by old consoles but 100% new. They are somehow like the dream of this days. All dev. thing in one tool (graphics, sound, tiles, coding, levelediting)
Cartridge
2022-07-16 23:41:50
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4700
Cartridges were used in Consoles (Fairlight, Saba).
Cartridges were also used by Computers like MSX, Atari 400 etc.
Console-Computer-Hybrids
2022-07-17 00:07:50
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4778
Console or Computer? 
Could be both:
- Consoles with Keyboards
- Computers with Cartdriges
Atari
2023-05-08 11:05:46
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8877
Atari was first a company for arcades and than splitted to Arcade and Consoles/Computers. 
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2022-11-22 15:55:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1025
Homecomputer were attractive for:
  1. as Computers create staff
  2. as Consoles
  3. you could pirating easily software games included
  4. the 16-bit consoles had mouses and guis. easier to use.
Therefore a lot of console wanted to make out of the console a computer (like intellivision). And a lot of users also thinks that the videogame crash was also because a lot moved away from consoles to computers. 
The other possibility were Personal Computers. The ‘Homecomputer’ was more. It was not only a working station. Personal Computers were mostly monochrome (PC: CGA, EGA)
Fantasy-Computers
2022-04-17 22:36:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=638
Fantasy computers are computer that are ‘inspired’ by real computers. Means their name sound like ZX81 > Tic80 but of course they are fast, programmable with lua and in the most of the cases have all integrated: spriteeditor, tile/background-editor, soundeffects editor and music editor. So they are really the dream of an 8bit-coder* with assembler, low memory, low graphics, no tools. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7881
 
  • most games - you play not act 
  • qix no
  • pac man - somehow but too hard
  • moon lander? no really
  • asteroids no
  • galaxy - some visual aspect - mukokuseki
  • missile command no 
  • atari 2600 porno games no
  • klax arcade - chain
  • frogger
  • most shootenup (space invader - war visuals) 
  • lemmings? dark behind the nice graphics
  • battle chess - reanalog - brutal
  • demoscene? biggest part - yes
  •  
Bootsector
2022-07-11 14:26:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1457
The bootsector allowed an automatic startup (vs tapes) of games like in consoles with cartridges (of course a lot of games came also out as cartridge for computers). Put it in and switch on computer and play. Of course the bootsectorviruses were a sideeffect of this innovation. 
Tracker
2023-05-07 09:21:37
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1856
Tracker were software - used especially on the Amiga. The most of the music was created in this type of music software. And the people behind the swiss games of the 80ies/90ies even created a tracker and the possibility to use the same framework also in games. 
Homecomputer dilemma
2023-03-27 20:48:56
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7863
Only the consoles survived in the memory of the world  and not the homecomputers. 
Mobiles Kino (Basel)
2022-07-04 16:47:56
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=250
A lot of works in the area of electromechanic/optic calculation in games.
Vintage Gaming
2023-06-11 09:07:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=113
Of course in games and amusement arcades there is a lot of computing (calculating points, statemachines and co). All started with organs (punch strips) and electromechanical ‘games’ like pinballs. 
Pinballs & Computing
2022-05-27 18:48:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=260
Pinballs are really computing hells. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=276
Where people met, talked about computers, learnt about computers. Played games, designed games.
Yes also pirate software and games was part of this world. 
Grotic
2022-07-01 08:46:45
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1162
Is a clone of the arcade puzzle bobble with other graphics. In development the problem was the hexagonelogic. Another was a not initialized Rectangle, who crashed on some macs and on other not. 
Specials:
- there was even a cracked version out there
- the serial of the game was in the serial number collection
- sold for 15$ > made around 3000 sFR with it. 
Years later a guy in the bus asked me: Are you the guy behind imp89, grotic and co?
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=566
Vintage, Retro. It is a quite complex situation.
  • We have people, who worked (appropriation) in those days >1960 with Computers 
  • We have people, who are working today with old hard-, software and games (Shared memories). 
  • We have people, who work today with old hard-, software and games from scratch (emulation included).
  • We have people, who create today with old hardware new software and games. 
  • We have people, who create today hard-, software, pictures, films and games in the style of yesterday.
  • We have people, who are working with fantasy computers & consoles today. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4200
The topics vintage computing and vintage gaming are of course intertwined. 
First gaming is a part of the whole digitalisation. But before computer were in every household the consoles were there. The first funny digitalisation and alternative to the non existing tv-program (share the screen). And then the homecomputer in the private areas came ‘home’.  So games became again software in the area of computing. 
And so on … 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9033
  • Unclear why to import Consoles/Cartdriges > Business
  • Good to repair - Nintendo
  • Import from Germany
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3131
  • war heli? eher nein - simulation
  • insanity fight - eher sinulation
  • …
  • traps and treasures? 
  • einfluss über japnische spiele - roman werner > arcade, consoles, pc-engine
Terra Cresta
2022-06-06 10:32:56
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3707
We started working on Exitor right after we get our first Amigas. It was supposed to be a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up heavily inspired by Nichibutsu's 1985 arcade classic Terra Cresta (テラクレスタ). Hovever, it is still in the works.
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2022-11-28 14:18:15
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5792
Depeche
Demo coder, known for cool demos and trainers.
Depeche jonied Spreadponit in 1989. He mysteriously left SP in 1990 and broke up alomst all contact. He then went over to DefJam but not very much later stopped his Amiga activity. Depeche was so fond of language games that he once bought a Langenscheid's dictionary of slang-English!
Data 
Born 1972, grown up and living in Switzerland
Todays occupation: finishing studies (comp. sci)
Work
Demos: Wooow, Scrapheap, Empire, Power!, HI5 and more
Trainers: a whole lot...
Sound: some crazy mixes
Tools: a disk copier in a bootblock, TLB-Utilitydisk, more
Hobbies
old days: being creative, being cool, speaking cool, cool places, cool clothes, cool people, arcade games, pinball machines
today: unknown.
Music
DM, Art of Noise, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Yello, LL cool J, Derek B, De la soul, ...
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6815

