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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. 
Market WAR
2023-03-20 16:48:40
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7642
The Tandy Color Computer was the runner up. The Apple II was the winner in the category of home computer over $500, which was the category the Commodore 64 was in when it was first released at the price of $595.
n the United States, the greatest competitors were the Atari 8-bit 400, the Atari 800, and the Apple II. The Atari 400 and 800 had been designed to accommodate previously stringent FCC emissions requirements and so were expensive to manufacture. Though similar in specifications, the C64 and Apple II represented differing design philosophies; as an open architecture system, upgrade capability for the Apple II was granted by internal expansion slots, whereas the C64's comparatively closed architecture had only a single external ROM cartridge port for bus expansion.
Aggressive pricing of the C64 is considered to have been a major catalyst in the video game crash of 1983.
The price war with Texas Instruments was seen as a personal battle for Commodore president Jack Tramiel.[25] Commodore dropped the C64's list price by $200 within two months of its release.[6] I
Meanwhile, TI lost money by selling the TI-99/4A for $99.[26] TI's subsequent demise in the home computer industry in October 1983 was seen as revenge for TI's tactics in the electronic calculator market in the mid-1970s, when Commodore was almost bankrupted by TI.[27]
Although many early C64 games were inferior Atari 8-bit ports, by late 1983, the growing installed base caused developers to create new software with better graphics and sound.[34]
 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7951
Computers realize the idea of magic behind the world. There are magic languages that make everything possible, the programming languages. In them, slaves can be controlled with spells. In them, for example, things can transform, things are created by words or are destroyed by words. 
 
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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)
vecZ (Vectrex)
2022-06-25 01:20:29
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=738
at the end the vectors won. everything is now vector based in games (as an opengl or directx scene .-) more about this in the simple demo sinZ on pouet last year. therefore step back, step into the beginning 80ies with assembler and the vector console vectrex. and of course vecZ is a shootemup the most complicated (timing, a lot of action etc.) thing in those times.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5148
combined boardgame room front (a lot of boardgames) and museum in the back. several introduction into the topic from board games up to flipper history up to computer history. almost everything ist playable. 
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. 
Alexander Hahn
2022-07-08 11:09:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1609
electronic media artist
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8188

 

It is a sad fact that the 6502 used in the Commodore64 and other home computers of the 80s is widely believed to have a poor code density when it comes to compiled or wider than eight bit code. The C standard requires computations to be made with ints which work best if they have the same size as a pointer.
The 6502 also has a very small stack of 256 bytes which cannot be easily addressed and thus cannot be used for local variables. Therefore a second stack for variables has to be maintained, resulting in costly indexing operations. The 6502 is also pretty poor when it comes to indexed operations, it has no index with constant offset addressing mode, and requires the y register to be used for indexing.
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
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=568
Let's bring together the memories and artefacts from those times. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4280
where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.
Motorola 68000
2023-03-17 10:37:06
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=503
Base for a lot of computers (GUI, Mac, Atari, Amiga, Next  etc) arcades and Arcades! Expensive but with a fantastic assembler-language. 
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. 
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)
homecomputer 16-bit
2022-07-07 15:44:34
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1543
this computers came with an operating system, gui-based and mouse. basic was a prg to use (not anymore line based). there were some new styles of basics coming up like gfa-basic, omikron-basic (atari st). 
and the most games were coded in assembler (68000 was a god processor for assembler). so you had to buy assembler, which was not included. 
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.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4809
Almost all computers could be extended by cards from apple II to c64 and co. 
Swiss Game Design
2022-06-25 19:17:32
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=85
The swiss gamedesign was influenced and even founded by the cracker scene coming from the C64 to Amiga and the other tree was the Atari ST. Around 25 own Games and Ports were created and published from 1985-1997. There was even an own publisher Linel. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7638
With support for multicolor sprites and a custom chip for waveform generation, the C64 could create superior visuals and audio compared to systems without such custom hardware.
The C64 dominated the low-end computer market (except in the UK and Japan, lasting only about six months in Japan[7]) for most of the later years of the 1980s.[8] For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had between 30% and 40% share of the US market and two million units sold per year,
In the UK market, the C64 faced competition from the BBC Micro, the ZX Spectrum, and later the Amstrad CPC 464.[11] but the C64 was still the second most popular computer in the UK after the ZX Spectrum.[12] The Commodore 64 failed to make any impact in Japan. The Japanese market was dominated by Japanese computers, such as the NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, Fujitsu FM-7, and MSX.[13]
Part of the Commodore 64's success was its sale in regular retail stores instead of only electronics or computer hobbyist specialty stores.
One computer gaming executive stated that the Nintendo Entertainment System's enormous popularity – seven million sold in 1988, almost as many as the number of C64s sold in its first five years – had stopped the C64's growth. Trip Hawkins reinforced that sentiment, stating that Nintendo was "the last hurrah of the 8-bit world".[57]
 
