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Weber, A. Christian
2023-02-14 09:24:41
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1489
vs. Muscian Weber, Christian
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. 
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2022-06-30 14:59:00
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4113
Dugger was the first game to use some components of my upcoming "Game Exec" mini OS which was used in many games such as Crack, Eliminator, Leonardo, Ringside, Star Wars, Traps'n'Treasures and more.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8144
Very emblematic use of technical possibilities
War Heli (Atari ST)
2022-07-08 11:36:10
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1258
War Heli is a state of the art shoot em up game with big sprites on a computer with no hardware-scrolling! 
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. 
Puzzle-Game-Demo
2022-06-17 12:57:07
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3886
Challenge:  Solve the puzzle
Reward: Get a new Demo!
CHEAT: Use F1-F10
Demake Culture
2022-07-27 22:16:15
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=421
Demake is a ‘downsized’ game - a game developed for a ‘better platform’ (techincal) and was than recoded for an older vintage system. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9257
OLIVER Being a pixel guy – the tools were remarkable. We did not have devkit like the Katakis tools or something specified for creating game graphics. I used the editor that came with the Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit for sprites, which turned out extremely practical. The Ronny-sprite was created with an C64 editor called Mob-Profi, which provided overlayed hires and multicolour-sprites. The pictures in the intro and end sequence were pixeled in Koala Painter with a joystick, but everything else was more like hacking. I edited the charset with a font editor. The level backgrounds were tile-based maps, so a friend of mine coded one tool for combining 2×2 chars to tiles including the colour – and a second tool for assembling the levelmap like a puzzle game. As setup I had a C128 and Amiga 500 side by side. By the way – there was a TV and a monitor connected to the C128 at the same time, because of the the different video quality and I wanted to be sure that the graphics  looked right on both display types. With our modern mouse or stylus driven tools and those workflow-trimmed programs it is hard to believe that we got things done at all back in the day when we were even lacking fundamentals such as UNDO functionality. However, I have to say that you had full control over the technical specs of the graphics and as a graphic designer you started to think like a coder.
Otherwise, I hardly remember details of the project. At least for the first month, Mario and I were working alongside each other. The intro and the end sequence were finished first. Then it was very intense and determined by crunchtime, the process was sort of first-in-first-out. The progress in code was tied to incoming graphics. Markus composed the new tunes at home far away and we had some issues with the delivery. Nevertheless the whole soundtrack reached us in time and its implementation went smoothly. Still there was no free time at all. In the final weeks weeks it became a kind of competition – like, who needs the least sleep! I also remember that the editing of the levels was pretty chaotic. Three of us worked in shifts and it took much longer than planned.
Oh I almost forgot about the  communication with Virgin. That was the horror for me because I hardly spoke any English back then. David Bishop and I talked English and German mixed, which worked surprisingly well.
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). 
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2022-05-21 14:24:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3040
Game description
Starbirds is a shoot'em up game in the style of old AMIGA shooters like R-Type, Apidya, Wings of Death and many others. The game play is simple: the player controls a space ship (called the Starbird) and tries to keep alive, which is best ensured by shooting as many enemies as possible.
Starbirds features four horizontally scrolling levels, each packed with a huge amount of enemies and guarded by an extra-large boss enemy with big shields and power. The levels are constructed in a way that there are a lot of turn-off's which allow the player to take another path each time.
A special feature of Starbirds is the weapon system, which was inspired by action games like Wings of Deathand Lethal Xcess. There are two categories of weapons, primary and secondary weapons. Each category consists of 8 different types of weapons, four of each category are selected by the player before entering the first level. The player can decide at every time if the approaching enemies should be attacked using the primary or secondary weapon. By repeated pressing of the fire button the primary weapon is fired, by holding down the button the secondary weapon is fired.
The currently active weapon can be changed by collecting weapon symbols, which are left behind from exploding enemies quite often. Blue symbols represent primary weapons, red symbols secondary weapons. Every weapon has five different powers. If a symbol is collected, which represents one of the currently active weapons, then its power increases by one. Therefore it is advantageous to collect the same symbol several times in order to get a weapon with high power. On the other hand, changing a weapon reduces the power by one, therefore too many changes without intermediate power-up quickly lead to a poorly armed space ship with little chance of survival.
The Starbird space ship does not survive hits with enemies, their shots or with the background. Fortunately the player has six space ships available and he can restart the game three times in the last visited level. The game supports four levels of difficulty, which can be selected in the main screen, before entering the first level. Finally the game can even be played by two players simultaneously.
[I] doesnt exists (2021)
2023-04-12 10:29:02
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3346
interesting game in the development line of the text adventures of the 80ies and their language pattern. new possible with modern ai. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3755
GameArt like other digital media art is distinguished by a technologically induced ephemerality as well as by a decentralised and therefore difficult longterm availability. More complicating, GameArt differentiates even further and orientiates itself towards earlier lines of game culture like play in backyards, malls and high streets. There is a wide range for designing, playing, and experi- encing GameArt that expands all the way back to a mode of playful experience and action. How can this wide range and depth of themes, interactive playing time, and game mechanisms possibly be archived and made accessible?
Archiving for a society with an open end, in other words a „ludic“ society, has to be determined by an open possibility of observing artistic instruments being developed in order to expand it fur- ther or contextualize it in a new way. The suggestion is to try to build an open and playful archive that includes involved parties and works (from a „knocked down“ curbstone pixel to a player) as well as bystanders (spectators) in a comprehensive setting. While there seem to be long known instances of recipients through whom art works only have been able to unfold their meaning (in play), artists with their possible intentions and, finally, the functional systems of society like sci- ence have to be included first. These instances would only be the first traces and layers among many in an open archive. Subsequently a new „philosophy of archiving“ will be drafted that origi- nates in specific phenomenons and questions of GameArt.
These emerging levels and models describe diverse and partly disagreeing strategies of GameArt. The works span from the game as a medium of artistic discourse to the outright subver- sive criticism of a pronounced „ludic“ society. Therefore a „Mille-Plateaux“-archive is at the same time the base we are standing on and the future we are developing (as a tool).
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2022-12-19 15:00:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6156
'dropfiles', small binary or text files dropped into known locations in the BBS'
A major use of doors is for door games: computer games played on the BBS.[3] These games included strategy games such as TradeWars 2002, Food Fight!, [4] Solar Realms Elite,[5] Space Dynasty, Usurper,[6] and Barren Realms Elite.[7] There were also role-playing games (RPG), often derived from earlier email-based games. One such game was Seth Robinson's Legend of the Red Dragon,[8] and another popular dystopian RPG: Operation: Overkill,[4] another was Mutants!. BBSes often published high scores, encouraging players to beat others.[9]
InterBBS leagues allowed users of different BBSes to compete against each other in the same game. A modern version of this known as BBSlink exists allowing sysops to offer door games on their BBS which are hosted on a remote server, thereby increasing the user base of the game.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6529
Two types of tv-games:
  • in the studio
  • played in the studio
  • special interface - the tv screen as display (hugo und co)
BonYx
2022-06-06 11:46:37
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1160
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.  
Port
2022-08-02 13:41:25
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4943
A port is game that was ‘ported’ to another system. A lot of arcades were ported for example to less powerfull hardware. 
Therefore the question is: Are not all of games Demakes?
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5270
'After this period of demos, we started to work on a Point and Click adventure game, planned for PC, Playstation, and Linux called Immanis for the Cryogen label, a startup created in 1996. It was a superb project which never saw the light of the day due to questions around money and because the timing was wrong: editors and Publishers of the time didn't believe in Point and click adventures anymore.' Demoscene: The AGA years (2020:117)
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).
 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5484

