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://Jun 1
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.
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 threadGregory
@wolf480pl @bagder yeah I was like -4 years old in 1989
Jun 1 at 10:57pmWeb
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