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The topics vintage computing and vintage gaming are of course intertwined. 
First gaming is a part of the whole digitalisation. But before computer were in every household the consoles were there. The first funny digitalisation and alternative to the non existing tv-program (share the screen). And then the homecomputer in the private areas came ‘home’.  So games became again software in the area of computing. 
And so on … 
Vintage Gaming
2023-06-11 09:07:51
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=113
Of course in games and amusement arcades there is a lot of computing (calculating points, statemachines and co). All started with organs (punch strips) and electromechanical ‘games’ like pinballs. 
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
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. 
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. 
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. 
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.
Historical Culture
2022-04-10 20:58:18
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=297
Culture towards technology changed massively in the last 50 years. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=997
Games made with old technologies but not old working hardware. 
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=9147
The CFA was founded in 1987 in Basel, Switzerland, when 3-letter names were still in fashion. CFA stood for “Computer Freaks Association”. In the first months the CFA was a group of C64 fans and gaming tournaments were held in regular intervals. They organised a gaming room at a local School-Party of the RG in Basel.

The CFA started with pure Demo-Making and Software-Swapping. The first international contact was the Norwegian group The Sinister Realm 2013 Stavanger. One of the early meeting places was the Dial-Club, a local Computer-Center in Basel.
At this time a regular Exchange-Ring of Software between the members was built up.
The first Copy-Party visited by CFA members was Crazy & ZSS Party 1988 in Pratteln/Switzerland. In 1989 Members of the group was busted by police on a German Copy-Party, but thanks to slow Swiss legislation, no CFA member had any troubles at all after returning to Switzerland.
The CFA took part in Demo-Contests of other Swiss copy parties: Crazy & RCS Party 1989, Crazy Stardom Copy-Party 1989 and Fresh Party 1990

In the early days, our strategy was: focus on Switzerland. This changed with the first member expansion outside of Basel: 
German members: Snief and The Cure.
Liechtenstein members: Sandman.

War against another Swiss group Fresh, which led to a funny anti demo Fresh on Top. The war was officially ended at the Swiss Pirates Reunion 2002. (nowadays there are many friendship boundaries between the former 2 opponents).

The CFA has in the meantime started importing and cracking games: access to the major US BBS, latest wares and cards agogo. 

1990-1991 Cooperation with Italian Cracking Service from Italy.

11/1989-07/1993 reknown Disk Mag “Immortal Flash” an e-zine that become quite popular in the scene (later released by Atlantis).

In 02/1991 the CFA died and the remaining members built up Atlantis. More info in Joker Note.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3844
This is a start to collect data from vintage computing in Switzerland. It is a bottom up approach to collect and organize data. It is also a research for how to collect and store data. 
The data/information can be stored as nodes. The nodes can be as a tree (hierachy) and/or rhizome. 
This data is open for everyone who wants to also add his/her/its own data. Just create content. We will than try to bring it in an order. 
 
Pinballs & Computing
2022-05-27 18:48:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=260
Pinballs are really computing hells. 
Console or computer?
2022-07-17 00:06:59
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4800
Identity. What you wanna do.
Read-only gaming or work and game.
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=57

Das Vintage Computer Festival Zürich #21 fand am 27./28.November 2021 in Zürich statt mit 19 Ausstellerinnen und 250 Besucherinnen. Wir bedanken uns bei allen Teilnehmerinnen und freuen uns auf die kommende Ausgabe im Spätherbst 2022.