 

Games waren am Anfang einfach kopierbar. Ein Kopierschutz existierte nicht. Die Games wurden dann auch kopiert, was das Zeug hielt. Die Schweiz war prädestiniert dafür, denn sie kannte kein (digitales) Copyright – die Privatkopie lässt grüssen! Damit war das Feld weit offen für alle. Berüchtigt und bekannt waren die sogenannten Kopier-Parties. Häufig waren sie ein Missbrauch der Treffen in den Computerclubs. Erst mit der Zeit entstanden komplexere Schutzmechanismen wie nicht kopierbare Anleitungen oder Disketten mit Löchern. Diese ließen sich nun nicht mehr so einfach umgehen – und so entstand eine Szene von «Crackers».
Abbildung 11: Rudolf Stramm alias Hcc prüft den Code des Spiels WAR HELI und zeigt, wie gut der Kopierschutz eingebettet wurde. So gut, dass das Spiel nicht kopiert werden konnte, in der Konsequenz aber gerade deswegen auch keine sehr grosse Verbreitung fand. Screenshot aus de SRF Doku (Schlumpf/Trinkler 1989).
Crackers dis-assemblierten den Code und hatten damit den unkommentierten Source-Code vorliegen. Nach und nach entfernten sie die Schutzmassnahmen und gaben die Software frei. Meist handelte es sich dabei um Games.
Das Cracking war für viele selbst eine Art Spiel mit einer Spielmechanik. Rudolf Stramm alias Hcc beschrieb es als ein Duell zwischen dem Entwickler und dem Cracker:
“Man misst sich mit dem, der den Schutz gemacht hat. Es ist im Prinzip ein Wettkampf. Darum strahlt es einen gewissen Reiz aus. Es ist eine Sucht”.
Hcc, Rudolf Stramm, Min 15:09, in: (Schlumpf/Trinkler 1989)
Im besten aller Fälle integrierten die Cracker auch noch einen sogenannten Trainer. Damit konnte man sich eine unendliche Anzahl Leben geben oder sich an bestimmte Orte im Spiel teleportieren. Viele Spiele waren mit ihrem hohen Schwierigkeitsgrad nur so wirklich spielbar – so zum Beispiel das berüchtigte Rick Dangerous.
Der Name der Swiss Cracking Association singt im Namen von dem allem ein Lied. Und sie betätigten sich auch im ‘Schweizerischen GameDesign’. So crackten sie die Summer Games (C64, 1984) und ersetzten eine der Flaggen mit der schweizerischen Flagge und fügten dazu noch eine instrumentale 8 Bit Version der Nationalhymne ein. Wer auf die Schweizer Flagge klickt, hört diese Hymne. Das ist gleichzeitig Schweizer Game Design als auch die inoffizielle Hymne für das Schweizer Game Design.
Abbildung 12: Summer Games für den C64 (1984). Mit der Schweizer Flagge und Hymne gecrackt von der Swiss Crackers Association SCA.
Cracken bedeutete letztlich, eine Software und damit Spiele verstehen zu lernen. Und langsam aber kontinuierlich begannen diese Cracking-Gruppen die Programmierung von Spielen zu verstehen. Angefangen hat das bei der Darstellung von Grafiken und dem Abspielen von Musik, dann ging es weiter zur Integration von Spielmechanik – alles war erkennbar und letztlich auch wiederum einsetzbar. Wurden Grafik und Musik anfangs aus den Games extrahiert, kamen je länger desto öfter eigene Grafiken und eigene Musik hinzu. Unter den Mitgliedern von Cracker Gruppen entdeckt man viele spätere Grafiker und Musiker. Cracken von Spielen und Entwicklung eigener Spiele diente also durchaus auch als Startbrett für eine Karriere im Bereich der sogenannten Kreativwirtschaft sowie der IT.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9255
OLIVER It all started for me at a Christmas party at Starbyte Software. It was a remarkable event. I never met so many talented people at one place before. The developers showed the games they were developing including the Amiga version of Rolling Ronny. We got the offer for converting the game and if I remember correctly, we agreed almost instantly. Previous projects of Bones Park were economic simulations, which was… how to describe… rather static stuff. I usually call those games Excel-pushers. A jump-and-run is way more interesting and it is action we wanted to create.
MARIO Back then, in the C64 era, most games took only a few weeks or a couple of months to develop. So we had to keep a constant flow of new contacts and projects. One project we did in late 1991, Trans World, for German publisher Starbyte, went pretty smooth and even became our first #1 in German sales charts, so we were invited and offered to work on other titles. One concrete offering was the C64 conversion of Rolling Ronny. Even though most of the first games I programmed were simulations, I still had spent a lot of time on developing action and real-time oriented games. So it was a perfect moment to put all the learnings into a concrete game – and that would have been Rolling Ronny.
DA DOO RON RON RON
2024-01-19 17:02:32
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9259
Rolling Ronny was looking decent, too. Commodore Format had featured a well-received demo in the Autumn on Power Pack 13, and it gave a fairly typical taste for the game. You’re cast as the hero of the title, a delivery boy in the fictitious town of Fieldington who secretly works for Scotland Yard on the side. When the town’s crown jewels are stolen and scattered across town by the careless robbers, Ron’s the obvious one to call. It’s at this point you’re plummeted into the first level. At first glance, it’s straightforward left-to-right stuff. Sure, you’re wandering the levels in search of the treasure but you also need to earn enough money for your bus fare to get to the next stage. This is where the errand boy stuff comes in: as you dodge cars and the mutated animals of Fieldington (in a surreal plot twist, the local magic circle turned everything fluffy a bit demented), you’ll meet some of the town’s inhabitants. By doing them a favour – for example delivering a package – you’ll get coins. Pocket enough, and you can level up. Here’s the whole game:
