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Bizarre limited edition flyer by for Hideous Mutant Freaks by Spaceballs (2001)

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Uploaded the first batch of Exult's C64 disk covers collection. Stunning artwork. More to come!

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I talked to ADT at qbparty and showed him the flyer, he said the first few issues of SledgeHammer were printed copies and he still has a few of them somewhere. Of course him being ADT I'm reasonably sure he forgot about this conversation 20 seconds later.

I don't know if these are of interest:

http://www.smb.nu/Tekno/

Scans i made from the Norwegian / Swedish computer magazine Tekno that often had party-reports in them. These are in Swedish.

Its not complete, i have scanned all issues though, and will put the rest of them eventually.

bah.
http://www.smb.se/Tekno/

baaah.
http://www.smb.nu/Tekno/

Gargaj: Cool! Hopefully he won't forget. =)

Velo: Very cool! I think these articles should go into https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/media/articles/.

And we continue with the amazing world of C64 disk covers, presenting the remaining part of Exult‘s collection. This batch features mostly artworks by The Elegance and Exult himself, both amazing disk cover artists with strong graffiti leanings. Enjoy!

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Our next batch of papers comes from S11/Desire, who was so kind to scan several party invitation, flyers and magazine votesheets from his active period in the Amiga demoscene in the early 1990s. They are highly interesting artefacts of the early days of the demoscene - particularly the very detailed party invitations, which give insight on how demoparties were advertised and conducted "back in the days".

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@velo: i have saved the tekno scans to https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/media/articles/ now. thanks for the hint!

An old Dutch C64 scene member, RX7 of Irresistible Trading Company (ITC), has provided us with scans of C64 disk covers from the late 1980s, drawn by himself and fellow Dutch sceners. This batch of artefacts is particularly interesting. Firstly, these groups, who seem to have operated on a local and regional level only, are largely unknown. Half of them did not leave any digital traces in nowadays’ scene archives, thus these covers are the only material proof of their existence. Secondly, the covers drawn by RX7 himself for his group, ITC, are not photocopies, but master covers which were used to produce b/w copies in order to swap them at copyparties and use them with disks for mailswapping. Master covers from the 1980s are hardly to be found anywhere on the internet, so we’re particularly glad about this contribution.

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I don't know what that was supposed to link to, but it's totally blown. Here's a link to the blog post with the rest of the images, for the lazy: http://gotpapers.untergrund.net/?p=150 :)

yes, thanks =)

UKRAINIAN SWAPLETTERS!!!

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dipswitch, THANKS! ;)

no, VBI, thanks to YOU! this is probably the coolest "got papers" post up to now. if you have more materials like this, please let me know.

I really need to dig up that letter Skaven sent me... I'll look for it.

After providing us with News #7/1988, Se7en came up with one more issue of this classical German C64 cracker magazine. Issue 3/1989 (May/June) encompasses 36 pages full of news, interviews, copyparty reports and random nonsense. Amongst other things, it features a German translation of the legendary “Crackin’ Comic” by Hobbit/Fairlight.

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Thanks to a generous donation by an anonymous veteran, we are happy to present you the oldest scene materials that have been displayed on “Got Papers?” up to now. They stem from a time when the Amiga home computer was new and exciting, when the boundaries between “legal” and “illegal” were virtually non-existing, when it was perfectly okay to sell cracked games and still be a respected scene member, and when some of the nowadays legendary cracking groups were still in their infancy. These artifacts are so ephemeral that it’s only by chance that they survived until now. These ten stickers and paper cuttings are just one portion of the materials donated. Watch this space for more.

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Our project welcomes a new permanent collaborator – hedning, who is well-known in the C64 scene for his relentless preservation efforts, saving the contents of old floppy disks from oblivion. As a first batch, he presents us with a number of group stickers found on said disks, as well as a rare scan of a scener-owned Commodore REU. The RAM expansion unit provided the C64 with additional memory and was thus a helpful gadget for swappers for copying disks.

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Our faithful contributor S11 sent in another batch of highly interesting scans from the early 1990s Amiga scene. The batch consists of group stickers and copyparty / demoparty invitation leaflets. Particularly the latter are very insightful. Back then, when websites were unheard of, the organisers made sure to cram as much information as possible into the invitation leaflets, which were circulated at parties or spread by mail swappers. Through these leaflets, we can learn about what was considered important about a scene gathering back then, which features were praised as spectacular (such as the amount of prize money), and what sort of behaviour was deemed (in)appropriate. While some parties made piracy a crucial part of their advertisement campaign, others stressed their “legal-only” outlook and appealed to visitors not to engage in any illegal software copying – the differentiation between the cracking– and the demoscene was just beginning…

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dipswitch, contributors, untergrund +1e100 for the awesome collection!

We processed another batch of C64 diskmagazine votesheets from Fzool‘s vast collection. Spread by post or at demoparties, votesheets were used to produce rankings of the best individuals within the various scene “professions” – programmers, musicians, graphics artists, crackers and so on. Apparently, some people chose to keep them instead of sending them back to the magazine editors – otherwise we wouldn’t have such a pristine collection of them at our disposal…

The metadata for this batch was compiled and processed by our new volunteer staff member, Pixman from Switzerland. Welcome!

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Those party invite flyers are super awesome. That Hurricane party looks mental :D

okkie: the party itself must have been quite wild and chaotic: http://demozoo.org/parties/1862/