A documentary sequence by Moleman Movies reached its fifth episode, a 144-minute movie about “the golden age of Hungarian video gaming and the formation of the Hungarian demoscene within the 80s and 90s.” You possibly can watch this episode on YouTube (and English subtitles might be chosen).
From Commodore 64s smuggled throughout the Iron Curtain to cracked video games on cassette tapes bought at flea markets, floppy disk swapping by way of postal mail, hacked telephone cubicles linked to U.S. BBSes, and replica events packed to capability, Stamps Again tells the story of how youngsters in Hungary ignited a computing revolution within the Nineteen Eighties with illegally copied video video games from the West, and started the Hungarian demoscene.
However the filmmakers say “We obtained lots of suggestions that you simply wish to see the full-length interviews…in a bodily particular version.” So that they’ve launched a marketing campaign on Crowdfundr:
Greater than 76 hours of interviews [with 59 people] have been performed for the movie, which is a real doc of the Hungarian residence laptop life within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. Now you can get this 76-hour materials with English subtitles along with the movie in a particular Blu-Ray version + downloadable picture file format…
If we attain the stretch aim, a 4th disc shall be added to the version, which is able to comprise a collection of the most effective Hungarian intros and demos of the previous 40 years in video format.
The movie’s website online consists of hyperlinks to (and data on) their 4 earlier documentaries:
- The Reality Lies Down Below, concerning the different subcultures Budapest
- Demoscene: The Artwork of the Algorithms. A 2012 have a look at “a digital subculture the place artists do not use all the time the most recent expertise” however “deliver out the most effective from 30 year-old laptop technics.”
- Journey to the Floor. How the web and digital expertise reshaped the music trade for outside-the-mainstream genres together with beatbox, turntablism, DJing, dwell improvisation, and bed room producers.
- Longplay — the story of Hungarian online game growth behind the Iron Curtain, and the way devoted builders “outfoxed Nintendo, tricked SEGA,” and “dodged the limelight and led the world from behind the Iron Curtain.”
Because of Slashdot reader lameron for sharing the story.