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=792
With modems1987  and zterm you could enter to a bbs and download software. You needed the number and of course a computer on the other side. So this bullet boards system where dial in systems. from time to time the mother of a guy took the phone .-) 
You only used this in the ‘phone cheap time’ - >21.00. A game for Amiga or Atari ST was 900kb - the modem was about 3600-12200 bauds. you waited very long from time to time.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=969
Turings Assembly-Line is a game orginally written on the Plato systems (1960 ) in 2020 on Cyber1.org by and-or.ch. 
There is also a version as a web-app.
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?
Tapes
2022-04-14 12:44:14
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1435
Tapes comes from the mainframe tapes and were popularised by music too. so often people used normal tapes-drives and for a zx81-games - there were even description how you had to connect the microphone-cable to the head-phone-jack and reverse. While loadibg a zx-81 game you hear the whole time the data coming in! so meta: sound was for people and maschines.analog digital. So there was no difference between an accoustic coppler and data from the tape. 
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2022-07-02 21:20:02
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4232
Antares is a classic role-playing game of the Bard's Tale variety set in a science-fiction scenario. After the radio contact with space explorers stopped, a second troop goes to look for them. Unfortunately on the way they receive a emergency call, get shot and have to land on the planet Kyrion. Now the troop has to explore the planet and find out more about what happened.

The party has six members (chosen from twelve pre-defined characters) with different statistics and abilities, e.g. fighting, cooking, PSI (the science-fiction variant of magic) or translating (needed to communicate with non-hostile species). The world and dungeons are explored through a first-person perspective and when meeting enemies, the fight plays out turn-based: the player tells the characters what to do and text informs of the results. Killing enemies reward experience points which in turn improve the abilities.

Each character has to eat and sleep. While too much hunger results in death, a sleeping character is in a kind of trance: he still walks around, but can't take any actions or fight. Besides sleeping, there is also medicine available to keep the spirits up: just like other parts of equipment, it can be bought in hidden shops with gold found at slain enemies. Each character can transport up to six items and a radar shows how dangerous the current area is. Dead party members can be resurrected at the landing module.
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.
Trainer
2023-02-14 11:43:15
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5442
Often implemented add on in a crack: service to have endless lives, start at some point of the game etc. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5500
Playboy: You never lost sight of the reason for the job: to earn money so you could travel. 
Jobs: Atari had shipped a bunch of games to Europe and they had some engineering defects in them, and I figured out how to fix them, but it was necessary for somebody to go over there and actually do the fixing. I volunteered to go and asked to take a leave of absence when I was there. They let me do it. I ended up in Switzerland and moved from Zurich to New Delhi. I spent some time in India. 
Playboy: Where you shaved your head. 
Jobs: That's not quite the way it happened. I was walking around in the Himalayas and I stumbled onto this thing that turned out to be a religious festival. There was a baba, a holy man, who was the holy man of this particular festival, with his large group of followers. I could smell good food. I hadn't been fortunate enough to smell good food for a long time, so I wandered up to pay my respects and eat some lunch. For some reason, this baba, upon seeing me sitting there eating, immediately walked over to me and sat down and burst out laughing. He didn't speak much English and I
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7867
Hardware
- C64 consolen basis, erinnert mehr an eine Console als an einen Computer (Sprite, Hardwarescrolling, Music).
- SID wirklich witzig
VisualDisplay
Unmöglich viele Modis: High res. Multicolor > Programmierung schwierig. Positiv: Kombinierbar
- Beschränkte 16 Farben > Schwierig etwa eigenes zu machen. 
- Strahlende Farben fehlen.
Music
- Music Coding
- SID wirklich interessante Stücke. 