 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5474
Den Crackern ging es selbstverständlich auch darum, bekannt zu werden. Sie versuchten symbolisches Kapital anzuhäufen. Man kann ihre Motivation und ihre Aneignungsweise durchaus mit derjenigen der Graffiti-Sprayer jener Jahre vergleichen, die mittels “taggen” ihres Künstler- und Gruppen Namens auf leeren Flächen der Stadt versuchten, Aufmerksamkeit zu erreichen – zum Beispiel GEN im Zürich der 80er Jahre. Getting Fame oder Getting Up war die Losung.
Abbildung 13: GEN gehörte zur ersten Generation der Sprayer in Zürich, die ihren Künstlernamen überall in der Stadt verbreiteten und dafür simple Tags und nach und nach immer komplexere Formen nach dem Vorbild der New Yorker Subway Graffiti nutzten. GEN, auch Gen Atem (aka Genius), hatte sich schon 1984 mit der New York City Graffiti Legende Phase Two getroffen, in der Casablanca Galerie in Zürich. Die beiden Bilder wurden 1986 in Zürich Oerlikon aufgenommen. Fotos: Beat Suter.
Aus den anfänglichen kurzen Bemerkungen als Text wurden immer komplexere eigenständige Vorspänne – die sogenannten Intros. Hier zeigten die Crackers mit der Message ihres Namens, die nicht zuletzt als Botschaften an die Adresse anderer Cracker Gruppen dienten, ihr Ganzes Können. Dabei versuchten sie alles aus diesen Computern herauszuholen. Diese Intros waren eine Art Graffiti auf den blanken Oberflächen der Games jener Zeit. Die Intros unterstanden nicht den Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Game Designs. Die Spielmechaniken spielten keine Rolle und mussten nicht verändert werden. Es ging lediglich um die Titel- und Credit Sequenzen der Spiele. Es ging um einen visuellen Auftritt, der auffallen sollte. Die Intros mussten gut aussehen und einen Wow-Effekt haben. Mit dem Einbezug von Musik und Animation wurde es aber bald auch wichtig, spezielleres Wissen zu erarbeiten. Die Cracker Gruppen begannen Arbeitsteilung einzuführen mit Programmierern, Grafikern und Musikern.
Aus diesen Intros, die in bestehende Spiele eingefügt wurden, entstand später eine ganz eigene Szene, die Demoszene. Und so kommt es, dass sich im Umfeld der meisten Schweizer Cracker und frühen Game Devs auch immer Demos finden. Diese Szene ist noch immer aktiv und dokumentiert sich bis heute selbst. Man findet fast alles aus den letzten 40 Jahren auf der Website POUET (2000) sowie in spezialisierten Datenbanken. Einige der Entwickler updaten ihre virtuellen Echtzeit Welten bis heute aber auch direkt selbst.
Abbildung 14: Cracks und Demos aus den Jahren 1983 – 1988 werden archiviert und öffentlich zugänglich gemacht über die Website der Swiss Cracking Association SCA (2018).Abbildung 15: Aus dem Repertoire des Crackers Hcc: Solomon’s Key Cracktro, Atari ST (1987).
 