Collections
2022-07-19 21:29:48
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=77
Collections can be public or private. So it is often good to contact them directly. 
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. 
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. 
Impressions
2022-07-09 20:36:47
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1134
Some insights into vintagecomputing and research.
Datastructure
2022-06-14 07:33:52
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=3842
Idea: 
Aspects like:
  • Seethings
  • Contacts
  • pictures
  • Videos
  • Areas
  • Team
Example:
  • ASPECT: Team 
  • - [coding] XYZ
  • - [graphician] XYZ   
 
  • ASPECT: Photos
  • - [photos:dev] yxcyxcv
  • - [photos:team] sadf 
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? 
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.
statement
2022-07-25 16:47:19
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=10
computing, gaming and gamedesign (historical and actual)
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. 
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)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=855
Games made for old hardware or emulators for hardware. Restrictions of yesterday.
[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. 
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!
designpattern
2022-07-08 11:13:22
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4492
which designpattern where used? and why?
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
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
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]
 
 
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. 
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Labs
2022-04-10 20:56:17
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=49
There are some labs that deal with vintage computers.
2022-06-24 22:51:12
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=53
/Appropriation Technology (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=481
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
Museums and collections
2022-07-19 20:13:23
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=687
/Software distribution (Games included) (swiss vintage computing)
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.
/Gaming & GameDesign (swiss vintage computing)
Vintage/Retro influences
2022-04-12 23:03:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1130
/Vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
Vintage Coding
2022-04-15 10:26:03
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1547
/Archivierungsarten (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1969
/Punch cards (Lochkarten) (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2314
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4073
/Vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
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2022-07-01 13:38:54
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4202
/Vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
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2022-07-04 16:22:46
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4284
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
Retro
2022-07-19 21:31:03
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4836
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
Research
2022-07-19 20:27:23
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4845
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
About & Netiquette
2022-07-19 20:20:17
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4870
/Demake Culture (swiss vintage computing)
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?
/the last eichhof 1993 (freeware) (swiss vintage computing)
Alpha Helix Productions
2023-05-01 11:14:31
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8570
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
New! Research Blog - Latest comments, notes and results.
2023-05-25 12:06:30
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8955
/Homecomputer (swiss vintage computing)
C64 (Commodore) - Console approach - 8Bit
2023-04-29 11:51:05
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=315
/swiss vintage computing (swiss vintage computing)
Memories - Do you have memories, fotos you wanna share?
2022-07-01 11:06:37
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=568
Let's bring together the memories and artefacts from those times. 
/Historical Computing (swiss vintage computing)
Socialization of technology
2022-05-12 09:26:25
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=2578
/Gaming & GameDesign (swiss vintage computing)
.
2022-07-04 16:25:57
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4286
/wyler, michael (swiss vintage computing)
wog.ch
2022-07-04 18:17:12
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4342
/Gaming & GameDesign (swiss vintage computing)
Twitter Hashtag for Games, Gamedesign
2022-07-11 17:39:36
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4730
#CH_Ludens
/Cartridge (swiss vintage computing)
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
/Console or computer? (swiss vintage computing)
Videogamecrash
2023-02-27 17:55:12
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=4802
/Researching (swiss vintage computing)
Open Questions
2022-07-31 14:57:23
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5007
/Swiss Games (swiss vintage computing)
snake (epfl)
2022-09-10 09:42:28
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5416
/Gaming & GameDesign (swiss vintage computing)
Tools
2022-12-10 18:30:40
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=5960
/BBS HangLoose - SysOp: Bandit - Area Baden (swiss vintage computing)
BBS Games
2023-02-06 08:59:00
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6142
/Historical Gaming (swiss vintage computing)
videogame champignon ship
2023-02-25 01:00:20
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=6977
/goldene schuss (swiss vintage computing)
Schweizer Firma, Tell, Interaktive Show - Kimme, Korn, Ran - 70% Quote (Song) - Victor Toreani
2023-03-15 23:07:59
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7381
/goldene schuss (swiss vintage computing)
Youtube mit Bilder aus der Zeit
2023-03-15 23:11:44
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=7383
/Gaming & GameDesign (swiss vintage computing)
GameDesign = Data management with interaction, graphics and sound
2023-04-16 18:17:39
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=8290
/Hardware (swiss vintage computing)
Homecomputer
2022-05-22 10:59:34
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=313
/Historical Gaming (swiss vintage computing)
MUDs on ETH mainframes
2022-06-25 12:34:13
https://vintagecomputing.ch/?browseid=1124