Tools
- Damals Paintingprogramme? > Öfter bessere Computer genutzt wie Amiga/PC (Compiling)

Coding
- Schwierig reinzukommen, sogar schwieriger als Atari2600
- Entwicklung über Jahre
- Basic embedded .-(
- Woher kam das Wissen? Die Software? (Magazine?)
- Öfter bessere Computer genutzt wie Amiga/PC (Compiling)
Gamecoding
- Ohne Tricks (Sprite Multplexer 8 Sprites viele Spiele nicht denkbar) ähnlich wie beim Atari 2600. Tricks
Beschränkung
- Beschränkung bei Shootemups am Schwierigsten bei allen anderen Genres eher möglich mit 8 Sprite durchzukommen.

Community
- Identitätsstiftend aber warum? Einfach übers gemeinsame Spielen?
- Bis heute ungebrochen. Aber mehrheitlich Spieler? Demoszener? 

Heute
Gesamte Entwicklung auf einmal da, keine allmähliche Steigerung/Entwicklung über 10 Jahre
Selbst heute, einige Tutorials aber kein Gametemplate. Viel bis heute unterschiedliche Nutzung: Vorallem game und demoscene. 
> Anwendersoftware fast nicht dokumentiert. 
> Neue Games, demos > Anwendersoftware?
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2023-05-01 12:01:44
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8656
Derrick Steel sums up the game succinctly in his entry on MobyGames: "In what has to be considered one of the most "original" games of all time, you are a flying beer in space. And the evil corporations are coming after you, so you must use your "beer power" to fight off wave after wave of corporate beer." To be more precise, your goal is to defend the Eichhof Brewery from the imperium of invading "big beers," with bottle caps and other imaginative weapons that only beer lovers can appreciate ;)
GameDevs
2022-04-13 10:25:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1136
GameDevs are gamedeveloppers. The name tells also a lot about the idea behind. The most important thing was the technical difficulties. 
Cracking
2023-02-11 14:57:25
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=768
Make games copyable. Some cracker groups where in the tradition of information freedom, others learned from cracking software creating software, others had fun, others were in a sport ‘who is first’ and of course also others gained money. 
Why switzerland? and not us? The rumor is: There was no law in switzerland against cracking. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1263
Made by crackers and a lot of anti-protection-mechanics. So a long time this game was not cracked.
Example: all tracks are not starting at the same place like normally - every track starts somewhere else. therfore they 
Storable Levels
2022-04-13 16:59:32
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1271
The progress could be stored on the game disc! (The game has 35? levels)
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. 
Alexander Hahn
2022-07-08 11:09:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1609
electronic media artist
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2553
Often used - enter data from cover or description. 
With more and more photocopiers, often used bad copyable sujets (red etc) or complex systems like rotating discs (several lucas arts games  and were in the mood of the game).
Later the dialog to enter the number/code came in the middle of the game (manic mansion etc). 
Codes were also used to ‘store’ progression.
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2022-05-12 09:21:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2574
Nach der ersten Welle der Verachtung dieser PixelGrafik-Homecomputer entstand mit dem Aufkommen der Indiespiele eine Renaissance der Homecomputerszene und zwar auf mehreren Ebenen: Die Demoscene entdeckte - nachdem auf PCs keine Grenzen mehr da waren - die kleinen restriktiven Homecomputer wieder und ist bis heute bestandteil der Demoscene [Recherche erste Amiga-Contests]. Es entstand eine Homebrew Szene für fast alle Consolen/Computer [Übergang, Wann entstanden?] und vermutlich der wichtigste Antrieb die Indiegamescene.
 
 
 
