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“Amis and Euros.” Software Import and Contacts Between European and American Cracking Scenes

15.4.2014

This article explores the practices of “software import” between Europe and the US by the Commodore 64 cracking scene and reflects on how it was related to the establishment
and expression of cultural identities of its members.

How Those Crackers Became Us Demosceners

15.4.2014

The story about the divergence of the cracker scene and the demoscene has been canonized over the years. In this article, Markku Reunanen takes a fresh look at the story and offers new perspective to the events of the late 1980s and the early 1990s.