Video for my Nintendo Game Boy track Crunchy Beats
MVGEN is a really cool site where you can upload your music and get a crazy music video for it. Check out this retro thing it made for my Game Boy track Crunch Beats (Extended Version)
Listen to all my Commodore 64 chip tunes
Something called the Unepic Stoned High SID Collection has been recording over 50000 tunes made on the Commodore 64. Since I was very much a part of that scene from the mid 80s to early 90s, naturally all my tunes are included. I made a playlist with all of them for your chiptune enjoyment. I put what I consider to be my best tunes from back then at the top of the list.
Pictures from the Commodore 64 scene in the 80s, part 3: Furulund August 1989
In my little series featuring Scandinavian hacker parties I visited in the late 80s, we have finally come to the grand finale: Furulund, Skåne, Sweden 25 – 27 of August 1989. This was, to my knowledge the third and last meeting held in Furulund. I believe me and my friends in XAKK visited all of them.
Unfortunately, this is the only one where I actually took some pictures. At the time XAKK was about to leave the Commodore 64 scene. I and Vivace were working on a game that was never finished. We had only one more C64 demo left to do, Bound to be best II which was released in May 1990.
A Swedish friend of all things C64 and retro, Jimmy Wilhelmsson wrote an article about this “Hackathon”. It’s in Swedish and you can read it here.
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- Lots of people hacking at the hacker conferance.
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- Visitors at the Furulund Hacker conference.
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- More visitors.
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- Vivace, Cleo and Jolly Cracker/JC. All from XAKK.
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- People looking at stuff, with Kim Isaksen.
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- Kim Isaksen looking at stuff. Is that Mahoney leaning over him?
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- That’s a younger version of me. Knatter of XAKK
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- Vivace (XAKK) and other visitors watching a pirated movie on VHS.
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- Mr Bacher (XAKK) pointing at stuff.
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- Some guys from Starion? Kim Isaksen in the back.
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- Even more visitors. Do you recognize anyone?
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- Vivace (XAKK) testing the quality of the structure.
Pictures from the Commodore 64 scene in the 80s, part 2: The Ikari & Zargon Party 1989
Let us take a trip down memory lane to the year of our lord 1989. The Commodore 64 and Amiga demo/cracker scene had become quite big among us geeks of northern Europe. My team XAKK had released demos for the C64 for more than two years by now. Truth be told, we were beginning to feel a bit like, “was this all there was to it?”. Maybe we were just getting a bit too old for it all.
The Ikari & Zargor meeting in Slagelse, Denmark, on the 23-25th March 1989 was the first nail in the coffin for us. We were supposed to finish and release the demo Bound to be best but had to shelf our plans because of constant power cuts. Since we were quite a competitive little bunch and really wasn’t there to play around (Remember, the oldest of us were 20 at the time), we decided to leave the party and finish the demo at Vivaces place in Sweden. Bound to be best was to become our second last demo ever on the Commodore 64.
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- The dark innards of the Slagelse meeting.
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- Sceners at the meeting. Comment below if you recognize anyone.
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- More dark innards of the Slagelse meeting.
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- Mr Cross, Jolly Cracker/JC and Vivace. All from XAKK.
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- Jolly Cracker/JC (XAKK) with his trusty old Commodore 64.
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- Knatter (XAKK) didn’t approve of this meeting.. ;)
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- Vivace, Jolly Cracker/JC and Mr Cross getting pretty tired of the constant power cuts.
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- Cleo, Vivace and Mr Cross chilling and coding at Vivaces place.
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- Mr Cross (XAKK) playing with his home built sampler, at Vivace’s place.
Pictures from the Commodore 64 scene in the 80s, part 1: The Tommerup party
I have scanned some ‘evidence’ from my days in the late 80s Commodore 64 scene. First up are some pics I took at the infamous meeting in Tommerup, Denmark 8th to 10th July 1988. This party was held by Jewels (Ikari), Danish Gold, Dominators, and Upfront.
I went there with some of the other guys from XAKK – Vivace, Jolly Cracker/JC, and Mr. Cross. Somehow the arrangers had miscalculated the total space needed for a couple of hundred or so hackers. Since there was nowhere to place our computers, we decided to call it quits and go home early the next morning.
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- Visitors at the party.
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- Andréas Gunnarsson aka Jolly Cracker/JC (XAKK), Fredrik Liljegren aka Animal (Silents) and co-founder of DICE, Stefan Valter aka Vivace (XAKK)
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- More visitors at the party.
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- Vivace (XAKK) looking through his set of Amiga disks.
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- Unknown visitor at the party.
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- Jolly Cracker/JC (XAKK) and Mr Cross (XAKK) loading the car with equipment.