History of WOG
2022-07-04 18:11:17
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4354
1994 kam nicht nur die PlayStation in Japan auf den Markt, auch World of Games wurde am 1. August 1994 von Michael Wyler und Thomas von Arx in der Wohnung der Mutter von Michael und Christian Wyler gegründet. Somit nahm eine Erfolgsgeschichte ihren Anfang... 
Damals steckte die gesamte Spielebranche in der Schweiz buchstäblich noch in den Kinderschuhen. So hatten auch die Produkte noch den Ruf von "Kinderspielzeug" und wurden nur von Gamern, Nerds und Kindern wahrgenommen. Dennoch nahmen sich Michael Wyler und Thomas von Arx der Herausforderung an, ihr Hobby zum Beruf zu machen. Eine Menge Arbeit stand an und liess die lieb gewonnene Freizeitbeschäftigung entsprechend in den Hintergrund rücken. Der Versand von Videospielen musste mit wenig Manpower gegründet und bekannt gemacht werden.
In den folgenden Jahren wuchs die gesamte Industrie und World of Games profitierte entsprechend davon. Geschickt passte sich das Team den Gegebenheiten perfekt an. So war 1997 der Entscheid, nicht nur ein Ladenlokal zu eröffnen, sondern auch das Internetportal wog.ch zu etablieren, sicher der richtige. Von diesem Zeitpunkt an konnte sich die immer grösser werdende, treue Kundschaft Video-, Brett- und Kartenspiele sowie ersten DVDs bequem von zu Hause aus bestellen, die bereits am nächsten Tag per Post geliefert wurden. 
Zum neuen Jahrtausend kam eine neue Konsolengeneration auf den Markt. Dies war auch der Zeitpunkt zu dem Claudia und Christian Wyler zum WoG-Team stiessen. Der Siegeszug des Mediums war nicht mehr aufzuhalten. Die erfolgreiche PlayStation 2 war vermutlich auch nicht ganz unschuldig, dass die DVD, die von Sony geschickt in die Konsole integriert wurde, der die in Jahre gekommen VHS-Kassette den endgültigen Todesstoss versetzte. 
Die immer grösseren Budgets der Entwickler wirkten sich zusätzlich positiv auf die Spielindustrie aus und liessen Spiele entstehen, die sich immer mehr mit teuren Hollywood-Blockbustern messen konnten. Spiele wurden erwachsen und mit ihnen auch die Spieler. World of Games überstand ebenfalls die Pubertät.
Dank einerseits Mund-zu-Mund-Propaganda, andererseits dem beliebten Internetportal sowie der Fachkenntnisse der Involvierten wuchs die Anzahl Mitarbeitender stetig an. Die Geschäftsräume mussten etliche Male erweitert oder gar gewechselt werden, um der wachsenden Nachfrage gerecht zu werden. Mit knapp 40 Angestellten hat WoG heute Dimensionen erreicht, von denen die beiden Gründer kaum zu träumen wagten!
Früher reichte eine kleine Ecke mit einem Tischchen zum Versenden der Ware aus. Heute stehen vier grosse Packtische bereit, um die vielen Pakete rechtzeitig versandbereit zu machen. Zu Beginn diente ein einfaches Regal als Lager. Heute kaum vorstellbar, denn WoG könnte in diesem Punkt nahezu mit einem schwedischen Möbelgiganten mithalten.
Was einst nur in Kinderzimmern zu finden war, hat den Weg in jede gute Stube gefunden. Schon längst vermögen es die Konsolen von Sony und Microsoft mehr als nur mit Games zu unterhalten. Die neueren Modelle sind inzwischen regelrechte Multimedia-Player. Internet, Blu-ray, Full-HD, Media-Player, Bewegungssteuerung, Digital- und Online-Gaming: all das steht für die Evolution der Videospielkonsolen.
WoG hat sich ebenso weiterentwickelt. Im Gleichzug mit den Konsolen wurde auch das Sortiment immer multimedialer. Zu dem erweiterten Spielwarensortiment haben sich Bücher dazugesellt. Das rund um die Uhr verfügbare Angebot von digitalen Games lässt World of Games in Zeiten von Streaming und Downloads nicht alt aussehen. 
2019 war es soweit: Das Ladengeschäft konnte ebenfalls die Strassenseite wechseln und neu in Unterentfelden auf der fünffachen Fläche Kundschaft empfangen. Auf dieser riesigen Spielwiese wurde Platz für die Neuzugänge im Sortiment geschaffen. Brettspiele, Figuren und weitere Spielwaren können ansprechend präsentiert werden. Auch Bücher, Comics und Mangas finden Raum im Laden und runden die Gestaltung optimal ab.
Die 27 Jahre vergingen wie im Flug – wir freuen uns auf viele weitere!
HIstory
2022-08-03 12:18:08
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5064

