son of a scener...
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@rez: lol!
Nice story! :D
Nice story! :D
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Damn right, dude! We should relaunch the Mothers Cross.Its about time that some known female sceners
give bith to a new generation and breed
of active demo sceners for the future!!
(If you like the idea, check out the facts at the German Wikipedia: "Das Kreuz wurde an einem Band getragen und brachte für die Trägerin einige Vorteile im öffentlichen Leben mit sich. So musste ihr in den öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln ein Sitzplatz angeboten werden. Auf Ämtern und Behörden wurde sie bevorzugt behandelt. Die Hitler-Jugend des Ortes war dazu angehalten, die ausgezeichneten Mütter mit dem Hitlergruß auf der Straße zu grüßen.")
Godwin already?
shifter: No, because the mothers cross is a really nice medal of honour. I even asked a friend of mine whether I should get such a cross for his wife, they got their forth child some weeks ago. ;)
MadenMann: How old are they?
I remember when one of the major political parties in Austria, the OeVP (Austrian People's Party, a Christian/conservative party), had a change in their leading back in the mid-90s, there was a discussion who was to become the next chairman of the party. One person was the favourite for some weeks, but there were people who criticized him because his mother had been awarded a mother's cross during the Third Reich, and therefore they accused him of having Nazi connections. It's absurd since every "Aryan" mother that had given birth to a certain number of children was awarded this cross during Nazi rule.
I remember when one of the major political parties in Austria, the OeVP (Austrian People's Party, a Christian/conservative party), had a change in their leading back in the mid-90s, there was a discussion who was to become the next chairman of the party. One person was the favourite for some weeks, but there were people who criticized him because his mother had been awarded a mother's cross during the Third Reich, and therefore they accused him of having Nazi connections. It's absurd since every "Aryan" mother that had given birth to a certain number of children was awarded this cross during Nazi rule.
The oldest child isn't 10 yet, the couple isn't 30 yet. But being greeted by the village youth sounds quite cool. ;)
MadenMann: BTW, I've been wondering for some time what your pouet.net avatar is supposed to signify? Blue-red-white - reminds me of black-red-white, but obviously it's not the same.
you better not shit on your bed you son of a...
wrong thread?
wrong thread?
Yeah, the title of this thread has also irritated me a bit ;)
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Even more obvious: blue-red-white doesn't even look like black-white-red. Once again Wikipedia serves you some clues: Pan-Slavic coloursBlue-red-white - reminds me of black-red-white, but obviously it's not the same.
you invoked the H-word. Godwin-winged!
Hello? HJ wasn't much more than the 1930s/40s version of the Young Pioneers / Thälmann Pioneers. Young boys having fun, just like in the YMCA!
(I guess that's the point where I make a lot of friends ... ;) )
(I guess that's the point where I make a lot of friends ... ;) )
Interesting, now I've learned something about Slavonic flag colors, countries that use these colors, Republika Srpska Krajina, the entities of Socialist Yugoslavia (actually the same as the countries nowadays), the inner structure of Bosnia... probably useless knowledge, waste of time, but who knows.
Something that goes very well in this topic indeed.
My father was my teacher.
He learnt me how to copy tapes with my C64 back in 1985 and then with the CPC464. I was 8 years old.
He built a cable to link a very stable pro tape recorder and the internal tape reader so I had very reliable tapes copies (it was not that easy). I second Rez with the ugly sound when copying and reading for minutes!!!!
Then he did some solderings in the CPC464 to get the signal on a jack plug so that we can have sound on a big speaker (my debut paces with music making) and lot of tweaking of this kind.
Then he copied a lot of programs from magazines and books so that I had my first games. We ended up together coding our own programs, and I even tried to do my own games after long sessions of playing with a friend's MSX. In France, this machine was under-underground, deeply burried in the ground I mean. It was kind of a treasure with the best games around. Remember Salamander, Penguin Adventures, Knightmares ?
I was SO jealous. At the meantime, I was 11/12 years old!
So, 4 years later, I had my first Amiga... And the story went on with the demoscene.
He learnt me how to copy tapes with my C64 back in 1985 and then with the CPC464. I was 8 years old.