Is there more sparetime in those days? More fun magic circles? More individual sparetime? Compared to country side living?

About
2022-07-19 21:30:22
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=570
vintagecomputing is an open platform for people, who are interesting in the different aspects of vintagecomputing and gaming in switzerland. You can just create an account and enter data, make propositions and enter data. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=997
Games made with old technologies but not old working hardware. 
Impressions
2022-07-09 20:36:47
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1134
Some insights into vintagecomputing and research.
Floppy discs
2022-04-14 12:42:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1433
Floppy disc or magnetic disc are faster and mor flexible than tapes. you can load and store autonom (no start and stop) and not linear, you can store them here or there. but of course also expensiver (you cant anymore use a (music) tapedrive.
Tracker / Synthesizer
2022-05-21 14:03:36
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1850
It is clear, the fantasy consoles embed trackers into their software to create music. They construct the fantasy of the tools of those time. There were no trackers direct embedded in 8bit computers. Trackers really became popular as standalone programs on Amiga. 
Console or computer?
2022-07-17 00:06:59
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4800
Identity. What you wanna do.
Read-only gaming or work and game.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4809
Almost all computers could be extended by cards from apple II to c64 and co. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4815
The cartdriges were numbered. They never thought of endless cartdriges.
Capitals (Bourdieu)
2023-05-06 14:00:42
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8741
communities (as systems) have their own language, their own values (and thus also their own capitals), their own operations, their own exensions, their own decision extensions.
la1n.ch
2022-06-24 22:55:17
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1150
la1n was the direct next step from imp89. New maschines and a new platform macosx. “Therefore i learned objective-c and coded real object orientated” and switched now to 3d games with opengl. The games were now more an more like gameengines and were object-orientated. But still hardcore coded. This change with the upcoming game engine like torque or unity. 
Therefore the last games from la1n.ch till now were again hardcore coded games like axe (atari 2600 vcs), vecZ (vectrex 2016). 
ishizume - freeware
2022-04-13 10:52:32
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1188
the game is a clone of klax (arcade atari games) - an action puzzler also called the ‘tetris of the 90ies’. again all in 3d. webhighscore. specials: a mode for children and a mode for color blinds. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2250
a) because the demonstration guys/girls are in the arcade
b) it is anti-statement for male-culture?
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2260
Because there was never someone in and they still existed over years. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3161
The difference between Homecomputer and Businessmaschines was clear for the homecomputer users. Homecomputers were cheap, colorful, had sound, modern (GUI) and you could play with them. So they were designed for ‘fun’. And they came all in one - as one consumer product. So it was ‘identity’. Clear that the Amiga was first designed as an Console. On the hardware side the homecomputers didn't use the ugly intels like almost no Arcade-Console-Maschine did. The question here why? Perhaps because the most of the Software had to be coded in Assembler? 
One of the big question was: Is the Macintosh a Homecomputer? One answer it was to expensive for beeing a homecomputer. Perhaps the homecomputers were the cheap versions of the macintoshs. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1138
First developing on Atari ST (Assembler) but never published something except a demo for a bbs 1993 (First founded by two brothers). First not released ‘product’. A listing game for Happy Computer. 
Than switched to Macintosh (1995 ). Games in C . And than published over the net (website) or in Maganzines Disc-Magazines as Shareware. Paid first with checkes (almost impossible to get the money for 15$ games), so switched to real money and than to KAGI.com a first worldwide payment service.
Inbetween the author worked produced Flash-Games for advertising and ported a lot of games for Java (Applets) 1996 . 
Afterwards switched to Objective-C on MacOSX with a new name: la1n.ch. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2059
there are two aspects came together in the universal computer. 
1. computing (sorting)
2. control (cases, if then, input)
before this were seperated functions in analoge maschines.
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