Alcatraz was formed in 1988 from the ashes of the more strangely named "Motley Crue Team", by Metalwar (Code, Music), Helix (Gfx) and PGCS (Gfx).

Metalwar was the mastermind behind most of the first productions of the group, until the time of Mega Demo 2, when new creative members like Hornet of Avengers joined Alcatraz.

After Mega Demo 3, Metalwar started to work on his dream Amiga game, codenamed "Ilyad". This shoot 'em up was eventually released in 1989 by UbiSoft. One year later, Metalwar and Helix decided to leave both the group and the scene, leaving PGCS heading the group.

MediaMemories
2022-09-08 18:34:41
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5392
Media are infact also memory libraries and of course public libraries. Of course the are also the opposite of oral history in the most of the caeses. 
Actual Demoscene
2023-02-11 14:57:40
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=119
The demoscene was first a spin-off the crackers and became an own culture with festivals, ‘jams’ and contests. Often there are old computers embeded. 
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.
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. 
mainframe
2022-04-15 10:31:58
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1553
of course mainframe computing was only possible for universities, students or big companies. creating workstation like lilith or next were a middle thing between mainframe and personal computers. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6667
Le Salon de la Micro was an expo/computer show for Atari ST and Amiga computers.
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.
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. 
All around the memory
2022-08-02 13:38:15
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5046
Memory is changing all the time. We tend to create memory as a system (perhaps because we can than save space and energy).
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5934
Hah, I might not be the best to explain Amiga history, but I’ll do my best :) Fish disks were the main way to distribute public domain, open source, shareware etc. before the internet was wide-spread. People would send Fred Fish software, and he’d compile them into individual disks that people would copy. Magazines would have lots of companies that would allow you to order copies of these disks etc. He ended up creating over a 1000 disks this way. When cd-roms became a thing, you could order the whole collection on those. Those were strange times :)
Aminet was the most famous ftp-archive for amiga software. It was run by the same guy that made Brainfuck, Urban Müller. Rather than chronologically like fish disks, it was organized by topic, with readme’s for every file. You could upload to a staging area, and he’d put them in place. Much like fish disks, companies would print cd-roms with the latest from aminet for those not hooked up to the internets (or on 56k modems, which was most people).
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3338
The long history of computing (technically) show the problems. First they tried to solve complex (math.) problems as special automates. 
Computerclubs
2022-06-30 09:42:21
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=99
Computerclubs were a very important institution. 
0. Is a place and a community in the same and also a public in the same
1. Networking people in a non internet time.
2. Bringing KnowhHow to people (Courses)
3. Showing, Selling Hardware (Internally)
4. Own public magazines
5. Part of Creating Groups/interested people
6. Only available in bigger towns 
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. 
Listing Cultures
2023-02-10 08:58:30
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=801
The listing culture is a hybrid between gutenberg galaxis and software. Software was often distributed in the mainframe time as source code ( c ). each system had a different set of hardware, processor. c and co were the platform. You could compile it for your system. 

