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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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Jon
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Sure.
The one I can't source is that the guys from ESI broke into the Gunship coder's house, stole the floppy and released it to the "scene".
AFAIK, this is complete nonsense. But I hear the story once every few years.
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SIDWAVE
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ok here is one.
it was rumored that Kermit (later the editor on danish C64 mag, COMputer), had the biggest game collection of all, in 1987, on Amiga.
So we was at a party, and in a room was a pyramid of 80 pieces diskboxes. At the base, the pyramid was 4x4 boxes.
Hello ? in 1987, this is a massive amount of software for a computer that has only been on the market for 1 year!
but its not urban myth, he really had all those disks.. |
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fade
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80% of the Australian scene are kangaroos.. the other 20% are drunk. <--myth
20% of the Australian scene are kangaroos.. the other 80% are why you looking at my girl, dickhead.. you, me.. carpark now! <--fact
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
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maybe it's more a fact rather than urban legend, but during one of polish parties, a guy named kopieja wanked behind the pillar. some other guy spotted kopieja moving hands in wanking manner in his pocket XD |
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chatGPZ
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pics or it didnt happen! |
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plagueis
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Quote: Sure.
The one I can't source is that the guys from ESI broke into the Gunship coder's house, stole the floppy and released it to the "scene".
AFAIK, this is complete nonsense. But I hear the story once every few years.
It would be cool if it were true. |
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Cresh
Registered: Jan 2004
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Death of Mr.Wax |
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
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Quote: Death of Mr.Wax
Indeed.. |
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
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Here's a personal one.
I was visiting some Venlo meeting, must've been 92 or so, wearing a long jacket with an anti-nazi badge on it.
Some guy approaches me all of a sudden, quite drunk apparently, and starts asking about that badge. 'What do you have against nazis' he asked, today i realise he wasn't really interested in discussing these things with me ;) So when i responded about human rights etc, he suddenly kicked his head in my face - i fell, perhaps passed out for a sec, and my face was covered in blood. The 'fight' ended there.
After getting mental support from most visitors, even his own german friends turned against him - and my brother (Ixon) persuaded him into giving his excuse to me, which he did. Doubt he really ment it, blaming it on being drunk, as i understood his german friends told him he could walk home if he didn't.
My memory is quite fuzzy, forgot most details.
Still no idea who that was.
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Edit: Not an 'urban legend'.. but i'll leave it here anyways. |
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WVL
Registered: Mar 2002
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Also not an urban legend, just a nice anecdote.
I remember Spectator and me wanting to go to our first foreign party, and we decided to go to one of the Radwar parties (I believe it was in 1993 or 1994).
When we arrived at the trainstation we realised that Spectator did not have his passport and that we couldnt get there by train, because we couldnt pass the border.. So we decided to go the nearest train station in .nl and try to travel by bus from there...
So there we were, looking at what bus we needed to take and we found out that there were no busses whatsoever going across the border.. We took the bus going closest to the border, got out and started walking...
After about an hour walking, we realised we had no idea where we were supposed to be going, where we where at that moment and that we had no idea how the *fuck* we were ever going to get to the party. Also we had no map.
So we kept walking..
and walking..
After a couple of hours, a car passed us, and after a minute Spectator said "Wait a minute, wasn't that Splatterhead?!". Ofcourse the car didnt stop and after walking some more hours we magically arrived. I still can't believe that we managed to find the place, but prolly we were just following some fat germans in leather jackets.
It turned out that it *was* Splatterhead in the car and that he had recognized us and wondered wtf we were walking in the middle of nowhere for...
I don't remember that much more (apart from sleeping and puking behind the disco speakers and the fact that fat unshaved germans in leather jackers are gross), since the german G*P guys gave us too much alcohol.
No clue how we ever got home again also :D |
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WVL
Registered: Mar 2002
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OH! Some other nice story about HCL and bitterballs..
It must have been 1995 or so when David was working/studying in Germany and came over to Savvy's place when we were having a private party. This was when we introduced him to the infamous Dutch delicacy that are bitterballs. Basically they are deepfried balls of mystery meat.
It was such a joy to David's taste buds that he insisted on taking home a box (which you are supposed to keep in the freezer) on the trainride back.
I'm still horrified at the idea of 'melting' bitterballs in David's luggage.. (@ David : did you ever eat those?!) |
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Jon
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Ah, here is another one I remember from back in the day...