 
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Die Indiegamescene um die 2000er Jahre fing nun an explizit sich an die Pixelgrafiken etwa der Konsolen zu orientieren. Sei dies aus Reflexion, Kindheitserinnerungen oder einfach, weil die Pixelgrafiken einfacher herzustellen waren. Dabei spielt natürlich auch eine Rolle, dass zunehmend über Plattformen wie Ebay nun nicht mehr lokal Consolen/Computer gekauft werden mussten. Parallel dazu entstanden auch immer mehr Retromessen bzw. Waren Verkaufsstände für Retro Teil von grossen Conventions und Game-/Spielemessen. Die Gesellschaft entdeckte die Geschichte der Gamekultur. Die Entwickler selber fingen auch zunehmend an ihre Arbeit zu dokumentieren und zu veröffentlichen (siehe sca, siehe roman werner, siehe christian haller). http://www.kingroman.com/ https://www.sca.ch/ https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/list.php?list_people=Christian Haller Durch die verschiedenen Game-Festivals kam auch vermehrt zur erneuten Auseinandersetzung mit dieser ersten Welle von Computergames. Ein Beispiel dafür wäre sicherlich das gameZfestival 2013. Und begannen teilweise auch ihre Spiele auf dem iPhone wieder herauszubringen (insanity wars). Einige sind weiterhin in Communities unterwegs, die die alten Praktiken wieder neu auflegen. [Roman Werner, Listings, C64 Spiele]
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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
[11:45]
das letzte ist natürlich unsere studie .-)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3800
Performance war natürlich immer schon ein Teil von Interaktion in Games. Das leugnet niemand. Aber es ist halt leider nur ein Teil. Im Moment gibt es einen Diskurs, die gerade die Archivierung von Medienkunst/GameArt eintüten wollen bei ‘Performance’. Etwa: 'Es sei ja vergänglich, es sei darauf ausgelegt, vergänglich zu sein. Es sei einmalig' und darum reiche ja auch die Sammlung/Archivierung, wie bei anderen vergänglichen Kunstformen eben Performance-Künsten. Man kann die alte Narratologen-Idee dahinter sehen, Ignoranz oder einfach das Konzept Geld zu sparen. Die Beweggründe mögen verschieden sein, die Ansichten dahinter sind mehr als schwierig (Ewigkeitskunst?)
 
GameArt (gilt meist auch für Medienkunst) ist mehrheitlich designed  unabhängig von Menschen zu laufen in der Ausführung (Ausgenommen Ingame-Fotografie, Filme), ist abhängig von der Ausführung/Interaktion der Menschen (siehe 1) und lässt sich wiederholen als Interaktion/Erfahrung.
 
All dies zeigt nur Ansatzweise warum die Idee GameArt und Medienkunst, sei so banal zu behandeln und zu archivieren wie Performanzkünste*, eigentlich nicht haltbar ist. Mehr noch, die Frage stellt sich, wie kommt man auf diese Ansicht. Und hier scheinen die visuell orientierten Medienkunst/GameArt ihre volles Potential zu entfalten. Menschen sehen inzwischen ganz viele read-only Kunstwerke und erleben sie als Experiences. 
 
* Wie schief das geht sieht man übrigens bei der Kunstform ‘Game theater’ etwa bei Machina Ex, Signa oder Prügel. Ein Filmchen reicht da bei weitem nicht. Es müssten bekanntlich 100 von Filmen sein entlang den Möglichkeiten und auch das ist nur ein Teil des Möglichkeitsraums der interaktiven Rezeption.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3852
Interesting piece, because. you have to move around with an avatar to get to the demos. so their is a gamemechanic (puzzle) to open the subdemos!
Question: When this demo was created?
Local focus
2022-06-25 08:53:42
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4069
The Finnish Museum of Games focuses on local finnish games and local game culture.
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2022-07-04 16:46:36
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4310
Das Konglomerat bearbeitet ein Popkultur-Phänomen der 90er: gesteuert von zwei Gamern hauen sich aus Polygonen zusammengebastelte Spielfiguren vor einer mehr oder weniger absurden Hintergrundgrafik gehörig auf die Fresse. Fighting Games wird dieser seltsame Zeitvertreib in der Fachsprache genannt, der durch Videospiel-Reihen wie Tekken, Street Fighter oder Mortal Combat eine beeindruckende Popularität erreichte.

Das ist witzig. Und man muss es kennen. Doch gibt's auch hier ein Haar in der Suppe: In einer Gesellschaft, die einer ständig stärkeren Medialisierung und Virtualisierung aller Lebensbereiche entgegenstrebt, so glaubt das Konglomerat, sollte doch wenigstens ein solch brachialer menschlicher Urinstinkt - nämlich sich gehörig auf die Fresse hauen - in die handfeste Wirklichkeit zurückfinden. Dies gewährleistet PRÜGEL!, die barbarische Rückkehr der physischen Gewalt in die physische Realität. Zwei Zuschauer erhalten Game Pads, die ihre Eingaben über ein selbstgebasteltes Interface an zwei Schauspieler übermitteln, die sich auf dieser Basis gegenseitig verprügeln.

Der Erkenntnisgewinn des Versuchsaufbaus hat uns selbst erstaunt: Als wir glaubten, einen heillosen Blödsinn zu veranstalten, ging uns plötzlich ein Licht auf. Im Vordergrund stehen zwei, die sich verkloppen. Doch wie so oft im Leben regieren hier die Bekloppten. Und wie gewöhnlich tun diese dies nicht vordergründig, nein, es handelt sich um die Herrschaft der Bekloppten im Hintergrund.


NÄCHSTE AUSFÜHRUNGEN DES PROGRAMMS

Im Moment ist nichts konkretes geplant. Doch heute ist nicht alle Tage - wir kommen wieder, keine Frage!
 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4554
Aus Wikipedia über Hofstettler: 
Kreml von 1986 (englische Version Kremlin, herausgegeben von Avalon Hill, Träger eines „Origins Award“ 1988) ist eine Parodie der sowjetischen Politik. Dieses Gesellschaftsspiel lässt sich nicht im klassischen Sinn in die gängigen Spielarten einordnen, da ihm sowohl ein Spielbrett wie auch Spielkarten im herkömmlichen Sinn fehlen. Die Spieler spielen die Rolle grauer Eminenzen, welche hinter Kandidaten stehen, die um Ministerposten bis hinauf zum Amt des Staats- und Parteichefs kämpfen. Nimmt ein Spieler dabei mehr als nötig Einfluss auf das Spielgeschehen, so verrät er seine „Beziehungen“ und macht sich dadurch angreifbar. Kreml stellt insofern ein Kuriosum dar, als man durch weitestgehende Passivität und Unauffälligkeit beste Gewinnchancen wahren kann. Der Spielverlauf nimmt dabei immer wieder überraschende Wendungen.
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
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.

