On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung together a bunch
> of stills of a woman performing felatio, which I found more humorous
> than erotic. Also some 8- bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even
> bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their
> sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit
> and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding
> boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state
> propaganda shit based on GI-Joe.
They still have a lot of "Demo Parties" in Europe where folks get together
and program pointless "demo" programs to show off their skills and what
they can do with old machines.
This is a phenomenon that unfortunately did not make its way over to the
US :(
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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