If you feel misplaced and don't understand what this is all about, I will try to explain a few things to you. I will try to explain what the C64 scene is, why we made demos and what a demo really is. First let me introduce you to the Commodore 64. This computer was invented in the late seventies and was the follow up to the VIC20. Sold for the first time in 1982, it had 64k ram memory, 16 colours 8-bit graphics and ran on an 1mhz 6510 processor developed by MOS. This computer was a breakthrough in showing graphics fast and it had an incredible soundchip called SID. People immediately started to crack (remove game copy-protection) the games and pass them on to friends. A network of C64 users was growing fast. People mostly sent the 5,25" discs by mail, but also, a BBS network started and with it, the modem trading. When someone had cracked a game, an intro was often put in front of the game that showed who had cracked that game. Since it was illegal, the crackers used alias instead like Mr. Z and Strider. From these intros, people started to make more and more advanced effects. Out of this, the demo was born. A demo is a program where the makers shows their abilities of doing things with the computer. Slowly but surely, a network started to grow all over the world with people making demos and cracking games. The "C64 scene" was a fact. In the middle of the 80's, people started to get together and meet each other on so called copy parties. It's this that it's all about, in short. My first contact with the scene was in 1986. It was at this timeI took my handle; The Spy. It was chosen after the agents in the MAD magazine and the Spy vs Spy computer games. Scenes like the one on the C64 existed and still exist on other computers (Amiga, Atari, PC, playstation consoles etc.), but no scene has been able to take the same form as the C64! Why is hard to explain, but the friendship and the not so common modem trading made people use the normal mail system instead. This computer is also the most long-lived ever. People still use it after more than 20 years since it's introduction. And no updates has been done of the original design. The C64 scene was first. All other scenes and the Internet has been influenced by it. Today the C64 users are limited but remembered and through the Internet, the C64 lives like never before... Belive it or not, but C64 demos are still released! Since 1991 I'm a member of the Swedish demo group called Flash Inc. (FHI). Today we're only a few members that still keep in touch. You can read more about us on our official homepage or download our demos at C64hq.com. » Return to the C64 mainpage