Handwritten journals/notes on demoscene or tracker music?
category: general [glöplog]
I was reading Peter Clarke's obituary today, and noticed it mentioned something peculiar and decidedly analogue:
That got me thinking - are there any known diaries, journals or archives of handwritten notes by prominent sceners, coders and tracker musicians? I'm well aware that most of the stuff is in TXT files, IRC notes and scrollers and digital write-ups, and many in the scene are rather averse to leaving any paper trail (apart from your typical compo freebies) - but there's always something new about the scene that surprises me.
Could you please enlighten an ignorant newbie in this regard?
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Beyond arranging, he mentored young chip‑musicians, explaining SID envelope tricks in online forums and sharing source files from his personal archive.
Collectors prized his handwritten tracker notebooks, where every vibrato rate and duty‑cycle shift was annotated in blue biro.
That got me thinking - are there any known diaries, journals or archives of handwritten notes by prominent sceners, coders and tracker musicians? I'm well aware that most of the stuff is in TXT files, IRC notes and scrollers and digital write-ups, and many in the scene are rather averse to leaving any paper trail (apart from your typical compo freebies) - but there's always something new about the scene that surprises me.
Could you please enlighten an ignorant newbie in this regard?
There are loads of hand-written code snippets and sprites drawn on checkered paper from the 1980s in the Gotpapers collection (and even more I still need to put up).
From personal experience, and that means the mid-1990s, I used to do a lot of "scene-work" on paper as well, simply due to a lack of mobile devices. I draw ASCII logos on paper at school, which I would then try to put into digital form when I came home. And for a bigger "acronym list" project in 1997, I did a lot of preliminary work on paper, because I didn't have two screens and it was simply more practical to do part of the work on screen and part of the work on paper...
From personal experience, and that means the mid-1990s, I used to do a lot of "scene-work" on paper as well, simply due to a lack of mobile devices. I draw ASCII logos on paper at school, which I would then try to put into digital form when I came home. And for a bigger "acronym list" project in 1997, I did a lot of preliminary work on paper, because I didn't have two screens and it was simply more practical to do part of the work on screen and part of the work on paper...
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