He built a cable to link a very stable pro tape recorder and the internal tape reader so I had very reliable tapes copies (it was not that easy). I second Rez with the ugly sound when copying and reading for minutes!!!!
Then he did some solderings in the CPC464 to get the signal on a jack plug so that we can have sound on a big speaker (my debut paces with music making) and lot of tweaking of this kind.
Then he copied a lot of programs from magazines and books so that I had my first games. We ended up together coding our own programs, and I even tried to do my own games after long sessions of playing with a friend's MSX. In France, this machine was under-underground, deeply burried in the ground I mean. It was kind of a treasure with the best games around. Remember Salamander, Penguin Adventures, Knightmares ?
I was SO jealous. At the meantime, I was 11/12 years old!
So, 4 years later, I had my first Amiga... And the story went on with the demoscene.
all my father ever did to entice my demoscene fetishism was tell me i couldnt code or track for shit and plug in the wrong electric current transformer to the speccy making it collapse in thick grey fog. those were the days...
hehe.. my uncle (he's only a few years younger than my father) let me play with his amiga1000 and c64 in the mid eighties...he had lots of demos and games :) in 1989 he gave me seka and an amiga intern book when i was struggling with devpac :D
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My dad drunk and still drinks a lot. I guess that helped me on my route to demoscene.
Well, my mother worked as a "Data converteress" at a institute that worked for local billing departments. It was in the early eighties when she brought me there as kid. Ofcourse we in the GDR had really ancient machines and huge printers.
Well, as a kid i was stunned of all this tech stuff.
My moms job was to convert the data strings from audio tapes to 12" tapes for storage. She had no monitor at all. She sat on a Printer with a Typewriter as keyboard all day. Later on they went to floppy disks at the end of the eighties. Later, short before the great wall fell down, my mom gave me a computer to learn typing. It was a Robotron BC 5120...It lasted for around 2 years until it finally broke.
the damn machine got really hot, but it was a really hot machine...almost 3Mhz Z80 CPU, 64K of Ram and 3 Floppies which could read 800K disks even before there was a HD format...heh...these drives were just readjusted DD drives with 130 tracks...
Well, i also have a image of my mom where shes sitting on one of those huge 12 inch tape drives. Imagine, when she had to insert data into a file again which was already written...she just held the tape into position and turned it backwards a bit...
These machines had also their reading heads cleaned every once in a week because the tapes were so crappy made...
Maybe i have time to go home and scan that photo. :)
Well, as a kid i was stunned of all this tech stuff.
My moms job was to convert the data strings from audio tapes to 12" tapes for storage. She had no monitor at all. She sat on a Printer with a Typewriter as keyboard all day. Later on they went to floppy disks at the end of the eighties. Later, short before the great wall fell down, my mom gave me a computer to learn typing. It was a Robotron BC 5120...It lasted for around 2 years until it finally broke.
the damn machine got really hot, but it was a really hot machine...almost 3Mhz Z80 CPU, 64K of Ram and 3 Floppies which could read 800K disks even before there was a HD format...heh...these drives were just readjusted DD drives with 130 tracks...
Well, i also have a image of my mom where shes sitting on one of those huge 12 inch tape drives. Imagine, when she had to insert data into a file again which was already written...she just held the tape into position and turned it backwards a bit...
These machines had also their reading heads cleaned every once in a week because the tapes were so crappy made...
Maybe i have time to go home and scan that photo. :)
Exin: Nice lesson of history.
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all my father ever did to entice my demoscene fetishism was tell me i couldnt code or track for shit
Considering how you turned out, I think he did one hell of a job encouraging you into it anyway.
My father was never taken with the whole effort we kids put into demos, since he hazarded "you could do better, you know". He is taking some form of pleasure out of the hangul he sees in demos nowadays.
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you invoked the H-word. Godwin-winged!
No, no, you misunderstood me. It's really only about young people. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghUKDi2lfc
MadenMann: I kind of like your taste of humor.
Seems like I've killed the thread with the H-word. Success of Godwin's law? I wonder whether all of these internet laws are true.