The listing culture brought source code to the magazines and could be published. first with basic and co for homecomputers, later with checksums, than basic with assembler inlines, than only shortcodes. 
of course by typing in you could learn how to code and solve problems.
Computer buses
2022-04-28 14:03:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2306
Driving around with computers in it. Bringing the computers to the people.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4083
Very big club with 600 (?) members. There are all paying money.  A lot of people found here other persons with the same ideas and interests.
It seems that the name ist also Statement. In german spoken as KAK means shit.
Technorama
2022-07-01 10:44:10
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4170
Before becoming a sparkling thing, technorama was a technic based exhibtion with experiments. And they had an exhibition with computers! 
Grouping
2022-07-02 08:49:18
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4212
How people connect each other. Which places were important and why? Which media was important and why? Most of this places (Clubs, Supermarkets,  Arcades/Spielsalon, Computershops).
What happened with people from the country side? 
Summary
2022-07-31 14:59:03
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5009
  • Gaming on mainframes (Mud)
  • Mainframe Games (Dev in Switzerland)
  • Dev. Swiss Software
  • Swiss Games on MS-DOS/Windows
  • Music-Production
  • Swiss Game Magazines for Computers / Games
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5812
Amicom of Spreadpoint has been interviewed by Com and Orlando of Brainstorm at the Escpape and Spreadpoint copy party on Oktober 7th. 

When did you join Spreadpoint ? 
-A month ago. 

Your task in Spreadpoint ? 
-Coder, but in Spreadpoint everybody can do what he wants to. 

For how long have you been programming on the Amiga ? 
-For 2 years. 
What computers did you work on before? 
-Spectrum, Sinclair QL. I did some graphic programming with BASIC. 

What did you program on the Amiga? 
-A 3D-Demo (Summer of 88 for TLB), various intros and copiers for cracked games, Powerutility (sold it), a level editor for a shoot'em up, AMICOM-Kickstart (Antivirus, Copier etc.) 

What are you doing at the time ? 
-I'm working on Demo, called ATOM-demo. 
What's this about ? 
-Colored, shaded, permeating(!) 3D-Objects. 

Your future projects ? 
-3D vectorgrafics, 3D editor (ev. sell it), copier with multitasking capility, various utilities. 

What hardware do you have ? 
-An Amiga 1000  (1.5Mb, Harddisk 20 Mega SCSI), And an Amiga 2000 (A2620 Unix card, 68020 processor, 68881 math. coprocessor, 68851 Memory Management Unit, harddisk 80 MB SCSI, Modem 2400 Baud) 
Tell us something about your Master Seka. 
-It's based on the Seka V3.0 by Kefrens/Promax. It has been reassembled  and revised by my collegue Buddha. 
The main advantages are: 
Better editor commands, a finally working optimize function, auto runback, the workspace can be changed without exitting the Seka. 

Is there anything you want to advise to Amiga coders ? 
-Unfortunetly, there are more and more good programs, recently, which run only on one special Amiga. So I advise to try out the programs on different Amigas and to avoid unproper coding (absolute addresses, selfmodifing code, DBF-waiting-loops running to fast on the 68020.) 
And I hate programs, which you only can exit by a reset! 

Thank you for your answers. 

     Translated by The Acc{sed/BRS
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5966
Areas like the demoscene or electronic games existed only rudimentarily as analog systems (pinball etc) In this sense they were new and updated the system.
Other areas changed or replaced existing areas: 
- Data collection and analysis (punch cards, etc.)
- word processing

> From media running on humans to media running on computers
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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2022-04-14 14:10:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1463
1972: Demo Unix
> Science Fiction: When Harlie Was One  - "Computervirus" 

1975 Schockwellenreiter (Roman)
1979 AI im Netz (The Adolescence of P-1 Roman)
1980 Vergleich Bio - Computerprogramme
1983 AppleII Programm verbreitet sich > Elk Koner

Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
1984
1984 Theorie und Praxis > erster Demovirus
1986 erste Infektionen
1986 MS-DOS: Indien (free copy) >  Raubkopien > Virus dazu > Bindung an die eigene Software ... > effekt: umbenennung
1987 erster Mac Virus.,
1987 erste Amiga  Virus - SCA
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2022-05-12 09:21:42
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2576
 
Amiga games database with information about every Amiga game ever released!
 
 
The Mega-Mighty Swiss Cracking Association is the leading Swiss C=64 and Amiga group. SCA was founded in 1983.
 