Ilyad Credits
2022-08-03 12:48:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5078
Shoot'em'up game on Amiga. Coded by Metalwar, Music by Fred (fantastic C64 style !!!!), Graphics by Leto2 and Disk routines end demo by P. Adane. I especially love the music of Fred (Fredereic Hahn). 1st music is done by metalwar
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5100
'I had created maybe around 30 demos and I wanted to create a game on the Amiga because I always like shoot'e 'up. It was a new challenge for me: I gathered a team of a few people, some of them ended up not staying very long: Marc Albinet, the graphic designer, who would work on other games later on, such as Agony, Frédéric Hahn (musician with Ackerlight), Pierre Adane (who worked on the copy-protection system and the endgame animation), and myself Olivier Régis (Metalwar), doing the cosing in terms of programming, there was nothing fancy. I just had to create some specific tools to piece up graphics piece-by-piece and to manage the dynamics of enemy motion. We then called Ubisoft to show them our Ilyad project. Marc Albinet and myself met one of the Guillermot briothers in Paris - they are the founders of Ubisoft. At that time, the firm was very small compared to what it is now, and the licensic fees we received, were really symbolic. They barely covered our travel expenses, but we did not do it for the money."
Cookie remenbers
2022-08-17 09:24:29
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5272
"Later we started developing a game called Immanis, and we already had dedicated tools for making parallax masks etc. The project was started on the Amiga and then continued on PC before being abandoned - this doesn't fit in the context of demos, however it was inspired by them." The Demoscene: The Aga years (2020:119)
Shagan's accounting
2022-08-17 09:31:55
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5274
“Hornet died in the year 2000, after a heart attack. He was only 27 years old.”
“I'd like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Alain Malek (Hornet) who left us far too soon. We'd launched ambitious projects together, like a game called Immanis, and we even intended to start a company together. Unfortunately, he left us only a few days after signing the notary to found the company.” Demoscene: The Aga years (2020:117)
Names of the developers
2022-08-17 11:59:20
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5302
Cryogen Game Development
Publisher (gegründet 1996)

Developers:
Alain Malek (Hornet)
Roberto Marra (Shagan)
Santiago Lema (Cookie)

Haben 2000 eine Firma gegründet, kurz danach ist Alain Malek verstorben.
Windows (OS)
2023-02-06 08:31:49
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5326
OS from Microsoft with Windows. Came first out in ASCII-Blocks. Well known for 3.1 and of course 95. Which was the first modern Windows (vs 85 Mac with Finder, 85/86 Ataris ST with GEM and Amiga)
Interview
2022-09-10 09:47:07
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5424
  • Snake
  • Music Programm
  • Question: Gaming at EPFL?
  • Answer: Learning Coding
  • Animation (Future of video?
  • Hand-Punchard System
  • Multimedia-Hardware
Interesting: The video game is the best thing/motivation to create something and it is complex. Games also as a driver for learning ‘computer’ and multimedia
From outside a comment
2023-02-27 09:39:35
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7045
From outside: 
_ Strange fetish with the cows (coming from Buenzli-Event). 
_ Very 3D focussed (also there at lovebyte this year)
vs. Game Jams: Most products were created before. More party. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7061
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. 
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2023-03-20 16:40:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7640
In January 1981, MOS Technology, Inc., Commodore's integrated circuit design subsidiary, initiated a project to design the graphic and audio chips for a next-generation video game console. Design work for the chips, named
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]
 
Karen Davis and her work
2023-03-27 20:48:24
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7861
Karen Davis über ihre Arbeit: "Well, it would be cool to say you were involved with Pokemon, Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog games that took over the world, but I wasn't. There was also a game called Abe's Oddysee which my little boy loved and it would have been fun to say 'Oh yeah, your mum did that', but again alas I didn't."


 
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2023-04-10 11:33:12
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8078
IN JANUARY 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd., began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.”
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2023-04-10 17:51:29
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8096
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.
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2023-04-10 19:18:00
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8104
But when the Commodore 64 was conceived, it was to be primarily a game machine, not a computer.
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2023-05-01 11:08:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8594
Originally, we wanted to include just a tiny little shoot 'em up game into a graphics demo (we produced quite a few in the early years).
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.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9529
Werbespiel für SIA Abrasives (Frauenfeld). Diese sponsorten den BobVerband. Darum ein Game dazu.
Tecto
2024-10-17 16:23:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9590
Ball Game. Up and down, accelerate etc. Collect skussl & find the way out. You can find hidden plates.
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.
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=855
Games made for old hardware or emulators for hardware. Restrictions of yesterday.
Cracker-kiosk
2022-05-26 09:25:37
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1089
come in with your original. come back in one hour. you get the original and  the cracked game back on floppy disc.
l1neum - freeware
2022-04-13 10:52:39
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1186
a qix/volfied variant of the game in 3d open gl. done in 3 months for a mac contest 2003 in us. there was even a radio event at 3 o clock than. won the 3rd price and a membership for one year in igda. the problem there was only one chapter in switzerland in berne with 3 members and never a meeting.
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=1273
Perhaps the first shoot-em-up with joystick, keyboard and mouse-control. 
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
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. 
Mechanical Turk
2022-04-27 16:37:01
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2077
The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hoax.[1]Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once.
TENNISFORTWO
2022-04-29 14:48:08
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2343
Tennis For Two was the first Videogame ever! It was developed in 1958. The gameplay features were more complex and more fun than in the later very popular Pong or Breakout. GameLab ZHdK has made a new version to bring the amazing game mechanics to attention. You hit the ball with the A-button of your controller while you use the left analogue stick to indicate the direction (or angle) of the tennis ball. And since it is tennis, you can hit the ball anywhere in your own half of the court! It is surprisingly fun to play the "TennisForTwo Fantasy 1958" version. Made in 2015 by GameLab ZHdK.
people for interviews
2022-04-30 10:09:46
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2356
 
