Parts of these recent threads About the origins of c64 demoscene and Message for 4agentE and to some lesser degree the first examples of rasterbars on the c64 and the amiga are about the "alternative" reading of history.

It appears to me that a "solid" hypothesis with agreed-upon common terminology to be found and then tested against would be in order, as these and previous threads on other forums hint at quite a few misunderstandings between the debating parties.

Most of the authors who have written on the topic were not part of the original scene themselves, so they have had to rely on second-hand sources where conflicting details have already been left out. My aim in this paper is to trace the origins of the story and offer a new perspective to the various reasons that led to the gradual separation of the two scenes.