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(c) Copyright 2000 Martin Frech ('Spook of Powerzone'). Email: spook@c64demos.com
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A: Back in the 1980s and beginning 1990s, there was a thing called the 'scene'. It was a collection of owners of the Commodore 64 that traded programs on floppy disks. We sent programs we had just received or programmed ourselves around the world. Back in those days I was known as 'Spook of Powerzone', and traded quite a bit. In fact, at times I was arguably the world's largest mega-swapper, with more than 400 contacts all over the world. I never erased a single demo, and so I ended up with a huge collection that is now available on this CD.
Q: Where did the scene get new stuff?
A: After a demo or other production was finished, it was 'spread', usually via postal mail. Other times, there were big copy-parties, where sceners met and traded software. One of the most famous regular parties of this kind was held in Venlo, in the Netherlands.