  • bbs: bandit, 
  • Michael B. > Aus den USA in die SChweiz - technologiefidnelichkeit an ch-unis? 
  • beat, etc 
  • beat wegen seminar 1997 zu 
  • disketten abo: bandit
  • technologie
  • daxboeck > next
  • benz & match: tetris game
  •  
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2572
Die Wellen der Wiederaneignung - von der Demoscene/Homebrew zu Retro und zu den Indiespielen Betrachtet man die weitere Entwicklung der Games und ihre Aktualisierung wird klar: Mit der Plattform Atari ST/Amiga starb auch die Unterstützung der Games. Denn nichts ist bekanntlich älter, als das Game von gestern und noch auf einer Hardware, die nicht mehr kaufbar ist. Die Vertriebskanäle wie BBSen kamen auch aus der Mode beziehungsweise wurden vom Internet verdrängt (FTP und WW) So wundert es auch nicht, dass die Spiele nicht in dieser Zeit dokumentiert wurden. Die meisten Spielkonzepte überlebten auch nicht die aufsteigenden 3D-Welten und wurden entsprechend auch nicht portiert. Erst später - mit mehr Rechenpower - entstanden die Emulatoren zu diesen Homecomputers und durch das WWW wurde Dokumentation auch möglich. [Recherche der ersten Emulatoren]
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3003
Who are the tracker-musicians in switzerland? 
Tennis for two - radical
2022-05-21 14:44:35
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3072
Tennis for two is one of the most radiacal games ever. It has no ! avatar. At the moment the ball is on your field, you have the power to kick it in the direction, you want. So the game is more territorial based than avatar/npc-linked.
Hippel, Jochen
2022-05-27 00:06:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3223
Ebenfalls ein Bekannter deutscher Game-Musiker 
the exceptions - Tex
2022-07-07 13:29:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3380
not suisse, but people worked with their muscian jochen hippel. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3469
Mod and one of the first game design actions on the big platforms. 
Development Process
2022-05-29 11:04:38
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3509
The game development process was splittet into different type of productions. Each part had its own tools like coding / assembler, images > paint tools and of course music with the trackers. 
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.
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? 
questions
2022-07-02 21:56:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4258
  • why this game
  • why 1991
  • how the development
  • why in german
  • what happened with the persons?
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4494
Tiling was a design pattern often used in the beginning of the gamedesign.
Reason:
  • Tilebase is simple to use. Create the tiles and just say here is TileA, titleB.
  • Tilebase save space (######) - important in the beginning
  • Tilebased could be used for creating games (Labyrinths) with Sprites in front
  • You can create very fast new levels
  • The hardware has often tilebased background support 
  • Seamless tiles create very fast interesting backgrounds and foregrounds … 
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
Situations in Action
2022-07-29 22:12:18
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4961
/Station, Group reading Game Magazin PowerPlay (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4969
/Station, Group reading Game Magazin PowerPlay (swiss vintage computing)
KULT
2022-07-29 22:15:08
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4973
/Station, Group reading Game Magazin PowerPlay (swiss vintage computing)
Kult Play
2022-07-29 22:24:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4989
/Station, Group reading Game Magazin PowerPlay (swiss vintage computing)
NoAccess
2022-07-31 10:57:45
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4995
/Confederatio Ludens: Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000 (swiss vintage computing)
File at SNF
2022-07-31 11:16:22
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5005
/Researching (swiss vintage computing)
Open Questions
2022-07-31 14:57:23
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5007
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
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).
/ALCATRAZ 1988 (swiss vintage computing)
Ilyad 1989 (Ubisoft)
2022-08-03 12:36:38
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5068
/Jobs, Steve (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5502
/Alctatrez Post Party 1990 (swiss vintage computing)
Party
2022-12-11 10:59:42
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5968
/Amiga Assembler Coding (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6002
/Linel (GamePublisher) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6714
Hattest du mal einen Plan, daß das zu etwas Größerem wird, daß du in größeren Teams arbeitest oder für Firmen Spiele entwickelst? Eigentlich nicht. Einmal, das war 1987 – da bekam ich einen Anruf aus der Schweiz, Firma Linel … keine Ahnung, ob’s die noch gibt. Die hatten eine Softwarefirma gegründet und hatten mich gefragt, ob ich nicht Lust hätte, mal ein Spiel für sie zu schreiben. Sie würden das vermarkten. Ja, irgendwo will man die Chance nutzen – das habe ich dann auch gemacht, auch auf dem C64. Das war ein bißchen aufwendiger – das Ganze war im Assembler geschrieben, nicht nur in Basic. Bei den anderen Spielen – beim ersten noch nicht, aber danach – waren immer so kleine Assembler-Routinen dabei, damit das Spiel ein bißchen flüssiger lief. Heutzutage programmiert keiner mehr so, weil es viel zu kompliziert wäre für die Maschinen, die es jetzt gibt. Damals war das noch recht übersichtlich – du hast einen Prozessor, und den konnte man schön programmieren. Das war recht einfach und primitiv mit den Maschinen damals. Das habe ich also komplett in Assembler geschrieben, ein Titelbild dazu gemalt – sehr aufwendig, wochenlange Arbeit, und es ist eigentlich nichts dabei herausgekommen. Das war eigentlich das einzige Spiel, das nie veröffentlicht wurde. MAZE PATROL hieß das, kennt kein Mensch … das war sicherlich eines von den aufwendigsten. Das war eine Enttäuschung. Das war auch das einzige, was ich für diese Firma gemacht habe. Nachdem es nie veröffentlicht wurde und ich es auch nie ins Netz gestellt habe, überlege ich mal, wo ich das jetzt finde …
