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. 

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). 

where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Some insights into vintagecomputing and research.

A rework of the not used pico8-game for lovebyte. Added graphics and effects and sound.

My personal demo-problem: no restrictions for demo. so you could make everything. You would have to go for visual narration like the other prods in this category. 

Devs with Beer and and 
Star wars intro (influenced)
Beer as protagonist
Shop - 1:1 - Get money for buying extras?
Song “MIr sind mit dä fürwehr dooo ” (Swiss german)
Sidewings / extraweapons 
“Görpsen” 
Feldschlösschen is shooting
Shoot vs Feldschlösschen! (Feldschlösschen as Train)
Other beer brands
Visual influences of Jeff Minter
PacMan 
Vs JAck Daniels 
vs Soft Drinks
vs Apple 
vs Bourbon
vs Windows (Money)
vs Java Cups?
vs Brains? BRain is fighting against beer?
“No hero this time” - Eichhorn best
 

Homecomputer were attractive for:

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)

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.

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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. 

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. 

GameDevs are gamedeveloppers. The name tells also a lot about the idea behind. The most important thing was the technical difficulties. 

check: was this really every online?

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The shareware modell was the only that worked in those days. Because to get a publisher for mac was almost impossible.

Culture towards technology changed massively in the last 50 years. 

peer to peer enabled looking into private collections alias folders-structures and content. so you could really look into personal data, ideas, rhizomes. you find very personal stuff. the copyright debate around mp3 destroyed this possibilities in those time - as it seems forever. 

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. 

 

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]

 

In November 1981, the chips were complete. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising.

A puzzle game inspired by a puzzle game but i don't remember where and why i saw it. 
Specials: classic music. some users were irritated.  

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.

@la1n/imp89 @Shana @dipswitch Sorry, I only just now noticed about this intense discussion going on. Shana has put it 100% correct already. The name eventually was given to the event by Furball/Fake That back in 1996 for Bünzli#1 (taking place near Bern). Was changed to 'Buenzli' (no umlaut) once international visitors started to appear. This then was kind of a 'trademark' for a while. When we changed the location from Winterthur to Olten, we also rebranded the party to Demodays, a name that was a bit generic but worked without the need to explain it all the time. It also allowed for the Demonights pun afterwards. 'Demodays', however, has not really been adopted by the demoscene too much, many people just kept it calling Buenzli (or 'Buenzu' for some). This is also somewhat reflected in inconsistent naming/series ordering on Pouet and possibly Demozoo. I'm happy, Furball &the other teenage guys called the event Bünzli: Without that decision, we wouldn't have interesting discussions like this

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.

create a simple software to collect artefacts etc.

and for the machine to not look like “a pregnant calculator”

Buenzli was a demoscene party