daniel:// stenberg://Jun 1

In 1989 we participated in a "copy party" in Eskilstuna Sweden and our demo group Horizon won the demo competition. Triad came on second place.

This photo contains members of Horizon and Triad present at that party.

I'm the guy in middle of the lowest row with the McGyver look.

Bonus: here's the demo: https://youtu.be/I72jFMtacp4?si=vwfQ7x-bl5JExsIU

For you @bjoreman 😁

Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://
one of my fav pics from this era is from the big copy party we (Horizon) arranged in "vårby" in 1990 that was visited by some 500 crazy C64 hackers from all over the Nordics.
Jun 1 at 9:56pmWeb
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Jun 1
All Horizon nostalgia is kept alive here: https://kjell.haxx.se/horizon/
Story of Confusing Solution, Super Swap Sweden and Horizon

Read the story about the C64 groups Horion, Super Swap Sweden and Confusing solution

Show threadprimalmotionJun 1
@bagder TIL Badger was part of Horizon
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Jun 1

going to one of these parties meant lugging along your heavy 15" CRT, a C64, a diskette station, a power strip, lots of diskettes and a sleeping bag. Almost all of us just teenagers. Then code assembler demos like crazy, barely sleep, meet similar minded weirdos, drink oceans of Coke and eat rubbish food for a whole weekend. It would totally exhaust us. It was the best of times.

That cemented my career.

Show threadWolf480plJun 1
@bagder wish I had been alive to experience that
Show threadGregoryJun 1
@wolf480pl @bagder yeah I was like -4 years old in 1989
Show threadGregoryJun 1
@wolf480pl @bagder but, from what I read and heard, Commodore wasn't a thing around here back then. It was instead mostly various ZX Spectrum clones built out of a mixture of imported and Soviet chips
Show threadkusmaJun 1
@wolf480pl Oh, a bunch of us are still doing it. Mostly lugging laptops and sleeping in hotel rooms these days, but otherwise same same @bagder
Show threadPepijn BruienneJun 2
@bagder This was the late 80s/early 90s for me, but the journey was to Venlo instead. Nothing compares.
Show threadJim FullerJun 2
@bagder shows the strength of learning in groups - which helps explains how curl achieves such good cohesion as a project - often many programmers introduction into computing are lonely, autodidactic paths ... though I think we can do more in terms of evolving group learning - it all (generally) feels like emulating ideas of how royalty learning in the 18th century still
Show threadRick DeckardJun 4
@bagder Been there, done that and still have the Shirt Jay Miner signed. It’s never been washed 😄 Wonderful days! Did you guys still run C64 events in the beginning ‘90s? If i remember correctly the 64 became rare after the rise of Amiga and ST in the middle 80s?!
Show threadMoritz DietzJun 4
@bagder handsome young chap!