/brainstorm 1989-1993 (swiss vintage computing)
Setrox
2023-02-14 11:05:22
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6867
/Grotic (swiss vintage computing)
PuzzleBobble
2023-02-24 10:48:37
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6965
/hugo bei srf (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7001
/hugo bei srf (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7003
/MoutainBytes (swiss vintage computing)
MountainBytes2023
2023-02-27 09:01:14
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7019
/game jam as design method and tool (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7117
/Necronom Amiga (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7189
/Digitalisation (swiss vintage computing)
Power (Einfluss, Agency)
2023-04-04 08:41:24
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7692
Coding gives you power.
Everybody can have its own slave (LCP)!
/modern arts (company) (swiss vintage computing)
Akropolis C64 1988
2023-04-06 13:55:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7815
/Kleinert, Tim (Swiss Muscian, C64) (swiss vintage computing)
Toyballs C64, 1992
2023-04-06 13:54:59
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7833
/graphic design c64 (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7857
/Davies, Karen (International) (swiss vintage computing)
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. 
/Hardware- C64 consolen basis, erinnert mehr an eine Console als an einen Computer (Sprite, Hardwarescrolling, Music).- SID wirklich witzigVisualDisplayUnmöglich viele Modis: High res. Multicolor > Programmierung schwierig. Positiv: Kombinierbar- Besch (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7907
/C64 (Commodore) - Console approach - 8Bit (swiss vintage computing)
gamedesign c64
2023-04-17 09:56:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8120
/Robox (swiss vintage computing)
Robox Ingame-Screen
2023-04-12 10:31:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8158
/Ooze (Graphic-Textadventure) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8166
/TextPicture-Splitted game mechanics (swiss vintage computing)
Rastersplit (German)
2023-04-13 23:53:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8240
/Ball Raider 1987 (swiss vintage computing)
NoAccess
2023-04-26 19:09:09
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8427
/Ball Raider 1987 (swiss vintage computing)
NoAccess
2023-04-27 19:15:06
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8457
/the last eichhof 1993 (freeware) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8660
/Game (as a Product) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8751
/Game (as a Product) (swiss vintage computing)
How good is it made
2023-05-06 14:05:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8753
/Game (as a Product) (swiss vintage computing)
New aspects historical
2023-05-06 14:04:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8755
/Game (as a Product) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8757
/game manager (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8977
/Mediated analog games - Postgames - Play-By-mail (Postspiele) (swiss vintage computing)
Diplomacy
2023-05-27 12:35:27
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8991
/Wirth, Niklaus (ETH) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9089
/Persons (swiss vintage computing)
Wirth, Niklaus (ETH)
2023-02-06 09:15:13
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=192
/MiddleLand-Eastern Switzerland (German part) (swiss vintage computing)
Area Zurich
2023-07-27 18:01:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1879
/Züri - Zueri Game 1993 (swiss vintage computing)
Züri online spielen
2023-07-27 18:03:24
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9109
/Züri - Zueri Game 1993 (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9117
/Profi-Game-Production (swiss vintage computing)
.
2023-07-27 18:07:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9119
/Profi-Game-Production (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9121
Point & Click mit demselben Framework
/Macintosh (Apple) 16Bit (swiss vintage computing)
Mac GameDevs
2023-09-04 09:34:20
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9127
/Tapes (swiss vintage computing)
Datasette
2023-05-06 11:58:58
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1437
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9399
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
Website: Imp89
2024-08-04 18:53:05
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2836
check: was this really every online?
/grotic web (game, editor, users) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9449
/grotic web (game, editor, users) (swiss vintage computing)
.
2024-08-04 21:51:16
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9451
/grotic web (game, editor, users) (swiss vintage computing)
Account-Management
2024-08-04 22:31:58
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9465
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
macos 9
2024-07-26 15:52:10
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9321
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9423
atronic.ch
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1140
The shareware modell was the only that worked in those days. Because to get a publisher for mac was almost impossible.
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
Icon-Design
2024-10-12 11:13:57
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9563
/Impression - Imp89 > la1n (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1202
  • “Zauber”
  • Sokoban
/Vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
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.
linkz: https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1
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