Commodore Grooves videos

Apr 8, 2023 | ramblings

Data Airlines has just re-issued Commodore Grooves, and that made me think about videos and demos. Here's a few of them that includes music from the album.

https://youtu.be/n5ZLhbS8UjA

This Triad demo uses Raymond, and was released in 2001.

https://youtu.be/2iFMjBFAtzo

This video was made by Entter using the cassette-based video camera PXL-2000.

https://youtu.be/6MIisq9Rs1g

The Fantasy-video was released in 2004, in ye ancient times before video streaming and Youtube was a thing. Entter hosted the video on their servers, but didn't really anticipate that it would become so popular. It was downloaded about 20,000 times I think, which created so much traffic that they had to pay a huge fee to the providers. In the end it worked out well, though. Funny how the cost of video has changed over the years..

https://youtu.be/oFlLr0rXMrw

Ull8 was used in one of the parts of the C64-demo 10 Strong Years. It was released to celebrate 10 years of Hack n' Trade (the demogroup I founded) but it was delayed a few years. Besides, it later turned out that HT was not formed in 1993 as I always thought, but actually in 1994. Anyway.

https://youtu.be/VK-fvx5EgIs

At that time I worked a lot with Hollowman, first with his Triad-demos and then his demos for Fairlight. Pretending To See The Light uses Slobban.

https://youtu.be/sWVTBn45b8w

Finally, this bad boy was featured as a video on the data part of the CD. It was made by Jens Nirme, who I lived with at the time.

The new site is here

Oct 20, 2017 | ramblings

As some of you may have noticed, this site has had an extreme make-over for a while now with huge help from Spot/Up Rough. It's still under construction, but I think I finally have a website that makes some sense. I really liked the previous awarded PETSCII site (by Raquel Meyers) but it was made in 2011 and it has run its course. So, enjoy the modern internet experience!

While looking through the server, I found a lost folder in the archives with lots of old sites of mine. It might be a mistake to post them now, but who cares? The oldest one I could find was from 2000 and is shown above. Full of teen angst, bla-bla... I think this one was at bizarr.blip.com/~goto80

This is the first page of the site from 2002 that works a bit so-so nowadays. It almost looks like a crappy version of the synthwave aesthetics of today?? Hm. Well, this one was at goto8o.boprecords.net iirc.

For this yellow 2004 site, I registered a subdomain at a pr0n site: goto80.myhardman.com. When I left that domain, it stayed alive for many years with absurd generated stuff combining Z80-processors and gay pr0n.

Entter's 2005 site was based on the Fantasy-video and had a long and healthy life. It's good to have the decrunching rasterlines back on the site now!

In 2008, the site became a Wordpress blog and I spent plenty of time to get as much history as possible into the archives. You know that you can go back to 1993 in this blog still, right? No? Ok. After a while I got tired of the standard Wordpress look, and I tried to make something GIF-freaky in 2010 but finally decided to go for something else.

This design from 2011 was made by Raquel Meyers. Beyond the landing page it was a side-scrolling Wordpress blog and I was perhaps the only one who found it to be a perfectly reasonable internet cyber site.

Now, with the 2017-redesign, I think more people can appreciate this place. And I guess that's good? I've also fixed a lot of linkrot (since the blog part has been around since 2008). I fixed no less than 320 dead links. which was a good reminder of the short memory of the internet. I've replaced the dead links with Wayback Machine backups where possible, but lots of releases and recordings and art works seem to be lost forever. It was during this process that I decided to make some of the lost releases available at this new Bandcamp page that I didn't tell anyone about yet.

This is the 640th post on here. Next milestone is 1024 posts.