Phreak BBSes had the power to send an electrical charge through the phone lines and destroy your modem and your computer.
Some BBSes even made this claim on their new user screen. Complete bunk, BTW.
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Cresh
Registered: Jan 2004
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Urban legend or not.
I was told (or read somewhere) that Censor guys after Brutal & Hurricane Summer Party 1992 told the organizers
they beat the crap out of them if they did not get promised compo prize?
They have got the money and noone else. |
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Carrion
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in 93 or 94 some people were talking that i'm too young too pixel (actually i still look too young to my age ;))
and all my pictures were pixeled by my dad.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
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whats your point? are you still claiming that that isnt the case ?! =P |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
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Cresh, hahah... I wouldn't put that past some of the Censor guys, particularly Dr.Cool |
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Slator
Registered: Jan 2002
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Quote: Urban legend or not.
I was told (or read somewhere) that Censor guys after Brutal & Hurricane Summer Party 1992 told the organizers
they beat the crap out of them if they did not get promised compo prize?
They have got the money and noone else.
it is true, the Censor guys (who actually looked very scary in their skinhead clothing) forced the orgas to pay their money or they trash the partyplace.
The reason behind it was that some Scandinavians (don't remember who it actually was, maybe FLT) "hooked" up to the public phone in the mainhall and were calling some US-boards to leech the latest warez. The orgas said they had to pay for it, so there wouldn't be any prize-money left.
Wasn't it the party where someone fall from the roof right onto a hall stand in the entrance of the hall? The sample of the fall was used in some demo, which I don't remember right now, maybe starion?
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Cresh
Registered: Jan 2004
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Thanks for carifying. Another myth busted! ;)
Yes, it was there and that guy was Ecco |
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sailor
Registered: Jan 2002
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> Wasn't it the party where someone fall from the roof
> right onto a hall stand in the entrance of the hall?
I heard, from a Censor member, that the guy was jumping on some plastic dome on the roof which collapsed.. It was prolly in the entrance because he landed on some place to store clothes on.
..Someone came running into the entrance hall, seeing the guy lying there and seeing a Censor member.. Well it made him believing that the Censor member had thrown him there and that prolly started another rumour :)
/Jani
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
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FOE used to have strict initiations.. We never played that hovering over you while you coded crap, but we did want to see something fresh and new and something creative. I think "Memberdrive" says something along those lines..
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On a personal level....
We had a party to celebrate the merging of FOE and Vortex. Oddly enough, Wrong Way had this blow up skeleton that was inflated and I was found laying in bed with it. I was drunk, but not that drunk, as I wasn't passed out. Man, I don't remember much of that night, haha.. I don't think pictures were taken (I hope not).. But there were some incredibly strange moments during that party. We asked what a skull sounded like and actually got an answer to it. It's all explained in that merger demo (likely under the Dream label... party I think it was called).. Funny stuff in that.
We had drunk tests.. hahaha.. Mine was a "nip up".. What you see those chinese dudes doing when knocked to the ground in those karate flicks. Spring back up to your feet from your back.. If I couldn't do it, I was drunk.
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Strider used to take "holiday" in the states and he came to our house, because my little brothers bbs (Centrum) was the #1 amiga bbs at that time. He gave me a PAL c64 motherboard, which I stupidly gave away at some point. But I used it for a while when my NTSC machine broke down. Not fun coding NTSC demos on a pal machine. Bad thing was, I didn't get color when hooked to my 1702.
(I do have pictures!!!!).. I could also be mistaken on the person, might not have been Strider.. I honestly can't recall who it was as I was always drunk back in those days.
I can put a link up of the picture of us "creaming" each other with shaving cream.. Good times those were..
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One of the "bitches" I used to date spread a rumor that I was dead. I think this was back in the mid 90's and when I called Wrong Way, he was shocked! He told me the story of the rumor and I was amazed at it. Some will say I spread the rumor, but that is simply not true. I would never fake my own death!!!
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Rough
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One of the most common myths which probably everybody here encounters that if you tell non-scene people about some retro computer stuff/abilities they think you are a hacker (even breaking into feds systems sometimes). hehehe
If they think I am a serious criminal (which rarely happens) I have to explain but their faces show that they don't really understand. |
