Shadow
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"urban legends" from the scene
So i was sitting here reminiscing about the old days, and started thinking about some of the "urban legends" of sceners that went around in those days. For example, back in 1989 or 1990 I think it was, I heard from a friend who had heard from someone else (etc.) that to join Horizon as a coder, you had to prove yourself in a kind of initiation-rite by coding a 32-sprite multiplexer DYSP straight from scratch with the other guys standing behind and watching you! :D
Another one, also involving Horizon (these guys had kind of a mythical legend status, at least in Sweden in the late eighties/early nineties) was the story that some guy was walking around a demo-party (I recall it was Light-Phenomena 92), and passed someone with a glenz-vector running on his screen. The guy stopped and laughed "Ha, that glenz-vector is tiny and running slow, you must suck at blitter-coding". Then he looked down and saw to his amazement that it was not an Amiga, but a C64 that was running it, with a Horizon guy sitting behind the keys.
Anyone else have any stories to share? :)
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