 
 
 
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Viele Blogs und Magazine haben zudem angefangen die alten Spiele wieder zu besprechen und hervorzuholen. Damit wurde natürlich auch ein Teil ihrer Kundschaft (die Spielercommunity ist ja mitälter geworden) zu bedienen. Als eines der letzten Phänomene kamen auch die Let’s plays alter Spiele hinzu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxPW1_7ZVc “The jumps are almost pixelperfect”. Grosskonzerne wie Nintendo haben auch angefangen ihre damaligen Spiele nicht nur als neue Hardware aufzulegen sondern sie zu aktualisieren und so kommen nun neu Versionen von Zelda heraus, die sich an die damaligen Ideen anlehnen. In der letzten Welle findet nun eine zunehmende Wiedereingliederung der damaligen Entwickler, sowie der Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung statt. Immer mehr werden die Spiele auch aufgenommen in die Spielgeschichte verschiedener Universitäten und sind teilweise Prüfungsstoff geworden (ZHAW .-) Je länger die Zeit der Homecomputerspiele zurückliegt, umso mehr muss heute auch erklärt werden. Als Beispiel das Interview mit Roman Werner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ZPb1lQHes 2019
 
 
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// ich habe diesen text nur geschrieben, um ein bisschen rauszuarbeiten, was alles für themen da drin liegen
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das letzte ist natürlich unsere studie .-)
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  • don't write specs. Users should consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all and take what they get.
  • don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
  • don't write application programs, they pro- gram right down on the bare metal. Application programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming.
  • don't eat quiche. Real programmers don't even know how to spell quiche. They eat Twinkies, Coke and palate-scorching Szechwan food.
  • don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much it did for them.
  • don't read manuals. Reliance on a reference is a hallmark of the novice and the coward.
  • programs never work right the first time. But if you throw them on the machine they can be patched into working in only a few 30-hours debugging sessions.
  • don't use Fortran. Fortran is for wimpy engineers who wear white socks, pipe stress freaks, and crystallography weenies. They get excited over finite state analysis and nuclear reactor simulation.
  • don't use COBOL. COBOL is for wimpy application programmers.
  • never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
  • don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC, after the age of 12.
  • don't document. Documentation is for simps who can't read the listings or the object deck.
  • don't write in Pascal, or Bliss, or Ada, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories.
  • know better than the users what they need.
  • think structured programming is a communist plot.
  • don't use schedules. Schedules are for manager's toadies. Real programmers like to keep their manager in suspense.
  • think better when playing adventure.
  • don't use PL/I. PL/I is for insecure momma's boys who can't choose between COBOL and Fortran.
  • don't use APL, unless the whole program can be written on one line.
  • don't use LISP. Only effeminate programmers use more parentheses than actual code.
  • disdain structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive, prematurely toilet-trained neurotics who wear neckties and carefully line up sharpened pencils on an otherwise uncluttered desk.
  • don't like the team programming concept. Unless, of course, they are the Chief Programmer.
  • have no use for managers. Managers are a necessary evil. Managers are for dealing with personnel bozos, bean counters, senior planners and other mental defectives.
  • scorn floating point arithmetic. The decimal point was invented for pansy bedwetters who are unable to 'think big.'
  • don't drive clapped-out Mavericks. They prefer BMWs, Lincolns or pick-up trucks with floor shifts. Fast motorcycles are highly regarded.
  • don't believe in schedules. Planners make up schedules. Managers 'firm up' schedules. Frightened coders strive to meet schedules. Real programmers ignore schedules.
  • like vending machine popcorn. Coders pop it in the microwave oven. Real programmers use the heat given off by the cpu. They can tell what job is running just by listening to the rate of popping.
  • know every nuance of every instruction and use them all in every real program. Puppy architects won't allow execute instructions to address another execute as the target instruction. Real programmers despise such petty restrictions.
  • don't bring brown bag lunches to work. If the vending machine sells it, they eat it. If the vending machine doesn't sell it, they don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche.
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Musée Bolo owns one of the most extensive collection of machines and objects related to information technology and its brief history.

