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Pinballs & Computing
2022-05-27 18:48:48
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Pinballs are really computing hells. 
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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. 
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A Summary of Narrative Elements and Structures in Pinball Machines David Krummenacher | 177
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2022-11-28 14:03:03
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Spreadpoint is an Amiga demo group, formed in 1986 by Marvin and (D-)Mike.
Amicom and Depeche joined the group in 1989. Swapper advert in Cracker Journal 16 (october 1989), listing an address in Bad Aibling, Germany.
They were coarrangers of the CeBit 1990 demoparty in march. Depeche left the group sometime this year.
With the march 1991 release Innovation Part Two, Psy announced he was rejoining Spreadpoint from Axxis. Grmblwrz (december 1991) mentioned, "We also welcome our new American members - Paninaro and Micro".
The october 1992 cracktro for Pinball Fantasies welcomed Ice Tea and The French Dewd to the group.
Upstream 1 (january 1993) reported that Cocaine joined Addonic from Spreadpoint & Amiga Industries along with his bbs Moria.
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2022-11-28 14:18:15
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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!
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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, ...
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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
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Intelligentes Flippern mit Deep Neural Networks 
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Herb und Markus haben beide schon zu Schulzeiten ihre Passion für die faszinierende Welt der Flipperautomaten entdeckt; ein nicht unwesentlicher Teil des Sackgeldes ist damals im Münzschlund der ratternden und klatternden Geräte gelandet.
Die legendäre Spielhalle Frosch und viele andere Spielhallen im Niederdorf wurden damals zum beliebten freizeitlichen Aufenthaltsort einer ganzen Generation.Nach der Blütezeit der Flipperautomaten Ende der 70er Jahre ging es langsam mit der Industrie abwärts; die schnellwachsende Konkurrenz durch immer raffiniertere Videoautomaten machte den Flipperproduzenten zu schaffen.

 

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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.