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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
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Eastern european scene before 1989?
Hello,
this topic has been fascinating me for quite a while, so i thought of just popping the issue here.
I wonder if there was a eastern scene before the fall of the Berlin wall. And if so, were they connected to the western scene, or did they 'invent' a scene of their own?
For what i understood the Russian scene evolved during the 90ties.. but i'd love to hear stories and insights of that period. Afaik, Polonus and some others of the early Padua dudes were 'easterns'?
I remember getting some snailmails in the early nineties from the east, but since i never replied those i never got to ask that question ;)
Perhaps i'm trying to fuel my nonexistant myth..
Please shed a light on this! |
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BAR.
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Quote: I really dont think Crumbsucker can add value to this thread really..
why not, so far as i know he went in 1991 to N.Y. ? |
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stash
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i swapped with alof of hungarian sceners around 89 also visit alot of them.. what i remember they had to have this grren stickers they had to use on the envelopes something about gowerment shit |
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Jetboy
Registered: Jul 2006
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You mean Custom Declarations? |
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stash
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Quote: You mean Custom Declarations?
yeh must have been
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gabriel
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Quote: Hello,
this topic has been fascinating me for quite a while, so i thought of just popping the issue here.
I wonder if there was a eastern scene before the fall of the Berlin wall. And if so, were they connected to the western scene, or did they 'invent' a scene of their own?
For what i understood the Russian scene evolved during the 90ties.. but i'd love to hear stories and insights of that period. Afaik, Polonus and some others of the early Padua dudes were 'easterns'?
I remember getting some snailmails in the early nineties from the east, but since i never replied those i never got to ask that question ;)
Perhaps i'm trying to fuel my nonexistant myth..
Please shed a light on this!
Well, there definately was one before 1990 in Hungary.
One of the first proper groups was FBI crew (formed in 1988 perhaps), which later morphed into Chromance a few years later. There was Reds, who did not do much besides importing, there was a few others here and there. And there was us, Idiots, a bit later, then we also merged into Chromance, gradually. There was Trumwyrat or whatever it was called, and later Faces, but Chromance was the true Hungarian 'elite'. :)
The whole Hungarian scene started in the Csokonai Muvelodesi Kozpont, around 1988. There was this computer club, where Friday afternoon was for members only, and Saturday morning wss for free for all. I waited I think 1 year for my Friday afternoon membership. :) You could get anything there, all the latest releases, everyone brought his weekly import there, ant then we swapped. More like copied anything Jean had... :)
That's how it started.
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polonus
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It was indeed beyond imagination to buy a computer in Poland before 90'ties. As a teenager I could only dream and watch "first personal computer ZX 81" on TV when some lucky guy was kind enough to bring it to popular "SONDA" TV Studio. C64 was a myth no to be seen around. Then was a wave of ZX Spectrum. I bought my C+4 Commodore from a friend. He wanted a "tv game" and his uncle sent him 'this'. So I bought it quite cheap. Since the computer was literary "naked" - no software etc I started to program it using included built-in monitor. Several month later I bought used C64. The very first 'productions' to somehow mimic Western intros were made by me on January 1987. Before me there was Silver Dream with some short demo from 1986. I don't know anything about any earlier releases. Quite a story. |
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Jetboy
Registered: Jul 2006
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Hey Pawel! Nice to see, that you are still alive :) |
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polonus
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Quote: Hey Pawel! Nice to see, that you are still alive :)
Well... nice to be with you again, guys :) |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 346 |
I do remember seeing a few polish things in the UK, I had a polish friend who used to bring them back,that must be 88-89 time.
Also they did a thing about the tetris on the BBC4
Tetris - from russia with love.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/tetris.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em2b5g4b77s
couldn't find a full version, but it showed how they also scouted/talent hunted for programmers/games in the east also. |
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stash
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i was in some computer club with clairvo/faces when i visited hungary once :)
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