Apple vs IBM
2022-05-22 11:09:23
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Apple of course invented the personal computer with the Apple 2. IBM a long time thought - no market and with the privatisation of the computermarket. IBM brought 1981 their Personal Computer. 1985 Apple brought (after LISA) GUI on the market. IBM lost against the Compatibles and the rest ist history. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7269
 
Es gibt eine Menge ineinandergreifender, komplexer Faktoren. Da ist zum einen die Professionalisierung dieser Disziplin. In den Anfängen haben es Frauen viel leichter, sich durchzusetzen und einen Platz in Disziplinen und Bereichen zu finden, in denen es keinen etablierten Präzedenzfall, keinen Kanon, keine Institution und keine Ausbildungsanforderungen gibt. Informatik war neu, es gab keine Handbücher, keine Institutionen, keine Berufsverbände. Man wurde Programmierer, weil man ein Händchen dafür hatte. Man war gut im Eignungstest, hat sich Schachrätsel angesehen, war gut in Mathe, war Sekretärin oder Stenografin – das war es. Und es gab einen großen Bedarf an Programmiertalenten. Als die Branche in den Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahren explodierte, war es für eine Frau relativ einfach, dort einzusteigen. Als das Programmieren von den Sechziger- bis zu den Achtzigerjahren immer mehr zu einer professionellen Disziplin wurde, kamen bestimmte Ausbildungsanforderungen hinzu, die es für Frauen in diesem Bereich schwieriger machten. Es war nicht so einfach, einen Hochschulabschluss in Informatik zu erlangen, wenn die Frauen Familie hatten
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7271
In den Anfängen haben es Frauen viel leichter, sich durchzusetzen und einen Platz in Disziplinen und Bereichen zu finden, in denen es keinen etablierten Präzedenzfall, keinen Kanon, keine Institution und keine Ausbildungsanforderungen gibt. Informatik war neu, es gab keine Handbücher, keine Institutionen, keine Berufsverbände. Man wurde Programmierer, weil man ein Händchen dafür hatte. 
Man war gut im Eignungstest, hat sich Schachrätsel angesehen, war gut in Mathe, war Sekretärin oder Stenografin – das war es. Und es gab einen großen Bedarf an Programmiertalenten. Als die Branche in den Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahren explodierte, war es für eine Frau relativ einfach, dort einzusteigen.
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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. 
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Labs
2022-04-10 20:56:17
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There are some labs that deal with vintage computers.
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The after mainframe-area (based on c and co) was driven by coding near the hardware to get more speed. espacially in games. So Assembler was important. 
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.
Archimedes 32bit RISC
2022-06-24 08:59:14
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1557
archimedes with its risc-processor was still an exception. you could code in basic games like ! virus. 
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. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2517
  • Mouse
  • GUI
  • From concept language (text, commands) to graphics > Graphical turn / iconic turn
  •  
>> homecomputers .. 
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.
Demoscene
2023-02-11 14:57:08
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6764
CODE > Graphics (Effects), Sound, SizeCoding > Effect, Synaesthesy  (Creativity Process)
Community > Concurrency > Metagame > Scene
processors
2023-03-17 10:19:05
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7445
very important also for the developers of games. it was knowhow. the ground language. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7527
What type of ‘art’-concept is used in the demoscene?
Gescomp 720 / 730 1982
2023-03-20 11:54:29
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7573
GESPAC SA was a Swiss company who designed the G-64/96 Bus in 1979. This interface bus concept provides a simple way to interface microprocessor modules with memory and peripheral modules on a parallel bus. The G-64/96 Bus uses a simple, yet modern and powerful interface scheme which allows a higher level of functionality from the single height Eurocard form factor. The low overhead of the G-64/96 Bus interface greatly eases the design of custom boards by the User. This is why, even many years after its invention, the G-64/96 Bus is still widely used in the industry. 
 
Power (Einfluss, Agency)
2023-04-04 08:41:24
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Coding gives you power.
Everybody can have its own slave (LCP)!
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It is the cathode ray. 
and it never goes up - only in the demos.

it is a technical visual thing about power and control! 
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