Re: Magyarok és a Commodore Plus/4 blog Super-duper terrific interview, love it! I had the chance to interview Proky too in the year 2000 – interview released in Lone News 13 – but of course many juicy particulars and facts can't be told, first due of the memory limitations, and second because there are facts and stories with precise historical references, which only Hungarians can easily communicate each other.
This is probably the most dense post of Rachy's fantastic blog, there's so much meat over fire there to bite on, globally resulting in a deep time-machine effect, which probably has a strong influence on me-in-my-fifties. Every time we touch the argument of the IT teen parties in Hungary, I'm even more surprised to understand how big has been the impact on the lives of you all, this reflecting a different light on the meaning of what we do here nowadays day by day, about Plus/4 World (Csabo) or with a Plus/4 – real or emulated (TCFS, Chronos, SJP on C64, and dozens others), doesn't make any difference. The Western guys had their own stories too, but It would not seem like an exaggeration to say that the Hungarian computer scene played (and plays) a significant role in political, social and commercial evolution, and in historical narrative nowadays, of modern era's Hungary.
No-brain no-ordered one-string notes:
- the C64-Plus/4 War, a story worth to be written, including the complete historical course of the Soaring Flamingo's rising up.
- I'm now aware of the fact that if you played an empty role in a rock band, there's a big chance to become a fascist with rifles and grenades under your bed; in Italy, the archetype of the same character is without a shadow of a doubt Mauro Repetto, formerly part of the pop band duo 883 with a long fictionalized story between alleged films to be shot in Hollywood, epochal betrayals and social miseries, which in the 2000s became a long meme on the Italian side of the internet; could Mauro follow the same path as his Hungarian counterpart? For me he is ready!
- the demo by TCFS with the WOT logo is of course, The Megatracks; those damn nerdy computer shows have managed to get so deep into our minds that it is impossible not to know!
- the story of the trip to Malente is no less than legendary. And Nukeman! He has always been able to boast a naive personality (in an extremely positive sense, I mean) of a free spirit. I remember that between 1989 and 1990 I tried to contact him, and to introduce myself well, having got the hack of the Multi Botticelli, which opened a world to me, I thought of doing something nice by dedicating to him "a bitmap that he could use as a logo in his next releases", without knowing anything about the obvious technical needs for any work to become something actually usable. Oh wait, I still have it, let me drop it here!
I finally met him at 4Ever 2003 and he turned out to be super funny and super friendly. I met him there, and he turned out to be super fun and super friendly. I only met him that one time, but I have to say that was enough for me to miss him now.
- Sleepwalkers in the end has played an important role: months ago, we got in contact with Csory and he expressed the will to save in .D64 format the collection of his disks that he had found in the attic, later with the help of Pigmy (this image of these two helping each other contrasts with my adolescent fantasy of wanting to see them as antagonists, so I don't show it but I'm surprised like when we "steal the nose" of children!). At the moment, nothing has arisen from this effort, and some notable pieces of releases are in our archives since years exclusively thank to the cracking attitude of the Sleepwalkers group: Deja Vu, 3D Construction Kit, the cracked version of The Power exclusively released in the Obscure Collection, Cloud Kingdoms by TCFS (@TCFS if you saved the original disks somewhere, remember of us!).
- Proky has shown some pretty nice screenshots of his forthcoming release, which could be described like "the universal Plus/4 graphic utility"; @Proky, show'em here too, make us dream about it too!
Re: Magyarok és a Commodore Plus/4 blog
